Accompanied by Qingshui and the others, Fang Mo passed through the Gate of Void and entered Tianli Sect's forbidden grounds.
This place was like an independent world—ancient and vast, with Spiritual Medicine carpeting the ground and exotic beasts roaming in herds. Yet the strongest among them were only at the Transformative Form Realm. Sensing the group's auras, they all retreated.
Looking at the Spiritual Medicine covering the mountains, Fang Mo felt a little tempted. He was now a fourth-grade alchemist and could recognize that much of the Spiritual Medicine here had already vanished from the Ancient Realm.
No sect with a legacy stretching back hundreds of thousands of years can be underestimated, he thought.
Tianli Sect's foundations likely extended far beyond this. He had yet to enter the so-called Secret Realm. Since it could accommodate so many powerful cultivators, it was probably an independent world as well—perhaps even more advanced than these so-called forbidden grounds.
After flying for a while, the group arrived above a massive altar.
The altar had been built long ago and left untended for years. It was already overgrown with weeds and moss, battered and worn, every inch bearing the traces of time.
"Acting Sect Master, it's here!" True Lord Xuan Yu pointed at the altar. "Activating this formation requires the Sect Master Token and the Elder Token. Only when the two tokens are united can the passage to the Mechanical Empire's Imperial Star be activated."
Fang Mo nodded and took out the Sect Master Token.
Everyone's gazes narrowed slightly. To see the token was to see the sect master himself; it represented Tianli Sect's supreme authority.
Xuan Yu also produced a token. Clearly, the two tokens were made of the same material and had likely come from the same piece of metal.
Fang Mo had