Ninth Heavenly Stair, Terrifying Sacred Flame Body Tempering

At the eighth heavenly stair, Lu Yuan stood tall.

His black hair fell over his shoulders, and he wore the brilliant golden Golden Dragon Armor.

After two months of tempering by Angel's Sacred Light, not only had Lu Yuan's physique improved, but even External Soul Bones like the Golden Dragon Armor had benefited greatly.

When he had first obtained the soul ring from the Titan Giant Ape's sacrifice, the Golden Dragon Armor had weighed only twenty thousand jin. But after more than a year of growth, coupled with the tempering of Angel's Sacred Light, it now weighed twenty-five thousand jin.

Twenty-five thousand jin was an utterly terrifying weight. Let alone anything else, simply placing it on someone else could crush an ordinary Soul King to death.

Even an ordinary Soul Emperor would suffer severe injuries if pinned beneath such force.

Only someone with monstrous strength like Lu Yuan could move freely while wearing such heavy Golden Dragon Armor.

"Is Xiao Yuan going up to the ninth heavenly stair?" Sensing Lu Yuan's movements, Qian Renxue, who had been cultivating on the seventh heavenly stair, could not help opening her eyes. A sharp gleam flashed in her golden, water-like eyes.

Her progress had already been rapid, yet she still found it difficult to even see Lu Yuan's back. This guy was improving far too quickly.

She had only just reached the seventh heavenly stair not long ago, yet Lu Yuan was already about to ascend to the ninth.

One had to know that although going from the fifth heavenly stair to the seventh heavenly stair also meant crossing two levels, just like going from the seventh to the ninth, the difficulty was entirely different.

The combined difficulty of those two levels was not even comparable to going from the seventh to the