Chapter 157 Chapter 156: The Emperor of Nine Suns and His Wife, Empress Ji Wei [Please Subscribe! ]

Xian'er is not stupid, she saw my purpose...

Li Xu was originally heading for the second teleportation array, but only when he flew close to the "sun" in the sky could he see clearly that it was not a star at all, but an elliptical light gate similar to the entrance of the previous ruins.

Below the light gate were ninety-nine steps made of blue bricks, which could only be seen clearly when he flew close.

When he flew within ten meters of the blue brick steps, Li Xu suddenly felt a suppressive force from the array. The soul power that Su Xian'er had lent him was all gathered in his body by the suppressive force, making it impossible for him to maintain his flying state, and he fell to the ninety-nine steps below.

"Not good! There is a forbidden air array near this light gate, so you can't fly in directly!"

Su Xian'er exclaimed that it was not good, and recognized the source of the suppressive force.

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At the same time, Ji Weiming, who was constantly avoiding the pursuit of the poisonous aura, saw Li Xu landing on the bluestone stairs below the light gate, and her tense heartstrings could not help but relax quietly.

She had been to the second floor of the ruins many times, and knew that there was a powerful magic array around the second light gate. Once any cultivator approached, their cultivation would be suppressed by the power of the surrounding magic array, and they could only enter the light gate by climbing the ninety-nine bluestone stairs.

Ji Weiming didn't know why there was a powerful magic array near the light gate at first. Later, when she entered the second floor area to explore, she realized that the magic array near the light gate was all from the bluestone stairs below.

The ninety-nine bluestone stairs were actually a treasure used by the Haotian Sect 20,000 years ago to test the qualifications of disciples. The better the qualifications of the person being tested, the higher they can walk on the bluestone stairs.

As long as they fall on the bluestone stairs, even a first-grade cultivator will be suppressed and can only climb on foot with their own roots.

Before the Haotian Sect was destroyed by the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the leader of the Haotian Sect knew that he would not be spared, so he refined all the elders and disciples of his sect into puppets, and buried the entire sect under the ice field, hoping that when the ice and snow melted and the end of the Dharma Era came to an end, the elders and disciples he refined into puppets would be able to see the light of day and revive.

Therefore, in order to prevent future generations from coming to the ruins to destroy the puppets, the leader of the Haotian Sect used the bluestone stairs, a treasure for testing the root bone qualifications, as a seal to guard the entrance to the second level of the ruins.

Ji Weiming accidentally entered the ruins when she was young. With the supply of a large amount of natural materials and treasures accumulated by the Haotian Sect, it took only more than 20 years to be promoted to the first-grade tribulation realm. Although this qualification is not as good as Li Tianai, it is enough to be called shocking and evil.

Even for a demon like Ji Weiming, even if her cultivation has reached the first level of the Tribulation Realm, it is still very difficult to climb the bluestone stairs. Every time she climbs a step, she feels like a mountain is pressing on her shoulders. It often takes half a day to walk through the ninety-nine steps.

"Even I have such a hard time climbing the stairs, so he must be slower than me. Maybe he can't even reach the entrance above the ninety-ninth step."

Ji Weiming stared at Li Xu's figure landing on the first step, muttering in her heart.

She had already verified how difficult it was to climb the bluestone stairs through her own practice. It is no exaggeration to say that the first fifty steps alone are enough to block ninety-nine percent of the cultivators in the world.

Even in the heyday of cultivation 20,000 years ago when there were so many Mahayana cultivators who were crossing the Tribulation Realm, the cultivators who could walk up the ninety-ninth step were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

It is precisely because the difficulty of climbing is so great that the leader of Haotian Sect uses this staircase as a seal to guard the entrance to the second floor.

"Even if he can walk up the ninety-nine steps, his speed will definitely not be as fast as mine."

"He has already used up thirteen of those strange pills. There can't be too many left. I will definitely catch up with him on the stairs!"

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"It's okay. If you can't fly, just take the stairs. It will be more beneficial to us!"

Li Xu sent a voice message to comfort Su Xian'er.

Even Ji Weiming knew the difficulty of climbing the bluestone stairs. He had completed the entire original game in his previous life. How could he not understand it?

"In the original book, this staircase is the treasure used by Haotian Sect to test the qualifications of disciples... I don't believe it. I have more than 170 great fortunes. What can Ji Weiming use to compete with me in qualifications?"

With this thought, Li Xu gritted his teeth and ran towards the light gate at the top of the stairs.

Tenth floor.

Twenty floors.

Thirty floors.

Looking at Li Xu's figure walking briskly on the stairs, Ji Weiming's beautiful eyes, which were originally filled with coldness, gradually showed a ripple of strange colors.

