Laboratory (Part 2)

There were no natural phenomena, no special effects of light and shadow. A bare, featureless opening simply creaked open in the still somewhat uneven Red Soil Land, with a stairway descending below... As the entrance to a hidden Wilderness Laboratory, this setup barely made sense, but it fell far short of what everyone had imagined and speculated about over the past while.

"Don't doubt it. This is the place. Everyone, come forward."

All seven people present gathered around. Of the participants in the transaction standing before the entrance, more than half had already lost the intense, urgent interest in the laboratory they had initially felt. Still, upon seeing this scene, they were all more or less stunned.

"This was Bu Qingwen's design. Supposedly, the portal's structure was anchored to solid rock strata, so it had environmental requirements. No matter where it moved, it had to make contact with solid ground. This design operated on a relatively fundamental level and didn't rely on instruments, so when those people from Fushan Auction House dismantled the Anchoring Device, they couldn't do anything about it. Of course, to prevent it from moving into a body of water and opening on a lakebed, causing water to flood in, the Anchoring Device also had a hazard-avoidance function... Count yourselves lucky there wasn't one of these in the Saltwater Lake you people messed around with. Otherwise, you would've had to wrestle with a flood first."

Fei Long occupied the largest space before the opening. True God's Will, attached to Fei Long's soul, scanned the utterly unremarkable ground-level portal back and forth dozens of times before falling silent in thought. Then his gaze shifted to the Horned Demon.

Of everyone present, aside from Luo Yuan, only the Horned Demon had truly visited Luo Yuandao Laboratory. Naturally, he could