Chapter 1608 The road to heaven!
He clenched his fists instinctively, already in a state of high alert.
But he soon noticed the most discordant element in this hell.
A staircase was suspended directly in front of him.
The steps looked plain and unadorned, standing out starkly from the harsh surroundings.
It begins at a height of about one person above the ground and extends straight upwards.
Ye Chuyun looked up and gazed up the steps.
This glance sent a tremendous shock through him.
High in the sky, Ye Chuyun could vaguely see a completely different world through layers of distorted dark clouds.
There, auspicious clouds floated, cranes soared, palaces and pavilions appeared and disappeared, a misty purple aura filled the sky and earth, and brilliant sunset rays spread like brocade...
The innate spiritual energy is so refreshing that even from such a distance, one can faintly sense a trace of it.
At this moment, Ye Chuyun finally understood... that was the true holy land, a fairyland containing unparalleled opportunities.
The hellish place he inhabited stood in stark contrast to the celestial paradise above.
One is in a muddy abyss, the other is in the highest heavens.
Welcome to the Path to Heaven.
This is the final trial area.
[Rules: Climb the ladder to heaven by relying on your own opportunities.]
Those with sufficient fortune can ascend the heavenly ladder, reach the other shore, enter the true core of the holy land, and obtain exclusive, supreme opportunities.
Those who lack the necessary opportunities will remain here forever, or be eliminated.
[The trial begins now!]
The rules were concise, yet they made Ye Chuyun instantly understand her situation.
"...Wasn't the final trial just now?" Ye Chuyun couldn't help but complain.
"Another ultimate trial? Have they always been this troublesome before?"
"Why is it like an old lady's foot binding cloth, getting longer and longer?"
Ye Chuyun muttered to herself as her gaze returned to the suspended white staircase.
There are only ten steps on this staircase...
From where he stood, he needed to leap slightly to reach the first step.
Above the tenth step lies nothingness, a void separated from the sacred land high in the heavens by countless miles.
How can one possibly reach the top of a mere ten steps?
"What is opportunity?" Ye Chuyun frowned in deep thought.
"Is it the points I gained in the previous trials? Or the treasures I acquired? Or perhaps my own luck and potential?"
He carefully observed the ten steps, scanning them with his divine sense but found nothing.
The stairs were just stairs; apart from exuding a pure aura, they had nothing special about them and offered no clues.
"Do I have to go up there to understand?"
After thinking for a moment, Ye Chuyun decided to give it a try.
He immediately suppressed his vigilance towards his surroundings and lightly leaped, landing steadily on the first step.
There was nothing unusual the moment the foot landed.
The stairs were stable and did not collapse suddenly.
Ye Chuyun breathed a sigh of relief, nodded to herself, and then walked up step by step.
The second level, the third level... each step was spaced three seconds apart.
His steps were steady, and he remained vigilant at all times.
Soon Ye Chuyun stepped onto the tenth step, which was the last step that could be seen at the moment.
Standing on the tenth step, Ye Chuyun looked up at the unreachable fairyland, then looked down at her feet.
The situation remained unchanged; the stairs ended there, and he felt as if he were trapped in mid-air, a dozen meters above the ground.
"What exactly does 'opportunity' mean?" Ye Chuyun pondered.
"If the opportunity isn't right, does that mean we have to stop here?"
He was not reconciled.
Having gone through countless hardships to obtain the key to the Holy Land and being the first to arrive here, is this where we're going to get stuck?
He tried sitting cross-legged on the tenth step, but his spiritual senses still yielded nothing.
He then tried to extend his divine sense upwards into the void, but immediately encountered an invisible barrier that he could not penetrate.
As time passed, Ye Chuyun's heart sank.
Is his fortune only enough to reach the tenth level?
Just when he was about to give up, a subconscious action gave him a glimmer of hope.
Ye Chuyun stood up, and with a hint of probing, raised her foot towards the void above the tenth step, making a stepping motion upwards.
Just as his foot was about to step into the void, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly, a ripple spread across the empty space beneath their feet.
Immediately afterwards, a brand new step seemed to rise from the water, silently taking shape and appearing precisely where his foot was about to land.
Eleventh step!
Ye Chuyun's feet landed firmly on the newly appeared eleventh step!
"So that's how it is!!" Ye Chuyun's eyes instantly lit up with excitement.
“I understand now. These steps are not fixed, but will continue to extend as climbers take their steps.”
"As long as you dare to take that step and have the right opportunity, the ladder will appear for you!"
Having figured out the key point, Ye Chuyun no longer hesitated.
He once again lifted his foot and stepped into the void above the eleventh step.
Sure enough, as he moved, the twelfth step appeared.
He walked upwards step by step, with unwavering determination.
The steps beneath his feet stretched out as he took each step, solidifying into shape once he had landed firmly.
Ye Chuyun was like a solitary pioneer, forging a path to the heavens with her own footsteps in this void between hell and paradise.
He stopped counting how many steps he had climbed and just kept climbing upwards with determination.
He forgot about the hellish scene around him; his eyes were only on the increasingly clear celestial light and shadow above and the ever-expanding path to heaven beneath his feet.
After an unknown amount of time, just as Ye Chuyun was immersed in the climb, several faint lights appeared on the ground below him.
As the light faded, six disheveled figures staggered onto the scorched earth.
It was the trio—Ghost Blade, Crimson Snow, and Yama, along with the one-horned youth Zi Sha, the mysterious cloaked man Xuan Feng, and another trial participant who had survived by special means.
They were immediately stunned by the harsh environment around them upon their arrival, and all showed expressions of horror.
But then, just like Ye Chuyun, they immediately noticed the white staircase floating in the void, and the enchanting holy land in the sky.
The rules reappear.
"It seems we need to constantly rely on our own opportunities to climb the ladder." The eyes behind the Ghost Blade mask flickered, and he immediately understood the current situation.
"Look, that guy has already gone up ahead of us!" Chi Xue's beautiful eyes swept across the area and she immediately saw the figure that had already reached the top. Her tone was complicated.
"Hmph, they just gained the upper hand." Yama sneered.
In their quest to pass that final trial, they nearly exhausted all their resources, each bearing injuries.
