Yang Lake.
When a roar sounded overhead, figures appeared on the decks one after another and looked up at the sky.
Jiang Ning looked up too. Ripples spread like a tide, the wind and clouds shifted, and the sky suddenly darkened.
"It's about to open!" Sun Yuancheng said gravely.
"You arrived just in time, Brother Yuancheng!" Ye Zhengqi said.
"I did get lucky!" Sun Yuancheng nodded with a slight smile.
"Now we'll see whether this is a secret realm or a Grotto-Heaven!"
"It's taken this long to open. I'd put the chance of it being a Grotto-Heaven world at seventy percent," Zhong Yue said.
"If it is a Grotto-Heaven world, who knows what rules govern it? Anyone capable of creating a small Grotto-Heaven world would have been a true wielder of great divine powers even in the Primordial Era, someone whose words became law!" Sun Yuancheng said with a sigh.
"We'll know soon enough," Ye Zhengqi said flatly.
Beside them, Jiang Ning listened in silence.
Though he had recited Daoist and Buddhist scriptures and read many books, he knew his horizons still fell short of Ye Zhengqi's, Zhong Yue's, and Sun Yuancheng's.
The three were inspectors of the three prefectures, men of high standing and formidable strength.
Among grandmasters, they were true first-rate experts.
None was young. They had lived long, grown strong, and risen high; naturally, their breadth of knowledge was beyond his.
The three fell silent and waited for the sky to change.
Jiang Ning waited quietly as well.
"Brother Jiang Ning, be careful once you're inside!" Zhong Ling stood nearby and gave his sleeve a gentle tug.
Jiang Ning glanced at her and nodded slightly.
"It's opening!" Sun Yuancheng called.
Jiang Ning immediately looked up.
The next moment, he saw what looked like a gap opening in