After the group stepped onto the golden stairs, they too came to understand Meng Zhao and Gan Mingfeng's earlier strange experience. They walked for quite a long time, yet they still seemed to be a considerable distance from the Town Evil Golden Hall, as though they had not drawn any closer at all. Doubts arose, and they wondered whether they had overlooked something.
Third Young Master Bai directly explained the information he knew to them.
"This Suspended Golden Steps has another name: the Soul Locking Ladder. As the name implies, it locks the soul. Your senses and perception will be clearly affected upon these stairs. What you see may not be real.
"You think the distance between us and that golden hall has not shortened at all, but so long as we have not reached its gates, what difference is there between being ten meters away and a hundred meters away? As long as we continue walking patiently, we will certainly enter the Town Evil Golden Hall."
Of course, Third Young Master Bai did not reveal all its secrets. This Soul Locking Ladder was naturally not merely a passageway. If one could not see through its hidden workings, grew flustered midway, or tried to turn back, it would trigger the power upon the Soul Locking Ladder and imprison one's mental will. It was an attack directed at the mind.
Meanwhile, Meng Zhao and Gan Mingfeng had a smooth journey all the way. After persevering for some time, they finally reached the end of the Suspended Golden Steps, having also witnessed many profound and wondrous sights along the way.
Previously, as they walked upon the Suspended Golden Steps, their surroundings had been nothing more than sheer cliffs, abyssal depths, and white mist on either side. As they ventured deeper, the thick