Bai Zhu rushed along the transport track and stopped beneath the Black Gate.
The stone slabs beneath his feet were still shaking, and the track joints kept springing upward as several chunks of rubble crashed down from above. He sidestepped them, planted his boot on a bent section of rail, and used it to leap onto the platform before the gate.
Several thin cracks had already appeared across the Black Gate's surface.
No light shone through them.
The darkness deep within the cracks slowly writhed, occasionally pressing close to the inner side of the Stone Gate before retreating deeper again.
Bai Zhu stopped before the gate, and the map on the right side of his vision automatically zoomed in.
That red dot was behind the gate.
Distance: twenty meters.
Bai Zhu frowned.
He took three steps to the left.
The red dot on the map also shifted three steps left.
Bai Zhu stopped.
The red dot stopped.
He stepped back to where he had been, and the red dot followed him back.
"Did it notice me?"
No one answered.
A muffled boom came from afar, and the bone fragments on the Black Gate trembled at the same time. Several fragments fixed where the inscriptions met came loose and struck the ground with crisp clatters.
Bai Zhu did not approach the cracks. He reached out and pressed his hand against the gate.
The instant his palm touched the stone, the Reiatsu within him suddenly slipped out of control.
A force pulled from within the gate, pouring out through his arm. Bai Zhu's shoulder sank forward, his five fingers instinctively gripping the stone as his Reiatsu value began to fall.
[Reiatsu continuously draining.] [Current Reiatsu consumption multiplier: 1.7x.] [Current Reiatsu consumption multiplier: 1.8x.] [Current Reiatsu: ...]
The numbers changed too