With Feng Ling backing them up, the Cat Owl and Third Child grew even more arrogant, charging recklessly through the Canyon and running wild!
At first, the Bat Monsters tried to drive off these intruders. Later, they could only barely hold them back. Eventually, they used their protective coloration to cling to the rock walls, disguising themselves as rock in an attempt to escape disaster.
The Human-faced Crows swept through like a Locust swarm, flying all the way toward the end of the Canyon.
They reached the enormous Stone Gate deep in the valley at top speed, then used the relief carvings on it as footholds, landing one after another and screeching toward Feng Ling!
The Cat Owl landed on a protruding rock and shrieked along with them, accusing the culprit behind the gate.
Feng Ling had initially come in a foul mood, but when she saw the grand and magnificent gate before her, her temper instantly vanished.
Because she could not get inside.
The gate before her was double-leafed, with perfectly symmetrical relief patterns on either side. Both its width and height were absurdly enormous. By Feng Ling's estimate, it stood at least eighty meters tall.
There was a breach at both the top and middle of the Stone Gate, and tremors and roars occasionally came from within.
The roars were deep and muffled. Compressed through the stone passage before reaching the outside, they sounded almost like howling wind.
After roaring for a while, the commotion inside subsided.
Feng Ling spread open her left palm and spent over ten seconds growing an eye. Then, with the practiced skill of a butcher, she peeled it off and stuck it onto a Human-faced Crow's forehead.
The Human-faced Crow flapped its wings and flew upward.
The other Human-faced Crows, including the Cat