The voice was thin and sharp, the face fair and clean. The one who appeared at the entrance of the Examination Institute this time was no longer the examiner from moments ago, but someone with a different appearance.
Not only had the person making the announcement changed, even the Examination Institute had, at some unknown point, completely transformed into the outer wall of the Imperial Palace.
The walls of the Imperial Palace towered into the clouds, majestic and imposing. Their surface was covered in patterns and carvings, resplendent in gold and jade. Above the walls hung dozens of enormous banners; when they lifted, they fluttered, and as they fluttered, they rippled with endless silver light and golden shadows.
A vast, surging momentum rushed straight at them. If the danger of the Examination Institute from before had been drawn tight yet left unreleased, then the Imperial Palace at this moment was telling you plainly and clearly: this was forbidden ground.
Chen Fei walked amid the many Sky Opening Realm cultivators and stepped through the gates of the Imperial Palace.
The ground was paved with thousand-year-old ancient wood, and a solemn feeling rose of its own accord, even making people unable to help but feel the urge to kneel in worship.
Every corner and every detail within the Imperial Palace contained ingenious craftsmanship, but precisely because of this, the palace seemed somewhat unreal.
As for palaces, never mind in the Profound Spirit Domain—even in the Black Stone Domain, the main-city palaces of every race were grand and majestic. According to each race's own aesthetics, their styles differed greatly.
The Imperial Palace within this Weird world looked more like all the beautiful fantasies that countless failed imperial-examination candidates had about the palace. What one sought but could not obtain was the most painful,