The Core Hall Door

"What?" Venerable Stone Firm frowned. "Not waiting for the weakening period? Forcing our way in?"

"No." Chu Ming shook his head. "I can guide the restriction and open a path for us."

He pressed both hands against the stele, and the light of the Order Core between his brows shone through his body, merging with the fluctuations of the Order Fireseed before slowly flowing into the golden runes on the stele's surface.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

The golden runes suddenly lit up, their circulation speed beginning to change.

No longer did they cycle in chaotic disorder. Guided by Chu Ming's power of order, they began arranging and combining along a particular trajectory. The passage at the vortex's center expanded and stabilized at a visible rate.

"This..." Dan Chenzi's eyes widened. "Using order to guide order... what an exquisite method!"

Approval flashed through Iron Rock's eyes. "Worthy of an inheritor of the Order-Setter Inheritance. Everyone, prepare to enter!"

Three breaths later.

The passage had expanded enough for three people to pass through abreast.

"Enter!" Chu Ming barked.

He stepped into the passage first.

Dao Master Qingwei and Dao Master Leihuang followed close behind.

The five from the City Lord's Manor, the three from the support group, and the other four visiting cultivators filed in after them.

The instant the last person entered the passage, Chu Ming withdrew his power of order.

The golden runes returned to their original state, and the passage snapped shut.

Boom!

A dull roar came from behind them—the sound of the restriction reviving.

Had they been even half a breath slower, they would have been sealed outside.

Yet now, they stood within the Order Stele.

Before them stretched an astonishingly broad corridor.

The corridor was a hundred zhang high and fifty zhang wide. Its walls on either side