The instant Xiao Yan stepped into the Gate of Life ah, an energy hand reached out from behind to seize him.

  Xiao Yan merely sneered coldly. His spiritual perception had long siected Yun Shan's attempt to grab him. He had been paying close attention to Yun Shan's every move.

  As for the Soul and Token, Xiao Yan didn't believe that a mere token could truly suppress two Protectors.

  Yun Shan's presence was merely to monitor Xiao Yan and wait for him to emerge from the Gate of Life ah.

  However, her Protector Wu nor Yun Shan had expected that Xiao Yan would cause su unforesee!

  "Damn it!" Yun Shan gritted his teeth. He had sehat something was amiss st night, so today he had po keep a close eye on Xiao Yan to prevent any ued is.

  After all, Xiao Yan's as in ing to the Misty Cloud Sect were simply toe, always giving him the feeling that he was hiding his true purpose.

  The faint glow of the gate instantly vanished when Xiao Yaered the Gate of Life ah, and the shimmering light membrane disappeared as well. The earth-shattering tremors also quieted down.

  Xiao Yan was thus transported into the space withie of Life ah, as if nothing had happened just moments before!

  However, the cracks visible everywhere proved that something had indeed occurred.

  "Master, what just happened?" Yun Yun asked in surprise, her beautiful eyes sing the surroundings before turning to Yun Shan. She didn't uand why Yun Shan had tried to seize Xiao Yan.

  Nan Yanran also approached Yun Yun from the foot of the mountain peak. There hadn't been such a otion when she had previously ehe Gate of Life ah. Even when she had obtained Yun Po Tian's iance, such bizarre events hadn't occurred.

  Suddenly, a vast expanse of bck fog gushed out from the mountain forest oher side. This bck fog rapidly verged in the sky aually formed a dark-colored fog cluster about te wide.

  Nan Yanran and Yun Yun stared at the surging bck fog, their expressions simultaneously turning solemn. They had no idea what was happening now!

  Everything that happeoday had exceeded their expectations.

  "Master, what is this..." Nan Yanran tilted her head toward Yun Yun and asked softly.

  Yun Yun drew her green sword and shielded Nan Yanran behind her. Her gaze remained fixed unwaveringly on the mass of bck fog, and the swirling gale around her body intensified.

  "What is this bck fog?!" When the bck fog appeared in the sky, the disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect, who had yet to recover from their shock, became restless, their eyes filled with astonishment and doubt.

  They had no idea that such a bizarre thing had been hidden within the sect.

  Only some of the sect's elders, deas, and disciples at the Dou Grandmaster realm showed ptive expressions.

  With a whoosh, the bck fog arrived in front of the Gate of Life ah in an instant.

  "Protector Wu," Yun Shan bowed his head and spoke.

  Yun Yun and Nan Yanran's eyes were filled with shock. They couldn't believe it!

  Yun Shan was a Dou Aor! Just what kind of person could make a Dou Aor bow his head?!

  'Could he be the person from the Hall of Souls that Xiao Yaioned?' Yun Yun recalled Xiao Yan's parting words, and her heart sank.

  A hoarse and chilling voice came from within the bck fog: "Yun Shan, what exactly is going on?!"

  Cold sweat immediately broke out on Yun Shan's forehead. He could sehe overwhelming killing i in Protector Wu's voice. The entire Misty Cloud Sect could be doomed if this matter was not handled properly!

  "That Xiao Yan has probably already discovered the secret hidden withie of Life ah. He deliberately used the duel with Nan Yanran as an excuse to cause a huge otion in the Misty Cloud Sect, theered the Gate of Life ah as a matter of course!" Yun Shan was obviously shifting all the bme onto Xiao Yan, but he was actually irely wrong.

  Protector Wu's eyes turned vicious as soon as Yun Shan finished speaking. The bck fog around his body surged frantically as he said in a deep voice, "This Protector will use the Nine Forest Hundred Soul Devourer Secret Teique to forcibly break through the Gate of Life ah."

  "Yun Shan, go and help me capture a rge number of people to supply me with their essence."

  Yun Shan's fastantly turremely ugly upon hearing this.

