"Damn it, we should have intercepted them sooner. Now they've gotten their rewards and left just like that."
"And here we are, holding powerful tokens but gaining nothing. If we leave this place, these tokens will become useless. Wouldn't that mean all our efforts were for nothing?"
A junior genius from the Cangxiong Immortal Sect was extremely reluctant to accept this.
In truth, he wasn't the only one who felt that way.
The tokens they held were clearly more powerful than those of the Red Soul Sect's young master.
Originally, they wouldn't even have needed Chu Feng to act. With their combined strength and the power of their tokens, they could have defeated everyone on the Red Soul Sect's side.
But now, all they could do was watch them leave.
"Silence!" Qin Xuan shouted angrily, then rebuked, "What are you complaining about? If not for Brother Chu Feng, could you have obtained the power within these tokens?"
"Young Master, I didn't mean to complain about Young Hero Chu Feng. I just... sigh." The person didn't know how to explain himself.
Qin Xuan seemed to understand his feelings and turned to Chu Feng. "Brother Chu Feng, why exactly didn't you compete with them for it? Can you tell us now?"
"Do you remember what I said earlier about the interplay of truth and falsehood?"
"At first I didn't understand, but when that giant bird appeared, I figured it out. The undulation of the power within them was identical to the fluctuations on the barrier gate."
"Brother Chu Feng, what exactly does that mean?" Qin Xuan asked.
"To put it simply, their battle just now accomplished nothing. They simply wasted the power in their tokens," Chu Feng said.
"Brother Chu Feng, are you saying the power on those giant birds was useless?"
"It was deliberately luring them into wasting their token power?" Qin Xuan asked.
"Yes." Chu Feng nodded.
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lit up with joy.
If what Chu Feng said was true, then the Red Soul Sect's young master and his group had truly suffered a massive loss.
"Brother Chu Feng, the barrier gate has closed. We can't enter for now," Yuwen Yanri said.
Hearing this, everyone looked over and indeed saw it had closed. Those who had just shown joy now panicked once more.
"It's fine. It's only temporarily closed. It will reopen soon," Chu Feng said.
...
Meanwhile, within the Combat Platform where Jie Tianran and the others were, the barrier gate inscribed with numbers began to change.
Immediately after, a force of teleportation enveloped the entire Combat Platform. However, instead of leaving the platform, it gathered everyone at the opposite end.
At the same time, from the elevated platform at the center of the Combat Platform, a translucent barrier extended outward.
This barrier split the Combat Platform cleanly in two.
Then, one by one, figures began swiftly emerging from the barrier gate.
These figures landed precisely on the opposite side of the Combat Platform.
And when the last person flew out and touched down, everyone finally understood the meaning of those numbers.
It turned out the numbers held no secret at all. They represented the simplest meaning.
The number of people!!!
The number of people who appeared corresponded exactly to the numbers on the barrier gate.
Were these not all juniors?
What was the significance of these juniors appearing here?
The Divine Era, both inside and outside, was in an uproar. No one could understand.
But people focused more of their attention on the young master of the Red Soul Sect.
Because the banner he held not only bore the two characters for "Ancient," but part of it was also billowing with a plume of flame-like aura.
That aura was like fire, like blood—in any case, it was quite extraordinary.
And the young juniors who had entered this place were somewhat dazed.
The Red Soul Sect's young master was the same, looking around with bewildered eyes.
Soon, he spotted familiar figures in the distance and quickly ran toward them.
"Grandfather."
But before he could even approach the invisible barrier, the barrier of the Combat Platform stopped him.
"Grandfather, what's going on?"