Heaven-Dominating Martial Emperor

Ye Chen paid no mind to the voices of doubt all around him.

He could clearly sense a resonance forming between the Kunlun Key and the distant stone gate.

It was as if a fine, imperceptible thread was tightly connecting the stone gate and the Kunlun Key.

The closer he got to the stone gate, the stronger this feeling became.

Ye Chen was almost certain that the stone gate before him was the entrance to the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm!

Finally, he arrived before the stone gate!

He was now just two steps away from it!

Seeing this, the surrounding crowd hastily retreated, afraid that Ye Chen would trigger a Restriction and bring disaster upon them.

"So many people warned him, but he wouldn't listen. That kid's courting death!"

"I just hope he doesn't drag us down with him!"

Many people grumbled, their gazes filled with displeasure as they looked at Ye Chen.

"Ye Chen!"

Jie Ling and the others had fallen behind. They watched Ye Chen, about to follow him.

Just then, Ye Chen suddenly spoke. "Don't come any closer!"

Jie Ling, Song Yubing, and Huo Susu quickly halted, looking at Ye Chen with uncertainty and alarm.

As Ye Chen's voice fell, an indescribably vast and majestic power suddenly spread out from ahead, as if an ancient deity had awakened, opened its eyes, and was now gazing upon the world!

"What? Such terrifying power! Did he trigger the Restriction?"

The crowd's faces paled, and they scrambled to retreat further.

"No! This doesn't feel like the aura of a Restriction! What on earth is happening?!"

But soon, some people noticed something was amiss, their expressions growing even more bewildered.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the mottled stone gate suddenly began to glow.

The complex patterns on its surface lit up one by one with a brilliant light, until the entire gate seemed to be shrouded in dazzling starlight!

A supreme Array had been activated, and a vision of a vast, starry sky seemed to appear before everyone's eyes!

Surging power vibrated through the void. The Restrictions left behind by the Palace of Yama were rendered useless by this immense force, turning to nothing in an instant.

"What?"

"This… How can this be?!"

"The ancient Array, dormant for thousands of years, has actually been activated?!"

Everyone present was stunned by the scene. They all stared wide-eyed, their faces etched with utter disbelief.

"So the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm really exists! And that kid… he actually has a way to open it?"

The old man who had initially warned Ye Chen not to approach the gate now felt a storm raging in his heart, his voice thick with shock.

"My heavens…"

"Just who in the world is this guy?" Huo Susu's face flickered, illuminated by the dazzling light.

Her expression was one of pure amazement. It was only now that she realized she knew almost nothing about Ye Chen's origins!

Endless radiant light surged around the stone gate. Ye Chen was bathed in starlight, like a deity wandering the depths of the cosmos, his aura majestic and vast!

'It's just as I thought. The Kunlun Key is the crucial item for opening the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm!'

'All the patterns on the stone gate are interlinked and related, forming a complete grand Array!'

'And this grand Array could never be activated because it was missing a critical part of its foundation!'

'Who would have thought that the most important piece of the foundation was actually hidden within this seemingly ordinary piece of metal?'

Ye Chen gazed at the Kunlun Key in his hand, his heart pounding with excitement.

As he had walked toward the stone gate, he had already noticed that while the Arrays and runes on it appeared complex and jumbled, they were all interconnected, subtly forming a massive grand Array.

He suspected this grand Array was related to opening the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm.

But because it was missing a crucial link, no matter how later generations studied or pondered it, it was impossible for them to activate the grand Array.

And as the distance between the Kunlun Key and the stone gate shrank, Ye Chen could clearly sense that the key in his hand was the very link the grand Array was missing!

Once the two were combined, the grand Array could finally be activated!

And the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm could reappear in the world!

The Kunlun Key in Ye Chen's hand transformed into a ball of starlight and merged directly into the stone gate before him.

The stone gate finally began to open slowly, revealing the world behind it.

"The Kunlun Key… it really is the key to opening the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm!" Seeing this, Jie Ling's eyes flashed, and the words escaped her lips.

The brilliant, radiant light was so bright it nearly blinded everyone present.

But with such a magnificent spectacle unfolding before them, no one could bear to blink.

They strained their eyes, desperate to see the world behind the gate clearly.

Disappointingly, however, all they could see was a hazy expanse of starlight; it was impossible to make out any specific scenery within.

Then, the crowd watched as Ye Chen slowly stepped forward and walked toward the open gateway.

"That kid is going in!"

"The Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm has finally appeared! We're among the first people to witness this marvel! Does that mean we can go in too?!"

Everyone's gazes grew feverish, their hearts filled with anticipation.

Kunlun Mountain had been shrouded in countless mysteries since ancient times. Now that a mystic realm had appeared before their very eyes, who wouldn't want to go in and explore it to see what it was all about?

In the next moment, however, everyone was dumbfounded.

As the young man in the distance entered the gate shrouded in radiant light, the gate, with a WHOOSH, slammed shut.

"…"

Everyone present stood frozen in place, completely stunned.

"What?"

"What just happened? It's already closed?"

After a long moment of shock, the crowd surged forward, rushing toward the gate.

However, no matter what they tried, they couldn't find a way to reopen it.

If they hadn't seen the young man's figure vanish before their very eyes, they might have thought the gate was just an illusion, not something real at all.

"How could this happen?"

The crowd was filled with bitter unwillingness.

They had watched the Kunlun Mountain Mystic Realm appear with their own eyes, and now they had watched its gate close right before them.

They had waited here for so long; who could possibly accept such an outcome?

"Miss Huo, what in the world is going on?"

"That young master is your companion, isn't he? You must know how to enter this mystic realm, right?"

Mo Qing, an Elder from the Celestial Mountain Sect, immediately turned to Huo Susu and asked with unconcealed eagerness.

Huo Susu and the other two had arrived at the plaza with Ye Chen, and in that instant, the trio became the target of everyone's attention.

Everyone stared at them with fiery gazes.

It made them extremely uncomfortable.

In truth, even they had no idea what was going on.