Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Why didn't Yunping let him go down to explore the Void Abyss? Why did the Sage Cao Qingluo let him stay where he was?

Because he could see that this was definitely not a field he could reach.

"Senior brother... what is that?"

In front of the stage, which was covered with a crimson carpet, a little girl with her hair tied in a side ponytail stared at the huge shadow with curiosity, her hands that had been playing the zither had long since stopped due to her dazed state.

She silently swallowed the braised pork in her mouth, looking at her second senior brother with a strange expression.

“Yuan’er…”

Jiang Yuetian frowned, his mind focused, and subconsciously summoned his magical spear, placing it in front of Lin Yuan: "Stay obediently behind your senior brother, don't..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

He then saw Lin Yuan suddenly rush out from the side, as if she had seen something new and interesting, and rush towards the huge shadow.

"Yuan'er!"

He shouted loudly, but Lin Yuan seemed not to hear him and continued running forward.

Jiang Yuetian was surprised and puzzled. She didn't dare to be negligent and quickly followed after him to prevent Lin Yuan from having any accidents.

After all... the feeling that shadow gave him...

It's like hell.

"Hey, isn't this thing a bit over the top...?"

Inside Duan Xingchen's residence.

The tremors on the ground had subsided, and everyone stared blankly at the terrifying shadow.

That was a door.

A door that leads to heaven.

Its height reaches straight into the sky, and from below, one cannot see where the top of the gate is at all.

Its width was several hundred meters, and as far as the eye could see, it almost directly occupied half of the territory of the Yizi Gate.

The door frame was made of an indescribable darkness, a viscous, ever-flowing black fluid that formed the door frame.

The inside of the door was a combination of tens of thousands of black and red vortexes, making it impossible to see what was hidden inside or what lay behind the door...

It was like a door leading to an unknown realm, a door to heaven.

boom! boom! boom!

A series of dark waves instantly engulfed the entire Three Heavens Academy. In an instant, all the cultivators inside the Three Heavens Academy felt their bodies sink, followed by a feeling of nausea.

Those with low cultivation levels collapsed to the ground, convulsing, foaming at the mouth, and completely losing their minds.

Ye Yuchan gritted her teeth, enduring the terrifying impact on her soul, supporting Zhang Ruoxue as she forced a smile in disbelief and looked towards the center of the door.

In mid-air, on the circular platform formed by the black, filthy mud, stood four figures.

Han Wuhe, Fox Demon Xiao Hua, Xiao Mei...

And that body, completely bound in black shackles, bathed in a pool of filthy black mud—

Duan Xingchen.

"I think we all know now—"

Ye Yuchan took a deep breath, trying to suppress the panic in her heart.

She raised her head, looked at the dark, round platform, and gave an extremely forced smile.

"Where did those four missing people go...?"

75. So, what is the price?

Suddenly.

The bamboo scroll, adorned with pale gold, was unfurled before the crowd. The characters written on it were no longer the strong, powerful, and upright script that seemed to penetrate the paper, but rather slightly disordered characters due to being written hastily.

[All disciples of the Three-Day Academy, leave the academy immediately! No one should approach that door! No one!]

—This text was written by Fan Muyong, the vice president of the Three Days Academy.

This order is an inviolable command for all disciples of the Three-Day Academy.

This is true.

"Get out of here! This is not a place for you!"

"Run! All of you, run! Leave this matter to us teachers. Disciples have nothing to do with this. Get out of here!"

"Don't try to show off here, get out of here—get as far away as possible!"

……

The continuous sound echoed in my ears.

Ye Yuchan could hear the footsteps outside the courtyard, like a vast army crossing a river. They were hurried, disorderly, and the kind of footsteps that only occur when people are fleeing for their lives.

At that very moment, everyone felt an indescribable hand of fear reaching out to them from the abyss, and if they stopped, they would be pulled in and plunged into the unknown darkness.

escape!escape!escape!

The overwhelming demonic energy spread wildly outwards from the dark gate, and the closer the cultivators got to the gate, the stronger the pressure on their souls became. Just one glance at the gate made them feel as if their throats were being tightly choked.

near?

No one dared to approach.

