“This thing can get me into the system?” Xia Fei was surprised and then inspected the item in Anzu Night’s hand.

It was about the size of a peach; a pentagram had been carved into it, and it was pitch-black, exuding mystery.

Anzu Night said sternly, “This is called the Pentalink Evenstar. It’s the key to unlocking the system gate. In the Collapsed Expanse of Founders, besides those vortices that suck people in, there are many doors. Each one has a name and a special method to open it.

“The Pentalink Evenstar opens a door called the Pentalink Gate, but that door can only be opened once, and only those five people with the keys can go in. With this, you can enter the God-Demon System. As for whether or not you can find your friends, that will depend on your luck. After all, the reason behind the Collapsed Expanse of Founders’s existence and its rules are an age-old mystery.”

Xia Fei smiled upon hearing Anzu Night’s words. This pair of siblings was truly being kind to him. The token was probably very important to them, but they decided to give it to him.

Shaking his head, Xia Fei asked, “If you enter the appointed gate at the appointed time, will you be able to sweep through the God-Demon System? I don’t believe that there’s such a thing as a free lunch anywhere in the universe, nor do I believe that a weird place like that will have any loophole.”

Zesyr Night saw that Xia Fei was refusing to accept their good intentions and said hurriedly, “While you may be unable to sweep through everything, you’ll save yourself from taking a lot of detours. These warriors taken away by the system in the last few days mostly won’t come out alive.”

“Who told you all this?” asked Xia Fei.

“My grandfather, and he got this information from a trustworthy friend, or else he would never agree to risking me and my brother by sending us out here,” Zesyr said seriously.

“Your Night Clan is very big, and so you must have numerous elite warriors under you; why is it that your clan just sent you two, and not anyone else?” Xia Fei countered. He had always been a very paranoid person. He believed that people had to advance on their own strength, and stories about money falling out of the sky were something only used to deceive children.

“This… It might be because my older brother and I have the highest cultivation among the youths in our clan…” Zesyr mumbled somewhat unconvincingly.

This truly was rather fishy. Cloud Night had sent Zesyr and Anzu to the Collapsed Expanse of Founders very abruptly. They had only learned the critical information right before leaving, and from Cloud Night’s expression, he had presumably only recently learned of this information as well.

Cloud Night had spoken in a tone that would accept no objections. It was as if none of the other youths in the clan fit his conditions. He was certain that only Zesyr and Anzu could go. However, Venus of Eternal Night was one of the leading clans in the Alpha Universe, and there were countless youths with excellent cultivation and good potential in its ranks. Why was it that Cloud Night had not considered them at all, solely deciding to send his two precious treasures from the very start? Had someone else chosen Zesyr and Anzu, instead?

Xia Fei had given a very simple analysis, but it had aroused the suspicion of the Night siblings. Smiling, Xia Fei lit a cigarette and said lightly, “I’m no fool, and it’s not my style to not exploit anything I can, but I’m afraid of death, so I don’t get involved with anything till I understand it thoroughly. As such, I will accept your kindness but not this one.”

Zesyr Night became a little angry, thinking that Xia Fei should not refuse this gift. “Don’t you want to save your friends? You have to realize that this is an opportunity. We’re giving you the best path.”

Xia Fei froze and then erupted in laughter. “You’re saying that my friends need my saving? What a joke!

“You really don’t understand who I hang around with. It’s already good enough if they don’t mess with other people. Those wolves, none of them is to be taken lightly! I want to go in because I don’t want those guys to steal all the glory.”

Xia Fei grew happier the more he thought about it, and even Furball shot Zesyr Night a glance. It was all true. Be it Fuchen, Ulan, Oro, or Xia Guanghai, none of them was to be messed with! Even the person with the lowest cultivation, Law God Oro, was an old monster who had dominated the Law Realm for thousands of years. He had more schemes in his head than Zesyr had hair on her little butt! Xia Fei had absolute confidence in them!

He was very powerful, and none of the people at his side was a weakling!

…

In the end, Xia Fei still refused the kindness of the Night siblings. Once they were gone, he remained in the command deck, puffing out smoke rugs as he pondered.

His lips curved upward slightly. Five people were about to enter the Pentalink Star Gate. Xia Fei refused the Night siblings’ token, but that did not mean that he would not get one.

After a dozen minutes passed, Xia Fei came out of his ship after sensing that Zesyr and Anzu had gotten quite a distance away from him. Using Breath Control, he vanished into the wilderness at once.

Seven days went by in the blink of an eye. In this time, Xia Fei had followed the Night siblings from the shadows. Different from what he thought, the two did not leave the planet. It turned out that the mysterious Pentalink Star Gate was right under his eyes.

The time had come. An unstable light wave appeared on the bodies of Zesyr and Anzu—a sign that the anti-scanning medicine was about to lose effect. This also meant that they would enter the God-Demon System within one hour.

