"Human Realm..."
Mystic Ice Fairy softly murmured those three words. Even she had been deeply moved, feeling an unprecedented fighting spirit at this moment!
She raised her foot.
And stepped toward the five-thousandth layer.
The Ice God Palace's never-shared sect-protecting cultivation art surged to its utmost limit at this moment. Icy-blue immortal light poured from her body, transforming into a blooming ice lotus that enveloped her entirely.
The pressure of the five-thousandth layer crashed down like mountains roaring and seas howling. That ice lotus trembled violently, and fine cracks even appeared across its petals.
Yet in the end, it did not shatter!
Mystic Ice Fairy stood firmly upon the steps of the five-thousandth layer.
She raised her head and looked toward the more than eighty figures above her on the Heavenly Ladder. A ripple stirred within those cool, detached eyes.
Then she started walking upward.
On the viewing platform.
When Ji Tianji also successfully stepped onto the five-thousandth layer, Old Man Tianji abruptly rose from his seat, tears streaming down his aged face.
"Tianji... he... he made it across!"
In truth, before the grand competition began, he had calculated Ji Tianji's future. Five thousand layers were extremely dangerous; Ji Tianji should not have taken that step.
For the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's inheritors had always sought good fortune and avoided calamity, never forcing a head-on clash.
But today, Ji Tianji had not avoided it!
Through sheer force of will, he had crossed this impassable heavenly chasm that he normally could not have overcome!
What did that mean?
It meant that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's path had been broadened at this moment!
It meant that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's future now held limitless possibilities!
This breakthrough was far more precious than reaching the five-thousandth layer itself!
It was not only Old