I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 26. The Gate to the World
night.

Observatory No. 3, rooftop.

Xia Feng stood on the edge of the rooftop, facing the gentle breeze, and glanced at the time.

7: 01PM
He arrived a full two hours early, and Mu Qingtong not only didn't set any traps here, she was also damn late!

"What's going on here?" Xia Feng looked up warily and glanced around at the darkness. He was speechless. Why did they have to set up the rooftop for trading a Boundless Stone?

I had no idea this was the place where people were most likely to die.

7: 03PM
Xia Feng: Where are you?

There was no response from the other end.

But at this moment.

Having escaped the pursuit of three Holy Ministry agents, you have gained a deeper understanding of the Concealment Cloak.

[After subconscious consideration, you modified the Concealment Robe.]

Standing behind Xia Feng to conduct the experiment, you completely learned how to become invisible in the dark.

"???"

Xia Feng's neck stiffened, but he turned his head slightly as if nothing had happened.

There was complete darkness behind Yu Guangzhong, and not a single person in sight.

Xia Feng vaguely sensed something was amiss, so he hid behind the wall and pondered for a moment. You then patched up the flaws in the concealment garment once more.

Xia Feng: "."

"Whoosh-"

Just then, a whooshing sound came from the night sky. Xia Feng looked up warily and saw three men dressed in dark black uniforms.

The black and gold insignia on the left chest of their uniforms proclaimed their identity—a member of the Holy Ministry.

The Holy Ministry is the official law enforcement agency established by the Empire specifically to deal with extraordinary events within its territory.

The three agents of the Holy Department stood in mid-air and looked around. They quickly spotted Xia Feng standing on the rooftop.

In a flash, they arrived in front of Xia Feng.

The middle-aged man leading the group said gently, "Young man, have you seen anyone acting suspiciously?"

Xia Feng: "Strange movements?"

"Is it a red-robed man wearing a black mask with a red heart design?"

A heart-shaped mask? That's probably Mu Qingtong. Xia Feng blinked, then shook his head blankly: "I didn't see her~"

The middle-aged man nodded without much suspicion, but as he turned to leave, he suddenly stopped and turned back sharply, his gaze piercing: "What are you doing on the rooftop all by yourself?"

Xia Feng pointed to the old star-gazing mirror not far away, blinked, and said seriously, "I'm researching the 'Theory of the Interdependence of the Three Realms of the Astral Realm, Nightmare Realm, and Present Realm.' This is the only star-gazing platform where you can observe the astral realm for free."

"Detective, am I breaking the law?"

The middle-aged man's gaze softened instantly, and he coughed, "Hmm, it's not illegal, you can continue."

But Xia Feng then asked, "Are you chasing a monster, Detective? Has a monster escaped into the academy?"

The middle-aged man waved his hand, signaling his two men to continue searching southwards. He then took out a detector and waved it at the sky, explaining, "It's not a monster, but a spiritual criminal."

"A criminal with a spiritual science background?"

"You know Blood Calamity Street, right?"
That area is spatially unstable, frequently invaded by nightmare beasts, and afflicted by evil beings, creating utter chaos. This scoundrel codenamed Red Heart often appears in Blood Calamity Street, indiscriminately killing people. Whether they are members of the nightmare race, evil beings, spirit masters, or even ordinary people, they have all fallen victim to him. His targets are completely unpredictable.

"However, one thing is certain: the soul of everyone who died at Ta's hands was extracted, clearly for some inhumane experiment."

At this point, the middle-aged man's tone became slightly harsher, and he gritted his teeth, clearly showing his extreme hatred for this criminal from the spiritual science field.

"It's been half a year since this bastard last committed a crime. I thought he had given up on the experiment, but I didn't expect him to pop up again today! And he did it in broad daylight! He's extremely arrogant!"

Xia Feng: "." "You agree, right?" The talkative middle-aged man turned around and asked, seemingly seeking approval.

"Huh? Yes!"

Xia Feng nodded seriously, filled with righteous indignation, "Arrogant! Too arrogant! If I catch this kind of inhuman evil person, I will definitely—I will definitely beat her until she cries and begs for her father!"

