The Demoness nodded lightly and followed Shi Yi in a swift flight toward the entrance to the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, just outside Heavenly Origin City nearby.
When they arrived, an astonishing sight unfolded before them.
Outside Heavenly Origin City, high in the sky, one hundred and eight great stars formed two intersecting lines, creating an enormous cross. Wreathed in dense Chaos Qi, they tore through the void as brilliant immortal light gushed forth.
Amid that dazzling radiance stood a gateway, already open, profound and mysterious, as though it led into the boundless starry universe.
Figures crowded outside the gateway, where powerful experts from many great factions had gathered. The Immortal Mountain Heavenly Venerable, lord of Immortal Mountain whose might shook the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, the lord of the Hou... every one of them was a towering figure, and even the least among them was an elder of a great faction.
Each occupied a different position, guarding the gateway.
The entrance to the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm lay within the gateway: an altar held firmly under the control of those mighty figures.
Aside from the First Generations of the various provinces and the prodigies of great factions, creatures without powerful backgrounds had been allotted three thousand places for this expedition into the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm. They had to survive a brutal selection process to stand out.
In the original story, Shi Hao had slipped in among the last of those three thousand.
By now, the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm had been open for some time, and the selection for those three thousand places had long since ended. A cultivator without backing like Shi Yi no longer had any chance of participating.
To enter, he could only rely on the Demoness. As the Heaven Severing Sect Saintess, she held