Chapter Seventeen: The Change of Frozen Earth Ancient Copper Gate

  In the heart of the permafrost, a thousand years of stillness was suddenly broken today.

  There was no wind, as if the center of space had been solidified, and a small black dot suddenly appeared. The small black dot was only about the size of a soybean, like the tiny flame on an oil lamp at dusk. And it was also after the appearance of the small black dot that the wind suddenly picked up.

  The wind doesn't know where it comes from, after blowing through the central land, the entire space that seemed to be frozen immediately came alive. The small black dots swayed in the wind, and thin wisps of black air dispersed from above the small black dots, blown away by the wind, they dissipated into the air.

  "Rumbling..." In the overcast sky, a thunderous sound suddenly came from within the clouds. The rumbling thunder rolled towards the overcast, and where the thunder reached, that piece of eternal gloom suddenly showed some signs of dispersing.

  In the midst of it all, a small black dot swayed in the wind, and suddenly a loud clap of thunder boomed, causing the small black dot to tremble violently as if pinched by an enormous hand, before shrinking back down a few sizes.

  However, just a moment later, the small black dot that had shrunk by several points suddenly surged violently upwards. The small black dot turned into a black light ball and grew larger and larger, with the black mist overflowing from its surface becoming increasingly dense and abundant.

  "Rumble, rumble... Rumble, rumble..." It seemed that the black dot's expansion had enraged the heavens. In the clouds, the thunder rumbled like a drumbeat, growing denser by the second. Wave after wave of thunderclaps exploded in the air, as unseen waves rolled in, shrouding the frozen earth beneath a dark haze that rapidly dissipated under their onslaught, revealing patch after patch of clear sky.

  The golden light of the sun wheel shone from that vast and empty land onto the frozen earth, shining on the still-swelling black light sphere. "Sizzling..." The golden sunlight shone on the black light sphere, actually emitting waves of cyan smoke, as well as a series of sizzling sounds like something being burned to a crisp.

  The black light ball trembled non-stop, emitting a "wow" sound, as if it were a human cry, looking very terrifying. Under the illumination of Jin Can's golden sunlight, the rapidly expanding speed of the black light ball immediately stopped.

  At this time, the black air that overflowed from the black light ball suddenly gathered together, as if someone was commanding it, covering the black light ball and isolating the sun's sunlight. As soon as the golden sunlight was isolated, the black light ball immediately stopped trembling and rapidly expanded at a speed faster than before. More and more, thicker and thicker black mist overflowed from its body, surrounding the light ball and isolating the sunlight.

  The black light sphere expanded rapidly, and the black mist from a small piece also grew larger, only after a moment, it had already reached dozens of feet in diameter.

  In the clouds, it seemed that the thunderous voice had no effect on the black light ball, and finally completely enraged.

  "Crack..." A hundred-meter-long electric snake emerged from the cloud layer and charged towards the black light ball below. Following that, countless "cracking" sounds echoed, one after another, as giant electric snakes appeared, immediately charging towards the black light ball.

  After the electric snake, countless cyan tornadoes appeared, and huge tornadoes quickly formed, rushing down with a howl. The dark clouds covering the frozen soil were rolled up by the tornadoes, dispersing in large pieces, revealing more and more empty spaces.

  Electric snakes dance wildly, gale winds wreak havoc. All are heading towards the black light ball, and in the cloud layer, there are countless tiny lightning bolts that fall down like raindrops.

  "Rumbling..." The thunderous sound was like the beating of war drums. Countless lightning snakes, electric lights, and whirlwinds charged towards the black light sphere in a sacrificial manner under the drumbeat.

  "Rumble..." The electric snake struck the black light ball, and was immediately shattered into countless fragments, swept away by the whirlwind, and then disappeared. But the black light ball suddenly shook violently, and after the shaking, more black mist was secreted out.

  One after another, the electric snakes struck the black light ball and then disintegrated into countless fragments. Although the black light ball was violently shaken by the electric snakes, its expansion speed did not stop, but instead accelerated a few times with each strike. The black mist quickly spread out, forming a massive cloud cluster hundreds of miles in diameter, with the black light ball at its center.

  After seeing the electric snake's attack was ineffective, there were changes in the clouds again.

  "A loud, thunderous roar echoed from deep within the clouds. A moment later, a thousand-meter-long dragon made entirely of lightning burst forth from the clouds. An enormous pressure emanated from the dragon's body, descending upon the black light sphere. The black light sphere seemed to sense the terror of the lightning dragon above and suddenly halted its rapid expansion. After a brief pause, it began to rotate rapidly instead. Countless black cloud wisps were flung out from the rotating sphere, only to merge with the surrounding dark clouds once again."

