A seven-colored ray of light, accompanied by melodious celestial music, illuminated the entire land of Qian Province.
After the seven-colored light faded, a jade ladder descended from the sky and landed deep in the Ancient Demon Forest, directly above the Divine Sword Cave.
At the end of the ladder to heaven is a circular platform, above which a chain hangs straight down.
This chain is said to come from the Divine Domain. As long as one climbs the heavenly ladder and grasps this chain, one can be Entering Divinity and become a god in one step.
Countless cultivators flocked to the event, whether they were Sword Soul cultivators or ordinary cultivators, none of them wanted to miss this grand occasion.
The cultivators were all discussing who would reach the top this time and become the new generation of Sword God.
Just then, thirty-two Aura figures flew in from afar and landed directly in front of the Heavenly Ladder.
Subsequently, they threw a large number of array plates in front of the Heavenly Ladder.
"What is that?" Li Mengyun asked incredulously, "Why does it feel like Spirit Explosion Formation Plate?"
"That's the Spirit Explosion Formation Plate."
"Have these sect leaders gone mad? Aren't they just blocking people's path to godhood and making themselves the target of everyone's hatred?"
"The path to godhood? Haven't you ever considered what realm a god truly is?" Ling Yi asked.
Li Mengyun was stunned.
What is the realm of a god? This question seems to have never been asked before, as if a god is simply a god and there is no such thing as a realm.
"Let's keep watching, this is going to be a big show."
Since one cannot fly up the Heavenly Ladder, but can only walk up step by step, this Spirit Explosion Formation Plate, which resembles a landmine, is placed perfectly.
They simply stopped all the cultivators outside.
Next, these thirty-two sect leaders began to climb the Heavenly Ladder step by step.
With each step taken, a bolt of Thunder descends; with each First Tier advanced, the Thunder intensifies.
However, these sect leaders were all powerful individuals who had devoured a large number of Sword Soul. Although they had not condensed Five Elements Sword Soul, they were at least two elements of Sword Soul. Wang Chong, for example, had four elements of Sword Soul, making him far stronger than ordinary Sword Soul experts.
Thirty-two Nascent Soul Spirit Severing Stage experts with multiple Sword Soul —this strength would be a terrifying force even in the Central Domain.
It was only at this moment that the cultivators finally realized the true strength of these people.
At this point, the cultivators who had been somewhat restless immediately quieted down and watched as these people ascended to the Immortal Ascension Platform.
They weren't fast, but every step they took was firm and powerful; no matter how strong the Thunder was, it couldn't stop their advance.
At this moment, they had only one goal in their eyes and in their hearts: to reach the summit and then blow it up.
The Heavenly Ladder has a total of 36,000 steps. After a day, they had climbed one-third of the ladder, and the power of the Thunder had reached an extremely terrifying level.
Wang Chong shouted, "Charge!"
As the voice faded, the thirty-two people took their positions according to a certain pattern, each forming hand seals. A semi-transparent Shield rose out of thin air, and sixteen people began to take pills to recover as quickly as possible.
The others focused their Spiritual Power on maintaining the Shield's strength.
Once the shield bearer could no longer hold on, the two sides switched positions.
The smooth switching of Formation clearly indicated that there had been prior rehearsals, and more than once.
However... the relationships between these sect leaders are not usually very good. In fact, many of them have even fought each other several times due to various conflicts.
Is everything we see just an illusion?
Two days later, after climbing all 26,000 steps, the two groups began to switch more frequently, their rest time gradually decreased, and the amount of pills they took increased.
The Lightning in the sky had formed Lightning, rumbling and booming, and the entire world seemed to be devoid of anything else but the sound of Lightning.
Despite the Lightning and rain, the thirty-two men remained steadfast, climbing upwards step by step.
"Twenty-four!" Wang Chong shouted again.
The Formation, which originally consisted of sixteen people per group, quickly switched to a group of twenty-four people per group.
The number of people taking a break each time has been reduced from sixteen to eight.
On the third day, the thirty-two people stepped over the thirty-thousandth step, and the twenty-four formations became thirty-two formations.
The Immortal Ascension Platform is right before us, but this last section of the Heavenly Ladder is the most difficult.
The Lightning had changed from blue cesium to white cesium, then from white cesium to purple cesium, and finally from purple cesium to black cesium.
"Black Lightning? What grade of Lightning is this? Why is there no record of it?" Li Mengyun murmured.
"This is the Annihilation Lightning, primarily targeting the Primordial Spirit, and the damage it causes to the Primordial Spirit is almost irreversible." Ling Yi's voice gradually turned cold.
"In other words..." Ling Yi paused, "They were already doomed to die."
Aren't you going to help them?
After a long silence, Ling Yi said, "Some are great because of their birth, and some shine through the ages because of their death. To be born is to die, and to die is inevitable. Only after death can there be another magnificent Reincarnation."
"Nonsense! Once you die, you're gone. Reincarnation is something for later," Li Mengyun retorted angrily.
"I'm already doing it!"
Ling Yi did intervene, but not to help the thirty-two people withstand the Annihilation Lightning; rather, he influenced the will of those "gods."
