It was not that he could no longer climb higher, but that He Pingsheng clearly felt an enormous resistance.
The astral winds overhead turned into a storm and descended.
This sensation was very much like the Standard Heavenly Gate Formation.
It was even more like the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder he had climbed during the Stone Terrace Gathering.
"Whew..." He Pingsheng drew a deep breath and continued flying upward.
At this point, it was already impossible to use a Divine Ability like Spirit Roaming Taixu.
Braving the fierce astral winds, He Pingsheng flew another thousand li or so upward, seeing one person after another struggling against the chaos energy here, just as he was.
Among them were Great All-Encompassing Golden Immortals, as well as Supreme Unity Golden Immortals!
Of course, they could not possibly climb onto even the lowest heaven. They came partly out of curiosity, and partly in the hope of encountering a miracle.
Others had the same idea as He Pingsheng: they had come to break through their bottlenecks.
"Greetings, fellow Daoist..." An Immortal at the eleventh layer of Supreme Unity Golden Immortal hovered in the void, greeting He Pingsheng with some difficulty. "Fellow Daoist... you truly are formidable... you seem to be managing quite easily?"
He Pingsheng also hovered beside him, feigning a face full of pain. "It is not easy for me either. I have already used all my strength. I fear I cannot go any higher!"
"The Ninefold Heavens truly are a wondrous place!"
"I wonder whether enduring the astral winds here over long years would let one break through a bottleneck?"
The man said, "I don't know... someone has broken through here before, anyway. Whether it was thanks to the astral winds or simply happened to be time for a breakthrough, no one knows!"