Seeing that the magnificent archway was already within sight, wisps of fire suddenly sprang up along the edges of the white clouds atop the several white-jade ornamental pillars. In mere moments, the fiery threads dyed the clouds red. "Buzz, buzz, buzz..." The pillars trembled slightly, and amid a thunderous roar, burning clouds surged forth from them, transforming into Fire Snakes that shrouded Xiao Hua and blocked off the entire area before the archway!
"Hmm, these are the fiery threads we saw from outside!" Xiao Hua glanced at the Fire Snakes, then swept his divine sense toward the interior of the archway. Restrictions at the archway blocked divine sense, but Xiao Hua's divine sense was incomparably powerful. Such restrictions could not stop it at all. Breaking through the restrictions, his divine sense immediately stretched into threads, clearly taking in everything beyond the archway like a spring breeze brushing past.
Xiao Hua then reached out and grabbed. A spatial vortex formed in midair. "Whoosh..." Though the ferocious Fire Snakes struggled with all their might, they were still swept into the vortex. In only a few breaths, they were compressed into a fire pearl the size of a thumb!
Xiao Hua caught the fire pearl and tucked it into his robes, then drifted forward, passed beneath the archway, and entered the bewildering array!
As Xiao Hua passed through the archway, light and shadows flickered before his eyes, revealing yet another space! It was a lotus pond. True Person Yuankong, Zhuang Chen, Yu Meiren, and Bai Fei, who had entered earlier, stood beside the pond. The four of them stared at the lotus flowers filling their view, their faces solemn.
Before Xiao Hua had even reached the four, he unconsciously stopped and looked up into the air, understanding dawning in his eyes. Above this