Bronze Door

“Do you know why the Great Snow Mountain Sect was destroyed?”

Zhong Qing shook his head. He had heard Ming Suxin mention this before and was quite curious about it.

Immortal Master Mingshe sighed, “It is said that the Great Snow Mountain Sect, within its own Sect Holy Land, unearthed a certain taboo and triggered its power, leading to its overnight destruction. Even at that time, this matter was a mystery, but many curious people from Zhongzhou went to investigate.”

“The White Wind Plains, when the Great Snow Mountain Sect had just been destroyed, was far more dangerous than it is now.”

“Many who went to investigate never returned.”

“Therefore, this place gradually became a desolate land, and throughout that entire era, no one ever set foot in it again.”

Afterward, the ancient era passed, until the beginning of this epoch, when Immortal Master Mingshe saw this matter recorded in an ancient book in the Great Secret Repository of Zhongzhou.

Immortal Master Mingshe, who was quite interested in this, came here to investigate.

“The crisis from the ancient era, when the Great Snow Mountain Sect was destroyed, had greatly receded by this epoch, allowing me to enter.”

“When I first arrived here, it wasn't like this at all.”

“At that time, the Laws of heaven and earth here were in chaos, space-time was shattered, and it was dark and gloomy; no living creature could survive within it.”

“Even a Cultivator in the Sanyin Realm couldn't last for more than an incense stick's time within it.”

“The lingering effects of an entire epoch were still so astonishing; one can imagine how terrifying the disaster that destroyed the Great Snow Mountain Sect in ancient times must have been.”

“Fortunately, my cultivation was profound enough to delve deep within.”

“In the depths of the plains, I discovered a huge sinkhole, and at the bottom of the sinkhole, I found a Door.”

“A Door?”

At this point, Zhong Qing was also captivated by Immortal Master Mingshe's words and asked with some curiosity.

“Precisely.” Immortal Master Mingshe nodded and continued.

According to his deductions and investigations, the original location of this sinkhole should have been where the Great Snow Mountain Sect's Holy Land was situated.

It was also the rumored place where they unearthed the taboo.

At the bottom of the sinkhole, Immortal Master Mingshe did not encounter any living creatures or ruins, but he did find a large Bronze Door.

That Door was located underground, for an unknown number of years, as if it had existed there since ancient times.

With Immortal Master Mingshe's cultivation at that time, he was considered a powerful figure even in Zhongzhou.

But no matter how he sensed it, he could not detect anything inside the Door.

However, this tightly closed Door gave him a strange sense of attraction, making him want to enter it.

At that time, Immortal Master Mingshe was nearing the end of his lifespan, in his twilight years, and was not overly concerned with life and death. Therefore, he decided to simply enter the Door and explore its secrets.

One must know that with his strength at the time, with his full power, let alone a Door, even a mountain range could be flattened with a single palm, yet he could not move the Bronze Door even a tiny bit.

Driven by curiosity and that strange attraction, for the next few years, Immortal Master Mingshe simply lived at the bottom of the sinkhole.

He studied the Bronze Door day and night.

He speculated that this Bronze Door was the taboo unearthed by the Great Snow Mountain Sect back then, and it was very likely the cause of the Great Snow Mountain Sect's destruction.

However, after several years, he was still at a loss as to how to open this Door. Not only that, he had also considered moving the Door away, but he exhausted all his methods and still couldn't move it an inch, so he had to give up.

But Immortal Master Mingshe was not without any gains.

Although Immortal Master Mingshe couldn't research much about the Bronze Door itself.

He discovered that the mere presence of the Bronze Door could influence the Laws of heaven and earth within a radius of ten thousand li.

When the Great Snow Mountain Sect was destroyed, there must have been some powerful force impacting it, causing the surrounding Laws and space-time to become incredibly chaotic.

Originally, this kind of chaos should have gradually recovered under the self-action of the Laws and space-time, at most within a few decades it would have returned to normal.

But because of the Bronze Door, the operation of the Laws and space-time themselves were interfered with, thus preventing a complete recovery even after countless years.

It was as if its very existence suppressed all the surrounding Laws and space-time.

So, Immortal Master Mingshe had a flash of inspiration and began to use the power of the Bronze Door to suppress the Laws, transforming the surrounding environment.

Ultimately, he created the current Baifeng Secret Realm, and also re-condensed a portion of the power of the Great Snow Mountain Sect's Sect-Protecting Grand Array from countless years ago, which is manifested as the silver storm currently encircling the Secret Realm, and the White Wind on the White Wind Plains also revived only after this.

Although this place was not separated from the original world, being merely a Secret Realm, in nature it was almost like a Small World.

This was entirely because the space-time Laws here, under the influence of the Bronze Door's power, were completely different from the outside world.

That's why even if Zhong Qing had directly forced his way through the silver storm before, he would not have been able to enter the Secret Realm.

Hearing this, even Zhong Qing was somewhat surprised.

One must know that the Small World rewarded by the System back then was only about one li in radius at first.

Although it has recently begun to gradually expand and is much larger now, it cannot compare to the Baifeng Secret Realm, which spans thousands of li.

And this was merely created by Immortal Master Mingshe by leveraging the influence of the Bronze Door's existence.

What level of existence was this Bronze Door itself?

Zhong Qing had no doubt that the System's repeated reminders for him to come here, and the so-called extremely important thing for him.

It was most likely related to this Bronze Door.

However, since he had not yet seen the Bronze Door itself, Zhong Qing dared not make a definitive judgment.

“Not only my Secret Realm, but even after I transformed and calmed the chaos in this area, the influence of the Bronze Door still remained.”

“The entire White Wind Plains itself has been tainted by a trace of its Qi, and the space-time Laws have undergone some kind of change, which is why many unique heaven and earth species have been born here. I presume you've witnessed them, having made it this far, haven't you?”

Immortal Master Mingshe sighed.

Zhong Qing nodded, immediately thinking of the Tentacle Monster.

Not only the Tentacle Monster, but also the giant turtle he had stomped to death earlier; he had never heard of similar exotic beasts in the outside world.

“In my later years, I have always been in the Secret Realm, studying that Bronze Door.”

“Although in the end I still didn't gain much, during this period, I also continuously modified and arranged this Secret Realm itself.”

“I knew my time was short, and I would probably pass away here. However, I was unwilling to abandon this Secret Realm and the Bronze Door that I personally created, and I also felt that returning to Zhongzhou would be meaningless.”

“Therefore, I left all the accumulated resources of my life and my Legacy here, creating this Legacy Pagoda, hoping that a future hero will inherit my mantle, and at the same time inherit my dying wish, to continue researching the secret of that Bronze Door.”