"Let's go."
Hao Tianyang and the Fire Qilin exchanged a glance and decisively chose to retreat from the Dao-Seeking Stairway.
They no longer considered Li Yang a rival. Setting aside the possibility of him reaching the pinnacle of Immortal Emperor that they had just witnessed, crossing the first trial's Yangyuan Body-Burning Path with his physical body alone was enough to prove that he stood on an entirely different level.
One cultivated a top-tier Pure Yang Cultivation Art, while the other was an Ancestor-Blood Rank pure yang being.
Moreover, both came from the Upper Realm.
Yet they had never expected to encounter such a freak.
The Yangyuan Body-Burning Path was never meant to be crossed outright.
Under such terrifyingly dense pure yang immortal energy, even they could not pass without the aid of supreme treasures.
It not only screened out beings that lacked pure yang attributes and cultivators who did not practice Pure Yang Cultivation Arts, but also raised the threshold drastically to further narrow the selection.
"I come from the Upper Realm. I heard that one of our ancestors was indeed a Fire Qilin," Hao Tianyang said to the Fire Qilin.
"That's right. That was my father. He sent me to the Demon Savage Continent, foreseeing that this day would come, and made many preparations for it. Yet we both failed."
Hao Tianyang had already made his peace with it. "As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of evildoers."
As he spoke, he smiled freely and quietly watched the figure that had merged with the sphere of light.
"Those factions in the Upper Realm sect are fighting tooth and nail. Do you think they ever imagined that an outsider would end up obtaining the inheritance?"
"Who knows? Presumably, some faction was also stirring up waves behind this Evil