He had to expose the ugly faces of these "gods" to the world, and make the hundreds of thousands of cultivators around him understand that these thirty-two people were fighting against the "gods," and were... Save the World.
As Ling Yi finished speaking, a young man dressed in silver-white armor appeared out of thin air on the Immortal Ascension Platform.
The young man had long, silver-white hair, narrow eyes, and a long, pointed face, giving him a very bad first impression.
However, he exuded an overwhelming aura, and behind him, five-colored Sword Soul slowly flowed and moved, forming something like a halo, which looked Divine and powerful.
"What a pathetic bunch of ants!" the man said contemptuously.
His voice was both male and female, switching between the two, which sounded very awkward to listen to.
"Why not just obediently serve me and hide? Why come here to seek death?"
These words caused all the cultivators' expressions to change drastically; it was clear that this had crossed the line in their hearts.
Is this what they call... God?
The thirty-two people continued to climb step by step, pausing for half a day after each step, as the Annihilation Lightning had caused immense damage and pain to their Primordial Spirit.
But at this moment, the will of the thirty-two men was unwavering, as strong as steel; the immense pain only fueled their fighting spirit.
The anger and humiliation that had been suppressed for countless years finally erupted at this moment.
"Roar!" The thirty-two people roared, and then collectively burned their Sword Soul.
Sword Soul is their foundation; burning Sword Soul is consuming their very essence.
At this moment, everyone, from the hundreds of thousands of cultivators to the white-haired youth, was deeply moved.
The burning essence of their Sword Soul caused the power of the thirty-two people to suddenly increase more than tenfold; they were about to make their final Sprint.
As they rapidly approached the Immortal Ascension Platform, the white-haired youth did not stop them, but his expression was somewhat angry. The reason for his anger was simply that Wang Chong and the others had wasted their Sword Soul.
These Sword Soul are all highly nourishing to him.
"You guys are making me a little angry. Your Sword Soul were a delicious treat I had already reserved. It's such a waste to let them go to waste."
But after the white-haired youth finished speaking, he realized something was wrong and cursed himself for being foolish.
As expected, tens of thousands of cultivators glared at him with anger.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I accidentally blurted out the truth. Knowing God's secret is not good news for you."
The white-haired youth, having given up all hope, decided to silence the witnesses.
But by then, Wang Chong and his group had already reached the Immortal Ascension Platform, and the pressure on them suddenly lessened.
At this moment, the aura of the thirty-two people also became extremely weak. The frantic burning of their Sword Soul caused their cultivation levels to plummet Rapid Speed. They had dropped from the Spirit Severing Stage Nascent Soul Stage.
But they didn't care about any of that, and each took out a Spirit Explosion Formation Plate that was filled with a dangerous Aura.
Seeing this, the white-haired youth finally panicked.
"Stop!"
"Gods, are you willing to die with us!" Wang Chong's Spiritual Power surged wildly into the Spirit Explosion Formation Plate.
The thirty-one people behind them simultaneously raised their Spirit Explosion Formation Plate and shouted in unison, "Gods, are you willing to die with us?"
The thirty-two Spirit Explosion Formation Plate began to erupt with dazzling destructive light.
Immediately following was Shaking Heaven and Earth explosion, the blazing white light illuminating the entire Immortal Ascension Platform and shining in everyone's hearts.
Because of the unique nature of the Immortal Ascension Platform, the power of the explosion did not spread outwards; it was almost entirely absorbed by the Immortal Ascension Platform.
The white-haired youth had already left the Immortal Ascension Platform; he dared not withstand such terrifying power.
After a long while, the smoke and dust dissipated.
The Immortal Ascension Platform was already covered in cracks, but unfortunately, in the blink of an eye, these cracks were restored to their original state.
"Ridiculous! The Heaven-Locking Grand Formation shares the damage; to try and destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform with it is utterly ignorant."
All the cultivators wore solemn expressions, their eyes fixed intently on the Immortal Ascension Platform.
The deaths of thirty-two people, the conspiracy at the Immortal Ascension Platform, and the ugly face of this so-called "god" filled them with immense oppression and anger.
When the emotions of hundreds of thousands of cultivators synchronized, and when their anger coalesced into one place, the heavens and earth began to change.
"I am a god. You should respect me, honor me, and fear me, not be angry with me," the white-haired youth said coldly.
"We worship the true gods, not you demons who deceive cultivators and feed on Sword Soul."
Just then, an angry voice rang out.
The Protagonist, Yun Feng, has finally arrived.
The white-robed youth's pupils contracted, and he exclaimed in surprise, " Five Elements Sword Soul? How is that possible?"
"Why is it impossible? For the greater good, they Extraction their own Sword Soul to complete my Five Elements."
At this point, Yun Feng's eyes were bloodshot, and he said in a cold voice, "You will die, and all the gods will die."
"Haha... Me, doomed? With the Five Elements Sword Soul you just condensed? You don't think you can defeat me, do you?" The white-haired youth laughed maniacally.
"Of course I can't beat you!" Yun Feng's aura surged wildly, and the Five Elements Sword Soul rose behind him, its five-colored light shining brightly.
"But all I need to do is... shatter this heaven!"