Four Swords Return, Dao Palace Opens!

In mere moments, he arrived before the mist.

Upon entering it, his vision brightened, and the view suddenly opened up.

Three li away, upon a massive floating island, a sword peak tens of thousands of zhang high pierced straight into the clouds.

Palaces stretched across the mountain, with a Dao palace standing at its highest point.

Along the sheer cliffs, a narrow path wound and spiraled all the way to the summit.

This was also the center of the heavenly Star Dou Great Formation.

Four sword phantoms, each several hundred zhang long, hovered around the mountain peak as though guarding the entire mountain range.

Gu Yuanqing could sense that if he flew directly up the mountain and barged into the Sword Formation, he would face the shredding assault of a Sword Formation formed from the power of the entire Grotto-Heaven.

Gu Yuanqing's gaze fell upon the path, and he was slightly surprised.

Two people were actually climbing upward, one before the other, separated by roughly a dozen li. They moved quickly at times and slowly at others, occasionally pausing in place for a while before continuing upward.

Clearly, this mountain was likewise filled with countless trials. Moreover, the entire peak was shrouded by a formation, and amid the curling clouds and mist, even Gu Yuanqing's Void Piercing Heavenly Eye could not clearly make out the two people's faces.

"Looks like I was still one step too late!"

Gu Yuanqing was not too surprised. Although he had increased his speed afterward, he had still wasted quite some time within the Demon Subduing Sword Domain, allowing the others to seize a sliver of initiative.

However, he was no longer in a hurry. By now, he had learned the information regarding this Grotto-Heaven from the Demon Subduing Sword Tablet. To enter Qingping Dao