Right after the gate-shaped pattern appeared on the back of Nie Tian’s left hand, the same pattern that had been engraved on the meteor disappeared without leaving a single trace.

Then the burning hot meteor rapidly turned ice-cold.

Under the night sky, Nie Tian’s eyebrows were knitted together. He looked at the pattern on the back of his hand and muttered, “This is a key to the Heaven Gate…?”

Hua Mu had only told him that the Heaven Gate was about to appear in the Realm of Flame Heaven, but never explained to him that it would require a key to enter.

Nonetheless, when the gate-shaped pattern shifted from the meteor to the back of his hand in the form of a tattoo, he realized that the gate-shaped pattern was precisely the special pass needed for cultivators to step into the Heaven Gate.

He sent out a wisp of his psychic awareness to examine the gate-shaped pattern, but it was pushed back by a gentle yet formidable force.

Therefore, he failed to pry into the profound mysteries that lay within.

“Every Heaven Gate only allows one hundred participants to enter,” he thought to himself. “Does everyone have to obtain a key like this to enter?”  

There could have been as many as a thousand meteors that had fallen from the sky and landed in different parts of the Realm of Flame Heaven.

However, there should only be a hundred...