Just as Ye Feng and Yu Xiaoxiao were fighting the disciples of the Britain Empire, Yu Jing, the "gatekeeper," also awaited the challengers' arrival.
"Williams, Door Opening."
The male disciple called Williams was the largest of the disciples from the Military Nation Ability Institute. He tensed his muscles and forcibly destroyed the stone door blocking his path with a single punch. The shattered stones fell into the regular hexagonal hall. There were five stone doors in total, each corresponding to an unknown area, but only one led to the mission item. The map of the Military Nation Ability Institute did not record every path and side passage in complete detail, so the mission item's coordinates had been set within the hall.
Each stone door had the same plant seal placed upon it.
"There's airflow moving beneath our feet. Unfortunately, it's been cut off by this seed. Should I pull it out?"
A dark-skinned woman in the group used her innate perception to find a strange seed hidden in the center of the hall. The seed was absorbing the airflow.
"Stand back a little, in case there's a trap."
The fire-wielding boy from the Military Nation Ability Institute was named Garton, and he was temporarily serving as the leader of the six-person team. With a wave of his hand, a mass of high-temperature flames engulfed the plant seed.
"Hm?" Under normal circumstances, flames reaching a thousand degrees Celsius could easily burn a plant to ashes, but the seed within the fire remained completely unharmed.
"Annihilation!"
Garton clenched his hand, and the flames all surged into the seed.
The cells inside the seed were burned away and scattered as a mass of ash. However, the lower end of the seed still retained countless dense plant roots.
They connected to the five stone