[Several days later, early one morning, an enormous Mountain-Treading Beast sprang up from among a thousand mountains and ten thousand ravines, treading clouds and breaking through mist as it came racing across the sky.]
[The Mountain-Treading Beast was an ancient guardian beast of the Qilin Clan, yet this time it had been dispatched to the Jianmu Sacred Domain.]
[It resembled a two-headed male lion carved from white jade, its towering body like a mountain.]
[Yet before the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu, it seemed as tiny as a kitten.]
[On the Mountain-Treading Beast's back rode tens of thousands of Dao Soldiers, among whom lurked the majestic auras of nine Eighth-Tier Cultivators.]
[The giant beast did not stop. It leaped above Jianmu's crown and stood upon auspicious clouds in the void.]
[A clear voice rang out from afar: "Everyone, I, Qi Wu, will go on ahead!"]
[A crimson precious jade atop the Mountain-Treading Beast's head suddenly shone. Its radiance poured over the crown, opening a gateway into the secret realm.]
[Seven or eight streaks of light shot up from the beast's back and streamed into the gateway.]
[After they entered, the gateway slowly closed and vanished.]
[The Mountain-Treading Beast gave a low growl, its enormous body slowly settling upon one of Jianmu's thick branches.]
[Standing aboard the Treasure Ship, Feng Wei said helplessly, "Qi Wu has always been like this. He has to be first in everything."]
["Let us head inside as well!"]
[When Qi Wu appeared, you had already stepped out and sent a thread of Immortal Sense toward the gateway into the Jianmu Secret Realm that had just opened, but discovered nothing.]
[As expected, the Jianmu Secret Realm concealed profound mysteries. It was not somewhere one could enter at will.]
[According to rumor, if someone stood guard within the secret realm, even