“Hehe, City Lord Sun thinks too highly of me. How could I, like everyone else, have collected all four other keys in such a short time after entering the Great Ruins? I do have keys, but only two.” E Kui smiled slightly, and with a flash of bloody light in his hand, two blood-red keys appeared out of thin air.

Han Li's pupils contracted slightly as he looked at the two crystal-clear, blood-soaked keys in E Kui's hand.

Chen Yang's expression also shifted slightly.

"In other words, there are only three keys in total. How are we supposed to open the door?" Sun Tu glanced at Han Li, his brow furrowed.

Fu Jian and Qin Yuan exchanged glances and then looked at E Kui.

"Don't worry, everyone, the keys have already been gathered. Fellow Daoist Chen and Fellow Daoist Li, we're already at the door, so please take out the keys you have." E Kui laughed and said to Chen Yang and Han Li.

Hearing this, everyone present was surprised and looked at Han Li and Chen Yang.

"Actually, even if City Lord E didn't say it, I was just about to take out the keys." Han Li said with a normal expression, but his mind was racing.

From E Kui's sudden appearance earlier and his subsequent leading everyone here without saying a word, he had already made some guesses in his mind.

E Kui must have some means to know who has the keys, perhaps related to the strange movements he felt when he approached the second key.

While pondering, he took out two blood-colored keys from his chest.

Chen Yang didn't seem surprised that Han Li had two keys. With a flash of bloody light in his hand, he also produced a blood-red key.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, Fellow Daoist Li, so you had three keys in your hands. I knew it, City Lord E is truly a brilliant strategist, everything is within his expectations." Sun Tu shook his head and said with a smile.

"The matter of the keys is of great importance. For safety's sake, Chen and Fellow Daoist Li have been keeping them safe." Chen Yang looked at Sun Tu apologetically, and then cupped his fist at E Kui.

"It's fine, the people of Puppet City haven't appeared yet. It's normal to be careful." E Kui waved his hand and said.

"Thank you for City Lord E's understanding." Chen Yang said, his expression relaxing.

"Now that the five keys are gathered, let's open the door quickly. Don't waste City Lord E's and everyone's time." Fu Jian snorted, seemingly disdainful of Chen Yang and Han Li, and said coldly.

"Wait a moment, before opening the door, I have something to say." A voice sounded, and it was Han Li who suddenly spoke.

"Li Feiyu, you're just a small slave-status Profound Gladiator from Qingyang City. Just hand over the keys. You have no right to speak here!" Fu Jian frowned when Han Li interrupted, and said with a sneer.

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Li, if you have anything to say, feel free to speak." E Kui raised his hand to stop Fu Jian and said.

"Thank you for City Lord E's tolerance. I don't mean to cause trouble, but I just want to ask how the treasures inside will be distributed after entering the forbidden area?" Han Li touched his nose and said with a smile.

As soon as he said this, everyone present fell silent.

"The city lord said before that everyone would have a share of the treasures in the forbidden area, so how about distributing them according to the number of people?" Fu Jian's eyes darted around, and he said.

Han Li glanced at Fu Jian, a hint of disapproval in his smile.

"Fellow Daoist Fu Jian, you haven't contributed the slightest bit of effort along the way, yet you want to share the same amount of things as the city lord. What a great calculation." Shao Ying said with a sneer.

"I didn't mean that! I'm just suggesting a distribution method. If Fellow Daoist Shao doesn't think it's appropriate, you can offer your suggestion." Fu Jian said, somewhat embarrassed and angry.

"We were able to come here thanks to the city lord's guidance, and he also obtained two keys. He has the right to take half of the things inside first, and then we'll distribute the rest." Shao Ying said with a stern face.

"Fellow Daoist Shao, do you want to distribute the treasures inside according to each person's contribution? This method is reasonable. The city lord guided us all the way and obtained two keys, which is indeed a great contribution. But Fellow Daoist Li also got two keys. How much should he get? I have one key in my hand. How much can I get?" Chen Yang looked at Shao Ying and asked.

"This..." Shao Ying was momentarily speechless.

"Cough cough... The people who can gather here have made different contributions. It's difficult to achieve absolute fairness whether we distribute them according to the number of people or according to contributions. In my opinion, since all five cities are here, why not keep it simple and divide the treasures inside into ten shares? Xuan City takes three shares, Qingyang City takes two shares, and the remaining five shares are divided equally among our three cities. As for how each city distributes them internally, let each city decide for itself." Qin Yuan, who hadn't spoken much, said.

As soon as he said this, everyone present was stunned, with expressions of contemplation.

"Fellow Daoist Qin's words are reasonable. Arguing further may not come up with a more reasonable method, so let's do it this way." Chen Yang stroked his chin and agreed.

Shi Chuan Kong frowned slightly.

He had stayed in Qingyang City after entering the Scale Accumulation Void Realm, but he was soon sent to Xuan City. It was hard to say which city he belonged to.

