Chapter 3129: Heaven and Earth Xuan Gate

Only a dozen breaths passed, and the formation on White Goose Tower Square lit up completely.

You must know, the capital of Bi Kingdom now has over three million people packed in, and the square is filled with commoners all around.

Seeing this, the commoners all cried out in surprise.

Then the azure light of the formation expanded further outward, quickly passing over the square, over the palace, over the streets and markets, and finally over the outer city gate!

The entire capital of Bi Kingdom was bathed in a patch of auspicious azure light.

"What, what is going on?" Bi Wang looked at his own hands.

He found his whole body covered in azure light.

It turned out the range of that formation was not limited to White Goose Tower Square.

What exactly do the gods intend to do to us?

But just as that thought finished, he discovered his hands had melted.

Not scorched, not severed, but melted, like a candle meeting fierce flame.

At the same time, accompanied by unparalleled pain.

Bi Wang had never climbed a mountain of blades nor plunged into a sea of fire, but no torture could possibly compare to what he felt now!

Seeing only the bones of his hands left, and still rapidly dissolving, he cried out in terror, opening his mouth—but his vocal cords and tongue likewise dissolved, so he could not even make a sound!

Fortunately this pain did not last too long; the last thing Bi Wang saw in this world was that Yuqing opposite him had only half a face left, the outer skin gone, leaving only an eyeball rolling in its deep socket.

Why, why did the gods deceive him!

He had satisfied all the demands the gods made—why did the gods not even leave him a thread of life?

Bi Wang hated, hated the gods for their lack of faith, hated Yuqing as a worthless wretch.

He also hated Xia Lie Jie for betraying his lord and abandoning his country, disloyal and unjust!

He also hated———

That night, that moment, including Bi Kingdom's capital, dozens of regions across the world experienced nocturnal anomalies, azure light shooting into the sky.

The populations of these places were originally extremely dense.

After dawn, other outsiders entering these regions and cities to investigate found the towns empty and deserted—not a person, not even chickens, dogs, fish, or insects remained.

It was as if all living beings in the cities had vanished overnight!

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When Red General opened her eyes again, the surroundings were the scene she knew best:

On the spacious square, water trickled gently, the streets were neat and orderly, houses stood close together.

Behind her, the majestic city walls were outlined in silence and breadth by the night, no matter when, always bringing peace of mind.

This is Panlong Secret Realm! She had finally returned.

Red General drew a deep breath; the air still carried the same scent of peace and tranquility, utterly different from the human world's mountain winds and rain, trees and grass all on edge.

Just now, under everyone's eyes, she entered the altar of Vaisravana. The altar's activation was no small matter; if there were any eyes or ears of demons nearby, they would know she had been sent away by the altar.

But in fact, she merely activated her skill a step early and returned to the Great Square Vessel.

The last time the Great Square Vessel emerged from the void into substance, it took Panlong Secret Realm with it; this time, it returned with a bang due to its fusion with Red General.

Of course, Panlong Secret Realm remained as desolate as ever. But as she looked toward the southern gate, she seemed to still smell the gunpowder of former days.

The most difficult stretch of this mortal world now belonged to her alone.

But at this moment, a white-robed person walked out from within the gate, waving at her.

Chief Priest of Mansha!

"How did you come here?" Red General walked toward him. After retrieving the Great Square Vessel, she had come in a few times, never seeing the Chief Priest. The last time they met by the river, the Chief Priest had finally transformed into light and entered the Great Square Vessel.

The Chief Priest smiled: "I want to go to the Boundless, to see where the Dragon God resides. Will you give me a ride?"

This lonely journey now had a companion; even Red General felt her spirits lift: "Good."

She understood this might also be Mansha's final journey.

"Follow me." Red General strode quickly onto the city wall.

The sky above still flowed with radiant colors. Red General noticed she seemed to be drawing ever closer to the center of the celestial light band, as if the entire Panlong City, or rather the Great Square Vessel, were racing toward the vortex center like a great ship.

What does the Great Square Vessel look like now? Red General raised her hand, and a mirror hovered beside her.

The mirror reflected not her face, but another old friend of hers, a red-colored,

resembling a great fish in form, but with a round head and round brain, no fins.

Chaos?

"Chaos has already merged into the laws; the Great Square Vessel merely borrows its image. After all, Chaos still retains part of its power within the Great Square Vessel." Mansha of Mansha explained, "The Great Square Vessel now has no physical form; to pass through the world's barriers, it must necessarily be formless and substance-less."

"Where are we going?"

"To the boundary between the real and the illusory." Mansha of Mansha likewise lifted his gaze to heaven, "That is, the barrier between reality and the laws."

"Can we get in?"

"No need to worry; the Holy Lord of Spirit Void will open the way for us." Mansha pointed to the celestial rainbow above, "These light bands are the sacrificed great demons, who used their blood and essence to forge a passage.

Before they vanish, as long as we can traverse this path, we can follow the Holy Lord of Spirit Void into the world of laws."

Red General shook her head: "I think the sacrificed may not be great demons. The Holy Lord of Spirit Void originally planned for the five great demons, but after we warned them, where would they lightly court danger? I don't know what backup plan the Holy Lord of Spirit Void has activated."

People like them always prepare a second plan.

Red General gazed up at the strange and wondrous world above, a sight no one in the world can behold.

The Great Square Vessel, relying on the power of the sigil formation, had already approached the source of the light bands.

In the night sky, thousands of cloud walls were piled up, thick as if they would collapse the world in the next second. But at the center of the cloud wall lay a vast hollow, sunken inward, like the center of a vortex.

That is the Xuan Gate!

The great door of "non-being" forcibly opened by the Holy Lord of Spirit Void!

The Red General instinctively straightened his body.

Profound and yet more profound, the gateway to myriad wonders.

Passing through the Profound Gate means passing through the barrier of reality, truly entering the realm of law.

Both of their faces turned grave.

This barrier, which even a true immortal could not originally break through, was forcibly pried open by the Lingxu Holy Venerable.

The first checkpoint in altering heavenly laws failed to stop the Lingxu Holy Venerable.

Zhaomandu's expression was also not good: "The Lingxu Holy Venerable will surely face retribution."

He could even sense the wrath of heaven and earth. This scourge of the mortal world must be eradicated!

The Red General then said: "To pass through the Profound Gate, one must possess the Boundary Heart."

The so-called Boundary Heart is a divine artifact forged from the heart-core of a small world.

Only it can pierce through world-level laws.

Upon arriving here, both could see that the drifting light bands were in fact rapidly contracting toward the Profound Gate.

The time to open the gate is running short.