Jiang Chen took a look and found that there were three ninth-level ones among them, namely Zhou Tai, Erlang, and Wang Deng. The first two helped him in the Dragon Palace and he gave them the remains of a powerful monster. The latter was the first to rush into the Dragon Palace and reaped huge rewards.

The old Taoist priest, the King of Mount Tai, and Tang Yi entered the eighth level.

The rest of the people have also reached the seventh level, which is of great significance because this is a watershed. As long as they cross it, they can play some role in the upcoming turmoil.

Not only that, Tang Yi also used the secret methods of Xuanmen to make some magical instruments and treasures from the fur and bones of the monster's remains, which could play a big role at critical moments.

With such a foundation, even though the Nine Provinces' strong men have just broken into this realm, their combat effectiveness is not too superficial.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Xiao Hai is also among them. He has just stepped into the fourth level of the strongest. Jiang Chen specially used a bunch of spiritual treasures to build him up. However, his foundation is too weak, so he can only reach this step first. He can continue to improve after experiencing some battles.

Otherwise, it is easy to ruin people.

The reason for this decision is not because Jiang Chen is nostalgic, but because for Jiuzhou, Xiao Hai, the "god", has great strategic significance.

It was he who ended the last Fengdu Rebellion.

As the second largest forbidden area in the world, Fengdu Forbidden Area is fundamentally different from the other four forbidden areas. When unrest breaks out, no powerful monsters will come out of it, but there are terrifying events that happen with similar rules.

Even Jiang Chen couldn't figure out the principle behind this.

He just felt that Fengdu and the Kingdom of Dreams were similar, and perhaps these two restricted areas were in the same echelon, while the four behind them were in another echelon.

"Defend the restricted area!"

Jiang Chen shouted, taking on the responsibility of a leader. Although he didn't know why the King of Samsara hadn't returned yet, he didn't have time to think about it at the moment.

A group of strong men soared into the sky and landed in the illusion array of mountains behind the underground city. Inside the underground city, people were also evacuating in an orderly manner. In this case, only the top strong men were left, and the rest would only be a burden.

A pitch-black ancient portal stood in front. It was not huge, only about three meters high. The door frame was engraved with ghost faces of various shapes, crying, miserable, wailing, laughing sinisterly... vivid and extremely creepy.

On the two door panels, the words "ghost" and "door" were written in bright red handwriting.

I don't know if it's because of my eyes, but everyone always feels that these two words are moving, as if they have life, and they are extremely strange. After looking at them for a long time, they will find that they have been imprinted in their minds and cannot be shaken off.

Some people quickly turned their heads away, not daring to look directly at the portal.

After passing the Ghost Gate, you will reach Fengdu City.

There is a saying that once you see the gates of hell, even if you don't move forward, you may find yourself on the other side of it when you wake up next time.

Jiang Chen was watching with great interest. To everyone's surprise, he even lay down on the door panel, took out an awl, and kept chiseling the two bloody words, as if he wanted to dig them out.

After a long time of failure, he finally gave up.

But in the blink of an eye, he set his eyes on the evil ghost pattern next to him, and called on Jiang Xiaochen to pry open the two doors to see if he could get him a better weapon.

"Let's get started."

Everyone was not surprised by King Chen's unconventional thinking. They followed the previous agreement and each performed their duties, beginning to set up various magic arrays, prohibitions, seals, and secret techniques...

Zhou Tai and Tang Yi gave instructions while the others took action.

With the cooperation, the efficiency was very high, and shadows of magic arrays appeared in the sky, illuminating the dark sky.

Er Leng was not here. He continued to perform his duties in the intelligence department. Not long after, news about the outside world came in one after another.

Strong auras continued to appear in the Old Antique Sect's residential area. They were making a collective breakthrough, and ninth-level auras appeared one after another. These people were already masters of this level, and relying on the gains of the past two days, they finally returned to the next level.

There were also two ninth-level ones among the reincarnations, namely Shen Ji and Jing Shou. They looked a little weak, but their main purpose was not to improve their personal strength, but to make this heavenly sacrifice more top-level.

According to Erlang's information, they had made quite a harvest these days. They had already collected eight items for the celestial sacrifice, and the remaining sacrifices were nearly 30% more than what Jiang Chen saw that day.