Rumble-
The rumbling grew ever more violent. It came not from any one direction, but from the heavens, beneath the earth, and every side at once, like rolling thunder, like the roars of an ancient behemoth, echoing and surging throughout the secret realm!
Above the secret realm's sky, the invisible spatial barrier began to rumble deeply.
Ripples spread across it in widening circles, as though something were striking it from within.
It was shifting from "closed" to "open"-
And a mysterious guidance surfaced in every cultivator's heart, showing them the way out.
"The secret realm-it's opening!"
No one knew who shouted first, but the voice brimmed with irrepressible excitement.
"It's finally opening! This damned secret realm is finally over."
"Too many people died, and the demon beasts were terrifying-"
"To the west!"
"Go, go, go-"
The Foundation Establishment cultivators and Core Formation true persons scattered throughout the secret realm all stopped what they were doing. With delight, relief, or inscrutable gazes, they looked westward before rising on streaks of escape light, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, converging on the secret realm's exit.
There stood a platform halfway up a mountain, smooth as a blade-cut surface. It must have been formed when immense magical power severed a towering peak at its waist. An exceptionally thick layer of moss covered the platform, clearly the growth of long ages.
Above it, dense clouds gathered, piled up, and churned. Rays of multicolored light streamed down, and within them, a gigantic pair of stone doors could vaguely be seen, roughly a hundred feet tall and sixty feet wide.
Solemn and majestic, they inspired an awe that made people shrink from looking directly at them.
Streaks of escape light faded as figures landed on the mountainside platform. The gathering crowd naturally divided into two camps: Song-Jin on one