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Chapter 451: Chapter 451: Opening the Sect Gates

"W-wait, am I seeing things?"

Lin Qing quickly took two steps back, returning to the porthole. Outside, it was still snowing heavily!

"Could we have fallen into an illusion?" Honglian looked at the two cultivators in the group, Liu Shuyue and Xu Xuanling.

But both of them also wore expressions of bewilderment.

Clearly, the situation before them was beyond their imagination.

Chen Xuan had a sudden thought, "Wind Song, report the wind speed and temperature outside."

"Measured ground wind speed is level 10, temperature minus 25 degrees." The AI reported the parameters almost without pausing.

Hearing this result, his heart couldn’t help but sink a little.

"... An illusion shouldn’t be able to deceive the spaceship’s sensing instruments as well, right?"

But it simply didn’t make sense!

The airtight door and the porthole were barely a meter apart; how could they be experiencing two completely different weather conditions? If he broke the window now, would the blizzard suddenly disappear?

"What’s wrong with you? Is there something strange outside?" Liuli’s voice came through the loudspeakers, as she clearly noticed everyone hadn’t left the spaceship yet through the monitoring.

Chen Xuan briefly explained the bizarre situation.

"Eh, really?" She and Elorie were also extremely surprised to hear this, "Not a hint of wind outside?"

"Anyway, it looks quite sunny and is good weather for mountaineering." Chen Xuan thought for a moment and decided to disembark first, "Regardless, no wind is better."

He jumped directly from the doorway.

With a soft thud, a fluffy sensation came from beneath his feet, indeed just like snow.

Looking through the bottom of the spaceship, Chen Xuan immediately saw the Lotus Cloud Sect, or more accurately, the entrance of it—it stood like a magnificent temple amidst the snowy terrain. The walls and columns were made of black marble with golden patterns, and the roof was covered with bluish-green glazed tiles; the enormous metal door was about ten meters high, five or six meters wide, as solid as a city gate at the world’s strongest pass.

Above the door hung a gilded plaque, with the words "Lotus Cloud" inscribed in a flamboyant style.

He admitted, upon seeing this scene, he was a bit taken aback.

This temple is the skyscraper and landmark of its era.

Considering its location, it is no less impressive than some modern super engineering projects that build over mountains and seas.

The other four also jumped down, similarly, like Chen Xuan, they were held captivated by the grand temple of the Lotus Cloud Sect behind them.

"So... so majestic!" Xu Xuanling respectfully exclaimed, "Placing this temple in the Immortal Alliance, it would certainly be the top tier sect!"

"How does this compare to the mountain gates you remember?" Chen Xuan asked Liu Shuyue.

"Completely different. This is beyond sect architecture; it’s a miracle." The latter was bewildered, "Could they have renovated the entrance while I was away all these years? That can’t be right either... where do the hundreds of disciples live if so?"

"Could it be a trap?" Honglian, snapping back from shock, said somewhat fearfully.

"A trap?"

"Like it’s conjured with a spell, the gate actually being a mouth, and we’d be done for once we walk through it."

"You think this is Journey to the West?" Chen Xuan sighed, "Stop guessing blindly, let’s just try knocking on the door first."

"Miss Liuli, can you see us now?" Lin Qing spoke into the earpiece.

"Yes... you’re standing in a row against a blizzard, with frost on your eyebrows." The other party truthfully described the scene she was seeing.

Clearly, this was beyond what an illusion could explain.

It was simultaneously affecting electronic devices, mystical things, and people’s senses; no spell should be this versatile.

But to say there’s no problem, that’s not right either... because the purple smoke seen cascading from the mountaintop earlier was now gone, the sky was as blue as clear water, and the air was so fresh it permeated through the core.

It’s said the oxygen should be extremely sparse at ten thousand meters high.

In any case, this mountain top exudes peculiarity from every angle.

"Let’s move." Chen Xuan led through the spaceship’s belly toward the magnificent temple. Needless to say, in Elorie and Liuli’s eyes, it appeared he was walking straight into the heart of the storm, and they could barely see his figure anymore.

The other four quickly followed behind.

Soon, they halted in front of the grand gate.

No matter how it looked, the Lotus Cloud Sect did not seem to have any porters or guards.

"Let me do it." Liu Shuyue stepped forward voluntarily. She took a deep breath, raised her voice to its maximum, "Disciple Liu Shuyue, returning to the sect this time to report and state my duties!"

Her clear voice echoed continuously in the mountains.

But inside the temple, there was complete silence, with no response to her call.

"Disciple Liu Shuyue, earnestly requesting the opening of the mountain gate!" She called out again.

The Lotus Cloud Sect remained indifferent.

This felt exactly like the treatment Liu Zhidong received... Chen Xuan thought, he must have come here filled with countless emotions, only to leave deeply disappointed and resentful. It was the place of worship for all cultivators of the Six Kingdoms, but in the true disciples’ eyes, the sect was as cold and unfeeling as this iceberg.

"It’s no use, it seems that unless the disciple dies, they truly have no right to return to the Lotus Cloud Sect." After shouting three times to no avail, Liu Shuyue abandoned this attempt, "Let’s try the jade token."

Chen Xuan agreed, "If the jade token doesn’t work either, then we’ll use force. The spaceship can’t see us, but surely it can bombard or laser this place; whatever it takes, we’ll enter this door today!"

Since they were playing deaf, he wouldn’t hesitate to use any means necessary.

Liu Shuyue took out the jade token and held it up high.

Not a sound was heard on the mountain peak.

"Um... is there some kind of activation method, like a blood drop?" Honglian whispered.

No, this is just an ordinary jade token.

Perhaps the two Lotus Cloud Sects are not the same thing; the Six Kingdoms and the Immortal Alliance may indeed exist on different world lines, and the scenario envisaged from the beginning never existed. Just as Chen Xuan was about to contact Liuli, the door suddenly let out a low, rumbling sound.

"It’s really opening!" Xu Xuanling exclaimed excitedly.

Liu Shuyue appeared extremely surprised as well, seemingly unable to believe the Lotus Cloud Sect would change its mind for a jade token.

Only to see a thin line appear on the tightly sealed metal door, and as the door slowly rotated inward, the line gradually widened, finally allowing the five to glimpse the temple’s interior.

The first thing they saw was a spacious hall, with several portraits hanging on either side, and in the center was a long corridor extending into the unknown.

At the same time, Chen Xuan caught a whiff of a delicate incense fragrance, akin to the scent emitted from the incense often burned in temples.

"I recognize this place!" Liu Shuyue moved emotionally, "Before I left the mountain gate, my master bade me farewell right here!"

"But why is no one here to greet us?" Xu Xuanling tilted her head, "Since the jade token can open the door, then aren’t the Wei siblings like the founding ancestors? We’re holding the ancestors’ token, so we should at least be considered VIPs."

Liu Shuyue had already stepped into the great hall.

"Hey, wait." Xu Xuanling called out.

"This is Ancestor Zhuang, main practice in demon techniques... This is Ancestor Ye, skilled in arrays..." She looked at each portrait, her voice somewhat entranced, "My master was one of their disciples..."

"Your master isn’t up there?"

"No, the people in the paintings are all previous sect leaders."

"Previous sect leaders?" Xu Xuanling said with schadenfreude, "Then why aren’t Ji Yun and Ji Lian up there? Were they overthrown?"

"It better not be the case." Lin Qing coughed twice, "We came in holding their token, and if they got overthrown, wouldn’t we become traitor’s remnants?"

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