Red walls, black gates, gleaming door studs, and yellow tiles roofing the top.
"We've reached the Imperial City..."
Everyone quietly let out a breath of relief.
There was not a trace of gray mist in the broad plaza before the city gates. Some of those who had arrived earlier were scattered about in twos and threes.
Li Qingxian casually swept his gaze around. Compared to the scenes before the previous two city gates, this was worlds apart.
At the Inner City gate, teams had numbered twenty or thirty at the least, and quite a few had even exceeded a hundred people.
But now, more than half the teams had fewer than ten people, and many had only two or three left.
Looking across the vast plaza, there were barely over a thousand people in total.
The few teams with larger numbers were all ones that had cooperated together at the previous crossroads.
The team members glanced at one another and slowly walked forward.
Those teams they had worked with immediately came over to greet them.
As time passed, more and more people arrived at the Imperial City gate from every road.
The entire gate plaza seemed to have become a convention for comparing miseries. More than half the examinees had undergone Eerie Transformation in one body part or another.
Previously, those who had undergone Eerie Transformation had merely lost a part of their body, but now many people looked utterly bizarre.
Some could only walk on their hands while standing upside down. Some had their necks twisted one hundred and eighty degrees. Some had every facial feature vanish, leaving only a single eye. Some had their tongues pulled out and wound around their necks. Some were burning all over, crackling and hissing as they screamed without pause, the scorched stench