The entrance to the Hongsheng Heavenly Road lay at a sheer cliff, surrounded by jagged, strangely shaped rocks. Looking down over its edge, one could see only drifting clouds and mist, with no glimpse of the bottom.
Anyone faint of heart might well have felt their heart tremble.
On the day the Hongsheng Heavenly Road opened, a great many people gathered at the cliff.
They all had one thing in common: identical Command Tokens hung at their waists.
Each Command Token bore a totem that could not be activated by human means. Shaped like a winding road, this totem marked the token as a Pass to the Hongsheng Heavenly Road.
Since many sects and Aristocratic Clans had long-standing ties, their disciples had split into several clearly defined groups.
The largest group was undoubtedly the Heavenly Dawn Sect.
And the one leading the Heavenly Dawn Sect was still Ding Fen.
Su Jiu was hardly surprised to see Ding Fen here. Back outside the Spring Willow Pavilion, she had already guessed that Sect Master Jiang would not truly do anything to him at such a critical juncture.
What puzzled the outsiders was that Chong Mo was also among the Heavenly Dawn Sect's ranks.
"Didn't they say Chong Mo took fifty lashes from the Thunder Whip? It's only been a month and a half, hasn't it? He's already recovered?" A Junior Disciple from another Aristocratic Clan noticed the situation over there and could not help asking a fellow disciple beside him.
To his surprise, that fellow disciple looked equally bewildered. "I heard before that fifty lashes from the Heavenly Dawn Sect's Thunder Whip would leave a Nascent Soul Cultivator bedridden for half a year. But judging by this, the rumors must have been wrong."
"The rumors weren't wrong. They're true. As for this