"Clang!-"
The instant Xu Taiping finished speaking and raised his palm, a snowy-bright sword light shot into the sky with an ear-splitting sword cry.
"Boom!"
In a mere instant, the sword light rising from the Cloud-Ascending Platform pierced every golden ripple formed by heavenly might and hurtled straight toward the Heavenly Gate.
"Bang!-"
Amid a tremendous crash like mountains and rivers shattering, that sword light, almost as thick as the Heaven-Ascending Platform, slammed heavily into the Heavenly Gate.
Although this strike did not smash the Heavenly Gate open outright, it had already forced both doors more than halfway open.
At the same time.
Amid the ever more magnificent sword intent, enormous words began appearing around the sword light-
"Vermilion Fruit," "Rhino Horn Devil Master," "Azure Dragon Token," "Young Ayu," "Gongshu Nanxing," "Zhai Mo," "Elder Zhang," "Xuanyuan Xueluo," "Gu Qingcheng"...
These seemingly jumbled words were deeply familiar to Gongshu Nanxing, Gu Qingcheng, and the others, for they were precisely the many things they had encountered on their journey through the Mysterious Wasteland Tower with Xu Taiping.
But just a few breaths later, all these names were covered by the lines that followed-
"Ascend the tower!"
"Young master, ascend the tower!"
"Daoist priest, ascend the tower!"
"Ascend the tower, ascend the tower, ascend the tower, ascend the tower..."
"Please, young master, ascend the tower!"
This seemingly repetitive line of words was in fact laden with the hopes of Elder Zhang and Gongshu Nanxing behind Xu Taiping, as well as the countless cultivators and common people of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven.
"Ascend the tower!"
The members of the Abyssal Pavilion, staring dumbfounded at everything before them, were suddenly jolted awake by the cries coming from the projection before them.
"Young master, ascend the tower!"
**"Please ascend the tower on behalf of the countless people