The Stone People at the Immortal of the Firmament level posed no threat to Ling Tian and the others. A single Soul Attack from any of them could scatter the Stone People's consciousness. After that, they headed toward the center of the realm at top speed. After all, they knew that the passage to the next Heaven lay at the very center of each one.
This time, Ling Tian's group had brought three God-level Stone People, each with fused eight-attribute powers and several unusual energy laws. They were fast, and riding them saved the group a great deal of time.
After nearly ten years, Ling Tian and the others reached the center of the First Heaven. There, they discovered a result that left them somewhat frustrated: to enter the Second Heaven, they needed the corresponding soul crystals, and they also had to kill the Stone Person guarding the passage.
If soul crystals were needed to enter the Second Heaven from the First, then they would be needed to enter the other Heavens as well. That meant Ling Tian's group would need a great many soul crystals to reach the Ninth Heaven, and obtaining them would take considerable time. For example, gathering the crystals needed to enter the Ninth Heaven from the Eighth would take them several hundred years. After all, killing God-level Stone People with eight or nine fused attributes would take them a long time.
"Lin'er and the others said they left behind some passages when they entered the Second Heaven, but those passages have all disappeared. It seems the Lord of the Universe won't let us reach the Ninth Heaven so easily, either," Tan Tai Chang Feng muttered, sounding rather helpless.
That was right. Ling Yu and the others had once traveled from the First Heaven all the