At the base of a cliff, Zesyr Night and Anzu Night stood together, their faces slightly red with excitement. As for Xia Fei, he was hiding over ten kilometers away, using his Ocular Cognition to surreptitiously observe the area. It would be a lie to say that Xia Fei did not want to go in, but as he did not understand the Pentalink Star Gate yet, he needed to act cautiously.

Several minutes, later, the bald Tian Jing appeared from across the Night siblings.

“How is it you?!”

“How is it you two?!”

Tian Jing and the Night siblings spoke in unison, but none of them could answer the question, so they just awkwardly stood there. The pair of brother and sister had guessed that the various major clans would have their own shortcuts, but they clearly had not anticipated their acquaintance, Tian Jing, to show up.

‘Should I kill the baldy?’ Xia Fei thought to himself, but he shook his head quickly. As the saying went, ‘when picking persimmons, pick the soft ones, and when bullying people, bully the meek ones.’ Tian Jing was clearly no weakling, and killing him was bound to waste much of Xia Fei’s precious energy. Moreover, Anzu Night was already wary of Xia Fei, afraid that he was out to silence witnesses. If Xia Fei actually killed Tian Jing, Anzu would undoubtedly grow paranoid. He decided to wait some more first.

After some time, a fourth person arrived. Xia Fei frowned, for the fourth person was Qiu Yang, someone even more difficult to deal with than Tian Jing.

The Night siblings and Tian Jing naturally expressed their surprise once more. Was thisnot too much of a coincidence? These people who knew one another all just so happened to gather together? It must be understood that they would all be enemies once they were inside. Even if they had mentally prepared themselves, the fact still left them rather uncomfortable.

Ten minutes later, the halo around them had become extremely weak. It was only then that the fifth person finally arrived.

Xia Fei did not recognize this last person, but the others were all shocked. This was Feng Jianting, the only one among the Six Celestial Treasures who had yet to show his face!

In this way, the six young masters with the highest potential in the Alpha Universe, excluding the dead and missing, had gathered at the Pentalink Star Gate!

While none of them said anything, all could not help but remark at how this could not be a coincidence. Anzu Night recalled Xia Fei’s caution and suddenly felt that the latter was truly a formidable figure. There really was something fishy going on here.

Qiu Yang called to the others warmly, smiling breezily. It was as if the imminent struggle between them was of no concern to him.

Some people could not help but shrink back as the moment approached. The Collapsed Expanse of Founders had been open for a whole fourteen days, and those who should have entered the God-Demon System had entered long ago. They were already far behind the rest of the pack, so they needed to go in no matter what! Before they had left for the Collapsed Expanse of Founders, their clan heads had said many encouraging words. If they were to back away now, they would undoubtedly become the target of much criticism.

While they were struggling with these thoughts inside their mind, Xia Fei was in an excellent mood as he waited patiently for the Pentalink Star Gate to open. As for who to kill, he had already made his decision.

…

“The time has come. Let’s follow the instructions and open this Pentalink Star Gate,” Qiu Yang said, taking a look at the time.

The other said nothing, only nodding as they took out their tokens.

Qiu Yang could not help but lick his lips. The so-called Pentalink Star Gate could actually take more than five people. Otherwise, Zesyr Night would not have been holding a sixth token. All of this was a plot that the Qiu father and son had come up with.

Others did not know, but each door actually had a fixed pressure and reward. If too many people went in, the difficulty would fall, and so even if Qiu Yang reached the end, he would find it hard to get what he wanted, but if he went in alone, the difficulty would be set too high, and things would get dangerous.

This was like a game. Since these five people all had high potential, the Pentalink Star Gate was bound to adjust to the high reward setting, and since Qiu Yang was the strongest of the five, the system would make him a seeded player, allowing him to face the lowest difficulty and obtain the greatest reward.

It was a plan long in the making. The strongest geniuses of Alpha had all been fooled by the Qiu father and son, and they were all completely clueless.

One by one, they placed their pentagram tokens on the stone wall, with Qiu Yang being the last.

In truth, only Qiu Yang’s token actually worked. The rest were just shams. Qiu Xingbang had only found all this out after coming out of the Collapsed Expanse of Founders. The position and opening method of the Pentalink Star Gate was one of the rewards he had received for passing the Collapsed Expanse of Founders. It was an opportunity! Qiu Xingbang had no reason not to give this opportunity to his son.

*Rumble!*

The stone wall opened! A door was revealed behind it, containing the same pentagram. Everyone felt inexplicably excited at the sight of it.

*Rumble!*

There was another clanging, and the metal door rose from the ground as everyone looked on in disbelief.

At this moment, there was a howl of wind as Xia Fei charged out of his hiding spot!

The White Dragon’s Screech was being dragged by him from behind. As his eyes flashed with a vicious light, fiend energy exploded from him!

‘Since this accursed system won’t let me in, I’ll kill your people and force my way in!’ Xia Fei viciously said inwardly, glaring.