Divine Emperor Demon Emperor

Chapter 607: Chapter 607: 3 Light Gates

Qing Zhu placed the fragment into a slot behind the three Light Gates. The moment it was set in place, all three gates erupted in a blinding flash of light.

Sensing the sudden change, everyone’s gaze fell upon the three Light Gates. ’This is...’

Everyone had initially investigated the three Light Gates, only to find them completely impenetrable. So, they hadn’t paid them much mind. But now, it seemed Qing Zhu had opened them.

”Are these the gates to the ruins?” Lin Yun murmured, his eyes fixed on the Light Gates.

The moment the words left his mouth, an overwhelming killing intent washed over him. Wei Yunhang, longsword in hand, lunged at Lin Yun’s back, aiming for his heart.

The attack was blindingly fast. By the time Lin Yun detected the killing intent, Wei Yunhang’s longsword was already about to pierce his flesh.

There was no way to dodge. But just as Wei Yunhang was certain his attack would land, another longsword flashed out of nowhere, parrying the blow.

”Qin Feng, you’re courting death!” That’s right—the one who intervened was Qin Feng, who had been standing beside Lin Yun the whole time. Thwarted, Wei Yunhang roared in fury.

Since their reunion, Wei Yunhang had acted cold and aloof. No one had expected him to launch a deadly attack while everyone’s attention was on the Light Gates.

Thanks to Qin Feng’s quick reflexes, Lin Yun was unharmed. He turned to face Wei Yunhang, a murderous glint in his own eyes as he spoke his name, his voice as cold as ice. ”Wei Yunhang...”

The feud between Lin Yun and Wei Yunhang had now become a mortal one. Watching the two face off, their auras clashing, Song Tianyang and Lin Jianhong smirked from a distance.

What no one knew was that both of them had already pledged their allegiance to the Qing Zhu Association. This was especially true for Song Tianyang—not even his master, Wan Tai, knew he was a member.

The killing intent radiating from Lin Yun and Wei Yunhang grew more intense. Just as everyone thought they were about to come to blows, Qing Zhu spoke calmly.

”The entrance to the ruins is open. If you don’t wish to enter, feel free to have your battle right here.”

Hearing this, Lin Yun and Wei Yunhang both suppressed their killing intent. Indeed, now was not the time for a fight to the death; the ruins were far more important.

With the three Light Gates open, all the statues ceased their attacks, including the four Divine Demonic Golems. They now stood motionless in their original spots, as if drained of all energy.

With the statues no longer attacking, everyone gathered before the three Light Gates. This was the entrance to the ruins.

The light from the gates gradually dimmed, and eventually, everyone could see what appeared to be the landscape of another world within them.

”What is this, young lady?” It appeared that another world lay on the other side of the Light Gates. The Saint from the Death Row Shelter directed his question at Qing Zhu.

At his question, all eyes turned to Qing Zhu. From the moment the main entrance opened, she had appeared to be the one who understood these ruins best. After all, she was the only one who knew how to open the three Light Gates.

”The gates to the ruins,” Qing Zhu replied with a smile, answering the Saint from the Death Row Shelter.

”The gates to the ruins? You mean the ruins aren’t actually here?” someone asked.

It was a rather naive question. The world of Martial Artists was vast, filled with things ordinary people couldn’t even dare to imagine.

Take, for instance, the mysterious concept of Space. Space is a fundamental aspect of existence, born at the dawn of creation. No one can create Space.

However, sufficiently powerful Martial Artists, while unable to create Space, could confine and cleave it. This was the same principle that allowed Saints to travel through the void.

However, the ability to confine and cleave Space was far beyond what even a Saint could accomplish.

To be able to confine Space meant one could create a miniature world within the void, and the expert who did so would be the king of that world.

Looking at the scene within the three Light Gates, Lin Yun mused to himself, ’The world behind these three gates must be a pocket of confined Space, created by some great expert.’

’But is there anyone like that on the Celestial Spirit Continent? In the Divine Realm, only beings at the Main God Level could confine Space. Ordinary Divine Soldiers and Generals completely lack that kind of power.’

After observing the three Light Gates for a while, everyone waited until the light had completely dissipated before cautiously approaching them.

The people gathered here were among the absolute elite of the entire Eastern Domain. Having come this far, none of them would back down, no matter how many doubts they harbored.

After a period of observation and testing, they finally discovered that the three Light Gates had restrictions. From left to right, the leftmost gate only allowed Saints of the Earth Saint Realm to pass; those in the Spirit Realm or Celestial Spirit Realm could not enter.

The middle Light Gate, in turn, only permitted the supreme experts of the Spirit Realm to enter; Saints and those at the Celestial Spirit Realm could not.

As for the rightmost gate, only those at the Celestial Spirit Realm could enter.

In other words, the ruins only permitted entry to those from the Celestial Spirit Realm up to the Earth Saint Realm. Anyone with a cultivation higher than the Earth Saint Realm could not enter, and neither could anyone who had not yet reached the Celestial Spirit Realm.

The minimum required cultivation level was the Celestial Spirit Realm, which meant that among the Five Great Forces, Core Disciples like He Yuntian and Bai Zhicheng were unable to enter.

Unable to enter the Light Gates, the Five Great Forces ordered these Core Disciples to withdraw from the ruins and wait in the camps outside.

Although resentful, He Yuntian and Bai Zhicheng knew there was nothing to be done.

On the side of the Flawless Palace, He Yuntian, Bai Zhicheng, Qin Feng, and Li Tian were all unable to enter the ruins. Having no other choice, the four could only wait in the Flawless Palace’s camp.

However, to Lin Yun’s surprise, the Monk and Daoist had actually broken through to the Celestial Spirit Realm.

Soon, everyone who had not reached the Celestial Spirit Realm had withdrawn from the great hall. As they were leaving, Li Tian and Qin Feng urged Lin Yun to be extremely careful.

The number of people remaining dropped sharply. Next, the nine Saints entered the leftmost Light Gate, while the Supreme Elders and Sect Leaders of the Five Great Forces entered the middle one.

As for the rightmost gate, Lin Yun, Little Ape, the Black-striped Tiger, Qing Zhu, Song Tianyang, Lin Jianhong, Xi Zijin, Wei Yunhang, the Monk and Daoist, and others entered it.

The moment everyone stepped through the Light Gates, the statues in the main hall returned to their original positions. The two Divine Statues went back to the hall’s entrance, while the two Golems once again stood on either side of the three Light Gates. Their auras vanished completely, and they reverted to looking like ordinary statues.

After leaving the great hall, Qin Feng said angrily, ”Damn it! None of us could get into the ruins, leaving Young Master Lin to go in all by himself...”

Qin Feng was fuming about his own low cultivation. Just as he finished speaking, the two one-hundred-meter-tall Divine Statues walked out of the great hall and returned to their original spots. Then, the grand doors to the hall slammed shut once more.

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