After Luo Chen dealt with the Demon Plane, he took Wang Dong'er, Qian Renxue, and the others through the Soul Spirit Tower once more.
He obtained hundred-thousand-year soul spirits for all of them.
Then came the long process of forging battle armor.
Although everyone's soul power cultivation rose rapidly,
their battle armor remained at the earliest stage.
Wang Dong'er and the others did not even have One-Word Battle Armor.
While Wang Dong'er and the others cultivated and learned to forge battle armor, a major event unfolded ten thousand years earlier, during the Peerless Tang Sect era!
Huo Yuhao, who had inherited the Asura God Trial, had reached his Eighth Trial of Asura: kill Tang San!
Huo Yuhao arrived alone outside Clear Sky Castle, which soared into the clouds.
The Clear Sky Sect lay hidden amid a sea of clouds on the outskirts of the Heaven Dou Empire. Three sides of its main summit, Clear Sky Peak, were sheer cliffs, as though hewn by blades and axes.
They plunged vertically for a thousand zhang, with only one side offering winding stone steps that spiraled upward. The mountain path was steep and treacherous, shrouded in thick white mist all year round.
The clouds and mist formed a natural bewildering formation that blocked ordinary soul masters' Spiritual Detection. Fierce winds howled through the mountains, making it difficult for even ordinary birds to approach the summit.
Atop Clear Sky Peak stood a massive ancient fortress built entirely from hard gray mountain stone.
The entire castle followed the contours of the mountain, blending into the rock. Without any unnecessary ornate carvings, every part of it exuded the weight of ages and a sense of strength.
At its center stood an enormous arched stone gate over ten zhang tall, carved from a single piece of dark