As time passed.
The atmosphere in the town gradually returned to normal.
After several days of excitement among the local Martial Artists of Eastern Cloud Prefecture over Li Yun's challenge atop Flying Goose Tower, the fervor gradually subsided.
After all, no craze lasted forever.
More people focused their attention on Cloud Dragon Zen Temple. That was the truly fever-inducing opportunity—obtain it, and one might forge a legend who soared to the heavens in a single step.
And soon.
Half a month passed.
On this day—
Thousands upon thousands of Martial Artists surged toward Pingding Mountain. Including those who had arrived early and waited there, the mountain was packed black with people, densely crowded with no fewer than a hundred thousand Martial Artists.
The once-spacious Pingding Mountain was so crammed that there was not even room to set a foot down.
Pair after pair of eyes stared at the ancient stone gate embedded in the cliff wall.
That stone gate seemed to sense the desire bursting from the eyes of more than a hundred thousand Martial Artists outside. When the time reached a certain critical moment—
The stone gate shuddered violently with a thunderous boom!
Before the stunned gazes of over a hundred thousand Martial Artists, the stone gate burst open.
"Ha ha... The stone gate is open, charge!"
"First come, first served—the opportunity is mine!"
In an instant, countless Martial Artists charged madly toward the stone gate.
Yet the fastest were not the hidden Heavenly Human Supremes, but Soaring Heaven Realm experts.
It was not that those Heavenly Human Supremes were not anxious. Rather, they had better control over their emotions and clearly understood that in a scramble for opportunity like this, getting inside first was not necessarily enough to seize it.
Haste had no meaning.
On the contrary, they