"Finally returned...."
Seeing the blue sky and white clouds again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The return to Earth was not smooth because it was never meant to be a round-trip ticket for the future... but with simultaneous efforts from both sides of Earth and the Exotic Realm, after full thirty-plus hours and a large amount of "fuel," the "dimensions" were successfully stabilized.
The Ancient City has returned.
However, as a cost, a massive Exotic Realm rift appeared around the Ancient City.
The glass was shattered, and even if pieced back together, it is still full of cracks and fissures, with its strength and stability already unreliable... And if the glass completely collapses, resulting in significant leakage and infiltration, inside and outside will have fused together, making separation pointless.
"Even if the barrier is reluctantly rebuilt, it merely places the Exotic Realm rift within a relatively stable range..."
