Gu Ding sat in his room, idly turning a palm-sized card over in his hand as if deep in thought.
The other members had all returned to their rooms or gone to the training grounds. Even Elizabeth was no exception.
After hesitating for more than ten minutes, Gu Ding stopped playing with the card. He seemed to have made up his mind and began channeling the divine source within his body into it.
The dark silver card gradually lit up, yet it greedily devoured the energy Gu Ding sent into it like a bottomless pit, without even the slightest bit leaking out.
Gu Ding was rather surprised. Such a small card had no energy fluctuations, and he could not even see any Heavenly Dao Markings on it, yet it could absorb his energy like this. He continued feeding it energy, growing increasingly astonished.
More than ten minutes later, Gu Ding had poured nearly half the energy in his body into the card. Its rate of absorption finally slowed before gradually reaching saturation.
The entire card suddenly disintegrated, turning into a projected screen.
At the top of the projection was a dark silver gate marked with a large "X," just like when the person who had sent the invitation appeared.
Soon, however, the dark silver gate slowly began to open amid a rumbling sound.
As the gate opened, a blinding white light shone through the gap, making even Gu Ding narrow his eyes.
Before long, the gate was fully open. The white radiance swiftly filled the entire projection and shone toward Gu Ding.
Gu Ding felt a powerful pull, and in the next instant, he vanished from the spacecraft.
When Gu Ding came back to his senses, he found himself in an unfamiliar city.
He looked down and discovered that he