“Oh, then you don’t need to stay with me. Go cultivate on the mountain, I’ll head in myself,” Chu Feng said.
“Wait a moment, Senior,” Yang Shenshen called out, grabbing Chu Feng just as he turned.
“What now?” Chu Feng asked.
“Senior, perhaps I wasn’t clear enough, so you didn’t quite understand.”
“Only juniors can enter this place. If someone who isn’t a junior forces their way in, they’ll be punished.”
“Look closely, those people, though they’re Master Yuan Shu’s guardians, have incredibly strong cultivation, all at the peak of the Venerable realm,” Yang Shenshen said, pointing at the uniformly dressed figures stationed around the Seven Suns Mountain Range.
“I know, but what’s the issue?” Chu Feng asked.
“Well… it’s just, Senior, you can’t go in,” Yang Shenshen said.
“Why can’t I go in?” Chu Feng asked.
“Because only juniors can enter,” Yang Shenshen replied.
“Then there’s no mistake, because I *am* a junior,” Chu Feng said.
“Senior, don’t joke around.”
At this, not only did Yang Shenshen laugh, but even the Sect Leader and Supreme Elders of Shuijing Dongtian chuckled.
They weren’t mocking or looking down on Chu Feng; they genuinely thought he was joking.
“I’m not joking. Stop lingering here with me, go cultivate on the mountain. I need to hurry in, or all the good stuff will be taken,” Chu Feng said, leaping into the air and plunging into the Spirit Mansion Gate under Yang Shenshen and the others’ gazes.
Witnessing this, Yang Shenshen and the Shuijing Dongtian group were dumbfounded, frozen in place.
It took a while for them to snap out of it.
“Grandfather, didn’t you say the Spirit Mansion Gate can discern a person’s age to determine if they’re a junior?”
“If they’re a junior, they can enter safely, but if not, they’d be repelled?” Yang Shenshen asked.
“Yes, that’s correct,” the Shuijing Dongtian Sect Leader replied.
“Then doesn’t that mean Senior Xura is really a junior?”
“His age is actually so much younger than mine?” Yang Shenshen asked, her face full of shock.
“Hiss—”
At that moment, everyone gasped.
They were utterly stunned, unable to steady their emotions.
After all, the strongest junior in their Zhutian Starfield was Nangong Yifan, the genius disciple of Zhutian Sect.
But they’d heard even Nangong Yifan’s cultivation was only Second Rank Venerable.
Yet Chu Feng was a Fifth Rank Venerable, three ranks above Nangong Yifan.
Didn’t that mean a genius surpassing the strongest had appeared in their Reincarnation Upper Realm?
Amid their shock, they shared the same thought.
They believed Chu Feng was likely a genius from another starfield.
Though they didn’t know which, they felt it must be a powerful starfield in the Holy Light Galaxy, or else… it couldn’t produce such an extraordinary genius.
Buzz—
Buzz—
Buzz—
Buzz—
Suddenly, the Spirit Mansion Gate began emitting a piercing noise and flashing strange lights.
“What’s happening, what’s going on?”
This abrupt scene drew everyone’s attention.
The guardians of the Seven Suns Mountain Range began converging on the plaza, trying to understand what was happening.
“Close the Spirit Mansion Gate,” an elder in a white robe declared.
His robe matched the other guardians’ in style, but while theirs were yellow, his was white.
This marked his special status; he wasn’t an ordinary guardian but someone with authority over the Seven Suns Mountain Range while Master Yuan Shu was in seclusion.
No one knew his name; everyone called him Lord White Robe.
“Lord White Robe, what’s going on?” the confused crowd asked.
“It was my oversight, allowing an intruder to slip into the Spirit Mansion Gate,” Lord White Robe said loudly.
“But rest assured, the rules set by Master Yuan Shu cannot be altered.”
“The Spirit Mansion Gate is for spirit masters under a hundred years old; those over a hundred are not allowed.”
“Even if someone used special means to sneak in today, we can use the formation’s core to find out who it was and ensure justice.”
Hearing this, people began discussing, speculating about the intruder.
Meanwhile, Yang Shenshen and the Shuijing Dongtian group exchanged glances.
They all shared the same thought.
They believed the intruder was Chu Feng.
Not that they doubted him, but his strength was too great, inconsistent with a junior’s identity.
Plus, the gate reacted right after Chu Feng entered.
It was hard not to connect him to this incident.
…
Inside the Spirit Mansion Gate, Chu Feng was unaware of the outside commotion.
Though many were discussing why the gate had suddenly closed, Chu Feng wasn’t interested. He’d come for the treasures and to learn about Master Yuan Shu, a friend and rival of Old Daoist Ox-Nose.
Thus, his full attention was on the gate’s interior.
However, upon entering, Chu Feng felt no novelty.
Having experienced countless ruins and secret realms, the Spirit Mansion Gate, despite its strong formation arrays, didn’t feel unique in structure.
It was a meticulously built world full of mechanisms.
But the mechanisms were basic, likely to avoid harming the spirit masters.
After all, most juniors under a hundred had mediocre spirit techniques, and among those entering, none even wore Venerable robes, let alone Saint robes, so the mechanisms couldn’t be too strong.
Though the layout wasn’t novel to Chu Feng, it held great allure.
Under his Heavenly Eye, he could see the place was far from simple, hiding things that deeply intrigued him.
