Chapter 562: Wuhu Unknown Area 2

"Fifty-six..." Zhou Xuan muttered and continued.

"Has anyone climbed more steps?" He asked.

Hearing the question, the person fell silent with a thoughtful expression.

"The young master of the Li family climbed one hundred and forty two steps, the sixth young miss of the Mu family climbed two hundred and nine steps..., only young miss Mu has climbed more than two hundred." He said.

"What’s her cultivation level?" Wang Cheng asked.

"She is a mid-stage heaven immortal realm cultivator." The person answered and the protectors were slightly relieved.

’I should be able to climb four to five hundred steps.’ Su Ming and Wang Cheng thought.

’One thousand steps shouldn’t be a problem for me.’ Li Bo thought.

After all, there was a big gap between the peak-stage of the heaven immortal realm and the early stage of the great ìmmortal realm.

After listening a few more descriptions and recording the scene of people training or escaping the water stairway, the group left and headed to the Lightning stairway.

[Ayuan, how are the laws?] Shen Xu asked and Zhen Yuan smiled.

[Abundant.] The man said.

The stairways were man-made.

However, their laws were complex and definitely not something that immortal realm cultivators could create.

[Xiaoxu, I suspect that the unknown areas are broken fragments of of God realm.] Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

[I think so too.] He said and quickly continued.

[We ascended to an unknown area that had traces of my father. If the unknown areas are pieces of the God realm, doesn’t it mean that my either was or is in the God realm?] The double asked and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[It’s likely.] He said.

The Lightning stairway was ten kilometres from the water stairway.

Just when the eight arrived, they saw three female cultivators running down the stairway with burn marks all over their body.

"Horrible." One said as soon as she escaped from the stairway.

"I thought I was going to die." Another said.

"Let’s find a place to recover." The third said and hurriedly away to find a safe place.

[Ayuan, I just thought of something...] The double started and Zhen Yuan smiled.

[You want to use the lightning to temper your body?] He asked and Shen Xu nodded with a happy expression.

[You know me so well.] He said.

At first, Shen Xu planned to climb the fire stairway and after receiving the rewards, he would retreat in the space while Zhen Yuan went to other stairways to collect laws.

However, after seeing the Lightning stairway, he suddenly thought of using the lightning to temper his body.

Although his body cultivation was the early stage of level fourteen and would not breakthrough until he left the lower heaven, Shen Xu felt that body tempering using the different elements would only benefit him, and not harm him.

[The body cultivation section of the space library has excellent techniques of tempering the body using the elements.] He started and quickly continued.

[We have used the Lightning, fire, and wind techniques but not the others. Why don’t we take this chance to do an all-element tempering?] He asked.

[It’s feasible but you will gave to work hard to expel the qo rewards from your body. After all, your bodybcan only process fire qi and not the others.] Zhen Yuan said.

[It’s not a problem.] Shen Xu said.

Once he thought about it, he felt that the benefits outweighed the annoyance of the extra hardwork.

[The qi rewards from climbing other stairways will contaminate my fire qi, but we have cloud seeking fruits, qi cleansing peaches, the moon essence liquid and other treasures that can clean qi. There is nothing to worry about.] He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[Alright. Let’s set a record for all the stairways.] He said.

With a new goal, the two were more diligent when investigating the stairways.

They observed the stairs, interviewed people, and even examined the bodies that rolled down the stairs.

One year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, eight people exited the unknown area, and boarded a level twelve ship.

"Even a great immortal can’t climb all the stairs in one go." Su Ming said and everyone turned to look at Li Bo.

"Mmh." The man confirmed.

Although he was just an early-stage great immortal, he could estimate the strength of a peak-stage great immortal and knew that they couldn’t climb ten thousand steps in one.

"Anyone who wants to last longer in any of the stairways needs countless pills and protective items including weapons, talismans, and formations." Wang Cheng said.

"Sister Ruyan, do you want to return to that unknown area?" Zhou Man asked and Zhou Ruyan nodded.

Although she was a talisman master, Zhou Ruyan knew that her unique position would not tolerate a weakling.

Because of this, she had not only cultivated her qi but also body.

Additionally, she actively learned martial arts and had combat skills.

"The Wuhu unknown area is a good place." She said and subconciously stole a secret glance at Zhen Yuan.

’What does this woman want?’ Shen Xu couldn’t help but be annoyed.

It had been more than a year since Zhou Ruyan began stealing glances at Zhen Yuan.

However, she hadn’t said a word and hadn’t crossed any lines so it was difficult for Shen Xu or Zhen Yuan to deal with her.

’Don’t let yourself fall into my hands.’ Shen Xu thought and secretly glared at Zhou Ruyan.

Sensing the double’s unhappiness, Zhen Yuan sighed and rubbed the person’s hair.

[Ignore her.] He said.

[I will teach her a lesson when I have a chance.] He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[I will help you.] He said.

The eight returned to the clan ship after arriving in Wuhu city.

However, when they got there, they sensed that the atmosphere was strangely subdued, and many people looked weary.

"Why is everyone lime this?" Su Ming asked and hurried towards a familiar fellow protector.

"Brother Tang, what’s going on?" He asked.