The opponent's aptitude was much higher than she expected. The first thirty floors were almost no difficulty for him.

Fortieth floor.

Fiftieth floor.

Sixtieth floor.

"This!"

Ji Weiming's pupils trembled slightly. You know, the pressure above the fiftyth floor of the stairs is very different from that below the fiftyth floor. In the past, every time she climbed to the fiftyth floor, she began to stagger, but Li Xu still looked like he was walking briskly, and his speed did not slow down at all.

"His aptitude is so much higher than mine?!"

Being able to become the first female emperor in the history of Tianxuan Continent, Ji Weiming is undoubtedly extremely proud in her bones. She will never accept the fact that she is not as good as others, and the one who is not as good as her is an evil demon who can only flee in panic.

"Is it because you are too afraid of being caught up by me, so you are desperate and desperate to escape to the second floor of the ruins?" Ji Weiming thought of a reason.

"But even if you try your best, it is still useless. The closer to the top of the stairs, the more terrifying the pressure. If you keep running, it will only cause irreparable damage to your bones."

"In the end, I don't even need to do anything. You will be crushed because you can't bear the power of suppression..."

Ji Weiming's thought has not settled yet, and suddenly she sees Li Xu's running footsteps suddenly speed up, and he breaks through seventy stairs in one breath, then eighty, and ninety!

Ji Weiming: "???"

Didn't you really feel even a little bit of resistance!

"The treasure of Haotian Sect is nothing but this..."

Li Xu originally only planned to outrun Ji Wei, but he never thought that he would not only be able to move freely on the bluestone stairs, but also a floating force emerged from the surface of the stairs, lifting his feet and helping him to climb at a faster speed.

"If I travel back to 20,000 years ago, just looking at the results of this test qualification, I can at least become the Holy Son of Haotian Sect, right?"

Before Li Xu could imagine too much, he had already rushed to the last step of the bluestone stairs, kicked his legs hard, and jumped up towards the light gate in front of him.

Just when his feet broke away from the stairs, he suddenly heard a "buzzing" sound under his feet, and the bluestone stairs, which were as high as 99 floors, made a whine as if they could not bear the heavy load.

The next moment, the entire staircase appeared with dense spider web-like cracks, and began to collapse inch by inch from the top, and collapsed into countless fragments in one deafening "boom" after another!

"...It collapsed! It actually collapsed..."

Ji Weiming's brain went blank for a moment, staring at the shattered ruins in front of her in amazement, feeling even more incredible than seeing the sky collapse.

"The Qingyun Ladder is clearly a treasure used by the Haotian Sect to test the qualifications of disciples. The material is indestructible. Why did it suddenly break and collapse after being climbed by that evil demon?"

"Could it be because the Qingyun Ladder cannot detect his qualifications..."

As soon as this absurd guess came up, Ji Weiming felt even more unbelievable. She quickly moved her eyes away from the ruins, but Li Xu had already jumped into the light gate, and his figure could no longer be seen.

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Every time Li Xu experienced the random movement of the teleportation array, he felt that his belly button was being pulled hard by a hook. Just as he got rid of the dizzy state, he heard Su Xian'er's doubtful voice transmission:

"Stinky boy, the ninety-nine-story stone staircase just now reminded me of a magic weapon recorded in ancient books."

Li Xu looked around and saw that he was teleported to a cave by the teleportation array. The surface of the cave's rock wall was engraved with pictures and words.

As he walked towards the rock wall engraved with pictures and characters, he calmly asked Su Xian'er: "What magic weapon?"

"Blue Cloud Ladder!"

Su Xian'er said firmly: "The more I recall, the more familiar it seems. According to ancient records, 10,000 years ago - uh, 10,000 years ago for me, 20,000 years ago for your time, there was a very prosperous sect on the continent at that time, called Haotian Sect."

"Haotian Sect has a treasure specifically for testing root bone aptitude, called Blue Cloud Ladder, and it is exactly the same as the stone ladder you just climbed..."

Li Xu shook his head and interrupted: "Not exactly the same, the stone ladder just now is indeed the Blue Cloud Ladder."

"Huh?" Su Xian'er was stunned.

"Look for yourself."

Li Xu pointed to the mural in front of him, and the three characters "Haotian Sect" were engraved on the surface of the rock wall like a dragon and a phoenix dancing.

"Wow! This is really the remains of the Haotian Sect!"

Su Xian'er was shocked, surprised and happy: "The remains of the Haotian Sect that Emperor Jiu Ri spent his entire life looking for turned out to be hidden in this ghost place in the North!"

