The sound that came out of nowhere in the atrium was the sound of the passageway from the atrium to the backyard being opened. Yi Tian was the first to arrive on the platform.
Soon after, Cui Zhenzhen, Huang Wanting, and He Tianxiong all arrived within two hours. After waiting for a while, when no one else came, the door to the stairs leading to the inner court slowly opened.
The four looked at each other and no one took the initiative to go up. Yi Tian knew that Cui Zhenzhen was a corpse cultivator and everyone was still fearful.
Not long after, Cui Zhenzhen coldly snorted and ignored the other three as she walked up the spiral staircase. Seeing her move, Huang Wanting and He Tianxiong gave each other a look and followed her.
This time, Yi Tian was the last to walk. However, before the two arrived, he discussed with Cui Zhenzhen and decided not to act.
Although he was the last to walk, Yi Tian wasn't in a hurry to increase his speed when he saw that the three people in front of him were consciously keeping their distance. There were many inscriptions on the staircase and it was clear that it wasn't easy to pass.
As expected, when he first walked up, he felt his body become slightly heavier. As he continued to walk up, the burden on his body gradually increased. He originally thought that this path would be the same as when he entered the courtyard, but halfway through, he found that it was far more difficult than before.
In addition to the feeling on his body, the mirror image in front of him suddenly changed. Yi Tian immediately found that this path wasn't just a test of cultivation, but also a path of tempering one's heart.
The higher he went, the more pressure he felt on his state of mind. There were even many illusions that appeared in front of him.
However, the four of them were all Nascent Soul cultivators. They only needed to slow down a bit to face the difficulties. It took them an entire two hours to reach the exit of the staircase.
After reaching the third step, Yi Tian found that his back was drenched in sweat. He had consumed quite a bit of energy on the way here. He immediately took out a few pills and placed them in his mouth. After swallowing them, he felt a surge of spirit force instantly replenish the spirit force he had lost.
He looked around and saw that the other three had also taken out pills to recover their spiritual power. Among them, Huang Wanting's expression was the worst. It seemed that she, a mid-stage Yuanying cultivator, was not as strong as He Tianxiong.
After a while, Cui Zhenzhen finished replying. She then looked at the three people behind her and found that the one with the best complexion was Yi Tian. She could not help but think more highly of him.
Then he said to Huang Wanting indifferently, "You, a disciple of the Heavenly Cloud Pavilion, are in such a sorry state after coming to the sect's training grounds. I presume that Zi Wushang would be in a similar state if he came here. It seems that the Heavenly Cloud Pavilion has really declined."
Huang Wanting's mouth twitched as she asked, "Who are you? How do you know about my sect?"
Cui Zhenzhen sized up the other party and said disdainfully, "I have already experienced your Heavenly Cloud Pavilion's Cultivation Method. It is not surprising that I can see through it with a glance."
Then, he turned to He Tianxiong and said, "Your Blood Fiend Cave was only a branch of the Blood Refining Heavenly Demon Sect a thousand years ago. It should have belonged to the same sect as the Imperial Corpse Sect. I didn't know that it had grown so big now. Fortunately, you didn't forget your sect and kill your fellow sect members. "
He Tianxiong was shocked. He stared at Cui Zhenzhen for a while and said, "Senior knows a lot. Since we all came here for the same purpose, why don't we put aside our differences and work together?"
Cui Zhenzhen nodded and said, "I don't know what we will encounter after going in, but it is a win-win situation for us all to work together for the time being. I only want a petal of the Seven Treasure Golden Lotus. "
Huang Wanting coldly snorted and said, "How can our sect's Seven Treasure Golden Lotus be so easy to obtain? The black flood dragon guarding the golden lotus should be about to transform into a dragon."
Her words indirectly admitted her identity as a disciple of the Heavenly Cloud Pavilion. However, Cui Zhenzhen was not angry and directly replied, "We are not going to kill the flood dragon. We only need to lure it away for now."
"Then who will lure it away?" He Tianxiong interrupted and asked.
This was not an easy task, and no one was willing to pick on it. After a moment of silence, Cui Zhenzhen said, "I think that old man Qi Shanyun won't let a junior disciple get the treasure so easily. However, he will definitely have a hidden card. Let's go in and deal with it."
Finished speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the back courtyard's passageway. Seeing this, Huang Wanting hurriedly followed. As for He Tianxiong, he only looked at Yi Tian in confusion before walking to the third position.
In fact, when Cui Zhenzhen mentioned the Heavenly Cloud Pavilion again, Yi Tian knew that she should know a lot about Huang Wanting. Moreover, she mentioned Qi Shanyun's name. It seemed that they were of the same generation.
As for the Blood Fiend Cave and the Imperial Corpse Sect, which were branches of the Blood Refining Heavenly Demon Sect, and the fact that they could hide in the Southern Sea for so long, they must be the descendants of the Zong Family.
However, he didn't expect that the Blood Fiend Cave was just a branch sect. It was the result of several generations of management that it could become the overlord of the Myriad Islands Sea. He just didn't know what happened to the Blood Refining Heavenly Demon Sect in the end, and whether there were any descendants left.
Not long after, Yi Tian followed the three of them to the main entrance of the rear courtyard. In front of them was a three zhang wide door with a horizontal character with three handles.
Cui Zhenzhen walked forward and reached out to pull the handle down. Then, with a push of her palm, the door directly opened.
After entering, they found that the area of the inner court was not large. In front of them was a hall about ten feet in size. In the middle of the stairs, there was a stone table. On each side, there were two other rooms that looked like the main hall.
After going around the main hall, they found that it was a fifty-foot-wide backyard. There were eight stone walls with some words engraved on them. In the middle, there was a ten-foot-wide pond. In the middle of the pond, there was a large cluster of lotus leaves floating on the water surface, covering almost half of the pond's surface.
In the cluster of lotus leaves, there were two golden lotuses, one big and one small. The big one had a golden lotus as thick as the mouth of a bowl at the end. It seemed to have reached the stage of maturity. On the other side, there was a flower bud at the end that had not bloomed yet.
At this time, Cui Zhenzhen looked at the golden lotus in the pond with a frown. Then, she sighed as if she had thought of something. Yi Tian saw this and didn't care so much. He first walked to the surrounding stone walls and carefully read the words engraved on them.
After reading, he realized that it recorded the history of the Cloud Heaven Pavilion in this world. It also mentioned that the sect's Patriarch, Taoist Priest Wuxia, and Ancestor Li Huo jointly built the Ascension Platform somewhere in the Central Region.
Ancestor Li Huo, as the emissary of the Upper Realm, was stationed there. Then, he took root and passed down the orthodoxy. For some reason, Taoist Priest Wuxia of the Cloud Heaven Pavilion left the Central Region and came to the Myriad Islands Sea Region. It took him a hundred years to move the sect here.
Then, with the help of Ancestor Li Huo, he built the Myriad Islands Sky Domain City for the younger disciples to use as a trial.
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