The beam from the dragon's eye struck the portal, resulting in radiant ripples. 

“Rumble!” Lava surged out of the ground again within Bronze Cauldron.

The portal still didn’t open despite the powerful beam.

Feiyun landed and took a closer look at the portal. There were ancient runes too tiny to be seen from a distance.

Each foot-long-or-so area had around 100,000 runes. Attempting to read all of them was virtually impossible.

“This is tougher than the first gate of hell.” Feiyun didn’t wish to attack again or the entire place might collapse.

“You… you took its eye?” The turtle, on the other hand, stared at Feiyun’s...