Qin Heng stepped onto the final stretch of the Heavenly Stairway and entered the Ninth Heavens Heavenly Palace.
Back when the Ancient Creation God created these nine planes, it was to give later generations an opportunity to comprehend the Dao.
The first six levels had been prepared for those in the Transcendent Realm and Star Lord realm. The stairways leading upward from each level carried immense pressure; those lacking sufficient strength could not pass.
Now, the formations here lay in ruins and the force fields had collapsed. It had become nine ordinary layers of space, with opportunities so scarce they were nearly nonexistent. The environment might even have been worse than the outside world.
Upon arriving at the Ninth Heavens Heavenly Palace, the first thing Qin Heng sensed was intense energy fluctuations.
But they were not the gentle energy of the universe's natural environment. They were the residual shockwaves spilling from powerful beings amid a great battle.
The battle was still ongoing.
Qin Heng's divine sense immediately detected the location of those fighting.
The ninth level was fairly vast, spanning three to four million kilometers. The entrance was located at its center.
Ahead of the end of the Heavenly Stairway lay a rift in heaven and earth blasted open by force, reducing the immortal palace towers, once dominated by a white jade aesthetic, to rubble.
... Though they had already been ruins to begin with, they were even more shattered now.
The two combatants had moved roughly two hundred thousand kilometers ahead and were still fighting without pause.
Qin Heng's divine sense swept over them and found that both possessed Star Lord Ninth Order strength. One was a human Upper God from the Old Universe, while the other was an Earth Qilin.
The Earth Qilin was somewhat stronger. The human