Following the staircase, the nine of them headed toward the thirty-third floor.
Lin Yuxuan walked at the very front. Under Ye Chen's Mirror Flower Devastation, he had suffered the most serious injuries. However, unlike the indifferent young man, his wounds had not pierced through his body. After swallowing a precious Pill he had prepared beforehand, he had almost fully recovered. After all, as a Half-Step King, he could still gather some pills capable of healing injuries in a short time. But precisely because of this, Half-Step Kings had an even greater need for High-Grade Spirit Stones and treasures—their expenditures were simply too immense.
Ye Chen wore the Evil Cleaving Sword at his waist and followed at the rear with Murong Qingcheng.
"The thirty-third floor is probably not so simple." Ye Chen had always felt that the four Pseudo-Supreme evil-cleaving treasure artifacts and the High Mountain Vista Painting had not been placed on the thirty-second floor at random, but served some other purpose. The Profound Yin Pagoda was steeped in sinister yin energy, yet they had encountered no danger until now. On this unknown thirty-third floor, an unprecedented crisis might very well erupt.
One reason Ye Chen had given up the other three evil-cleaving treasure artifacts was that he could not control all four by himself. Even if he could, he would be unable to unleash their full power. As for Murong Qingcheng and the woman in yellow, one possessed the Perfect Human-Demon Bloodline while the other was an unknown demonic beast, so naturally neither could touch an evil-cleaving treasure artifact.
At the end of the stairs, everyone stopped.
A stone door blocked their path. Its surface was carved with intricate lines in five different colors—gold, azure, green, red, and yellow. The five-colored lines intertwined before converging at the center of