“Patriarch, something’s wrong. Shall we leave?”
Seeing the situation turning bad, an elder of the Yushi Celestial Clan advised the patriarch of the Yushi Celestial Clan.
In truth, the patriarch of the Yushi Celestial Clan was already beginning to panic inside.
Something strange was approaching beneath the desert, yet he could not see what it was.
He could only hear that eerie bell sound growing ever closer.
He was afraid. Both his instincts and the oppressive pressure told him that whatever was about to appear was likely no good thing.
However, the patriarch of the Yushi Celestial Clan glanced at the patriarch of the Long Clan, the palace master of the All-Demons Sacred Hall, and the people from the Cloud Sky Immortal Sect. None of them showed any intention of retreating.
So he too was unwilling to leave.
After all, having roamed the martial cultivation world for so many years, he deeply understood the principle that opportunities often came with danger, and danger often came with opportunities.
Boom!
Suddenly, the desert beneath everyone’s feet began to collapse.
A huge pit appeared in the vast desert.
The pit was enormous. Within the range of everyone’s vision, they could no longer see any desert.
Beneath their feet had turned into a pitch-black abyss with no visible bottom.
Clang!
And that eerie bell sound was now extremely close to them.
“It’s right there, but we can’t see anything.”
Everyone stared fixedly in the direction the bell sound came from. They could pinpoint the location.
The bell sound was very near, yet they could not see from what object it was actually emanating.
Creak!
Suddenly, the sound of a gate opening rang out.
Along with that sound, everyone could see a gate appearing before their eyes.
That gate was right inside the abyss, reaching ten thousand metres in height and extremely majestic.
The gate was blood-red. Against the pitch-black abyss, it looked exceedingly sinister.
On either side of the gate stood a large bell.
Atop each blood-red bell stood a figure.
Those figures were a hundred metres tall but enormously fat. Apart from a piece of white cloth covering their private parts below the waist, they wore nothing else on their bodies.
Their skin was deathly pale without a trace of colour, their eyes blood-red like those of demonic beasts.
These two figures were striking the blood-red bells.
And the bell sound was precisely the one everyone had been hearing.
Most importantly, whether it was those two pale-skinned, bizarre-looking giants or the ten-thousand-metre-tall, extremely majestic blood-coloured gate, both emitted a dense aura of ancient times.
“Father, what is that?”
Even Long Xiaoxiao, looking at that blood-red gate, was so frightened that she hid behind the patriarch of the Long Clan.
That gate was too eerie. It did not seem like something from the human world; it felt more like something from hell.
The aura of death was so intense.
Yet despite this, people could not help but direct their gazes towards the gate that was slowly opening.
They wanted to glimpse something from within.
Although the gate was opening, inside remained a sheet of blood-red, and nothing else could be seen.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a vast suction force burst out from within the gate.
That suction force covered an immense area. Even the clouds in the void immediately fell and were drawn into the gate.
Seeing that things were bad, all the martial cultivators present tried to escape or resist the suction force.
But the suction was far too strong. Let alone the juniors like Chu Feng, even experts in the Martial Venerable realm such as the patriarchs of the Yushi Celestial Clan and Long Clan could not break free.
Soon, everyone was sucked into the gate.
At that moment, only one figure remained standing in the void.
It was Granny Wish God.
The suction force was still present, howling like gale-force winds, roaring like ferocious beasts, as though countless invisible ghostly hands were trying to drag her into the gate.
But it was useless. Granny Wish God stood in the void, her long hair dancing, her robes flapping wildly, yet her posture did not shift in the slightest.
Granny Wish God looked at that eerie blood-red gate without a trace of fear in her eyes.
Instead, there was a thick look of anticipation.
“Little girl, you must not disappoint your master.”
Granny Wish God said.
…
After Chu Feng and the others were swept into the blood-red gate, they entered another world.
This world was extremely desolate. The ground beneath their feet was hard as rock, yet strangely, such solid earth was covered in weeds.
The weeds were withered and yellow, on the verge of losing all vitality.
There was not a single cloud in the sky, but the heavens were not blue; they were a dull grey.
In the distance stood a large mountain.
The mountain was huge and oval-shaped, like an enormous basin turned upside down on the ground.
It was a stone mountain. Not a single tree grew upon it, yet strangely, it too was covered in weeds.
Normally, how could such weeds possibly grow out of solid stone?
But Chu Feng and the others had no time to ponder such things. All their attention was fixed on the middle-lower part of the stone mountain.
There stood a blood-red gate.
That blood-red gate was only a thousand metres tall, yet it was identical to the blood-red gate that Chu Feng and the others had previously seen in the abyss.
On either side of the blood-red gate were two large bells as well.
However, the giants who had been striking the bells were nowhere to be seen.
There was one more difference.
Above the blood-red gate, a blood-red plaque had appeared.
Five large characters were carved upon the plaque.
Ancient Soldier Burial Tomb!!!
“It is actually the Ancient Soldier Burial Tomb?”
Upon seeing this tomb, the eyes of major figures such as the patriarch of the Long Clan and the patriarch of the Yushi Celestial Clan all flickered.
“The Ancient Soldier Burial Tomb? What is that?”
Meanwhile, juniors like Long Xiaoxiao and most of the elders present were utterly confused.
Clearly, they knew nothing about this Ancient Soldier Burial Tomb.
Whoosh!
But suddenly, a hurricane swept through.
In an instant, screams rang out continuously.
The patriarch of the Long Clan, Long Xiaoxiao, everyone from the Yushi Celestial Clan, everyone from the Cloud Sky Immortal Sect, and everyone from the All-Demons Sacred Hall were all blown away by the hurricane.
In this place, only Chu Feng remained!!!
Chu Feng had originally wanted to save Long Xiaoxiao, but he discovered that Long Xiaoxiao and the others had vanished completely, not even a trace of their aura remained. He had no idea in which direction they had disappeared.
“Why am I the only one unaffected?”
Chu Feng was puzzled.
Logically, among everyone present, many had cultivations far above his own.
No matter how one looked at it, Chu Feng should not have been the survivor.
Most importantly, when that terrifying hurricane had swept through, Chu Feng could feel it brush past his body, yet it did not affect him.
In other words, the hurricane had blown everyone away, but it had deliberately spared Chu Feng alone.
Creak!
At that moment, a strange sound rang out.
Looking towards the source, Chu Feng could see that beneath the plaque of the Ancient Soldier Burial Tomb, the blood-red gate was slowly opening.
This time, Chu Feng could see that inside the blood-red gate was no longer pitch black.
Golden light flickered within, and countless treasures floated before Chu Feng’s eyes.
