Torment
Hao Xuan opened the gateway and led the barbarians inside. But unlike all the times before, this one did not lead into the Celestial Webway but instead connected directly to the world that Hao Xuan had found.
This was another advantage of using this method. Normally you could only open a pathway into the Webway and navigate through it to find the right world but by sending his consciousness directly into the Webway and interacting with each gateway, Hao Xuan could not only find the correct rune sequence to directly enter the world but also chose where the gateway would lead to.
Although it did consume a lot of mental energy and without fully replenishing his soul power, Hao Xuan would not be able to repeat the process again.
But the Barbarians were not aware of this fact. They had readied themselves to traverse the caves of fire that were the Celestial Webways but stepped onto solid, familiar land on the other side.