"Bang! Bang!" Spiritual light blazed around Old Dragon Head, and his speed increased considerably. He actually climbed four steps in succession, leaving only seven or eight between him and the top. But pressing any farther ahead was far too difficult! His pace abruptly slowed.
Although High Person Qianshan was not slow, after advancing another five or six steps, his pace also began to falter. Even straining with all his might, he could only inch along, unable to move much faster.
The others also began to accelerate, but their bursts of magic power and divine abilities could not compare with those of the two in front. Even the Hehuan Twin Demons, who were closest to the top among them, still had more than twenty steps to climb.
Li Xiaoya was now only two steps behind the Hehuan Twin Demons, but he could not move up another step no matter what he did. The gravity was simply too terrifying. Worse still, he had long since swallowed his last two Compassionate Voyage Illusory Spirit Milk Pills. His magic power was now being consumed at an astonishing rate; the amount needed to take even one step was staggering.
He was also only a few steps from the fallen Ghost Sword Deity. The bones throughout Ghost Sword Deity's body appeared to have healed, but the fall seemed to have gravely depleted his vitality. He still lay on the ground, his eyes vacant, clearly looking as though he had given up.
Although Ghost Sword Deity had not died immediately from that fall, in a place with such terrifying gravity, even escaping his body with his Nascent Soul was impossible. A Spirit Communion Stage cultivator's Nascent Soul was far stronger than that of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, but once it left his body, it would face