Outside Pangu Heaven-Opening Tower.
This place was always bustling with voices, packed with living beings from every corner of the Cosmos, regardless of race or Dao Domain.
There were information peddlers, company and bank representatives scouting for geniuses, local Pangu Star merchants buying and selling treasures, and, of course, the largest group of all: onlookers hungry for gossip. The summoned ones possessing Pangu Tokens were instead the smallest cluster among them.
Truly, immortals were gathered here thick as hemp.
In one corner, snake monsters radiating Divine Power fluctuations gathered together. A dense, tangled tide of flesh in every color made one's stomach turn just by looking at it.
Red-scaled, yellow-scaled, scaleless, and all manner of other Cosmic snake clans' physical-body prodigies stretched their necks in anticipation.
After a while.
Gulp—
A black serpent flew out of the Heaven-Opening Tower as though someone had kicked it out. It rolled several times across the ground before transforming into an upright snake-man. After getting up, its face was filled with helplessness.
"You lost after entering the fourth floor?"
The snakes crowded around it, while other creatures nearby craned their necks and listened in.
Without question, these physical-body Dao prodigies were Pangu Star's focal point. Even intelligence about them was worth a considerable sum.
"Do I look like I won?"
The black snake's voice was hoarse and exceptionally bitter.
It had answered the summons and come to Pangu Star, originally thrilled to take on the challenge. But reality had dealt it a resounding slap across the face.
It had been stopped at the fourth floor, yet it did not feel the slightest unwillingness.
Because it had encountered that man...
The red-scaled serpent flicked out its long tongue and chuckled. "After clearing three floors, you ran into Meng's avatar?"
Who else could it have been..."