Ye Tian raised his head slightly, his gaze sweeping past the forty remaining steps of the ancient bluestone path beneath his feet.
He looked higher, where the clouds grew denser, immortal light blazed, and the pressure was so immense that space itself kept twisting and collapsing.
That was a realm even the Academy's ancient books described only vaguely.
A realm that existed only in forbidden legends passed from mouth to mouth.
He moved again.
As before, he simply lifted his foot and set it down.
But this time, the instant his foot landed, the entire Heavenly Ascension Ladder stirred.
From the sixtieth step upward, the billions of immortal patterns etched into every ancient bluestone step surged.
As though life had been breathed into them all at once, they erupted with unprecedented brilliance!
"Hummm!!!"
It was no longer merely runes lighting up. The entire ladder was resonating.
Trembling, cheering!
Boundless power of laws surged forth like a star river bursting its banks!
As Ye Tian took a step, his figure instead grew hazy, as though merging into that boiling ocean of chaotic light.
His steps seemed slow, yet each one appeared to land upon a nexus of the Great Dao.
Crossing immeasurable distances through space!
Sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three...!
His figure flickered in and out of sight amid the boiling chaotic immortal light, while the steps beneath his feet swept backward at a dizzying speed!
In the plaza below, everyone held their breath. Their hearts nearly stopped, their eyes widened like bronze bells, and they stared fixedly at the figure advancing steadily through the ocean of chaotic light.
"He's going to do it again..."
"Ten steps in a single stride?!
He can still cross ten steps at once beyond the sixtieth?!"
"Is the pressure on this Heavenly Ascension Ladder fake? Why does