"Come to the Turquoise Pool as soon as possible... The day we formally meet, I will give you a massive surprise..."
At this point, the Queen Mother’s originally benevolent tone actually took on a slight seductive undertone.
But it only sent a wave of revulsion down Zou Feng’s spine.
He wondered what surprise there could possibly be upon meeting. More likely, she would just swallow him whole in one bite.
After delivering her message, the Queen Mother’s aura gradually scattered from Zou Feng’s Sea of Consciousness.
Seeing her leave, Zou Feng also withdrew his awareness.
Opening his eyes in the quiet room, Zou Feng instinctively tried to check the List of Gods. To his surprise, the artifact was actually still upgrading and remained inaccessible.
He had never encountered this situation before, causing him to frown slightly.
If he couldn’t open the List of Gods, didn’t that mean if he Cultivated now, the side effects might not be transferred out?
As he pondered, Su Qingyu’s voice came from outside the door.
"Feng, something happened!"
Her tone was unusually anxious; it seemed the matter was quite serious.
Zou Feng immediately flashed over and opened the door. "What’s wrong?"
"You’ll know when you see it..." Su Qingyu said, stepping aside to let him pass.
Zou Feng moved to the deck. With just a brief glance forward, he knew exactly what was wrong.
In the sky not far away, a gigantic stone gate was actually suspended in mid-air.
Though called a stone gate, it was actually just a doorframe with no actual doors.
Logically speaking, this kind of "empty gate" without doors should be utterly useless, allowing anyone to pass through freely. However, with one look, even Zou Feng felt a profound sense that this gate was impossible to pass through.
Looking closely at the frame, three large characters were prominently carved into it: South Heavenly Gate.
Seeing these three words, Zou Feng almost cursed out loud.
Having dealt with the Ninefold Celestial Court so many times, he naturally knew what this thing was.
The South Heavenly Gate of the Ninefold Celestial Court was not a mere decoration at their entrance, but a genuinely powerful Magical Treasure. Once this gate appeared, it was even fiercer than the Small Thousand Worlds cast by some Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators. Not only could it trap enemies with unimaginable power, but it also possessed the ability to kill.
"We’re already trapped. No matter how the Holy Lotus flies, the distance to the South Heavenly Gate hasn’t changed at all," Su Qingyu said from behind Zou Feng.
It was perfectly normal for her to be so worried. After all, the Ninefold Celestial Court had even deployed the South Heavenly Gate. This death trap, at least from the Celestial Court’s perspective, was practically a guaranteed success.
At this moment, Zou Feng began to suspect that the Queen Mother’s sudden appearance to congratulate him just now was highly problematic.
After all, it was simply too coincidental.
She didn’t come earlier or later, but coincidentally showed up right when Tribulation Cultivators were targeting him, forcing him to be distracted.
Under normal circumstances, with Zou Feng’s current strength in the Nascent Soul Realm, he should have sensed something was wrong and reacted in advance, which would have given him a high probability of not being trapped by the South Heavenly Gate.
Additionally, his temporary inability to open the List of Gods was another factor. Otherwise, with powerful Tribulation Cultivators clearly aiming for him, the List of Gods would have warned him long ago.
But thinking about this now was useless. Zou Feng had to admit that this was likely the true Celestial Tribulation he had to endure for his recent breakthrough!
In short, he had still been careless. The commotion caused by his Celestial Tribulation when breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm was so massive that the Northern Domain Tribulation Cultivators couldn’t possibly have missed it. This area was still their territory, after all. Mobilizing a powerful assassination squad in a short period of time was not a difficult task for them.
However, for these Tribulation Cultivators to dare to come, it was obvious they wanted to catch him off guard while he hadn’t completely consolidated his Realm.
For a Nascent Soul Newbie who had just broken through, being targeted right now was indeed fatal.
Unfortunately for them, these Tribulation Cultivators didn’t know that with the Gongyang Marquis’s gift, he was by no means comparable to an ordinary Nascent Soul Newbie.
Perhaps this wave of enemies voluntarily knocking on his door came at the perfect time.
He was just worrying that his Cultivation progress for the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills was lagging a bit...
The next moment, Zhao Feixiong stepped forward and said, "So what if it’s the South Heavenly Gate? We can still dance all the same!"
He was suggesting that Zou Feng deploy the Xuanwu Poison Domain to fight the South Heavenly Gate head-on.
However, in Zou Feng’s view, this wouldn’t work.
After all, he hadn’t had the time to forge the Xuanwu Poison Domain into a Small Thousand World yet; it was simply incapable of contending with the South Heavenly Gate. In fact, now that they were already trapped by the South Heavenly Gate, even if he wanted to deploy the Xuanwu Poison Domain, there was no way to do it.
The moment the Poison Domain showed even the slightest sign of emerging, it would be suppressed by the rules of the South Heavenly Gate.
After listening to Zou Feng’s explanation, Zhao Feixiong was stunned for a moment, then said unwillingly, "How will we know if we don’t try? We can’t just do nothing, right?"
With that, Zhao Feixiong started dancing on his own.
Looking at him, it was obvious his dance addiction was acting up; if he didn’t start dancing immediately, his whole body would feel uncomfortable.
But the current situation was indeed such that apart from Zou Feng, the others couldn’t do anything. To put it bluntly, panicking was useless, so they might as well just dance.
Ignoring Zhao Feixiong’s sudden impromptu dancing, Zou Feng kept his attention focused on the South Heavenly Gate, pondering a strategy to break the deadlock.
At present, it was still just a single South Heavenly Gate standing there, with no other Tribulation Cultivators appearing. This made Zou Feng feel like something massive was coming.
Sure enough, just as this thought crossed his mind, Zou Feng saw a dark blue cyclone rapidly taking shape in the center of the South Heavenly Gate.
Even from such a distance, Zou Feng could clearly sense the terrifying power contained within that cyclone.
If this cyclone were to smash into the Holy Lotus, he feared the Defensive Array of this Flying Celestial Ship wouldn’t be able to hold up for long.
Before he could think any further, the dark blue cyclone generated by the South Heavenly Gate finally finished forming.