As a father, I just want to quietly watch you live a long life

Ao Qingqing stepped onto the eleventh step and let out a breath.

“Just one step higher than Li Nuanxi; at least I can give an explanation to my aunt…”

“The suppression on the alien race is too strong. I… I can’t possibly become Taibai God’s direct disciple… I’m realistic about my limitations.”

Ao Qingqing looked a bit despondent as she sat on the staircase, her gaze melancholic.

However, when she looked down at Li Nuanxi beneath her, her heart eased slightly.

This is enough; having an explanation for my aunt will suffice.

The happiness of the Little Dragon Girl is just that simple.

“What’s Xi Xi doing here? What mischief is she scheming?”

Zhou Peng, Yun E, and the others watched Xi Xi, who had only climbed to the tenth step but paused there, seemingly preparing for something. They were momentarily dumbfounded.

Yun E bit her lip, her gaze toward Xi Xi tinged with some pity. She poured an elixir out of the jade vase beside her.

It was an elixir that could temporarily unleash one’s talent, though it came with side effects. However, within the Qiankun Small Cave Heaven, these side effects would be nullified.

Yun E knew Xi Xi didn’t have such elixirs in her supply, so she left one for her.

“You can do it, Xi Xi,” Yun E said softly, then felt a violent thumping sound in her heart, causing her to clutch her chest.

Letting out a deep breath, Yun E and Zhou Peng began ascending the stairs together.

Ding-ling ding-ling…

Crisp, soul-stirring sounds echoed.

With a Purple Gold Bell hanging around his neck, Jin Taixui, barefoot and hailing from the Da Li Royal Court, stepped onto the White Jade Staircase.

A thick, towering Purple Aura Divinity Column surged from his brow, fiercely counteracting the staircase’s power.

He approached Xi Xi, looking at the little girl with a round belly. A mocking glint flickered in his eyes.

“Garbage like this… and she dares come in for the Sect Master’s direct disciple examination?”

“As my brother said… The Great Vista has truly declined, full of nothing but trash.”

Jin Taixui strode past Xi Xi, his purple hair streaming behind him, teasing glimmers flashing in his glance.

He raised his hand and flicked lightly on the Purple Gold Bell.

Ding—

In an instant, a cluster of purple flames leapt out from the bell.

Directly above Xi Xi’s head, it transformed into an enormous purple flame palm, hovering ominously, poised to strike.

Ao Qingqing watched coldly from the eleventh step, choosing not to intervene.

Jin Taixui glanced at her, sneered, then laughed lightly as he walked past Xi Xi, muttering under his breath, “Trash.”

Jin Taixui strode briskly, his pace accelerating on the staircase, ascending rapidly.

In one leap, he surpassed a hundred steps.

Upon reaching the hundredth step,

without even turning his head, he raised his hand, his black robes sliding to reveal his fingers, which snapped.

“Trash should go where trash belongs.”

Then, Jin Taixui let out a low, sinister laugh, stomping his foot and leaping upward, evidently disgusted by the slow speed of climbing.

His body soared into the air, the Purple Aura Divinity Column above his head reacting intensely with the staircase’s energy.

Rumble—

The White Jade Staircase trembled slightly.

And around Jin Taixui’s figure, purple flames seemed to ignite.

He laughed maniacally, charging forward without restraint.

Surpassing one Divine Child after another.

“Slow, far too slow… You’re all unbearably slow!”

Jin Taixui laughed uproariously.

He overtook Zhou Peng and Yun E, overtook Yue Linghu, quickly closing the gap with Lu Chi and Tie Shancai…

His reckless laughter, his wild and unbridled charge up the White Jade Staircase…

left everyone watching narrowing their eyes in awe.

…

…

The tenth step.

Above Xi Xi’s head, that hovering purple flame palm seemed accompanied by the echo, “Trash should go where trash belongs.”

In an instant, the flame palm suddenly descended!

It aimed to strike Xi Xi directly and knock her off the tenth step!

But—

Boom—!!!

When the purple flame palm struck harshly at Xi Xi’s body,

purple flames surged like serpents from Xi Xi’s left hand, coiling fiercely around her and transforming into a massive purple Jiaoshe that devoured the descending flame palm in one bite!

The purple flame Jiao Mang coiled around Xi Xi’s small body, letting out a furious roar!

Ao Qingqing stood frozen, her gaze fixated, her heart trembling.

Then…

she saw the small, bratty girl with hands on her hips and a puffed-up belly cautiously open her gleaming, watery eyes.

Faintly…

Ao Qingqing seemed to see a gargantuan, ten-meter-wide Purple Aura Divinity…

It resembled a cascading waterfall.

That’s…

A Purple Aura Divinity Column representing talent?!

Divine Children in the Small Cave Heaven cannot see one another’s Divinity Columns, can they?

Why is she being forced to behold something so terrifying?!

Boom—!!!

Xi Xi’s hair hung upside down, an angry expression surfacing in her eyes.

Her fury erupted because of Jin Taixui’s sneak attack!

She had been woken up!

Just as she was gathering her emotions, layering her talent…

She had been woken up!

Now she was very mad!

Emperor Xi Xi would remember that bell-wearing fiend!

Xi Xi glanced at Ao Qingqing, trembling on the eleventh step.

A loach ripe for skinning and tendon-stripping?!

Her fingers itched…

But she held back.

More important matters awaited!

Carrying the cascading Purple Aura Divinity Column overhead!

Xi Xi clenched her fists, arms bending inward, taking a step forward!

“Hee-yah!”

Rumble—

It was as if a colossal beast had stomped!

The entire White Jade Staircase instantly began to quake and shudder violently!