Luo Jiangyan and the others followed Tao Shang's group toward the temple. It looked close, but it was still several miles away.
The closer they walked, the more they felt the temple's grandeur. Its pure-white structure towered into the clouds, while behind it, rolling black clouds pressed down upon the earth. Blood-red lightning occasionally streaked through the gloom, the stark contrast between white and black delivering an even stronger visual impact.
However, after they crossed a stretch of ruins and approached the temple, they discovered quite a few buildings standing in front of it.
These buildings reached only as high as the temple's first tier of steps, a little over ten meters, and encircled a plaza before the temple.
At that moment, quite a few people were moving around the plaza, and martial artists also walked between the buildings. They even saw people selling things at stalls in one corner of the plaza, with numerous martial artists browsing.
Seeing the puzzled expressions on Feng Xuyang and the others' faces, Tao Shang explained:
"These are all martial artists taking part in the trial. Some were teleported closer, so they reached the temple first!"
Feng Xuyang and Ming Zhen exchanged a glance. Both were wondering whether Gu Liangyunzong and the Pre-Heaven Realm experts from the other sects had arrived.
Quite a few martial artists noticed their group as well. When they saw that there were even some Grandmaster Realm martial artists among them, they looked puzzled.
However, no one dared approach. After all, temple guards were leading the way for them.
Yet Feng Xuyang, Luo Jiangyan, and the others were even more shaken.
All of them were in the Pre-Heaven Realm. They had seen no fewer than a hundred martial artists along the way, and every one of them was a Pre-Heaven