Chapter 838

"You seem to know this place very well. Have you been here before?" Zi Chen asked.

Xia Xin chuckled and said, "How could that be? This is the ancient road. Everyone can only come here once. Once you miss it, you won't have another chance."

Then, Xia Xin talked about some things about this world. Zi Chen and Lei Ming's eyes flashed, but the others were indifferent. Obviously, they already knew.

Xia Xin didn't say where these secrets came from, but Zi Chen guessed that it had something to do with the power he belonged to.

After walking for hundreds of thousands of miles, they arrived at the place Xia Xin talked about.

It was a mountain peak tens of thousands of meters high. The walls of the mountain peak were smooth and steep, like a sharp blade. The huge mountain peak seemed to be made of a huge rock.

When they were a few thousand meters away from the mountain peak, they stopped and walked forward.

"The surroundings of this mountain peak are restricted airspace with the nature of death. Any cultivator who attempts to fly up will undoubtedly be killed. Even Xiantian martial artists will die." Xia Xin explained.

Zi Chen nodded and didn't say much. As they got closer to the mountain peak, he gradually felt an oppressive aura. As they got closer, the aura became even more oppressive.

The group walked to the foot of the mountain. Zi Chen saw that there were many small stone steps at the bottom of the mountain. These stone steps were next to each other, winding around the entire mountain until they reached the peak. There were at least a few hundred thousand steps.

They walked to the foot of the mountain and stopped.

"There is an energy barrier in front of the stone steps. It seems to be a test of strength." Just as Xia Xin was explaining, the others stepped on the stone steps.

They had been here before and already knew about this. They passed through smoothly. After the Xiantian warriors stepped on, the Houtian warriors followed.

"Hmph, if you're not strong enough, you'd better leave early." Yao Tingfei snorted. After the barrier rippled, he stepped on the stone steps.

After stepping on, he didn't go forward immediately. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Lei Ming with a mocking expression. Obviously, he wanted to see Lei Ming make a fool of himself.

Only Xiantian warriors and late Primordial Core warriors could come up here, unless they had pure and powerful strength.

Zi Chen was naturally capable of this, but Lei Ming might not be. Hence, Yao Tingfei stood there, waiting to watch the show.

Everyone went up except for Zi Chen and Lei Ming. Zi Chen didn't go up immediately. Instead, he signaled Lei Ming to go forward.

"Can I do it?" Lei Ming, who was already nervous, felt even more uncertain after seeing Yao Tingfei's expression.

"Don't worry.

Zi Chen waved his hand and pretended to be carefree. In fact, he was not confident either. The others also looked at Lei Ming. Even the Xiantian Realm martial artists did the same. No one knew if they wanted to watch a show or if they were anticipating something.

After Zi Chen nodded his head in encouragement, Lei Ming walked forward.

He stepped onto the stairs, and ripples appeared on the barrier. These ripples were like water ripples, forming a kind of energy shield. When the people in front of him entered, this water-like energy shield would automatically part and open up a path. However, at this moment, when Lei Ming stepped forward, the energy shield did not part and directly blocked Lei Ming outside.

Lei Ming was startled and his expression changed.

"Haha." Yao Tingfei's hearty laughter came from above.

Lei Ming's face turned ugly. He took another step forward, but it was still the same. Suddenly, a lightning mark flashed between his eyebrows.

Yao Tingfei's laughter came through the light shield. It was so carefree that it was annoying. But his laughter ended quickly. It was as if his neck was suddenly choked. He couldn't make any other sound.

The light shield that blocked Lei Ming disappeared in the next moment. Lei Ming walked in without any hindrance.

"This." Yao Tingfei's mocking expression froze. His eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.

When they walked in, the energy ripples only opened a small gap for them. Lei Ming's realm was not high enough, and he wasn't strong. But after he walked in, the energy shield disappeared completely.

Yao Tingfei looked at all this in a daze. His face was full of disbelief.

Zi Chen chuckled and walked up the stairs. Even when Zi Chen walked up the stairs, the energy shield didn't appear.

The rest of the Xiantian Realm martial artists had been paying attention to Lei Ming. When they saw the energy shield disappear, a strange light flashed in their eyes.

Xia Xin directly said, "We suspected that this was the doing of the ancient race. Sure enough, this place has great benefits for the ancient race. There's no need to test one's strength. One just needs to have an ancient race identity."

As Xia Xin's words fell, the others nodded. Then, they glanced at Lei Ming.

Zi Chen pretended not to know.

This was just a small interlude. Everyone continued to walk forward, but Yao Tingfei's expression was a little unnatural.

This ancient road was originally a part of the Ancient Road of the Strongest Smelting Trial. Many of the techniques and inheritances within were specially prepared for the challengers of the Ancient Road of the Strongest Smelting Trial. Anyone who could reach this point would have to go through a slaughter trial and have their strength verified, such as Zi Chen.

