Chapter 937: Chapter 937: Celestial Dao Ice Ladder

Sect Leader Jiang, who was at the center of the vortex, was still unaware of his burgeoning fame in the Ice Realm.

He had already reached the central region of the Ice Realm.

This world itself was a vast iceberg.

The very center could be considered the peak of the mountain.

And the Ice Origin Valley was a sunken area at the top of this mountain.

According to normal logic, the closer one gets to the central region, the denser the aura of the Ice Origin should be.

However, to his surprise, the Origin Aura here was extremely thin.

Especially within a thousand miles of the Ice Origin Valley, one could not sense the Ice Origin at all.

And closer than several hundred miles, all the ice layers had disappeared.

They hadn’t melted into water but rather became empty and hollow.

This was an incredible phenomenon in the Ice Realm.

Brother Cheng was greatly astonished.

"What is going on here?"

"How can such an anomaly occur?"

Gong Qing, however, was not surprised.

"It’s the principle of flourishing and decline; the Ice Origin is right at this center, causing the Origin Aura to be overly intense."

"It has instead pushed everything around it away, eventually forming a unique blank area."

"The formation of the sunken area of the Ice Origin Valley is for this reason as well."

Brother Cheng nodded: "So that’s it."

He looked at the bustling figures ahead with curiosity.

"Since there’s no Origin Aura here, why are so many people flocking here?"

On this matter, Gong Qing wasn’t very clear either.

Though intelligent, she was, after all, just a small Emperor Realm Second Layer Cultivator from a remote part of the Celestial Rainbow Territory in the past.

Her perspective was limited, and many things were beyond her reach.

"Perhaps... they, like you, have fanciful dreams of entering the Ice Origin Valley?"

She immediately overturned her own guess as soon as she voiced it.

"No, that’s not right."

"I remember that the Ice Origin Valley is unreachable; unless one reaches the Emperor Realm Ninth Layer, they would be swallowed by the overwhelmingly powerful Origin Aura, with no chance of survival!"

The only one in history who successfully ventured in was the Ice Extreme Saint Venerable who reached Emperor Realm Ninth Layer back then.

Beyond that were the 500 people who obtained the Heaven-Reaching Talisman he created.

As for others who attempted forcefully?

It wasn’t that no one tried—it’s just that they all died without exception after trying.

Logically, even those with the wildest dreams should weigh their lives carefully.

Why are so many people still gathered in this desolate place?

Worried that the person beside her might pull some crazy stunt, Gong Qing promptly educated him in advance.

"Six hundred billion years ago, there was an Emperor Realm Eighth Layer cultivator who was unwilling to accept being unable to enter the Ice Origin Valley and chose to force his way in."

"Ultimately, in front of countless witnesses, that senior was devoured by the Ice Origin without a trace left."

"The failure of the Emperor Realm Eighth Layer extinguished the hopes of all Ice Realm cultivators."

Now, do you realize how dangerous it is?

Do you really think your fate is tougher than the Emperor Realm Eighth Layer?

"Oh? Really?"

Not only was Brother Cheng not intimidated, but he instead started to laugh.

Sigh, he thought it would be much harder to get in.

As long as you could die, it was fine.

Looks like one foot was already poised to step into the Ice Origin Valley.

"Are you still not planning to give up?"

Gong Qing almost wanted to grab him.

"Even if you truly are Emperor Realm Sixth Layer or even Seventh Layer, it won’t work!"

Brother Cheng remained indifferent.

"We’re already here, and besides, there are so many people; there has to be a reason. Let’s go check it out!"

The two flew forward.

Within several hundred zhang of the Ice Origin Valley, they saw a staircase made of layers of ice and snow appear out of nowhere.

In this void that was closest to the Ice Origin Valley, the Ice Ladder floated in mid-air, glowing with a pristine white light, looking extremely sacred.

The Ice Ladder consisted of just 128 steps, leading towards a distant unknown void ahead.

The spacing between each step wasn’t far, and even ordinary people could pass through.

For cultivators, such a staircase could be scaled in less than a second.

Yet thousands of cultivators from various places simply stood around the Ice Ladder, hesitating to advance.

"What’s causing all this excitement?"

Brother Cheng was intrigued.

"Is it a competition? A Heaven-Ascending Ladder race?"

He asked his portable military advisor, but Advisor Gong was completely clueless.

As she’d mentioned before, her starting point was too low; no matter how smart she was, she couldn’t know everything in advance.

Like this Ice Ladder, for instance.

Brother Cheng, quite sociably, pulled over a cultivator from the crowd.

"Brother, what’s going on? What’s this Heaven-Ascending Ladder for?"

The Ice Race man looked back at him.

"You’ve come all the way here, and you still don’t know this is the Celestial Dao Ice Ladder?"

"This is a test personally set by the Ice Extreme Saint Venerable three million years ago."

"As long as you can reach the end of the Ice Ladder, you can directly enter the Ice Origin Valley!"

Brother Cheng hadn’t reacted yet, but Gong Qing exclaimed in surprise.

"What, really?! Even something like this exists?"

She really had never heard of it.

"In these three million years, there should be many who entered the Ice Origin Valley, right?"

"Why hasn’t something this significant spread?"

Another Human Race Cultivator nearby turned and shrugged: "Who told you many people entered? In these three million years, not a single one succeeded."

"Not a single successful one?"

This time Gong Qing and even Brother Cheng were both astonished.

The Ice Ladder doesn’t even look that high.

Can’t you just jump up easily?

At that moment, the crowd in front of them stirred. A middle-aged man, covered in dark black icy mystical ice, slowly walked towards the Ice Ladder.

"Yu Bai!"

"It’s Yu Bai!"

Hearing this name, Gong Qing couldn’t help but feel a bit excited.

She knew Brother Cheng was quite ’ignorant,’ so she quickly turned her head to educate him.

"This Yu Bai, in terms of talent, is no less than Wei Shan; he too is one of the peerless geniuses who rose in the last two hundred million years."

"He is now already at the mid-stage Emperor Realm Sixth Layer!"

To be honest, that’s truly a peerless genius.

You have to know, in the Immortal Realm, even with great talent and fortune, breaking through to Immortal Emperor or Demon Emperor takes one or two billion years.

And that’s just to reach Emperor Realm First Layer.

Reaching Emperor Realm Sixth Layer in only two hundred million years is only possible in a True Realm world with an Origin.

Seeing her eyes filled with a bit of worship, Brother Cheng sourly pursed his lips.

You’re my exclusive military advisor; shouldn’t you only worship me, with eyes for no one else?

"With such a dark complexion and named Yu Bai, he doesn’t seem like a promising upright person."

Fortunately, everyone was focused on the scene, or someone would surely have retorted.

The observing crowd remained extremely excited.

"This is the third time Yu Bai has stepped onto the Ice Ladder, right?"

"Haha, how far will he get this time?"

"Last time, Yu Bai reached the 48th step; this time, he should at least break through to 50!"

"50 steps, now that’s an extraordinary achievement."

"Yeah, it could rank in the top twenty in the entire Ice Realm!"

"Look, he’s stepped on!"

The crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

As if it were some grand spectacle.