Without a word along the way, the three continued up the stairs. After another ten-odd minutes, with their legs beginning to ache, they finally reached the top of Sky Pillar.
Emerging from the passage, they found a tall triangular platform before them. The moment they stepped onto it, four green flames suddenly flared in several stone braziers at its three corners!
The flames sprang up so suddenly, eerie and mysterious, as though announcing something to the sky-or lighting the way for someone.
Needless to say, this was the most important place in Sky Pillar-the Dragon Altar.
It doesn't look like much, though...
Xia You looked around. Apart from a stone-paved floor and a slightly higher set of steps, there was nothing else. How did this look like an altar?
Standing at the edge and looking down, he saw dense clouds outside the tower. Yet these clouds seemed unusual, too. Given the altitude, such thick clouds should not have existed here. They seemed artificially created, presumably to block the view.
He could only say that the Draconids really had taken protection to the extreme.
Having come this far, they had reached their final destination. It was time for the next step.
Xia You and Zinnia looked at each other at the same time.
After a long silence, Zinnia finally could not resist speaking first. "I've brought you here as promised. Can you tell me your plan now?"
After several days of travel, followed by the cleansing effect of the walk up here, she had become much calmer. She also realized that this man might have been deliberately provoking her earlier.
But it was too late to think of that now.
After all, Xia You had already entered their sacred ground, and the rules had already been broken. Since it was an