After using the ancient teleportation array on the fourth floor to return to the first floor of the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda, Wei Tu finally followed the Flame Spirit King's soul fragment's instructions and opened the door to the dark chamber before him with a hand seal.
Very soon, a sight utterly different from the first-floor "corridor" appeared before him.
This place was an endless expanse of Bone Wasteland Mountains, with no boundary in sight. Grayish-green miasma filled the surroundings, blocking cultivators' attempts at investigation, growing denser the farther it stretched.
Moreover, this miasma constantly corroded a cultivator's spiritual power and physical body. Though the process was slow, it was difficult to completely ward off or dispel.
"This is..." Wei Tu frowned inwardly. After raising a hand to form a seal and reinforce his spiritual-power barrier, he swept his divine sense toward the "dark chamber" behind him.
The dark chamber containing the "ancient teleportation array" was still there, concealed within a black stone wall of material similar to the first floor's "corridor."
Yet the overall outline of that black stone wall resembled a towering burial mound, with only a circular arched gate serving as an entrance to and exit from the Bone Wasteland Mountains.
Inside the gate stood the enormous Buddha statue familiar to Wei Tu, holding a Seven-Colored Glazed Pagoda, along with an empty offering table placed before the statue.
"As you can see, this is the fourth floor of the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda. Pass through these Bone Wasteland Mountains, and you can reach the fifth floor of the Sun-Treasure Divine Pagoda... This old man is trapped somewhere within these Bone Wasteland Mountains and has yet to completely leave this place..."
"This time, calling Fellow Daoist Lin here is precisely to ask you to lend me a hand. I wonder