  The Nine Forest Hundred Soul Devourer was aremely evil Secret Teique of the Hall of Souls. Although this Secret Teique was of the Di Css, using it required abs the souls and life force of living beings. The more one devoured, the stronger one became, theoretically without limit.

  It was an exceptionally malevolent teique.

  Although Yun Shan had joihe Hall of Souls, it was more for the sake of breaking through to the Dou Aor realm. He still greatly cherished his owhers. F him to do such a thing obviously crossed his bottom line.

  Protector Wu sneered upon seeing Yun Shan's hesitation, "Jie Jie Jie, Yun Shan, you don't think you still have a choice after obtaining the power of the Hall of Souls, right? To gain power, one must pay the price. There's n back for you now.

  "Or do you think it'd be better if I devour the disciples of the Misty Cloud Sestead?"

  Yun Yun and Nan Yanran both drew their ons from their ste rings upon hearing this.

  "Don't you dare y a hand on the disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect!" Yun Yued with the aura of a Dou Emperor.

  "Yun Yun, stand down!" Yun Shan immediately stopped Yun Yun. With Protector Wu's strength, even if they joined forces, they would only be c death.

  "Master!"

  "You and Yanran go bad calm the disciples. Leave the rest to me," Yun Shan said in a deep voice.

  Protector Wu said coldly, "Jie Jie Jie, wise decision. Bring those elders along too. The more people, the faster it will be."

  Yun Shan's eyelids twitched as he replied through gritted teeth, "Uood."

  He forcibly took Yun Yun and Nan Yanran away and flew toward the grand hall of the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving only Protector Wu alo the Gate of Life ah, waiting for Xiao Yan to emerge.

  "I'll see how you'll escape from my grasp!"

  …

  Meanwhile, ihe Gate of Life ah, Xiao Yan seemed to have entered another dimension. He discovered that the interior resembled a room as soon as he stepped in.

  Apart from the entrahere were o different gates before him. Back then, Nan Yanran had challenged from the first gate to the fifth, and ultimately obtained Yun Po Tian's iance.

  'So it's as I thought… the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge.'

  If Xiao Yan cimed he had no idea what was hidden withie of Life ah, that would be a btant lie.

  Just now, he hadn't followed Yun Yun's instrus to circute his Qi Method. Instead, he had activated the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge!

  The first time he felt that heartbeat sensation was at the Alchemist Association when he discovered the bck jade piece rec the Secret Teique of the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge.

  The sed time was at the foot of Misty ountain, where he had almost unleashed the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge.

  If Xiao Yan couldn't see the problem with all this, he might as well bang his head against a wall and die.

  What he didn't expect was that the Gate of Life ah would trigger such a massive rea, and that a voice would resonate in his heart.

  'The bck jade only recorded the first ge of the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge, and the Gate of Life ah just happens to tain a Heavenly Fme. This 't be a ce.'

  'The only expnation is that someone deliberately left behind the bck jade piece rec the cultivatiohod of the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge and pced the Heavenly Fme here.'

  Xiao Yan didn't believe that such ces existed in this world.

  Too many ces ing together meant that there was a necessary e.

  Staring at the eight closed gates before him, Xiao Yan's eyes sharpened as he shouted, "Skyfire Three Mysterious ge!"

  Boom!!

  The merged Heavenly Fme circuted along the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge pathway within his body. In the sed, the entire space where he stood was instantly engulfed in fmes, as if a spark had ignited a prairie fire.

  All eight gates were ied as the fmes swept over. These eight gates were all fake, merely used to mislead those who entered without cultivating the Skyfire Three Mysterious ge.

  A vivid se appeared before Xiao Yan's eyes after the fmes had burhrough the entire space.

  He felt as if he were inside a movie at that moment. He stood within a magnifit hall, surrounded by people seated in various positions.

  'Is this a memory se?' Xiao Yan was uo touch these figures, as if watg a three-dimensional film.

  " Head, the Hun has gooo far. In the past two days, several more youths of the Xiao have been ambushed," a middle-aged man sitting in the lower seat said with an angry expression.

  Xiao Yan's eyes widened as he excimed in astonishment, 'Hun ? Xiao ?!'