Zi Chen had spent dozens of years slaughtering his way here. The hardships and dangers he had faced along the way weren't something that an ordinary person could imagine. Even these Xiantian realm martial artists who had come from the Ancient Road of the Strongest Trial couldn't imagine just how terrifying the tribulations and dangers Zi Chen had faced were.

And the foundation of this world's existence was to allow the trial challengers who had the qualifications to reach this place to easily obtain these skill inheritances. This could be considered a reward for the trial challengers.

But, the influences of the Ancient Road of the Strongest Trial had forcefully broken open this place and sent trial challengers from other Ancient Roads here. They hadn't experienced the same tribulations as Zi Chen, but they had obtained the same harvests as Zi Chen. This was simply taking advantage of a loophole.

These were originally exclusive to the Ancient Road of the Strongest Trial, but now they had been forcibly distributed to everyone, becoming something that could be shared.

Moreover, according to Xia Xin, there were many strange places like this mountain peak in this region. There were almost no dangers here, and the chances of obtaining these skills were high as long as one had enough lucky chances.

During the process of climbing to the summit, Zi Chen guessed that there would be some sort of test or test of strength that would appear along the way. But, even as the group climbed up the hundreds of thousands of steps and reached the summit, nothing strange happened.

Above the summit was an open space. In the center of this open space was a three meter tall stone platform. The edges of this stone platform were engraved with many clear runes that extended all the way to the top of the stone platform.

Xia Xin pointed at the stone platform and said, "That is a transmission stone platform. It doesn't require any energy to activate. The place where we are teleported to is our destination."

Zi Chen nodded his head. After which, the crowd took a step forward and stepped onto the stone platform that Xia Xin had pointed out. Immediately, the runes on the stone platform lit up. Brilliant rays of light flowed as the crowd's figures disappeared one by one.

Stepping onto the transmission stone platform, when everyone appeared, they had already arrived in another space.

This was an ancient world. Everything here emitted a simple and unadorned aura. There were towering and precipitous mountain peaks, flat stones that seemed to have been carved by a knife, and ancient trees that had existed for an unknown number of years. There were green mountains, clear water, white clouds, and golden sunlight.

In a trance, it gave people the illusion that they had arrived in the Martial Sky Continent. At the same time, the entire world gave people a feeling of tranquility, nature, and peace.

"How can this be?"

This world in front of him made Zi Chen's heart exceptionally calm. Just as Zi Chen was quietly enjoying this rare tranquility, a startled cry came from the side.

This startled cry came from the Xiantian expert, Qin Li. He had been silent the entire time. Other than the two sentences he had said to Zi Chen, he hadn't spoken a single word.

"Didn't I take away the inheritance on this stone wall? Why is it still here?" At the same time, the other Xiantian expert, Zhong Meng's expression also changed.

Then, like a chain reaction, cries of surprise came from the mouths of the others.

Zi Chen's gaze followed the direction of everyone's startled cries. The first thing he saw was a stone wall. At first glance, the stone wall was smooth and smooth, but there was nothing special about it. However, in this area, a stone wall that seemed to have been carved by a knife was abnormal.

As Zi Chen released his spiritual sense, he immediately discovered that there was actually another world within this stone wall.

This was a kind of technique inheritance. If a Houtian expert had come here, they would definitely have cried out that they had found a precious treasure. However, to Zi Chen, who was a Xiantian lightning cultivator, these techniques that could be called precious treasures were only Houtian techniques.

After discovering a Houtian technique on a stone wall, Zi Chen saw a stone tablet. The stone tablet had very ancient characters on it. This was also a Houtian technique.

Houtian techniques covered a wide range. Almost all combat techniques that were not Xiantian techniques could be called Houtian techniques. For example, Zi Chen's Thunderbolt Finger and Thunder Summoning Technique were both Houtian techniques.

This kind of technique was popular. Except for a few restrictions, almost all cultivators could practice it. However, for Xiantian experts who had surpassed the Houtian level and reached the Xiantian level, these Houtian techniques were inferior and far less powerful than Xiantian techniques.

Although Houtian techniques were not very useful to them, they were very useful to their forces or families. Therefore, they naturally would not let go of these techniques and let them go to waste.

They did not want to spend a long time comprehending them, so they used their magic power to directly take away these things that contained the techniques and leave them for their families to inherit.

However, at this moment, everyone was shocked to find that the techniques that they had put away earlier had appeared here. What was even more strange was that the techniques that they had put away in their Spiritual Rings had disappeared.

This strange phenomenon caused everyone to cry out in surprise.

After understanding the cause and effect, Zi Chen's face was also filled with surprise. Obviously, the things here could only be comprehended and could not be taken away at will.

Zi Chen looked at Lei Ming and said, "There is no danger here. You can stay here and comprehend slowly."

Lei Ming nodded.

The Houtian techniques here were very useful to him. As for the Xiantian techniques, Lei Ming did not have extravagant hopes.