That night, beneath the cold, dark sky, a bright moon hung high on the horizon. Its clear light spread over the world, wrapping everything in a soft, luminous haze.
The Heavenly Gate still stood there, towering as though it pierced heaven and earth. The world inside it remained impossible to discern.
Even from close at hand, all one could see within the Heavenly Gate were masses of murky mist, deep and dark.
The Heavenly Gate seemed to be nothing more than a doorway. It was hard to imagine that an entirely new world lay on the other side, a world of incomparable splendor.
Ancient patterns interwove beneath the ground and surged skyward. The Source Formation Jiang Yun had asked them to set up operated alongside the laws of the Dragon Vein that some of them innately commanded.
Dazzling light accompanied the trembling of the Dragon Vein and the flickering stars above. It looked like ten thousand silver waterfalls, magnificent and beautiful.
Divine Jade Figures shimmering with nine-colored light moved through the green-brown mountains, guarding the Ancestral Dragon Vein. Stretching millions of miles, the vein steadily and swiftly merged into the Source World.
More than half of the Dragon Vein had entered the Source World. The great dragon spanning this land seemed to come alive as it vanished bit by bit into the Heavenly Gate.
Smoke and cloud still shrouded the region. Energy raged around it, and the Dragon Vein's movement sent out earth-shaking, terrifying waves.
Boom!
Suddenly, a Stone Blade struck from beyond the sky. Its terrifying blade light stretched tens of thousands of miles as it slashed toward the moving Dragon Vein. There was no doubt the blow would cut it in two.
Without living beings to protect it, a Dragon Vein was exceedingly fragile. It could scarcely withstand