Ye Cheng had escaped!
As his somewhat bedraggled figure entered the Sky-Reaching Pagoda, the tower flared with light. A pillar of radiance shot into the heavens, flickering on and off before finally dimming completely. Shen Yi chased him to the exterior of the Sky-Reaching Pagoda, only to find its doors tightly shut. When he reached out, an invisible barrier hurled his hand away. Clearly, some kind of restriction was preventing him from entering.
"This is truly strange. Who knows when the Sky-Reaching Pagoda will open again?"
Shen Yi wore a deeply worried expression. From the information Ye Cheng had revealed, he learned that a colossal conspiracy lay hidden behind the Sky-Reaching Pagoda. Nascent Soul prodigies like Ye Cheng were merely pawns charging at the front, while even Immortal King behemoths were pulling the strings behind the scenes. The thought sent a chill down Shen Yi's spine. If an Immortal King behemoth made a move, perhaps the entire mortal world would be unable to escape calamity.
When he returned to the Supreme Hall, Shen Qing's injuries had stabilized through everyone's combined efforts. Upon hearing that Shen Yi had driven the cultivator who emerged from the tower back into it, everyone gasped sharply. The Sky-Reaching Pagoda truly lived up to its name—it could connect the Immortal and Mortal Realms. There was no telling how many people like that one, who had only narrowly lost to Shen Yi, existed in the Immortal Realm. Just thinking about it was terrifying.
Over the next few days, Shen Yi personally guarded the Sky-Reaching Pagoda nearby. Yet after waiting for a full half month without seeing it light up again, he finally set his mind at ease.
In the end, unfortunate news still arrived. The fact that Shen Yi's Sky-Reaching Pagoda showed no further abnormalities did not