The legendary Heavenly Gate really was at the bottom of Ten Thousand Spirits Lake! Beneath the crystal-clear, mirrorlike water, the Heavenly Gate stood in the depths like a towering, colossal ceremonial archway.
Weathered by the passage of ages, its surface was covered in layer upon layer of moss, as though telling endless tales of its history.
An immensely thick chain coiled around the archway's enormous doors like a giant dragon, stretching into the depths of the lakebed until it vanished from sight.
The entire Heavenly Gate exuded a mysterious, unfathomable aura that made the heart tremble. Its two immense metal doors were tightly shut, as though barring everything outside.
Beside the Heavenly Gate lay a vast underground palace, hidden from view, though more than half of it had now collapsed... Presumably, this was where the Tyrant Divine Emperor had once concealed himself.
Sure enough! Gazing at the magnificent Heavenly Gate before him, Ye Han felt a powerful surge of awe and danger.
He could clearly sense the suffocating danger seeping from within the Heavenly Gate, as though unimaginable horrors lurked behind those tightly closed doors.
Ye Han did not approach the Heavenly Gate rashly. Instead, he looked at the ruins of the collapsed Great Hall, where the Tyrant Divine Emperor had previously hidden. Although most of the treasures should have been on the Tyrant Divine Emperor himself, there ought to be something left inside.
Thus, rather than rushing to find a way to open the Heavenly Gate, Ye Han entered the collapsed Great Hall.
More than two hours later!
Splash!
Ye Han emerged through a gap in the collapsed Great Hall. As he had expected, there had been no particularly fine treasures inside.
Still, he had gained something.
He had harvested quite a bit of ten-thousand-year-old immortal spirit grass that