"Just like that, it's closed?"
"Didn't it close and reopen before? Could it happen again this time..."
"The Divine Fire Spirit Gate has already flown away."
"What about the people inside?"
The moment the Two-Realm Passage closed, a clamor of discussion rose from the spectators on the Beach, for dozens of Life Lotus Lamps still floated in the air.
That meant dozens of people had yet to come out. With the exit passage closed, those people would never be able to leave.
No one knew what had happened to those still alive, or why they had failed to make it out in time.
Many sighed over their fate. Some called the competition rules heartless, while others felt that rules were rules; if those inside could not emerge on time, they naturally had to bear the consequences themselves.
On the terrace, Lan Qiaoyan looked at the Life Lamps of those who could no longer come out. "Ah." She, too, let out a soft sigh.
Suddenly, a faint light seemed to flash in the night sky. Everyone on the ground looked up, only to see an enormous Light Screen appear in the air.
An indistinct scene showed within the Light Screen: the mountaintop in Artifact Cloud Valley. The senior figures of the Ten Great Sects were looking up in astonishment, giving the spectators on the Beach the feeling that they were looking one another in the eye.
But it was nighttime, and the image was hard to make out. Without the illumination of the Light Screen, they probably would not even have been able to see the people on the mountaintop.
Within Artifact Cloud Valley, the Bright Mountain Sect group had come outside, just like the other sects, to look up as the Two-Realm Passage closed.
Having weathered all manner of upheavals