Inside the Ruins of the Five Elements Sect.
Brilliant five-colored divine light burst from the enormous bronze city gate. Amid a thunderous rumble, the gate slowly opened a crack.
The instant the Bronze City Gate opened, Mo Yun once again sensed that surge of pure vital energy washing over him.
The vital energy scrambled into his body and flowed into his Dantian Sea of Qi, strengthening both the vital energy within his origin core and the Rule Power gestating inside it.
Mo Yun's cultivation aura grew stronger bit by bit, visibly so.
But before he could finish savoring the sensation, his vision blurred. When it cleared again, he found himself standing inside the city walls, with a somewhat bewildered Liu Xiyan and the others beside him.
At the same time, the enormous Bronze City Gate slammed shut again with a muffled bang.
"Huh? Why did the gate close again?" Nangong Ling asked in confusion.
Xu Zhiyi thought for a moment, then explained, "This Bronze City Gate is a portal in disguise. It can only transport five people at a time, and after each transport, the array needs half an hour before it can activate again."
"Those who enter the city first naturally get to absorb more mystic energy and advance their cultivation further."
Understanding dawned on Nangong Ling. "No wonder those people came rushing over in such a hurry, hoping to be the first into the city, even going so far as to fight. So there was another reason besides points..."
Hearing that, Gu Shuiyue hesitated, wanting to say something but not knowing where to begin.
What fight? They'd plainly just taken a one-sided beating!
But after thinking it over, Gu Shuiyue realized that without Mo Yun and Liu Xiyan, she, Xu Zhiyi, and Nangong Ling really would have been