The instant the tornado rose from the stream, the entire plaza fell silent for a moment.
The hundred-zhang water tornado shot straight into the heavens, pale azure spiritual radiance flowing through its walls like an enormous pillar of light connecting heaven and earth.
A strange hum faintly sounded from within the tornado, like countless people chanting scriptures at once, yet also like a gale howling from an unimaginably distant place.
The sound was not piercing. Instead, it carried an indescribable allure, as though it were softly calling to every single person.
Li Bufan stood on the eastern side of the plaza, his gaze fixed on the tornado, his brow faintly furrowed.
He was no stranger to that pull. In the Seven Emotions Secret Realm, every time a secret realm gateway opened, it would emit a similar force of temptation.
Yet this tornado felt deeper and more pervasive to him, as if that force was not merely calling to his body, but probing his Spiritual Sense as well, lightly knocking upon every crack in the depths of his soul.
The woman in the black robe hovered above the stream. She swept her gaze over the True Disciples below and their companions. "The gateway to Six Desires Heaven is open. Please enter."
The moment her words fell, True Disciples began moving first. A man and a woman rose side by side, their movement techniques as light as swallows, plunging directly into the water tornado without the slightest hesitation.
The instant their bodies touched the tornado's watery wall, they vanished, as though swallowed by the spinning current.
Then came the second pair, the third, the fourth... Pair after pair soared into the air in succession. Some rode swords, some walked upon water, while others simply leapt with their movement techniques. Spiritual lights of