On the stairs leading to the Demon Flame Ruin World, Ning Xiaochuan also encountered some Inner Disciples of Heavenly Emperor Mountain. Every one of them possessed formidable cultivation; they were either rushing to cultivate in the secret realms or emerging from them after cultivation.
However, they were all quite old, most of them cultivators over a hundred years of age!
These Inner Disciples had profound cultivation. Using it to lock in their blood qi, they could delay aging. Even after cultivating for more than a hundred years, they still looked remarkably young, like men in their twenties—spirited and heroic, spiritual radiance wreathing their bodies, fully displaying the bearing of Holy Land Successors.
By Ning Xiaochuan's estimation, after descending more than eight hundred meters underground, the space before him suddenly opened up, revealing an Underground Palace thirty meters high.
The Underground Palace was enormous, with dragon-carved stone pillars three meters thick standing throughout it, creating an incomparably magnificent sight.
Directly in front of the Underground Palace, three doors of light had been opened.
Each door of light was only two meters tall, wide enough for just one person to pass through. Like three layers of water curtains embedded in the wall, they occasionally rippled in circles.
A line of words was carved into the stone wall beside each of the three doors of light:
Spirit Connection Ruin World! Demon Flame Ruin World! Water Domain Ruin World! The three doors of light led respectively to three different cultivation secret realms.
Two elderly men guarded the Underground Palace.
They wore Daoist robes, their hair streaked with gray, their eyes bright and keen. They were cultivating some profound Daoist art, and they possessed something of an immortal air and the bearing of one who had shed mortal bones. Although both were official Inner Disciples