After she obediently deposited a thousand Gold Essence Coins, the image in the Spirit Mirror dimmed, revealing the scene of an enormous stone chamber.
"Where is this? It doesn't look like the Snow Domain."
Mu Yuchen adjusted the viewing angle of the image in the Spirit Mirror as she muttered to herself.
"There's someone there."
The sharp-eyed Ji Ye beside her suddenly stopped Mu Yuchen.
Hearing this, Mu Yuchen immediately stopped and peered carefully into the Spirit Mirror. Soon, she spotted a blurred figure and an enormous bronze gate whose top was almost beyond sight.
"That should be the Bronze Gate leading to the next layer of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower. Every outside cultivator climbing the tower has to pass through a Bronze Gate after completing their trials and earning the right to enter the next layer."
Mu Yun, who had also made out the image in the Spirit Mirror, immediately explained to the two of them.
Of the three, he knew the most about the Mysterious Wasteland Tower.
"So this is the legendary Tower Gate."
Mu Yuchen nodded, then pointed at the figure before the gate and said:
"Then that should be Xu Taiping, right?"
Because the image was too dark, and because cultivators were said to look very different inside the tower than they did outside, she could not be certain whether that was Xu Taiping.
"It should be."
Mu Yun was somewhat uncertain too.
"Young Master!"
"Young Master, don't be in such a hurry to Ascend the Tower!"
Just as the three were trying to confirm the figure's identity, several voices suddenly rang out from the Spirit Mirror.
Then four figures, both men and women, strode up to the Bronze Gate.
Hearing the call, the figure who had been about to push open the gate immediately withdrew