Five-Elements Pillar Divine Power, Aman's Transformation

Celestial Ladder, one thousandth step.

When Yue Yang and the Southern Border Demon King reached the thousandth step, they discovered that Aman was fighting.

Her enemy was a Golden Earth Bear King ten meters tall. What utterly astonished Yue Yang was that this Golden Earth Bear King's strength far surpassed the level a thousandth-step consciousness shadow should possess. Through Yue Yang's Heavenly Keen Eye, the power stored within the Golden Earth Bear King was at least Level Five of the Heaven Rank. Compared with the Temple Elder, Yue Yang even had the illusion that this Golden Earth Bear King was stronger! Though it lacked intelligence, it was forever Undying, had none of the various weaknesses of Heaven-Rank battle beasts, and felt neither pain nor fear. If it fought with all its strength in a battle to the death, even the Temple Elder Yue Yang had tossed to Tian Zhu and the others for training might not have been its match!

If it were a consciousness shadow trial from above the ten-thousandth step, that would make more sense. Why had such a powerful consciousness shadow appeared here at the thousandth step?

If the guardian of the thousandth step was the Golden Earth Bear King, how had Yue Bing, Yue Yu, Yi Nan, and Wuhen passed?

Yue Yang found it strange.

He and the Southern Border Demon King drifted down onto the battlefield. Before they had time to ask Yue Bing and the others what had happened, earthen men with merely Innate-level strength burrowed out from the ground and charged at them on a fierce wind. Against earthen men below Innate Level Three, Yue Yang and the Southern Border Demon King could kill them with a wave of a hand.

"So the earthen men are the consciousness shadows for this thousand-step trial.