"Greetings, everyone!"
Gu Yingzhi looked at the figures on the surrounding mountains, cupped his hands in salute, then turned into a phantom and headed toward the top of the staircase.
"The Wuxiang Ghost Shadow Steps are one of the Wuxiang Demonic Palace's twelve core inheritances of the Twelfth Order. It was also the first technique Gu Yingzhi cultivated to its peak," Yu Fangqiu explained from the side.
"Form scatters, spirit does not; shadows dance, heart observes itself. Treading the Void like drifting willow floss, a thousand forms return to one remnant."
Xing Shengjie murmured a line beside them, then continued:
"Rumor has it that this is the general outline of the Wuxiang Ghost Shadow Steps. Once this technique is cultivated to its peak, black spots will grow beneath one's feet, gradually cracking like Ghost Claws. It will cause the demonic energy within an Origin Cultivator to surge greatly, requiring them to devour cultivators to suppress the backlash."
"Devour cultivators?" Chen Fei's brow shifted slightly.
"That was in the past. Ever since we formed an alliance with the Origin Cultivators, the disciples of the Wuxiang Demonic Palace naturally could no longer do such things. I heard they have already adopted other methods to suppress the demonic energy within their bodies," Yu Fangqiu said quietly.
Chen Fei nodded and watched Gu Yingzhi ascend toward the summit.
Over the first half of the staircase, Gu Yingzhi crossed it in the blink of an eye. Although formation patterns flickered across the Wuxiang Staircase, they failed to slow him in the slightest.
But once he passed the halfway point, ripples spread over the Wuxiang Staircase. The power contained within abruptly surged, and Gu Yingzhi's body, which had been transformed into a phantom, instantly revealed itself.
"For disciples of the Wuxiang Demonic Palace, this staircase is