"First, after entering the passage, everyone will remain aboard a specially refined flying vessel.
"Before reaching the secret realm area of the 'Great No-Fruit' tree, no one may fly out of the vessel.
"Outside the flying vessel lies an extremely dangerous desert, where 'Bone-Melting Winds' appear at any time.
"These winds are more than ten times fiercer than astral winds. Even Void Refinement cultivators trapped within them cannot rely on their own defenses for long.
"Once someone mistakenly enters it, do not expect anyone else to rescue them.
"Besides, you will not have much time to wait. In an instant, you will be on your way to the Western Heaven.
"Second, during this flight, no one may engage in combat aboard the flying vessel.
"Violators will have their entire team disqualified from the contest for the Great No-Fruit."
After Chongyangzi finished speaking, he did not wait for any response from the crowd.
Standing atop the flood dragon's head, he took a single step and arrived above the turquoise lake.
Then, as Chongyangzi hovered in midair before the gazes of Li Yan and the others, he waved toward the sky.
A radiance appeared fifteen feet before him.
When Li Yan and the others swept it with their Divine Sense, they discovered that it was an irregular copper plate.
The instant the copper plate appeared, Chongyangzi raised one hand.
Four rays of azure, red, white, and green light immediately flew from his fingertips.
In the next moment, they struck the copper plate.
"Buzz!"
After the copper plate shuddered violently, four differently colored beams shot out from it.
They rushed downward like four enormous pillars of light probing below, striking directly at the surface of the turquoise lake.
The instant the four-colored light pillars hit the lake, ripples spread across its entire surface.