MMB Chapter 107 The Gate of Fengdu Beneath the Dragon Vein of Yanjing
Chapter 107 The Gate of Fengdu Beneath the Dragon Vein of Yanjing
In the western suburbs, there is a royal garden that has been erased from the map.
This area was designated a military restricted zone three days ago, with guards every three steps and sentries every five steps, so that not even a bird can fly in.
Three hundred meters underground in the garden, in a newly built temporary command center, the atmosphere was as oppressive as solidified lead.
"No! The energy reading is still climbing!" An elderly man with white hair stared intently at the wildly jumping red curve on the screen. He was the chief physicist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.
"The energy in this secret realm has started to increase rapidly for some reason. If it exceeds a certain level, the entire city may..." Another scientist shook his head.
Li Tianshan stood in front of the main screen, his face ashen.
On the screen was a real-time updated map of underground energy. Directly beneath Yanjing, a terrifying energy vortex was slowly taking shape, its energy level sufficient to wipe this city of ten million people off the map in the instant it erupted.
"What would happen if Z just said it directly?" Li Tianshan's voice was hoarse and low.
The chief physicist took off his glasses and wearily rubbed his temples: "It's uncontrollable, unmanageable, and undetonable. It's like a time bomb in a powder keg that we can't understand. Any rash action will result in mutual destruction."
The entire command center was deathly silent.
This group of minds, representing the pinnacle of Chinese wisdom, experienced for the first time a profound sense of powerlessness in the face of the truly unknown.
"We can't explain it from a practical point of view, can we?"
A calm voice broke the silence.
Everyone turned around in unison, their gazes focusing on Lu Yan in the corner.
He took out the jet-black [Star Chart Slab] from his storage space and gently placed it on the command platform.
"This stone slab resonated strongly with the secret realm."
"I have a feeling he's the key to finding the secret realm."
Li Tianshan looked at the unremarkable stone slab, then at Lu Yan's confident to the point of arrogance, remained silent for a few seconds, and then suddenly turned around and gave the shortest and most decisive order.
"This is handled by the first team; the others will develop alternative plans and guide the evacuation of the public."
The experts were stunned, but seeing the unquestionable look in Li Tianshan's eyes, they ultimately left the command center like a tide, filled with surprise and resentment.
Soon, only the first squad remained in the vast underground space.
"What are the odds of success?" Li Tianshan asked in the communication.
"To the best of one's ability"
Lu Yan's answer made Xiao Qianyu and the others instinctively straighten their backs.
Holding the [Star Chart Slab], he walked to the point marked on the energy map—the most concentrated point of the entire garden's dragon vein energy—beside an ancient well that had long since dried up.
He placed the stone slab flat in the very center of the well opening.
There were no earth-shattering phenomena, nor any dazzling light effects.
Lu Yan simply closed his eyes and used his spiritual power, like a highly precise probe, to slowly penetrate the stone slab.
Then, he guided the star map on the stone slab to begin trying to resonate.
hum-
A very low, yet seemingly soul-deep, buzzing sound rang out.
Under the astonished and uncertain gazes of Li Tianshan and the members of the first squad, the empty space in front of them began to ripple like the surface of water to which a pebble had been thrown.
Immediately afterwards, space was silently torn apart.
That space seemed to have transformed into a transparent curtain, and behind the curtain, a brand new, ethereal world, independent of reality, slowly unfolded before everyone's eyes.
A colossal gate, hundreds of meters high and entirely cast in bronze, stood silently in that void of darkness.
Above the giant gate are engraved thousands of reliefs depicting ghosts and gods with different expressions, from Ox-Head and Horse-Face to the Ten Kings of Hell, all lifelike.
They were either ferocious, majestic, or compassionate, as if they were watching these uninvited guests coldly from across time and space.
An ancient, solemn, and deathly aura, indescribable in words, wafted in from behind the door. It wasn't just a low temperature, but an absolute stillness that seemed to freeze the soul, causing everyone present to skip a beat.
At that moment, Lu Yan's heart stirred.
The [Void Disc] at his waist actually produced a faint yet clearly discernible resonance with the giant bronze gate... a resonance of the same origin.
It's as if they were originally one.
"Set off."
Lu Yan suppressed his surprise and doubt and was the first to speak.
The first squad of six had already changed into the top-tier equipment selected from the spoils of the Kraken.
Zhao Leiguang changed into an S-grade [Shoes of the Forest] engraved with a sea monster relief, Xiao Qianyu's Red Lotus Luoshen Spear had an additional S-grade [Tear of the Sea God] gem on its tassel, and Shen Xinglin directly put on a set of S-grade knight armor [Tide Singer], his whole body radiating a blue glow.
Under Li Tianshan's complex gaze, a mixture of awe and worry, the six people did not hesitate at all, and stepped into the rippling space, entering the void before the bronze giant gate.
Lu Yan was the last one.
The moment he stepped in, he glanced back at Old Li on the screen and nodded slightly.
The next moment, the magnificent bronze gate, along with that isolated void space, closed and disappeared silently, like a phantom that had never appeared before.
Inside the temporary command center, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened.
Only on that energy detector, all the terrifying red curves simultaneously returned to zero.
……
The moment they stepped through the giant gate, endless darkness and deathly silence engulfed them like a tidal wave.
But this feeling lasted for less than a second.
When light returned to their sight, the first squad found themselves in a vast, desolate, and utterly silent grand hall.
The dome of the main hall is so high that it disappears into the endless darkness. Hundreds of black beams, each requiring dozens of people to encircle, support this space, and on each beam, a black dragon sleeps with its eyes closed.
Clumps of eerie blue flames burned on the surrounding walls, casting a chilling glow over the entire hall.
Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned to the deepest part of the main hall.
There, nine enormous white skeletal dragon corpses guarded a nine-dragon throne carved from a single piece of black jade.
A figure was sitting upright on it.
He wore a black imperial robe embroidered with mountains, rivers, sun, and moon, and a twelve-tassel flat crown. The beaded curtain of the crown obscured his face, making it difficult to see clearly.
He sat there quietly, radiating no pressure, yet giving people the illusion that He was the very essence of this world and its laws.
It was as if He had been here for thousands of years.
Just as everyone was stunned by this invisible majesty, the figure on the throne slowly raised his head.
A gaze that seemed to transcend eternity pierced through the beaded curtain and landed precisely on each and every one of them.
Finally, His gaze settled on Lu Yan, and a faint smile seemed to appear at the corner of His mouth.
A gentle yet supremely majestic voice slowly echoed through the hall.
"You have finally come."