[That cold snort was all too familiar to you.]
[It was Senior Lin Feng!]
[You had yet to see him, but you had already heard his voice.]
[A single cold snort had shattered that "script" from moments before.]
[You marveled. Senior Lin Feng certainly lived up to his reputation.]
[The "script" arranged just now must have been a Golden Finger ability.]
[Then did that mean... Senior Lin Feng had also used a Golden Finger ability?!]
[Still, at least with Senior Lin Feng intervening, you no longer felt so hopeless.]
[With that thought, you activated the "authority" of [Immortal-Settling Journey].]
[With a thought, you returned to the "Immortal Realm" once more.]
[Had the real Senior Lin Feng intervened just now, or had a Golden Finger ability he left behind activated?]
[There was no answer.]
[You observed for a while, but found no trace of Senior Lin Feng manifesting.]
[And the irresistible force controlled by the "script" did not appear again.]
[You vaguely felt that somewhere beyond your ability to observe, an unimaginable upheaval had occurred...]
["Step—"]
["Step—"]
["Step—"]
[Just as you were about to investigate more closely, a series of footsteps rang out.]
[They seemed to emerge from a higher dimension.]
[They did not sound like anything belonging to this realm.]
[In a haze, an unreal... phantom that stood above everything "stepped" onto that stairway.]
[What kind of stairway was it?]
[You could only see its first half—]
[The stairs were cast from some chaotic material that was neither metal nor jade, their surface flowing with the light and shadows of countless runes.]
[The latter half seemed not to exist at all.]
[You could neither sense it, understand it, nor observe it...]
[Yet even the first half alone brought the [Devil Master]'s [Heaven-Reaching Stairway] to mind.]
(Mentioned in Chapter 61.)