Chapter 233: Second Floor

The staircase forged from pure, glowing starlight spiraled upward into the swirling emerald vortex, carrying Lin Yuan away from the silence of the first floor.

As he walked, his black and white robes gliding noiselessly over the astral steps, his mind remained perpetually active. He dissected the structure of the Nine-Tiered Sky, peeling back the layers of its arrays. It was a masterpiece of the ancient era. The spatial compression required to stack nine distinct, self-sustaining battlefield dimensions within a single pagoda was a feat that even the current Void Refinement Emperors of the Central Continent would struggle to replicate.

He stepped through the emerald vortex.

The transition was seamless. The ambient temperature skyrocketed instantly, transforming from the cool, sterile vacuum of the first floor into a suffocating furnace.