Sikong Jing could hear the various voices behind him. He already knew that a token was required to ascend.
He also knew that at his current realm, he definitely would not be able to finish climbing the Imperial Hall Stairway.
But Sikong Jing muttered again...
"Every formation has a flaw. Every formation has a key that can unravel it."
"If the tokens claimed by others are the keys, then I'll forge my own key upon these stairs."
If anyone could hear Sikong Jing's words, they would surely laugh at him loudly. He was simply indulging in a wild fantasy.
He actually wished to forge a stairway token while standing on the stairway itself.
But for Sikong Jing, it was not impossible.
Put plainly, the Imperial Hall Stairway was a terrifyingly powerful formation. At the core of that formation was the Heaven-Soaring Emperor's power. Sikong Jing possessed the Heaven-Soaring Emperor's essence blood, as well as the methods of all kinds of ferocious beasts.
As long as he comprehended the various powers within the stairway formation, as long as his Heaven-Soaring Imperial Bloodline could rise above the stairway itself...
Then he could pierce through every obstruction of the stairway and see straight into the essence of the formation.
Having made his decision, Sikong Jing stood on the first step and carefully sensed the Heaven-Soaring killing intent crashing down upon him.
The Heaven-Soaring Nine Swords immediately appeared in his mind. An intense aura of the Heaven-Soaring Imperial Bloodline faintly seeped from his body as Sikong Jing muttered, "I'll use the creation of the Heaven-Soaring Tenth Sword as an opportunity to crack this stairway formation."
The Heaven-Soaring Tenth Sword had still not been fully created.
The sword strike the Nine Heavens Emperor had unleashed amid the bizarre energies of the void was indeed terrifying.