"You!" Nan Yanran was so angry that she choked on her words. Her beautiful eyes gred at Xiao Yan as she lightly bit her lower lip. She really wao teach Xiao Yan a good lesson, but as, she couldn't beat him!

  "Yes, yes, yes. This servant knows her wrongs. Young Master, please this way." Nan Yanran took a deep breath, bent slightly at the waist, narrowed her eyes with a smile, and made an invitiure.

  Xiao Yan csped his hands behind his back, adopting the demeanor of a young master, and said, "Lead the way."

  Perhaps because she had been so thhly defeated, Nan Yanran's attitude toward Xiao Yan had ged a little. At least now she knew how to joke around.

  The pair naturally attracted a lot of attention along the way. Nan Yanran was the Senior Sister of the Misty Cloud Sed a beautiful didate for the Sect Leader. Moreover, Xiao Yan had caused a huge otion at the Misty Cloud Sect yesterday. Even the Old Sect Leader, Yun Shan, couldn't do anything about him when he appeared, so he was naturally in the limelight.

  "Is that Xiao Yan? You're saying such a young maed Old Sect Leader Yun Shan, who has advao the Dou Aor realm?"

  "Not defeated; he relied on Queen Medusa to hold off Old Sect Leader Yun Shan."

  "Relying on others and not his own strength? What's his cultivation level?"

  "High-star Dou Grandmaster, the same as Senior Sister Yanran."

  Xiao Yan maintained a posed and indifferent demeanor upon hearing the gossip along the way. He didn't mind people saying he relied on Medusa; after all, he really couldn't defeat a Dou Aor on his own.

  As he followed Nan Yanran through the various grand halls of the Misty Cloud Sect, he could see colpsed buildings and rge cracks in the ground everywhere. Xiao Yan awkwardly rubbed his nose. If he guessed correctly, these were all the result of Ling Ying using the Open Mountain Seal.

  "This is all your doing." Nan Yanran g Xiao Yan.

  "Don't make false accusations. I don't have the strength to break your sect's protective grand formation." Xiao Yan quickly deflected the bme. This was Ling Ying's doing. Go find him.

  The pair soon arrived at the back mountain. Gng at the secluded forest beside them, Xiao Yahat oher side of the peak was a hidden branch hall of the Hall of Souls.

  Yun Yun and Yun Shan had been waiting there for some time.

  "The Gate of Life ah is inside a Space Lock?" Xiao Yan asked leisurely.

  "You even know about Space Locks?" Nan Yanran was a bit surprised. This was the domain of a Dou Vee; generally, even Dou Emperors didn't know about it!

  Yun Yun nodded slightly aly expined, "Mm, this Space Lock was left by the foundi Leader, Yun Po Tian. Without the Sect Leader's Token and a special method, even ae Dou Aor 't break in."

  Xiao Yan nodded. He had already experienced a Space Lock st night. Without the Soul Robe, he wouldn't have been able to ehe Hall of Souls either.

  Yun Yun slowly extended her fair, jade-like hand from her sleeve and began to form hand seals, one seal at a time. As she formed the seals, Xiao Yan could clearly feel a powerful, intangible fluctuation emanating from her palm like waves.

  The invisible fluctuations gradually spread out and finally came into tact with the spatial folds. The empty spa front of them immediately rippled like a mirror made of water at the moment of tact. After a moment, the ripples stopped, and Yun Yun took out a jade-green token from her ste ring and pressed it onto the surface.

  With a buzz, the empty space opened like a curtain, revealing a passage in the middle.

  "Let's go in," Yun Yun said softly.

  Xiao Yan stepped through the invisible doorway and found that the view before him became much brighter than before. Clearly, pared to the eerie se in the Hall of Souls, the enviro withie of Life ah was still normal.

  They slowly walked up the stoeps into the mountain valley, and before long, Xiao Yan arrived in front of a stone archway under Yun Yun's guidance.

  Rather than calling it a gate, this stone archway before them was more like a semicircur ring with nothing in the middle.

  "Even the genius disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect may not necessarily be able to activate the Gate of Life ah. Only when someone activate it will a passage appear to ehe gate." Yun Yun expined.

  Xiao Yan had heard this from Nan Yanran when he first arrived.

  Every year, the Misty Cloud Sect held a ceremonial petition, and the top ten most outstanding disciples would be qualified to attempt to activate the Gate of Life ah. If the gate reacted, they would gain the privilege to e for training and would automatically obtain the position of Little Sect Leader.

  For the Misty Cloud Sect, only those with the highest talent and most suitability to bee the Sect Leader could provoke a rea from the previous Sect Leaders and thus activate the Gate of Life ah.

  Nan Yanran was the only one i years who had been able to activate the Gate of Life ah; the one before her was Yun Yun.

  "Pce your hand oone pilr and circute your Qi Method," Yun Yun said, her beautiful eyes looking at Xiao Yan. Generally, those who came to activate the Gate of Life ah were disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect, so they naturally cultivated the sect's Qi Methods. She hadn't tested whether other Qi Methods would work.

  Xiao Yan slowly walked forward aly pced his hand oone pilr. Just as he began to circute his Dou Qi, an anomaly suddenly occurred!

  [You have finally arrived]

  ! ! ! ! ! !

  A voice suddenly echoed in Xiao Yan's heart!

  In the sed, that familiar heart-pounding feeling reappeared, and this time it was strohan ever before!

  Xiao Ya as if his heart was about to leap out of his chest. The blood in his body began to boil involuntarily, as if it were cheering, r, appuding!

  Rumble rumble rumble!!!

  The earth shook, and the mountain peak where the Gate of Life ah was located began to tremble.

  At first, Yun Yun thought that Xiao Yan was forcefully pushing the stone pilr, but then she found that the tremors were absurdly strong, and the shaking of the nd became increasingly intense.

  Rumble rumble rumble!!!

  The earth and mountains began to split apart. The stoe suddeed scorg heat, and even space itself began to distort.

  In the blink of an eye, a huge fissure appeared before everyone, and the surroundings colpsed in that instant. Many disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect witnessed a terrifying se. Quite a few mountain peaks and arees within the sect suddenly cracked open, and a paces and buildings colpsed oer another.

  "What's happening!"

  "It's happening again!"

  "No, this is even more intehaerday!"

  "Help!!!"

  tless disciples, deas, and elders of the Misty Cloud Sect were frightened out of their wits. Some Dou King elders even took to the air to avoid the sudden colpse of the ground!

  Yun Yun and the others abruptly looked at Xiao Yan. They sehat the source of the earthquake was the Gate of Life ah!

  "Xiao Yan, what did you do!" Yun Shan shouted. This was the first time such a situation had occurred!

  Activating the Gate of Life ah would indeed cause some otion, but it absolutely couldn't be this intense. Normally, it would just emit a faint glow.

  Xiao Yan didn't answer, because he himself didn't know what was going on!

  At this moment, the inally ordinary-looking archway was flickering with a faint light. In the middle was a very thin, almost illusory light membrahat made it seem unreal.

  Xiao Yan's expression was extremely solemn as he looked at the Gate of Life ah before him. It went without saying that normally activating the gate wouldn't cause such a situation!

  His eyes sharpened. He didn't have time to think further; he khat Protector Wu and Yun Shan were definitely keeping a close wat him.

  'If you enter people from the Hall of Souls, be careful!!' Xiao Yan transmitted his voice to Yun Yun before stepping into the Gate of Life ah.