When the large crystal sphere linked with all the smaller ones, waves of silvery-white power of laws rippled across the entire Metal Giant Gate...
Suddenly!
Crack! Clack, clack, clack! A series of harsh, muffled mechanical sounds rang out. The entire Metal Giant Gate shuddered, then slowly began to rise...
"It's finally open!" The cultivators watched with delight as the silvery-white power of laws rippled across the Metal Giant Gate. Blue Demon could not help exclaiming in joy...
"Everyone, you can withdraw your magic power now!" Xu Shaogui told the cultivators. With that, he withdrew the silvery-white power of laws surrounding him. The others, including Li Xiaoya and his water-element clone, likewise withdrew the silvery-white power of laws rippling from their bodies and slowly descended toward the ground...
And just then...
Clack, clack, clack! As the entire Metal Giant Gate slowly rose, an astonishing surge of blue-green light gushed and sprayed from the gap beneath it...
At once!
What astonishing vitality! The cultivators felt an immense surge of vitality pouring from the gap and could not help marveling inwardly...
The gap beneath the Metal Giant Gate grew wider and wider...
Suddenly!
"Hm?" Almost simultaneously, the cultivators' expressions changed, and they cried out together, "Watch out!"
In the instant they recoiled in alarm...
Whoosh! An incredibly piercing sound tore through the air. A slender, pitch-black shape several feet long shot through the gap beneath the Metal Giant Gate, which had already opened to roughly half a person's height. In a flash of lightning, it seemed to pierce straight through the void and appeared before Blue Demon...
"Hah!" As expected of a great cultivator at the late mighty one stage, Blue Demon reacted with astonishing speed. Blue-purple-gray light erupted from both his arms. Amid a series of muffled cracks, blue-purple metal armor instantly