The sun rose in the east, and the Dragon Gate rose once more.
Boundless radiance poured from above the Dragon Gate. At first glance, everyone almost had the illusion that the sun was rising from within it, that the sovereign of heaven and earth was not the sun, but that enormous Dragon Gate.
The immense golden gate slowly solidified, but what condensed within the luminous gateway was not a frame-it was two golden dragons ten thousand zhang long!
The two enormous golden dragons coiled and circled around each other in the sky. After soaring high above, they suddenly plunged downward and vanished from everyone's sight.
Several breaths later, the two dragons rose from the left and right respectively. Once high in the sky, they opened their great jaws and lunged to bite at each other.
Viewed from Riverheart Island, the newly risen sun lay precisely between the two dragons' open mouths.
Anticipation appeared on the faces of many dragons, but most of the others merely found it amusing. By a remarkable coincidence, the scene formed the legendary image of two dragons playing with a pearl.
Yet it was merely a trick of alignment and perspective. Many were waiting for the two dragons to collide and form the Dragon Gate when something extraordinary happened.
The ground suddenly shook violently, jolting everyone slightly off their feet. Lei Yigu had the lowest literary rank, and, caught off guard, he actually fell to the ground.
Then, under everyone's puzzled and astonished gazes, the two enormous dragons opened their mouths even wider.
Suddenly, with the two dragons at their center, countless cracks appeared across hundreds of millions of li of clear sky, like a mirror struck by a fist. Blazing magma actually surged within those spatial fissures, forming swathes of red cracks in space.
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