The Desert of Time was fundamentally a very old place. But the network of teleportation portals in the west was even older. The western region was a sprawling place. Without the teleportation portals, traveling within it would have been taxing even for top experts. Because of that, after the starry sky was converted into land, and the western region was compacted, the Immortal Capital ordered the Dao Immortal Sect to set up a system of 108 teleportation portals in various locations. That was why no clans or organizations in the west would dare to damage the ancient teleportation portals.

Xu Qing was currently looking at one of those 108 portals, which was made of 36 enormous stone gates that stood tall in the wilderness plain.

The complex magical symbols carved into the gates were dark. But when Yunmen Qianfan took out some pieces of immortal jade and fed them into the proper place, the symbols glowed and the portal powered up. Fluctuations began rolling, not outward, but into the portal!

The ground trembled as an ancient power seemed to wake up. It was almost as if the lands had opened their mouth to devour the world. Deep rumbling sounds then emanated from the portal. The sound wasn’t loud at first. But soon it became thunderous.

And then it mixed with a piercing sound coming from the horizon. The air pressure built up.