Chapter 566: Lightning Stairway 2

Seeing the golden lightning, the people on the stairway immediately raised their heads.

"What’s going on?" Someone asked.

"Why did the stairway shake? Is it going to collapse?"

"Did someone reach the top? Is it safe to stay on this stairway?"

"Who knows what’s going on?"

"Wait a moment..., the two people who passed us have not come down. Did they die?"

"Now that you mention it..., I remember those two. They acted like they couldn’t feel the lightning."

"I also found it strange. Even great immortals shouldn’t be able to ignore this level of lightning."

"Could the quake and golden lightning be related to those two people?"

"Does anyone know who they are?"

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As everyone was trying to figure things out, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu looked at the monument with curious eyes.

"How to engrave our names?" Zhen Yuan asked in a hoarse voice.

"Soul power." The double answered, and demonstrated the engraving process.

Soon after, the word ’Fire’ appeared on the monument, and rose to the top.

"Try it." He said and Zhen Yuan did.

Half a breath later, the word ’Law’ appeared, and rose to settle beside ’Fire’.

"Great." Shen Xu exclaimed and simultaneously, two boxes flew out of the monument.

"It’s a lot like the wishing stone." Zhen Yuan said, and the double nodded.

"They are similar but also different." He said.

Since they were the only ones on the tenth step, the two didn’t shy from opening their boxes.

At a glance, the double’s box contained a white fruit that was shaped like a snowdrop, while Zhen Yuan’s contained a silver-purple fruit.

"This fruit..." Shen Xu muttered and perused his alchemy inheritance to identify the fruit.

"It’s the ice marrow fruit; the main material for the ice marrow pill." He said and smiled.

The ice marrow pill was many times superior to the ice pill. With the fruit, Shen Xu would be more confident when climbing the higher levels of the stairway.

"Not bad." He said and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.

"My fruit has many complex lightning laws. If I am not mistaken, it is a lightning dao fruit." He said and the double couldn’t help but stare at the fruit.

"It’s exactly what you need for your cultivation." He said.

"I have previously accumulated many lightning laws and this fruit will add to my accumulation." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"Xiaoxu, let’s rest on this step for awhile." He suggested and the double immediately agreed.

After all, they were both injured and didn’t have an unscarred piece of skin on their body.

"Ayuan..." Shen Xu called, looking at Zhen Yuan with worried eyes.

"Don’t worry." Zhen Yuan said, took out his law scripting brush, and drew a rune in the air.

After that, the silver rune rushed into his body and his wounds began to heal at a speed visible to the human eye.

"This..." Shen Xu muttered with an incredulous face.

"I figured it out." Zhen Yuan said and smiled.

In fact, Zhen Yuan had wanted to use self-healing inscriptions as early as when they were in the Canglan continent.

However, he tried engraving the usual healing and rejuvenation inscriptions on himself but it didn’t work.

After that, he asked Shen Xu to refine perfect grade healing pills and proceed to study study laws, wanting to reference them while designing an inscription.

Unfortunately, the created inscription worked on Shen Xu, but didn’t work on himself.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuan continued working on the inscription but it wasn’t until now that he had a sudden understanding.

Fortunately, his understanding came to fruition and the effect was better than expected.

"Xiaoxu..." Zhen Yuan started but Shen Xu shook his head before speaking.

"I will use pills." He said.

After all, he had refined many level twelve perfect-grade healing pills so he didn’t need to consume Zhen Yuan’s energy to heal himself.

The two originally thought they could rest on the one thousandth step for several months.

However, on the tenth day, the tyrannical lightning resumed and the two could only use talismans, weapons, and formation disks to protect themselves.

One year passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, the two completely recovered and conditioned themselves to the peak state.

At the same time, Shen Xu used half of the ice marrow fruit to brew falling snow wine, and the other half was used to refine ice marrow pills.

As for the core, he sent it Xiaoren and let her plant it in the ice region of the Chaos Flame Space.

When everything was done, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan released their protections and began running the lightning refining technique.

However, they didn’t rush to leave the thousandth step, and stayed there for another half year before heading to the next stair.

Time passed and the two realised that climbing was not as easy as it previously was.

Unlike before, they now spent months or even years at each step before they felt confident enough to go forward.

Fortunately, they had pills and inscriptions hence could recover before their injuries became too serious.

At the same time, they refined moon essence liquid and their bodies became purer with each step.

On the two thousandth step, the two left their names on the monument and the strange phenomena reappeared on the lightning stairway.

As before, other cultivators speculated, but they couldn’t make sense of it so they ignored it and continued their training.

"I got a soft armour refined using the skin of a diamond mammoth, and you got another lightning dao fruit." Shen Xu observed.

"This fruit has more complex laws than the previous." Zhen Yuan explained and the double smiled.

"Good." He said.

In this way, the two climbed but still needed three thousand years to reach the top.

At every thousandth step, Zhen Yuan would receive a lightning dao fruit that was better than the previous, while Shen Xu mainly received precious fruits and weapons.

As a result, the two survived the lightning, but not without suffering indescribable injuries.

At this time, the two stood on the ten thousandth step, and exchanged a weary glance.