The crowd lined up, eager to enter the tower.
Feng Ninghe surveyed her surroundings with composure. "Good, we've reached the Dragon Realm. Let's find someone to inquire about the situation here."
They were completely clueless about the Dragon Realm.
As the saying goes, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win a hundred battles. Understanding the Dragon Realm better would do them no harm.
Feng Xing quickly grabbed the nearest young woman. "Excuse me, miss, where is this place?"
"You don't know where this is? Then what are you doing here?"
The young woman raised her delicate eyebrows in surprise and pointed to the Thunder Cloud Tower. "This is the Cloud Thunder Tower. It only opens once every hundred years. The tower only accepts fated individuals, and each person can only enter once. If you're lucky, you might even be noticed by an academy."
Feng Ninghe caught the key information and quickly asked, "What is an academy?"
The young woman's eyes widened. "You don't even know what an academy is? There are thousands of academies, big and small, in the Dragon Realm. Only the top one hundred academies on the rankings are worth entering."
The young woman glanced somewhat impatiently at the Thunder Cloud Tower. "The trial is about to begin. I don't have time to chat."
"Wait a moment, miss."
Su Hongxiu stepped forward and blocked the young woman's path. A gentle smile graced her cheeks as she casually produced a spatial bag. "Miss, we are newcomers and don't understand the Cloud Thunder Tower. Could you please introduce us to the academies and the tower?"
The spatial bag held heavy spirit stones.
The young woman's face lit up with a smile, and she eagerly accepted the spatial bag.
As her gaze fell upon Su Hongxiu, a blush appeared on the woman's cheeks, and her voice softened considerably. "For every level you pass in the Cloud Thunder Tower, there are rewards. The higher you go, the more abundant the rewards."
The cultivators who came to the Cloud Thunder Tower for trials were all after the rewards. The reward on the seventh level was the Moon Gazing Mirror, which allowed one to see the future.
It was a pity that in all the millennia, no one had managed to reach the seventh level of the Cloud Thunder Tower.
The Dragon Realm was divided into cities, with academies standing above them. Anyone with ability had a chance to be accepted by an academy. Outside of the academies and cities, it was a world where the weak were prey to the strong, fraught with danger.
"Moon Gazing Mirror?"
A flicker of interest appeared in Feng Ninghe's eyes. "It can see the future?"
The young woman nodded repeatedly and explained in a low voice, "The Moon Gazing Mirror is a great temptation for everyone. Perhaps it can even help them escape a fatal calamity and achieve greatness!"
Xiao Zhao's azure eyes flashed with starlight, clearly showing great interest in the Moon Gazing Mirror. "Besides humans, can divine beasts also see the future through the Moon Gazing Mirror?"
The young woman replied without hesitation, "Of course. As long as it's a living being with consciousness, it can see the future through the Moon Gazing Mirror. Alright, it's almost time, I must be going!"
With that, the young woman lingered no longer, turned, and strode away.
"This Moon Gazing Mirror sounds quite interesting."
Su Hongxiu's well-defined fingers gently fanned herself with a bone fan. "Since we're here, why don't we enter the Cloud Thunder Tower and take a look? We can learn more about the Dragon Realm as we go. Perhaps we'll gain quite a bit."
This was precisely what Feng Ninghe was thinking.
The Moon Gazing Mirror could see the future. She wanted to see what the future truly looked like.
She deliberately turned her gaze to the people around her. "Do you all want to try entering the Cloud Thunder Tower?"
In response to her question, everyone nodded without hesitation.
Bai Niannian, unable to contain her excitement, quickly spoke up. "Master, let's go in quickly. I want to see what's so unusual about the Dragon Realm."
Feng Linyuan subtly observed their surroundings and softly reminded them, "We are new here and unfamiliar with everything. We must be careful."
They did not delay and entered the Cloud Thunder Tower with the surrounding crowd.
The space inside the Cloud Thunder Tower was exceptionally spacious, more than enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
Feng Ninghe carefully examined her surroundings.
She could feel the spiritual energy here was exceptionally dense. If she were to set up a spirit gathering formation, cultivation would be twice as effective with half the effort!
Not far away, a pair of eyes were fixedly staring at Feng Ninghe.
"Feng... Feng Ninghe?"
The woman's figure faltered, almost falling to the ground.
Fortunately, the people around her completely blocked her from view, and no one noticed her anomaly.
"Yuran, what's wrong?"
The man closest to the woman noticed her distress and quickly supported her, his voice full of concern.
The woman was Lin Yuran.
Lin Yuran steadied herself and looked into the crowd.
People came and went, and that familiar figure had disappeared.
A hint of panic involuntarily appeared on Lin Yuran's face, and her heart was filled with unease. "I think I just saw Feng Ninghe."
"Feng Ninghe? How could that woman be here?" Ji Binyu quickly followed her gaze.
The crowd was bustling and chaotic, with people everywhere.
He deliberately moved through the crowd, but there was no sign of Feng Ninghe.
Ji Binyu couldn't help but say, "Yuran, I didn't see Feng Ninghe. Are you sure you weren't mistaken?"
Lin Yuran's heart pounded nervously, her eyes darting around.
This time, she did not see that familiar figure.
"I don't know if I was mistaken," Lin Yuran bit her lip, her gaze sweeping over the surroundings again and again.
There was indeed no sign of Feng Ninghe.
Ji Binyu gently took her hand and softly reassured her, "Yuran, we tore apart the barrier, and countless human puppets descended from the sky. They would have caught them completely off guard.
I'd say she's probably still troubled by the matter of the human puppets. How could she possibly have had the chance to enter the Dragon Realm? You must have mistaken her."
The low male voice soothed Lin Yuran's unease.
She looked up into Ji Binyu's eyes and said with slight approval, "You're right. She must be overwhelmed with trouble right now. Moreover, not everyone can enter the Dragon Realm. We only learned how to enter the Dragon Realm by chance."
A vast barrier confined the people of the Xuan Continent, preventing them from entering the Dragon Realm.
They believed that the dense swarm of human puppets would give Feng Ninghe enough trouble.
Ji Binyu looked up at the layers of the tower ahead. "Our goal is to pass the seventh level. If we can see Feng Ninghe's fate through the Moon Gazing Mirror, wouldn't it be easy for us to deal with her?"
Mentioning the Moon Gazing Mirror, a spark of jealousy ignited in Lin Yuran's eyes.
"Let's stay in the Dragon Realm for now. The spiritual energy here is far superior to that of the Xuan Continent. Once our cultivation improves, we'll return to the Xuan Continent and reclaim what belongs to us!"
The cold female voice was extremely sinister.
Lin Yuran's gaze was deep, her beautiful face filled with calculation.
The Xuan Continent was no match for the Dragon Realm, but her reputation had been publicly tarnished, and she couldn't swallow that humiliation.
One day, she would personally kill Feng Ninghe.
She could have killed Feng Ninghe a hundred years ago. No matter how tough this woman's fate was, she would kill Feng Ninghe again and again!