Beep... beep... beep...
With that, Ning Hongye hung up, leaving only the cold busy tone.
"Hello? Hello..."
Yue Xiaofei called out twice more, phone in hand.
"Damn it!"
He nearly smashed his phone.
Was this Ning Hongye some kind of riddle master?
Would saying a few more words kill her?
Cloudtop Heavenly Palace? What the hell was that place?
It sounded like a dungeon in a video game.
But when he raised his head, ready to complain, he realized something was wrong with the atmosphere.
His older brother, Yue Feng, had not so much as frowned when facing the Azure Alliance's three thousand elite fighters. Now, his expression was grim.
Beside him, Feng Tianhao, Qi Canghai, and Zhang Huaiyu looked downright horrified.
"What's wrong with you all?"
Yue Xiaofei's heart skipped a beat.
"Cloudtop Heavenly Palace..."
Yue Feng slowly uttered the name, every word carrying a crushing weight.
He looked at Yue Xiaofei and explained, "Changbai Mountain is the foremost of our nation's dragon veins, the place to which our nation's fortune is tied. As for the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace, I've seen fragments of records about it in Bureau 7's top-secret archives."
"It's a place of legend, a forbidden land that appears on no map."
"They say it only appears atop Changbai Mountain at certain times. Most people could spend their entire lives searching and never find its entrance."
Yue Feng's explanation was frightening enough.
Then Zhang Huaiyu, successor to the Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain, added something that chilled the atmosphere completely.
"It's far worse than simply being unable to find it!"
"In the ancient legends of the Dragon Kingdom's martial arts world, the Cloudtop Heavenly Palace is also known as the foremost of the ten deadly lands!"
"Once you step inside, you're cut off from the world