834: Standoff...

Standing beside Yang Dian, Uncle Lei kept smacking his lips:

"Can you break through those barriers now?"

Yang Dian shook his head:

"No."

"I just lifted the land up along with the barrier protecting it."

Uncle Lei and the others around him wore dazed expressions.

They couldn't quite imagine how much strength would be required to lift that piece of land.

'Is this something a human can do?'

While shocked by Yang Dian's strength, Uncle Lei asked curiously:

"Even so, you still can't break that barrier?"

Yang Dian shook his head, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

He had searched through countless worlds and all sorts of secret records, but even in the hands of the hegemon-level factions of the Destiny Realm, he hadn't found anything similar to Earth—a method set up countless eons ago that still affected the present day.

"That barrier doesn't seem to originate from the same power system as ours. So far, I've only discovered one way to influence it."

Uncle Lei's eyes lit up upon hearing this:

"What way?"

"People."

"People?"

Seeing Uncle Lei's puzzled expression, Yang Dian continued to explain:

"I mentioned before that I found a way to influence the barrier."

"Azerbaijan, Sudan, Zambia, Angola, Mauritius... the barriers along the borders of these countries, from which we have evacuated all the citizens, have dimmed slightly."

"Although it's not by much, and if your strength isn't sufficient, you might not even be able to see it with the naked eye, it has indeed dimmed."

"At this rate, within 15 years at most, these barriers will completely disappear."

Having said this, Yang Dian added:

"That's about 15 years in Earth time."

"Before the Qi Revival, it would have taken 60 years."

Uncle Lei scratched his head:

"What is the reason for the barrier's disappearance?"

"It's impossible to determine for now," Yang Dian replied with a shrug.

"It might be related to the people living in those countries, or perhaps it's related to the perception of those people."

"But it doesn't matter; even if the barriers remain, as long as my strength keeps increasing, I'll eventually be able to break them."

As he spoke, Yang Dian looked at the land of Greece, which was floating a hundred meters off the ground.

"If nothing else works, I'll just throw them into a black hole."

"There's always a way to deal with them."

Uncle Lei gave Yang Dian a thumbs-up, then asked curiously:

"What did that deity mean by 'Source Star' just now?"

"Origin? Source? Birthplace?"

Yang Dian shrugged again:

"Uncle Lei, I really am not omniscient."

"This is my first time hearing the term 'Source Star' as well, so how would I know what it means?"

As he said this, Yang Dian pointed down at his feet:

"If you want to know, why not ask them?"

Uncle Lei looked in the direction Yang Dian pointed, and then his eyelid twitched.

Weren't those foreign gods gathered together, having already used their various Divine Abilities to arrive beneath the Greece barrier?

The God King Zeus surrounded by lightning, the Goddess of Beauty Aphrodite radiating endless attraction, the Goddess of Wisdom Metis holding a scroll of runes with an aura of intellect overflowing from her body, the four-armed Brahma, the three-faced Shiva...

The famous ones, the ones he had seen before, the ones he had only heard of, the ones he had never seen or heard of...

Nearly three hundred deities in total were gathered beneath the barrier, looking up intently at Yang Dian.

"I don't think I can beat them..."

Old Daoist Qingfeng gripped the hilt of his sword, his eyes filled with gravity.

Even the unknown deities brought him immense pressure, not to mention the famous main gods of their respective pantheons like Zeus, Brahma, and Shiva.

Yang Dian flicked his finger:

"Once they come out, you Daoists just focus on fighting."

"Whether you're lightly or heavily injured, you don't need to retreat from the front line; just fight with all your might."

"Anyway, with me here, you won't die."

Old Daoist Qingfeng didn't move upon hearing this, but the somewhat hot-tempered Director of the Special Administration Bureau, Gu Jisheng, reached out towards the gods hiding under the barrier and beckoned them with his finger:

"Come out!"

The benevolent expression on the face of Brahma, who held a scepter, turned into a glare. Zeus stepped in front of Brahma first, narrowed his eyes at Yang Dian, and spoke in a low voice:

"Let's make a deal..."