  "Roar..." The Thunder Dragon let out another mighty roar, its head lifted and tail swung, as it shot forward like an arrow, charging straight at the spinning black light sphere.

  Below, with the approach of Thunder Dragon, the black light ball rotated faster. Large pieces of black cloud were thrown out from its body and merged into the surrounding black clouds. The black clouds rolled violently, as if being stirred by a large hand. Countless black gases rose up, gathering in the void to form a black dragon that was no different from Thunder Dragon.

  The black dragon roared and rose into the air, meeting the Thunder Dragon that was charging down from above.

  "Rumble..." The black sky dragon and the thunder sky dragon collided in mid-air, emitting a fierce explosion. A massive explosive force burst forth from the center of the collision, with visible space ripples radiating outward in all directions, above and below, rolling away. Several-meter-wide spatial fissures tore through the dense space, emitting a terrifying aura.

  Above the sky, space ripples swept across the clouds, and the clouds disappeared instantly. The space ripples continued to sweep past, and all the clouds and flying birds they encountered dispersed and vanished. A hundred-zhang-wide empty strip appeared in the sky.

  The heavens, a spatial ripple swept past, layer by layer of permafrost melted and disappeared in the ripple. The plants on the permafrost, the frozen mice were swept away by the ripple, and instantly turned into nothingness. The spatial ripple swept over the black light sphere, the black light sphere expanded and contracted, and suddenly...

  "Boom……" Another deafening crash, as if the end of the world had arrived, shook the heavens and earth. Even from a hundred million miles away, the tremors could be felt. Countless massive spatial fissures appeared in mid-air, exhaling terrifying breaths.

  In the center of the frozen earth, the black light sphere had disappeared. Where the black light sphere had disappeared, a massive fissure appeared, one hundred meters wide and seemingly endless in both directions, with no visible bottom. From within the fissure, something slowly rose up.

  It was a gigantic bronze gate. The bronze gate rose from the crack, as if someone was pushing it up from below. It didn't stop rising until it reached a horizontal position with the ground, and then it stopped abruptly.

  Above the frozen earth, the golden sunlight passed through the sky that no longer had any dark clouds to block it, shining down on the copper gate. The copper gate was over a thousand feet tall and wide enough to exceed a hundred feet, its entire body cast from crimson heaven purple copper. The massive copper gate emitted an aura of grandeur, ancientness, vicissitudes, eeriness, and mystery. On top of the copper gate were carved countless ancient sounds and mysterious flower patterns; on the two large gates of the copper gate were also four ancient turtle characters: "Tai Gu Tong Men"!

  Mysterious and towering, a gigantic bronze gate suddenly appeared with only four words on it: "Tai Gu Tong Men"!

  The deafening explosion of the black light ball caused a tremendous shockwave that was felt millions of miles away.

  The cave shook and all the disciples who were cultivating, as well as the elders, were shocked awake by the loud noise. Each and every one of them had a look of astonishment on their faces, unsure of what had happened.

  One after another, figures appeared in the void within the Dongtian, but they were those true transmission disciples who didn't know what had happened and flew out from their own palaces.

  Immediately afterwards, dozens of figures flew out of the palace, stepping out and landing on the Tongtian steps, quickly heading towards the Canghua Heavenly Palace.

  In the depths of the Canghua Heavenly Palace, Su Mingyue, Murong Xian and Sun Wuyao were also awakened.

  "What's going on? How can there be such a huge shockwave? It can even be heard and felt inside the Canghua Heavenly Palace?" Murong Xian walked out of the distorted space, saying with a puzzled expression.

  Su Mingyue also walked out, but didn't speak, only pinched her fingers in front of her chest, closed her eyes slightly, and a mysterious aura began to flow from her body. At the same time, around her body, the rules of space and time faintly appeared. Although the Shaking Light Cave Heaven did not have the ability to predict life and death, the strong poets who had mastered the Long Life Step would produce a kind of intuition after deeply understanding the rules of time and space, allowing them to sense good or bad fortune and calculate some things. Although it was not as powerful as being able to predict everything, it was enough for the strong immortals to calculate some auspicious outcomes.

  Beside him, Sun Wu walked out of space with a calm face like water, without any panic. He walked to Su Mingyue's side and remained silent.

  Inside the Purple Cloud Pavilion, Xu Lin also woke up from his cultivation. The "Cloud Flower Mysterious and Severe True Technique" that was running inside his body stopped, and the heavenly and earthly primordial energy surrounding Xu Lin suddenly dissipated and dispersed, revealing Xu Lin's face with a look of astonishment. Xu Lin stood up, looked around, and didn't know what had happened.

  At this moment, a golden light flashed at his heart, and before Xu Lin could react, a golden light shot out from Xu Lin's heart and landed in the study. The light dissipated, revealing an old Taoist with a weathered face, wearing a plain gray robe.