Heaven-Ascending Steps, Following the Ancient Road, Seeking Immortal Traces, Gaining Eternal Life!

Once heaven and earth connected in this way, the space within that region instead became relatively stable.

The terrifying energy shockwaves from before no longer appeared. Meanwhile, messages came in from the other major provinces.

The phenomena occurring throughout the land had all dissipated, the various natural disasters had subsided, and spiritual energy was no longer running rampant.

Even Yuanzhou, aside from the central region before them, had returned to normal.

Upon learning this, everyone temporarily breathed a sigh of relief.

No matter what, this was good news.

The Nine Provinces had temporarily returned to normal, and the turmoil had been contained. They no longer needed to be in such a rush.

"Then the crucial link truly lies here," King Yun said, gazing at the spectacular sight of heaven and earth connecting.

Even from thirty miles away, they could still see the enormous vortex of airflow descending from the sky.

In order to determine what was happening, they chose to continue approaching.

Suddenly, a thin golden light flickered within the connected cyclone. It shot upward from the chaos below, straight into the center of the dark vortex in the heavens.

"That is?!" King Feng Bei Xiaoyin's gaze suddenly sharpened.

She could clearly see that the golden light wrapped in airflow was actually a gleaming golden staircase.

The end of the staircase could not be seen. It was not constructed from any physical material, but formed from some kind of high-level energy.

"This is... the Heavenly Staircase!" King Yun suddenly perked up.

"Neither gold nor not gold, suffused with immortal essence—a Divine Steps connecting heaven and earth!"

Seeing everyone look over, King Yun did not keep anything back and recounted what he knew.

Similar descriptions had appeared in certain ancient texts and secret collections passed down from antiquity.

"A staircase connecting