"Fellow Daoist Shi, don't worry. Although you didn't stay in our Qingyang City for a long time, you can be considered one of our Qingyang City's people." Chen Yang's voice suddenly sounded in Shi Chuan Kong's ear.

Shi Chuan Kong's expression relaxed, and he thanked him gratefully.

Fu Jian and Sun Tu were silent for a moment and nodded in approval.

Shao Ying seemed to be still dissatisfied and was about to say something.

"Alright, the distribution method mentioned by Fellow Daoist Qin is very reasonable. Let's distribute it according to this method." E Kui suddenly spoke.

Since E Kui said so, Shao Ying didn't say anything more, and it was quickly decided.

The few people then discussed the method of opening the door. According to E Kui, the method of opening the door was simple: just insert the five keys into the corresponding small holes on the door at the same time.

E Kui handed one of the keys in his hand to Shao Ying, and Han Li handed one of the keys in his hand to Sun Tu.

Before long, E Kui, Shao Ying, Chen Yang, Han Li, and Sun Tu each held a key and stood in front of the door.

"Do it!" E Kui shouted softly, and the key in his hand was inserted into the topmost small hole marked with the words "Yinghua".

At the same time, Shao Ying inserted the key into the Jing Shen hole in the upper left, and Chen Yang inserted it into the Bi Lin hole in the upper right.

Han Li inserted it into the Ye Cha hole in the lower left, and Sun Tu inserted it into the You Ming hole.

All five keys were inserted into the stone door, and the entire stone door trembled rumblingly. The blood-colored patterns on it bloomed with bright blood light, shining on everyone outside, causing them to squint.

At this moment, a clicking sound suddenly came from inside the door, and the five keys suddenly disappeared into the small holes.

Immediately, a viscous blood light emerged from the five small holes at the same time, intertwined with each other like ropes, forming a huge blood-colored rune.

The next moment, the blood-colored rune suddenly disappeared into the stone door.

All the restriction patterns on the stone door flashed and disappeared.

The two doors creaked open slowly, revealing a dark and spacious passage.

"Let's go." E Kui's eyes flickered, and he was the first to walk into the door.

The others exchanged glances and followed.

After a moment's hesitation, Han Li also stepped into the door with the crowd.

As everyone stepped into the stone door, a rumbling sound suddenly came from behind.

In a series of loud grinding noises, the two stone doors slowly closed.

Led by E Kui, the group walked towards the depths of the passage, and soon arrived at a plaza that was dark all around.

At this time, one huge pearl after another began to light up on the dome above, densely packed like stars in the night sky, illuminating everyone above.

Han Li looked up and saw the stars shining above, as if there was a Milky Way hanging across the sky, just like standing in the wilderness at night. He felt that the stars were falling all around, and waves of astral power were surging from above like a tide.

Then, a flame lit up from the walls on both sides in the far distance, turning into two thick lines of fire that extended into the depths of the space, gradually revealing the surrounding scenery in front of everyone.

The white stone square under everyone's feet was not very large. After a hundred zhang forward, it was separated by a fence.

Han Li and the others walked to the fence and saw that outside the fence was a bottomless abyss. Heavy fog seemed to be churning inside, and gusts of cool, cold wind blew up from below.

In the middle of the fence, there were three white stone arch bridges, each ten zhang wide and a hundred zhang long, extending to a huge white circular altar in the center of the space.

The altar was huge, with a radius of a thousand zhang. It was also surrounded by white fences, like a circular solitary peak, standing in the middle of the abyss.

E Kui led the group through the central stone arch bridge and arrived at the altar.

As soon as they stepped onto the altar, everyone's expressions changed, and a look of surprise flashed in their eyes. All of them felt a powerful and unimaginable aura of flesh and blood.

Han Li then noticed that this altar was not a flat stone platform. In the center, there was a pentagonal pit with a radius of a hundred zhang. The palpitating aura of flesh and blood came from it.

At the five corners of the pentagonal pit, there stood a strange black scale beast stone sculpture. Its shape was like a toad, fat and huge, with wings on its back, ready to fly, with a disproportionately slender neck, and a huge lizard-like head hanging in front, probing above the pit.

Han Li looked at the five black strange beast stone sculptures, which were more than ten zhang high, his brow furrowed slightly, and his eyes were full of vigilance, as if he was afraid that these guys would suddenly turn into living things.

After a slight hesitation, everyone followed E Kui, who walked to the edge of the pentagonal pit first, and stood behind the fence, looking down at the pit.

Han Li frowned tightly and saw that the pit was a huge sacrificial blood pool. The massive amount of scarlet blood inside was rising and falling like a tide, covered with a thick blood mist and a layer of blood-colored thin smoke.

However, no matter how the blood waves surged below or how the mist rolled above, they only rose within the pit and would not overflow at all.

What surprised Han Li even more was that between the surging blood waves, he could vaguely see sections of crystal-clear white bones exposed. Some were like the huge sharp horns of some kind of strange beast, and some were like their white bone heads. Each of them contained an incredibly powerful aura of flesh and blood.