With one step through the Myriad Laws Heavenly Gate, space and time seemed to invert and revolve in an instant.
All the clamor, astonishment, and hostility outside were shut out.
In their place came an indescribable sense of antiquity, tranquility, and vastness.
Ye Tian opened his eyes. What greeted him was not the narrow passage he had imagined.
Instead, it was a boundless, sprawling world.
The sky was not blue, but a hazy gray, like the first dawning of chaos. Wisps of Chaos Aura hung down like silken ribbons, nourishing the earth below.
Across the ground lay not ordinary soil and gravel, but drifting spiritual mist imbued with incomparably pure essences of heaven and earth.
Most striking of all was what filled his vision, stretching beyond sight... the Forest of Stone Steles!
These stone steles came in every shape and size, tall and short, broad and slender.
Like silent soldiers, they stood in every corner of this vast land.
Some towered a thousand zhang high, like pillars holding up the heavens, their surfaces covered in the scars of wind and frost and exuding an ancient, primordial air.
Some stood only a zhang or so tall, crystalline as jade, their surfaces smooth as mirrors and flowing with hazy dao resonance.
Some were badly broken, as though shattered by immense force, with only half a base remaining, yet they still stubbornly emanated an unyielding will.
Others resembled sharp swords, long spears, treasured pagodas, divine cauldrons...
It was as though their owners had eternally imprinted the forms of their most prized divine weapons here.
Every stone stele bore ancient runes, patterns, or traces of some pure Great Dao.
Merely standing here, one could sense countless utterly different yet equally profound and powerful dao resonances interweaving in the air, colliding and resonating.
They formed