"Rumble rumble... When
Long Chen stepped onto the ninety-first step, he felt the world twisting. Everything around him vanished, chaos reigned, and wild winds and lightning raged.
"It's actually the power of the Heavenly Dao?"
Long Chen hadn't expected that this Blade-Sharpening Heavenly Staircase could actually draw upon the power of the Heavenly Dao. The endless might of heaven was almost as powerful as when he crossed the tribulation.
Moreover, that day Tianwei was frantically tearing apart his body, eroding his will, corroding his soul, trying to make him give up and give up early.
Moreover, when he stepped onto this staircase, Long Chen felt himself transparent, with endless power passing through his body. Both flesh and soul were undergoing painful trials, and the more he resisted, the stronger the strength of the tempering became.
But Long Chen's will was firm, completely unconcerned about the pain, and he continued to walk forward on foot, step by step.
"Rumble rumble... With
each step Long Chen stepped on, the entire Knife Sharpening Ladder trembled violently, shaking heaven and earth along with it. The Luo family experts in the distance watched the ladder with nervous expressions in their eyes.
"The ninety-fifth stage."
Luo Xue clenched her fists tightly. Long Chen had already reached this spot, just a little shy away from reaching the summit.
At this moment, the dragon scales on Long Chen's body began to glow, waves of dragon might surged, and the roar of the giant dragon overlapped with the roar of the Heavenly Dao.
At some point, the sky was filled with dark clouds, endless thunder flashed, and the heavenly might was vast and overwhelming, making one's soul tremble.
"I heard that starting from the ninetieth level, the Heavenly Dao sharpens the blade. The Heavenly Dao is the grinding stone; only by removing the edges does it reveal its sharpness.
Unfortunately, aside from the clan leader, no one in our Luo family has ever reached the summit, and he has never told us anything about the Blade Sharpening Ladder. An elder of the Luo family couldn't help but sigh.
Long Chen reached the peak, and only then did they realize that the final nine-step stone staircase was the true sharpening of a blade, and they were simply not qualified to endure such trials.
The mighty heavens are overwhelming; people can only prostrate themselves beneath it; who has the courage to resist it? Even if you have the courage, you need a body strong enough, since conditions don't allow it.
"Boom!"
While the Luo clan experts were discussing, Long Chen had already advanced again, climbing two steps in a row and reaching the ninety-seventh step.
At that moment, on the Knife Sharpening Ladder, the winds and clouds shifted. Visibly, Long Chen saw a waterfall rushing wildly toward Long Chen in front of him.
Long Chen's body shook, and within the waterfall was the power of myriad paths. On his dragon scales, faint threads of blood were seeping out.
"This Sharpening Ladder is really something." Long Chen felt the terrifying impact and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Indeed, every faction has its own treasures. This Knife-Sharpening Ladder is an immeasurable divine artifact. If he had come here earlier, perhaps his last tribulation wouldn't have been so dangerous.
This terrifying impact is the best way to temper a person's willpower and the fastest way to become strong in a short time.
"Boom!"
Long Chen stepped up the ninety-eight steps. Endless lightning swirled around him, and the terrifying force struck the dragon scales, producing a crackling sound. In that instant, space began to freeze, time slowed down, and the sound became ethereal and ethereal.
Long Chen could only hear the cracking sounds inside his bones. At this moment, both the mental and physical pressure had doubled compared to before. Without the Golden Dragon Battle Body, Long Chen's body would have been crushed instantly.
Long Chen took a deep breath and stepped up to the ninety-ninth step. He let out a muffled groan, and the space above his head collapsed in an instant, nearly collapsing to the ground.
At this moment, he felt as if a vast expanse of the universe was above him. To crush him, if he wanted to survive, he had to retreat.
Long Chen's brows furrowed as he howled toward the sky, his long hair flying, and his whole body erupted with strength. The void above Long Chen's head appeared like a spiderweb-like crack.
"Boom!"
The void shattered, turning into endless fragments of space-time. Long Chen spat out a mouthful of blood. After unleashing his full power just now, cracks appeared on his body, as if he was about to explode.
When the void shattered, the terrifying pressure vanished in an instant. Long Chen looked behind him, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth—he had finally succeeded.
"We did it!"
Bai Xiaole cheered loudly, while Luo Bing, Luo Xue, and the others shouted excitedly. After so many years, someone had finally reached the summit of the Sharpening Stone Staircase here, and Long Chen had not disappointed them.
Upon reaching the peak, there was still a row of stairs ahead, which left Long Chen stunned. More stairs?
After climbing the stairs, Long Chen realized they were just ordinary steps. Walking forward along the steps, a stone house appeared ahead.
On the bare mountaintop stretching hundreds of miles, there was only this solitary, simple stone house, which looked rather strange.
In front of the stone house stood a stone stele, with weapons inserted into it, with only the handles exposed, so it was impossible to tell what kind of weapons they were.
On the stone tablet, a figure sat cross-legged, his back to Long Chen, his back straight like a javelin. His long hair draped over his shoulders, straight as steel wires, his whole body spotless, motionless as a mountain.
He is the current patriarch of the Luo family, the legendary figure Luo Zichuan, who saved the Luo family from fire and water and achieved supreme dominance.
Seeing Luo Zichuan's retreating figure, Long Chen's heart couldn't help but race. He didn't release any aura, but the pressure he exerted on Long Chen seemed even greater than that of Enpuda.
She didn't know if it was because Long Chen was her grandfather that Long Chen felt this nervous mood, because only from Luo Zichuan could he learn his mother's whereabouts.
"You shouldn't have come!"
Luo Zichuan spoke, his voice calm and cold, without any air of superiority, yet it gave off an air of daring disobedience, as if his words were divine decrees that could only be obeyed.
"Why?" Long Chen took a deep breath, trying to keep his voice calm.
Luo Zichuan slowly turned around, and Long Chen finally saw the face of the Luo clan leader. He looked to be only in his forties, with sword-like brows and starry eyes, exceptionally handsome. Of all the handsome people Long Chen had ever seen, it was Young Master Changchuan, but Luo Zichuan was no less handsome than him.
Most unforgettable, he had a pair of purple eyes, like purple gemstones, radiating a profound divine light, with stars seemingly swirling in his pupils.
When those eyes looked at Long Chen, he shuddered all over. He felt as if all his secrets had been exposed before these eyes. His eyes could pierce through hearts and souls. Long Chen felt a chill run through his body, as if stripped naked and standing in a world of ice and snow. The chill was so intense it chilled him from head to toe.
Luo Zichuan looked at Long Chen, his eyes filled with chilling murderous intent, and said, "Because I will kill you. The Luo family's bloodline must never be defiled by outsiders." "