[Heaven Realm Gate]

Western Heaven Realm.

Dawn Harmony Region, Spirit Cloud Kingdom, Sunlit City, Heaven Realm Gate.

Guarding the Heaven Realm Gate was an exceedingly boring task. Especially for a Heaven-ranked powerhouse, forced to stand watch like an ordinary sentry at this Heaven Realm Gate that opened once every hundred years—it was simply the most painful thing in the world. Even an idiot knew that although the Heaven Realm Gate opened once a century, the spacetime passage had long since shattered. Not to mention the tremendous power of the seal, even the chaotic vortexes of spacetime rifts could easily tear a Heaven-ranked warrior to pieces.

In the thousands of years since the war with the Heaven-Piercing Tower, not a single warrior from the lower realms had ever broken through the Heaven Realm Gate.

As the duty officer who had guarded this place for a thousand years,

Tu Wang had nearly forgotten the Heaven-Piercing Tower altogether.

If not for the Spirit Cloud King's instructions, and if not for the orders of Sunlit City's lord, Tu Hai—Tu Wang's elder brother—Tu Wang, with his Heaven-ranked strength, would never have wasted a thousand years here.

"Forget the Heaven-Piercing Tower. Have any newcomers joined us from the other lower-realm continents, so we can squeeze some taxes out of them?" Tu Wang asked his subordinates listlessly as he drank Sunlit Wine, which he was sick enough of to vomit. Sunlit Wine was extremely famous throughout Spirit Cloud Kingdom. Together with the grape wine of Nightglow Kingdom, famed for "grape wine in a Nightglow cup," it was ranked among the two great wines of the Dawn Harmony Region, priceless beyond measure outside. But no matter how fine the wine was, after drinking nothing else for a thousand years, even someone with dead taste buds would grow weary of it. Tu