If his thought process was correct, then it meant that what they thought of this place was false to begin with. These stairs... may not really be stairs and the power that restrained them, might actually be a law of this land.

Having this thought, Grey sucked in a deep breath and looked at the stairs beneath him. These stairs were completely frozen and looked like they had been made of pure ice.

Cold wisps of air would also emanate from the stairs and rise up into their bodies. But Grey suddenly realized that... he didn’t feel any cold.

He didn’t feel any pressure at all. It was like all the rules did not apply to him. Hence, Grey became even more curious and began to observe the ice stairs beneath his feet.

As his eyes shone with a purple sheen, a scene gradually appeared in his sight. In his mind, Grey saw that within the ice stairs, were actually many speckles of black light.

These light were so small that they couldn’t be noticed even if one pried deeper. And besides, the fog that rolled down from the top of the stairs covered the uniqueness of the stairs and made it even harder to see.

But due to the specialty of Grey’s eyes, he could notice these differences that nobody probably did.

With dragon eyes activated, Grey naturally saw all these scenes. A long time ago when Grey was taking the examination to enter Sky Mist sect, he had comprehended a technique called dragon eyes.

During that period, he had comprehended one hundred percent of the art. But he later found out that the art was not complete and he needed to get the complete art from the imperial city of the human race.

This art... was an Emperor level cultivation art.

With dragon eyes, Grey’s eyesight was boosted significantly and he could also deal damage to his opponent if he looked at them in the eye.

But after a period of time, with his level of cultivation rapidly increasing, the level of Dragon eyes was no longer useful to him. Hence, he rarely used it whenever he was fighting.

It was only now that he needed excellent eyesight did he use it to pry into the secret of the ice stairs.

"These black speckles of light... they should represent the rules and laws of this world. However... it has been a long time since this expert died. The power he held over his realities gradually diminished." Grey said calmly as he looked at the stairs.

"Although these black speckles of light are very small and hard to notice, I observed that they are slowly shrinking and disappearing. Probably in a few hundred years, these blacks speckles of light would completely disappear. These laws that represent the black speckles of light would also disappear. Meaning that without the laws of this land holding this place upright... this reality will eventually fall."

Grey spoke in a solemn voice. "It will also mean that a reality would disappear very soon. With one reality disappearing, the power of this dead expert will fall drastically. And with one reality falling, the others will naturally follow..."

Grey stopped talking as he looked around him. Although he had only gone up seven or something steps, it was like he had walked over seven thousand stairs. As he was high up in the sky.

He looked at the world from this very high position, and all he could see was barrenness and desolateness. Cold wind blew, but it couldn’t shake the cold aura in this land.

Grey could also sense a forlorn and lonely feeling coming from this world. It was like the twilight period of a dying era.

"If that is the case, then we should be quick and leave this place. Any sudden changes can cause any of these realities to fall and collapse. If that happens while we are still here..." A freezing glint appeared in his eyes.

Yet, even when he said those words, Grey had no idea on how to get out. He was currently stuck on the seventh step and couldn’t advance any further.

He also could go backwards. It was also at this moment that Grey noticed that he could not go backwards even if he could. When he looked behind him, he saw... nothing.

He did not see Roxanne or the previous sixth step. It was like it never existed

"I have to think of a way to advance further. Ther must be another way of advancing without using brute force." Grey said and began to think.

He thought for a long time before a thought gradually settled down in his mind. It was to use the laws of this world to advance!

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What are laws? Laws are decrees that rule over a land. They are the only force that can dominate the world without the use of cultivation.

In ancient times, the laws of the world were also known as the will of the world. Only cultivators that had reached the realm above Nascent Soul Transformation realm could use the power of the world which was also the laws of the world.

A Soul Ascendancy realm cultivator took that even further by creating their laws to guide their inner realities. With their laws as the decrees and they as the creators of the laws, they were efficiently the rulers of their world.

But although Soul Ascendancy realm cultivators could create their own laws, they could not match the ultimate laws of the real world.

What Grey wanted to do was to manipulate the rules of this land to a certain extent. Although that sounded easy, in reality, it was near impossible.

It was not even for really troublesome reasons, one of the reasons was that his level was too low. Who has ever heard of a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator controlling laws.

It was impossible. Unless if they were heavens chosen and were appointed by the world itself, then no one under the Nirvana realm could manipulate the laws of the world.

However, Grey did not want to use his own power to manipulate the rules of this dimension. If he tried that, then he was bound to fail. He might even receive some backlash from failure and such backlash could put an end to his life immediately.

So instead of doing that, Grey wanted to try a method that no one had ever done before, and no one possible could.

Grey wanted to use the purple crystal to temporarily suppress the laws of this world and become it’s temporary owner. If he became it’s owner, he could ignore the rules and ascend to the fourteenth step without a hassle.