Seeing Tang Mei flash inside first, Zhang Tie, as a man, naturally refused to lag behind. He followed close on Tang Mei's heels and slipped through the gap in the not-yet-fully-opened gate as well.
Beyond the gate lay a long passage over a hundred meters high. The light within was somewhat dim, and clear signs of damage and collapse could be seen in many places. Where the passage remained intact, the radiance of strange runes flowed faintly across the floor. The entire passage was deathly silent, like a corridor in an ancient underground tomb, with an unsettling aura stirring within it.
At the sight of the damaged sections in the passage, even Zhang Tie sucked in a breath of cold air.
Zhang Tie would not have found it strange if ordinary rock or metal had been damaged, but the damaged sections here were all made of those strange materials through which runes flowed. Those materials were neither stone nor metal, similar to the materials Zhang Tie had seen in Great Xia's Earth Element Realm that had been used to construct the Time Tower. In Zhang Tie's eyes, such materials were almost like the Infinite Divine Prison—virtually indestructible. Yet now, many of them had been damaged. A thought naturally rose in Zhang Tie's mind: what kind of power could destroy even such materials?
Zhang Tie instinctively sensed that something was off about this place, and the Heaven-Parting Sword appeared in his hand at once.
Flying was impossible inside Incomplete Mountain, and the space here was relatively narrow. The power of the black giant tower could not be fully unleashed here, so comparatively shorter weapons like sabers and swords were more suitable.
Though they were walking on the ground, neither of them made the slightest sound.
After they had traveled nearly five