After Su Haimei and Ying Feiqiong left the black giant tower, the airspace where the tower stood returned to calm. Within a thousand li in every direction, not a single person could be seen, just as before.
Yet to everyone's surprise, less than two hours after the two women had left the black giant tower, light suddenly flowed across its smooth, seamless surface. A doorway a hundred meters tall abruptly opened in the middle of the tower.
Within the opened tower gate, terrifying black mist swirled and coiled, slowly forming an incomparably deep black tunnel at the entrance, like a whirlpool in water.
If any human Divine General or demon general had been there at that moment and witnessed this scene, their jaws would surely have dropped in shock.
Black mist spun along both sides of the tunnel, while its far end was pitch-black, as though it led to some unknown and mysterious spacetime. Within that mystery lurked a powerful force that inspired fear.
A tall, upright figure emerged from the end of that lightless black tunnel, walking step by step toward the tower gate with calm yet unwavering strides. Wherever that person passed, the swirling black mist on either side of the tunnel stopped rotating one after another, then prostrated itself, collapsed, and returned to a state of Chaos.
By the time that person reached the tunnel's exit, under the bright light of the Mountain Ruins outside the black giant tower, his face and figure were finally revealed in full.
Who else could this person be but Zhang Tie, who had entered the tower seven years ago and vanished without a word?
Compared with seven years earlier, Zhang Tie's body, which had not changed for many years, seemed to have grown another inch or so taller. The muscles on