Chen Yanqing and Yun Huairou immediately decided to change locations.
Since everyone was escaping through the eastern teleportation array, they would go block the one in the east and seize the time gap. At the very least, they could intercept some of them. The reason this secret realm had four teleportation arrays might have been to give all the unaffiliated cultivators a chance to compete. If there were only one teleportation array, a team with an overwhelming advantage in strength could block everyone.
Now, however, the intercepting teams had to outwit the rat people.
It was still two Gang Realm experts leading eight or nine Unity Realm cultivators, a huge force sweeping through the secret realm toward the eastern ancient-city area. When they reached the depths of the ancient city, Yun Huairou found that many people really had already passed through the city gate. Every so often, a streak of light flew past, without any fluctuations of battle qi.
"Let's occupy this city gate," Chen Yanqing ordered.
But almost simultaneously with their team, another large force descended. It consisted of more than a dozen unaffiliated cultivators at the Unity Realm, led by a well-built young man.
The man wore his dark-golden hair loose over his shoulders. He was tall and muscular, dressed in a tight tank top that revealed his bulging muscles, with a dragon's head tattooed on his shoulder. His features were hard and stern, his eye sockets shadowed. At a glance, he radiated overwhelming dominance.
"Zhang Putuo?" Yun Huairou called out his name at once.
As the Heaven Venerate Society's greatest assumed rival this time, the three of them were extremely familiar with this young man. They just had not expected to encounter the Chilao Mountain team after losing so many people.
"You just got here too?" Zhang