First Pagoda

"With each beast you slay, your rank rises. Treasures won't increase your rank but exchanging with the sect can grant you a considerable autumn point. Now, leave." 

Casually waving his hand, streams of light flashed into the disciple's hands. The lights materialized into wooden tags, which would register the beasts they killed, increasing their ranks here.

Since they would be in a different realm, only the wooden tag emitting star energy would connect them to the mortal realm.

As Li Chen pondered how they would be transported to the sect's sacred ground, the platform divided!

Caught by surprise, he fell into the massive hole. The fluttering of robes and the shocked gasps of other disciples fell into his ears.

Not long after he began falling, Li Chen saw a cloudy vortex. 'What's that?'

The elements surrounding that cloudy vortex seemed ethereal, real, and unreal. It was beyond his comprehension.