Wa Master stroked the gate, her fingertips tracing the ancient reliefs. Her snake tail swayed gently behind her, its tip tapping the ground now and then.
"The source of the anomaly is most likely inside. But we can't open this door."
She paused, then added, "There's a living spirit inside this door. It requires an extremely high Dragon Raja bloodline to open.
"This is the first time I've encountered an alchemical gate that even my blood can't open."
Ordinary Dragon Tombs, with their alchemical gates that had slept for millennia, were nothing before her. All she had to do was cut her finger and drip a drop of blood onto them, and those ancient living spirits would obediently wag their tails like watchdogs seeing their master.
But this gate ignored her completely.
Lu Mingfei stepped forward. "I'll try."
He raised his right hand and dragged the nail of his left hand across his palm. Blood Beads welled from the wound and flowed along the lines of his palm.
His bleeding palm pressed against it, and the gate immediately changed.
The ancient reliefs began to tremble. Dinosaur skeletons clattered, mammoth tusks glimmered faintly, and a dim crimson sheen flashed across the scales of the Titanoboa.
Then the vertical eye at the center of the gate slowly opened.
A red light bloomed from within that eye.
The heavy Stone Gate was consumed by darkness and suddenly turned into a layer of pitch-black mist. The mist churned within the doorframe, as though it led straight to hell.
Lu Mingfei slowly extended a hand.
His fingers entered the black mist and passed through without resistance. His fingertips felt nothing, as if he had reached into another dimension.
After a brief hesitation, Lu Mingfei stepped forward and vanished into the black mist.
"Then I'm going