The mountain gate here truly was a mountain gate in name.
The mountain gates of past ruins had been gathering places built around a ruin's entrance, so-called archaeological sites.
In contrast, the mountain gate jointly constructed by thirteen races was like a village at the foot of a great mountain.
Nine Dragon Mountain was vast, somewhat like the Poisonous Mistlands where Xu Kun had obtained the Mang Gu Zhu Clam.
This village-like mountain gate was merely a transfer station for going up the mountain, rather than something that existed to guard the ruins.
Eh—then here came the question: weren't ordinary ruins usually buried deep underground?
That was precisely why people said that only the surface of the Nine Dragon Mountain ruins had been developed.
Unlike other ruins buried deep underground, Nine Dragon Mountain was a mountain within a mountain. The races entrenched in this region of Upside-Down Mountain, at this elevation, had yet to find the true entrance to the ruins.
Thus, their usual way of exploring this ruin was simply to climb the mountain!
"Entrance to the Ten Thousand Caves..."
Xu Kun passed through the entire mountain gate complex and stopped beneath a Paifang.
This Paifang should have been the man-made so-called entrance, not part of the ruins themselves. It came with an array formation; without the mountain gate's administrators granting permission, outsiders had formerly been unable to pass through it directly and enter the Nine Dragon Mountain ruins.
As for why it was called the "Ten Thousand Caves," it was because even though the core ruins of this unusual site, Nine Dragon Mountain, had not been found, archaeological excavations within these nine mountain ranges shaped like giant dragons had still yielded considerable gains.
The clouds and mist that never dispersed were no ordinary mist. They were miasmic toxic