Accompanied by Clear Water and the others, Fang Mo passed through the gate in the void and entered the Tianli Sect's forbidden grounds.
This place seemed to be an independent world, ancient and vast, with spirit medicines carpeting the land and mutant beasts roaming in herds. Yet even the strongest beasts were only at the shapeshifting realm. Sensing the group's presence, they all retreated.
Fang Mo eyed the mountainsides covered in spirit medicines with some envy. As a fourth-grade alchemist, he recognized many spirit medicines here that had long since vanished from the Ancient Realm.
No sect with a legacy spanning hundreds of thousands of years can be underestimated, he thought.
The Tianli Sect's reserves probably extended far beyond this. He had yet to enter its so-called Secret Realm. A place capable of accommodating so many powerful cultivators must also have been an independent world, quite possibly of a higher order than these forbidden grounds.
After flying for a short while, the group arrived above an enormous altar.
The altar had been built long ago and left untended for ages. Weeds and moss had long since overgrown it, and its battered, worn surfaces bore the marks of time everywhere.
"Sect Master, this is the place!" True Lord Xuanyu pointed at the altar. "Activating this array requires the Sect Master's Token and the Elder Token. Only by combining the two can we open the passage to the Mechanical Empire's Imperial Star."
Fang Mo nodded and took out the Sect Master's Token.
Everyone's eyes narrowed slightly. Seeing the token was equivalent to seeing the sect master himself; it represented the Tianli Sect's supreme authority.
Xuanyu also took out a token. Clearly, the two tokens were made of the same material, quite possibly from the same piece of metal.
Fang Mo had not