Dharma Has No Second Gate (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Heavy Position Bottom Fishing Miao Yu, Shi Mengluo Ya, and zj1998!)

Jiang Wang remembered a conversation like this.

It had been one of his many conversations with Xu Ximing during the battle against the evil manifestations.

"They came for revenge."

"Revenge?"

"Because we created them—greed, desire, sin, war, slaughter..."

He did not know why, but as he stepped through the Gate of Red Dust, that conversation came back to him.

The Gate of Red Dust led to the human world.

Though the Gate of Red Dust contained a realm of its own, it was only a vast expanse of emptiness, with nothing existing within it.

In a flash of Si Yu'an's sword light, they had already crossed the Gate of Red Dust.

What appeared before Jiang Wang was an enormous circular plaza, entirely paved in red brick. Though this place lay within Sea of Bitterness Cliff, it was not dim.

The light presumably came from special formation patterns in the dome. In any case, it fell naturally, as bright as the world outside.

When they had arrived at Calamity Water before, Si Yu'an had carried them through on whistling sword light. They had not properly passed through the Gate of Red Dust.

So this was Jiang Wang's first time seeing the place.

The dense lines of formation patterns across the floor tiles were enough to show that this plaza was far from simple.

The faint pulses of power alone startled Jiang Wang—and that was only the part he could perceive.

Who knew how many more methods lay hidden where he could not sense them? With more than fifty thousand years of accumulated foundation, the Blood River Sect had surely made extensive preparations at the exit of the Gate of Red Dust. The danger warning from the Divergent Path perhaps reflected some small part of it.

Of course, due to the Gate