The Heaven-Connecting woman grabbed Chu Qing by the arm and stepped onto the Heaven-Connecting Path.
Tap!
Chu Qing stepped onto the first stair.
In an instant, he felt a subtle change come over him.
Especially the Heaven-Connecting Path within his body—it trembled faintly.
Then he stepped onto the second stair, the third... the fourth...
Step! Step! Step!
After stepping across several hundred stairs in succession, Chu Qing still could not see the end of the Heaven-Connecting Path.
"Heaven-Connecting, where are your methods?"
The Heaven-Connecting woman chuckled, her eyes bright. "Turn around, and you'll see."
Chu Qing instinctively turned around.
Then he discovered in astonishment that the stairs he had just crossed were gone.
The distant land was covered in lava.
"Uh..."
Tap!
The Heaven-Connecting woman stepped onto the next stair.
This time, Chu Qing did not turn around. Instead, he backed onto the next stair.
The moment he stepped onto it, the stair below suddenly fell away from the Heaven-Connecting Path.
Then, in the next second, the stair actually stretched itself like a person.
Then it began to grow larger.
In the blink of an eye, an ordinary stair of the Heaven-Connecting Path had turned into a ribbon of light hundreds of thousands of meters long and thousands of meters wide.
The ribbon of light slithered onward. Wherever it passed, the earth split apart, and endless Sword Qi poured down into the ground.
Then:
The earth cracked open, spilling even more lava.
Gulp!
Chu Qing swallowed.
He looked at the endless stairs beneath his feet, then at the lava-covered land everywhere around him.
He felt that this continent was finished.
"You're so powerful, so how did you end up sealed?"
"Any random stair of yours could rip the seal apart, couldn't it?"
The Heaven-Connecting woman sighed. "After I died, that