Li Xu was watching the contents of the mural carefully. When he heard Su Xian'er's sudden exclamation, two question marks suddenly appeared in his head.

Emperor Jiu Ri?

Why does it sound so familiar to me?

"Xian'er, who is the Emperor Jiu Ri? If you separate the word 'Xu' in my name, it's also Jiu Ri."

"..."

Su Xian'er was speechless for a moment, and said unhappily: "Don't flatter yourself. Even if there are a million or ten million of you, they can't compare to a hair of the Emperor Jiu Ri!"

Li Xu frowned, feeling unhappy that Su Xian'er supported another man in front of him. Before he could continue to ask, Su Xian'er explained:

"No one in the world can be compared with the Emperor Jiu Ri. He is the savior who ended the catastrophe of heaven and earth. If there was no Emperor Jiu Ri, the world would have been destroyed by the catastrophe 20,000 years ago. Almost every cultivator of our time grew up listening to the legend of the Emperor Jiu Ri and the Saint Queen Ji Wei!"

Li Xu: "???"

"No! Wait a minute!"

Li Xu didn't care about being unhappy about Su Xian'er supporting another man. Question marks popped up on his forehead in geometric multiples:

"You just said the Holy Queen of Ji Wei Ming, right? How is the Emperor Jiu Ri related to Ji Wei Ming?!"

Su Xian'er pouted and said, "The Holy Queen of Ji Wei Ming I'm talking about is just the same name as Ji Wei Ming in the North. One is the Holy Queen who assisted the Emperor Jiu Ri to end the catastrophe of heaven and earth 20,000 years ago, and the other is the empress who led the barbarians in the North 20,000 years later. The two have no relationship at all."

Li Xu was thoughtful, and after thinking for a while, he asked again: "What catastrophe did the Emperor Jiu Ri end? I have never heard of his deeds."

Not only did he not hear of the Emperor Jiu Ri in the original game of his previous life, he also didn't hear of him in reality.

It's normal to think about it. 20,000 years is really too long. The vast sea has become mulberry fields and countless natural treasures have disappeared. Even if the so-called Emperor Jiu Ri was famous 20,000 years ago, he has long been submerged in the long river of history.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of it." Su Xian'er said slowly: "After all, even the Fountain of Eternal Youth has disappeared in your era, and no matter what ancient books and legends are preserved for that long."

"However, even if the legend of the Nine-Day Emperor is not preserved in your era, it still cannot change the fact that he once saved the world. Take the Haotian Sect ruins where you are now as an example."

"In the heyday of cultivation 20,000 years ago, the Haotian Sect was the most prosperous and powerful top sect at that time, with more than a hundred elders in the first-grade tribulation realm alone."

"But one day, the world-destroying catastrophe suddenly broke out, the sky collapsed, the land sank, the spiritual power was exhausted, the sun fell, and the moon fell. Even the powerful Haotian Sect was destroyed without resistance under the catastrophe, and other cultivators and civilians naturally suffered countless casualties..."

When Li Xu heard this, his mind suddenly moved, and he thought of the catastrophe of heaven and earth that Jiang Yue had told him about. Is there any connection between that catastrophe of heaven and earth and the catastrophe that happened 20,000 years ago?

"In the desperate background of the end of the world, the Emperor Jiu Ri rose like the rising sun, and with the assistance of his wife, the Holy Queen Ji Wei, he saved the people from the catastrophe!"

It can be heard that Su Xian'er really worshipped the Emperor Jiu Ri. When she mentioned the four words "Emperor Jiu Ri", her voice trembled with excitement.

It's just that the name "Holy Queen Ji Wei" didn't sound right to Li Xu. The sense of disobedience was too strong.

"The Emperor Jiu Ri collected the fragments of the collapsed Heavenly Dao while establishing a dynasty to unify the desperate end of the world and establish a new order for the people of the world..."

"Wait a minute! Collecting the fragments of the collapsed Heavenly Dao, what does this mean?" Li Xu frowned and said in confusion, feeling that the more Su Xian'er explained, the more mysterious it was.

Just now, when Su Xian'er said that the Heavenly Dao collapsed when the catastrophe came, he thought it was just an exaggeration. Unexpectedly, the Heavenly Dao actually collapsed, and fragments burst out.

"The Heavenly Dao Fragments are Heavenly Dao Fragments. If you must ask what they mean--"

Su Xian'er pondered for a while and came up with an accurate reference: "The Six Heavenly Daos Swallowing Technique, the Burning Fire Technique, the Shocking Heaven and Charming Earth Technique that you are practicing now, including the Ice Sealing Thousand Miles that Ji Weiming is practicing, etc., all heaven-level techniques belong to Heavenly Dao Fragments!"