Everyone's running!

Even the teachers responsible for evacuating the disciples were shouting as they retreated, their faces pale—they saw things more clearly than the disciples with lower cultivation levels, and they could see more clearly what was hidden behind that door.

That's something that absolutely cannot be released, at least...

No one present could stop the destruction that was about to unfold from behind that door.

boom--

Dark clouds covered the sky.

The foul air emanating from that dark gate quickly spread outwards, and the dense demonic energy that materialized into physical form gave rise to an extremely strong stench of blood.

In an instant, those disciples who had not yet left the Three-Day Academy felt as if they were being watched by a certain figure sitting on the throne amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood. A chilling coldness swept through their bodies, and they were even stripped of the strength to use their spiritual energy to resist.

A dark gate shattering the heavens, churning filthy mud, endless, eerie vortexes...

Everything happened so fast that no one had time to react.

"What are you all standing there for?!"

The gate to the courtyard was pushed open.

A teacher from the Three-Day Academy, his face filled with terror, stared at the crowd who stood frozen in the courtyard and shouted sternly, "Don't you all want to live anymore?! Run!"

After those words, someone finally realized what was happening.

Without giving it much thought, they followed their most basic survival instincts, shouting and screaming as they ran out.

Ye Yuchan and the others remained standing silently in place, without reacting.

Seeing that some people were still in a daze, the teacher did not rush forward. Instead, he glanced at the dark gate that was still emitting overwhelming demonic energy and roared at Ye Yuchan and the others.

"If you don't run now, you'll miss your chance! Don't just stand there and wait to die!!"

Faced with the teacher's roar, Han Jiuquan and Han Mo exchanged a glance, and after hesitating for a long time, they made a surprising decision.

They had no intention of retreating; instead, they charged directly toward the direction of the Dark Gate.

After Han Jiuquan left, the few cultivators who were loyal to Duan Xingchen gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, choosing to go in the exact opposite direction of the crowd—charging towards the dark gate that symbolized danger.

This unexpected scene left the teacher at the three-day academy completely stunned.

After a long pause, he finally let out a curse.

"They're a bunch of fucking lunatics!!"

Immediately afterward, he didn't care whether Ye Yuchan and the others wanted to escape, and just focused on saving his own life.

Watching Han Jiuquan and the others walk away, Ye Yuchan knew that they had gone to find Duan Xingchen and Han Wuhe.

Although they greatly admired the loyalty of these people, Ye Yuchan and the others did not have any compelling reason to go.

"How to do?"

Zhang Ruoxue grasped Ye Yuchan's hand, her gaze fixed on her, clearly indicating that she wanted Ye Yuchan to make the decision.

Before Ye Yuchan could speak, Jiang Shaoguang said, "That place gives off a very bad feeling... If there's no reason you absolutely have to go, I suggest you leave first."

To this, Fan Luokui unusually agreed with Jiang Shaoguang's opinion: "Indeed—that door gave me a very strange feeling, as if something was hidden inside..."

"No matter how you look at it, that place is definitely a hotbed of trouble..."

Jiang Shaoguang and Fan Luokui's opinions were very clear.

This place is dangerous; you should not linger.

In fact, Ye Yuchan thought so too.

She gazed at the girl on the round platform, who was bound by countless black shackles. Duan Xingchen was quietly tied to the center of the platform, the filthy black mud around her seemingly devouring her fair skin.

Moreover, Ye Yuchan noticed that the round platform was not meaningless; it seemed to be engraved with a large number of ancient runes, resembling a special magic array.

If one must find a reason to go to that dark gate—

That can only be because of Duan Xingchen.

Judging from the current situation, Duan Xingchen seems to still be in a coma, and no matter how you look at it, she seems like a victim...

If we just leave her alone, who knows what will happen to her?

but--

Ye Yuchan glanced back at Zhang Ruoxue and the others, her teeth clenched.

Her relationship with Duan Xingchen was far from being one where they would risk their lives together.

Yu Chan is a very realistic person. She's not the type to risk her life for someone she's just met. Although she and Duan Xingchen had a very pleasant conversation, she wouldn't risk the lives of others with her for that...