The Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge released the defensive restriction. Runes surged across the cavern wall, and a passage opened through the rock with a rumbling clatter. The two rushed out...
They emerged onto an almost sheer cliff face. Looking up, they saw what resembled a pitted, rocky cavern ceiling...
No! That was no cavern ceiling.
Several thousand zhang above their heads hung the incomparably massive Giant Mountain.
Viewed from below, Giant Mountain blocked everything, leaving not even a glimpse of sky...
Their cavern was actually inside the immense pit beneath Giant Mountain, where the Heavenly Secret Hall stood. The pit was so deep that its bottom was nowhere in sight, and they could not even make out the opposite side, because the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy here was so dense, constantly gushing upward.
This Heaven and Earth spiritual energy alone would drive countless cultivators mad with desire. Cultivating here would yield a truly astonishing rate of progress.
But they had not hidden here to cultivate. They were avoiding the Heavenly Secret Soldiers and looking for an opportunity to break through the celestial stairway and reach Giant Mountain to hunt for treasure.
Around the immense Giant Mountain was a broad silver stairway. Its steps looked smooth as mirrors, a full several dozen zhang wide, extending all the way up to Giant Mountain, which was suspended in the air.
From afar, Giant Mountain hovered above the surrounding peaks, astonishing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy churning around it. Only that broad silver stairway led up to the floating mountain.
A flight prohibition restriction was already in effect here. Even Golden Core Stage cultivators like them could not use Flying Escape. To reach the Heavenly Secret Hall, they had to ascend the silver stairway...
Along the edges of Giant