The moment he stepped through the spatial rift, Jiāng Fēng felt the jade-like, icy touch of stone beneath his feet. The sudden, brilliant golden radiance made him narrow his eyes slightly. A hundred-foot-tall bronze giant gate stood majestically, its surface carved with a relief of the Heaven-Swallowing Rat devouring the moon, swirling in a dim light. Every single whisker was as fine as a hair, and the core fragments inlaid in the lunar disc emitted a milky-white halo.
"These are tooth marks left by the First Patriarch when he gnawed on the bright moon." Jiāng Èrláng gently touched a depression on the gate, and the star core fragments lit up in response, casting a phantom of a primordial giant rat tearing the firmament into the void. "In the territory of the Golden-Armored Rat Clan, even the air we breathe is imbued with the power of the star cores."
The moment the gate rumbled open, Jiāng Fēng's pupils contracted slightly. Fluorescent ores hanging upside down from the thousand-fathoms-high vaulted ceiling poured down like a river of stars, their naturally formed facets refracting the light into a rainbow of colors. In the city surrounded by underground rivers, white jade bridges spanned the azure waves, their surfaces engraved with fused totems of the Rat Clan and human runes—on the left, the Heaven-Swallowing Rat biting its own tail to form a ring; on the right, a human cultivator slaying demons with a flying sword.
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