After Su Mo stepped onto the seventeenth stair, the space shifted once more, and he arrived in a world of green.
This world brimmed with vigorous life. The ground was covered in luxuriant vegetation, towering ancient trees standing like heavenly divine trees, while weeds and vines twisted together like giant pythons coiling and slithering.
Pure Wood Attribute spiritual energy filled this space.
Whoosh!
From atop a towering ancient tree, a figure shot into the sky and strode through the void toward Su Mo.
This was also a young man, dressed in green, tall and lean.
Yet his expression was gentle, and a faint smile seemed to linger on his face.
"You have made it here, so it seems you are quite an extraordinary genius as well!" the young man in green said loudly with a smile as he looked at Su Mo.
"I will ascend the Emperor Seat!" Su Mo said blandly after sizing up the young man in green.
This man had the same cultivation as him, a True Profound Realm Ninth Layer martial artist.
"Everyone who reaches this place is brimming with confidence, but among ten thousand, scarcely one succeeds!" The young man shook his head.
"What trials come next?" Seeing that the other party was rather talkative, Su Mo asked curiously.
The young man in green smiled at his words. "The final six stages are the hardest trials. As for the rest, as long as you have sufficient strength, you can pass them!"
Su Mo nodded. Strength? Among those of the same realm, he had the confidence to be invincible under heaven.
"Will the following trials all be battles against opponents of the same realm?" Su Mo did not rush to attack and asked again.
"Correct. The next nine stages will still be battles against opponents of