"Patriarch, something's wrong. Perhaps… we should leave?"
Seeing the situation take a turn for the worse, an elder of the
In truth, the
There was something approaching from beneath the desert, yet he couldn't see what it was.
All he could hear was that eerie bell toll, growing closer and closer.
He was afraid. Both his instincts and the overwhelming pressure bearing down on him told him that whatever was about to appear could not be anything good.
But when the
And so, he didn't want to leave either.
After all, he had roamed the martial cultivation world for many years and understood well the principle that opportunity often comes accompanied by danger, and danger often comes accompanied by opportunity.
If only he fled with his clan, and this opportunity were to descend… wouldn't that mean suffering an enormous loss?
BOOM—
Suddenly, a plume of smoke erupted skyward as the desert below began to collapse.
In the blink of eye, all the endless sand across the ground vanished entirely.
An enormous crater appeared beneath everyone's feet.
The crater was vast — at least within the range of their vision, there was no longer any desert to be seen, only the gaping maw of this colossal pit.
Their feet now hovered over a pitch-black abyss of indescribable depth.
Dong—
Dong—
Dong—
…
And that eerie bell toll was now extremely close.
"It's right there, but I can't see a thing."
"What on earth is that?"
Everyone stared in the direction from which the bell toll was emanating. They could pinpoint the location.
The bell was very near, yet they couldn't see what object it was ringing from.
Creeeak—
Suddenly, the sound of a massive gate swinging open reached their ears.
Accompanying that sound, a gate materialized out of thin air, appearing in the very direction from which the bell tolled.
The gate sat within the abyss — towering ten thousand meters high, incomparably magnificent, yet lying on its side inside the chasm.
The gate was blood-red, as though forged from human blood.
Against the pitch-black abyss, that blood-red gate was strikingly conspicuous, looking utterly bizarre.
And on either side of the gate hung a massive bell.
Before each blood-red bell stood a figure.
The figures towered a hundred meters high — they were giants.
Though these giants were tall, they were grotesquely corpulent. Aside from a white cloth draped over their lower bodies to cover their private parts, they wore nothing at all.
Their skin was deathly pale, without the faintest trace of blood. Their eyes were blood-red, much like those of a demon beast.
These two eerie giants were striking the blood-red bells.
And the bell toll was exactly the sound everyone had been hearing.
Most importantly, whether it was those two deathly pale, grotesque-looking giants, or the ten-thousand-meter-tall, awe-inspiring blood-red gate, all of it radiated a potent aura of antiquity.
"Father… what is that?"
Staring at the blood-red gate, even
The gate was far too bizarre — it didn't look like something from the mortal world. It seemed more like it had emerged from hell itself.
That aura of death was so dense, so suffocating.
Yet despite this, people couldn't help but fix their gazes upon the gate as it swung open.
They wanted to peer inside and glean some clue as to what lay beyond.
But though the gate was opening, all that could be seen within was an expanse of blood-red. Beyond that, nothing at all was visible.
Whoosh—
Suddenly, a tremendous suction force erupted from within the gate.
The suction covered an area so vast that even the clouds overhead immediately plummeted downward, drawn into the gate.
Sensing the danger, every martial cultivator present attempted to flee or to break free of the suction.
But the force was far too powerful. Forget the younger generation like
In no time, every last one of them was pulled into the gate.