Before him stood a short, stout cultivator of the White Human Race, dressed in blue robes, with carefully trimmed snow-white hair and beard and fair skin. He smiled at Li Xiaoya, radiating such an astonishing aura that even after Li Xiaoya's tremendous increase in cultivation, he felt an invisible pressure. This was clearly an extraordinary Mighty One Stage cultivator. Recognizing him, Li Xiaoya hastily changed what he was about to say. "Greetings, Patriarch, Ancestor of Snow Domain!"
Indeed!
The man before him was none other than Ancestor of Snow Domain!
"Excellent! Excellent! Junior Brother Li, you truly deserve to be called a peerless genius seen only once in a billion years. To think you actually obtained the Twin-Pole Netherflower! I'm truly envious!" Ancestor of Snow Domain looked Li Xiaoya up and down, his expression full of envy as he praised him repeatedly.
"You flatter me, Patriarch. This disciple was merely lucky!" Li Xiaoya was rather surprised. Despite being a Mighty One Stage cultivator, Ancestor of Snow Domain addressed him as a peer. Stranger still, he kept calling him junior brother. No wonder the voice had sounded familiar, yet he had been unable to place it... Though these thoughts ran through his mind, he betrayed nothing, answering with humility and respect.
"There's no need to be so modest, Junior Brother Li! Reaching the Eighteenth Layer of the Hell Tower single-handedly is enough to leave your senior brother awestruck!" Ancestor of Snow Domain continued to shower him with praise...
Indeed!
The Hell Tower held its selection once every ten thousand years. Since its construction, never mind reaching the eighteenth layer-only one person had ever reached even the sixteenth. Ancestor of Snow Domain had participated himself back then, so naturally he knew how difficult it was. His divine abilities at the time had