Chapter 242: Seventh Floor

The spiraling staircase deposited Lin Yuan before a gateway composed entirely of swirling, golden clouds. He did not pause to catch his breath or cycle his Spiritual energy. The dao laws of the Nine-Tiered Sky continued their flawless work, instantly replenishing the spiritual energy he had expended in his execution of the Peerless Guardian on the floor below.

He stepped through the golden gateway and onto the seventh floor.

The environment was a stark, breathtaking contrast to the boiling blood ocean he had just left behind. Lin Yuan stood within the sprawling, magnificent ruins of a celestial palace. Towering pillars of white jade, cracked and overgrown with glowing, ethereal ivy, stretched toward a sky filled with auroras of shifting, prismatic light. The ground was paved with interlocking tiles of starmetal, though many had been shattered by ancient, forgotten wars, the fractured edges still humming faintly with dormant power.