"?" The middle-aged man looked at Xia Feng strangely. Is this the new interrogation method of this generation of young people? It's pretty perverted.

He shook his head and put down the detector: "Alright, this spiritual criminal has escaped into the academy. I will inform the higher-ups of your academy about this. Be careful."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took a step and jumped directly to the roof of the opposite building. With another leap, he disappeared in a few moments.

Whew~~~ Xia Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at his watch.

7: 08PM
Seeing this, he muttered to himself, "Seriously, let's wait two more minutes. If she doesn't come soon, we're leaving."

One minute and fifty seconds later.

Clear footsteps sounded behind him, but Xia Feng didn't turn around. He simply stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the moonlit sky: "You've come."

"?" Mu Qingtong paused. "Sorry, I was late because of something. Here are two grams of Boundless Stone. Take it."

As she spoke, she casually tossed it aside.

"!" Xia Feng was so startled that he immediately abandoned his posing and turned around to catch the box.

Honestly, this woman always likes to do things unpredictably. Xia Feng gently lifted the lid of the box to reveal a small crack, and two small pebbles, shining with a dazzling black-gold light, lay quietly inside, one of them even faintly emitting a red glow.

"This box cannot prevent quantization. The one emitting red light has three hours left, and the other one has one month left. It is recommended to use it as soon as possible, otherwise it may quantize into an unobservable quantum entity and disappear directly."

The woman in the black dress waved her hand and turned to leave.

"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Xia Feng stared blankly at the woman's decisive back, then realized what she meant, "Only three hours left? Hey! That's ridiculous!"

The woman in the black dress disappeared, and Xia Feng could only grumble as he finished the appraisal and hurriedly closed the box.

Boundless Stone is a very mysterious substance. Without special storage measures, it will gradually quantize itself and enter the legendary quantum dimension, which is what Mu Qingtong just mentioned as quantization.

The quantized Boundless Stone cannot be observed in the real world, which is equivalent to its disappearance.

That's why Mu Qingtong reminded him to use it as soon as possible.

"No, time waits for no one!"

After thinking for a few more minutes and confirming that Mu Qingtong, that old sly fox, wasn't spying in the shadows, Xia Feng quickly went downstairs, found a laboratory, locked the door, and pushed open the tables and chairs.

The summoning materials are placed on the tiled floor.

Xia Feng dripped the faded ink and elephant-spotted fish blood into a beaker. After the liquid boiled, he poured in the World Tree Branch powder and the Dragon God's spiritual particles, stirred it well, and let it stand and cool for a minute to turn into a fiery red magma fluid. Then, he bit his thumb and pressed his thumb pad onto the fluid.

Instantly, the fluid adhered to and enveloped his thumb, and white mist continuously rose into the air.

Xia Feng frowned slightly, enduring the stinging pain, and quickly inscribed a formation on the ground, up and down, left and right, BABA.
Finally, a fiery red pattern suddenly unfolded on the ground. Xia Feng took out the Boundless Stone, which emitted a faint red light, and placed it on the hollow circle in the center of the formation.

At the same time, his dark eyes suddenly sharpened, and he formed a hand seal: "Gate to the Present World, Boundless Emptiness!"

With his solemn shout, the entire snowflake-shaped array instantly burst forth with surging golden light, the Boundless Stone in the center melted in an instant, and a two-meter-high golden vertical crack appeared in the space directly above.

Xia Feng looked up nervously, only to see the vertical slit instantly expand horizontally, transforming into a dazzling, golden gate.

"Good heavens, this is the 'Gate to the World'!" Xia Feng walked around the tall gate in surprise, with white light filling both the front and back of the gate.

Seeing that he couldn't figure it out, he didn't hesitate any longer and took a step forward.

His body passed through the portal of light, but instead of entering any other dimension, he walked directly out and arrived on the other side of the portal.

But the array lines on the ground rose into the air and disappeared into the light gate, and suddenly—the gate closed.

The dark classroom fell silent again. Xia Feng stood there, his gaze vacant.

(End of this chapter)