Li Qingyuan and Miao Le nodded. "Yes, senior sister!"
As their words fell, Li Qingyuan and Miao Le climbed the steps, passing the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy and swiftly ascending beyond the six-thousandth step.
Their figures, shoulder to shoulder, soon vanished high above the immortals' field of vision.
Yellow Dragon Daoist, the Ten Ultimate Immortal, and Purple Cloud Fairy also broke free of their shackles and climbed to the six-thousandth step.
Yellow Dragon Daoist murmured in disbelief, "Your junior brother and junior sister are actually so... so astounding."
"With over eight million years of bitter cultivation, my Heavenly Immortal Peak Stage cultivation, and the inheritance left by the Golden Immortal Patriarch of the Yellow Court Monastery as my teaching, few beneath Golden Immortal can match my attainments in the Great Dao of Wood."
"Before these two Heaven's Chosen, I can only admit my inferiority."
Eight million years of bitter cultivation had lost to a few hundred thousand years.
Yellow Dragon Daoist's Dao heart wavered.
The Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy smiled faintly. "You are no slouch, fellow Daoist. You have a chance of becoming a Golden Immortal."
"Although your chances of success are under twenty percent, at the Heavenly Immortal Peak Stage, you are already outstanding among your peers."
With that, the Ten Ultimate Immortal and Purple Cloud Fairy quickened their pace and overtook Yellow Dragon Daoist.
The corner of Yellow Dragon Daoist's mouth twitched. "..."
Yes, I am no slouch, but you are stronger!
Six thousand steps, seven thousand, eight thousand, nine thousand...
The higher the steps, the closer the Great Dao of Wood came to its origin, and the difficulty of ascending grew into a chasm as vast as heaven.
Three thousand steps were a hurdle, five thousand a barrier, and eight thousand