It was a vast, ancient hall, dilapidated and broken.
Countless reliefs covered its walls, depicting everything from heaven, earth, and the stars to immortals, gods, spirits, and monsters. But cracks riddled the walls, and small sections had collapsed, leaving the scenery outside clearly visible.
The floor was purplish-black granite as hard as black iron. Dozens of decayed magic treasures and over a hundred corpses lay scattered across it. Some remains were humanoid, others monstrous, but all had clearly perished long ago. Only bones that had yet to rot completely remained, steeped in the aura of the ages.
At the center of the hall stood a nine-tiered platform dozens of feet high and covering several thousand square meters. Upon it rested a massive, ancient, three-legged bronze cauldron covered in rust. It gave off neither treasured light nor any aura of a treasure, and more than half its interior was filled with ash and dirt. It was clearly an ordinary vessel used for sacrifices, not even worthy of being called a treasure cauldron. Beside it stood a rectangular ancient gate cast from an unknown material-the Heaven Grade Heaven's Gate. Apart from the cauldron and the gate, there were only three skeletons and several dozen broken stones and tiles.
This hall had clearly been an important site on Thunder Emperor Island, used to enshrine and house Heaven's Gate. Aside from the damaged reliefs, only the ancient three-legged bronze cauldron and Heaven's Gate stood out, followed by the many decayed magic treasures and over a hundred skeletons. Most of those skeletons did indeed faintly exude treasured auras, and their Heaven-Earth Rings and storage bracelets had not been taken. But the five Emperor Grade beings other than Xiao Jiutian scarcely spared them a glance, much less cared about the abandoned magic treasures whose spirituality and