This was not the first time Qin Fengming had encountered or sensed this strange aura.
And the reason he still had to ascend this Sky-Reaching Pillar despite his status as a Divine Connection cultivator was precisely because of this exceptionally bizarre and terrifying aura, which could imprison the magic power and soul within a cultivator's body.
He had no use for this aura, but the scroll of the Wordless Heavenly Scripture on him was interested in it.
When Qin Fengming had faced the Immortal World Stele back then, he had experienced a state in which all the magic power and consciousness in his body had vanished, and his soul energy had become difficult to drive.
That aura had merely been extremely powerful at the time, with transparent threads invisible to the naked eye moving within it. Those threads seemed capable of invading a cultivator's body and imprisoning his consciousness.
But now, he saw no transparent threads, and his consciousness did not feel overly threatened. However, that bizarre aura still greatly weakened the magic power and soul energy within a cultivator's body.
After sensing this, Qin Fengming felt no fear. Instead, joy surged in his heart.
Earlier, when he had seen that towering Sky-Reaching Pillar, he had sensed a trace of the strange aura that could only be produced by those peculiar immortal-world runes.
Now that he had entered the Sky-Reaching Pillar, he was even more certain that this aura truly existed here.
Without further hesitation, he swayed his body and went straight toward the stone wall of the towering mountain.
The stone wall was precipitous. To ascend the mountain, there was no other way than to follow the indistinct, enormous patterns and rely on the protruding, irregular chunks of rock whose arrangement showed no discernible pattern.
Having reached the foot