Chapter 561: Wuhu Unknown Area 1

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Zhen Yuan and the others ran around the city, preparing for the Wuhu unknown area.

On this day, the right left the city and Li Bo took out his level twelve ship.

"My ship is fast." He said and let everyone get on.

Because the ship didn’t have enough rooms, only Li Bo and the Zhou siblings had separate rooms.

As for the others, they were given a shared room that had two beds only.

Seeing the situation, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan didn’t insist on staying in the room, but instead sat on the deck.

"What do you want to drink?" Shen Xu asked.

"Ten thousand flowers wine." Zhen Yuan said and the double smiled

The ten thousand flowers wine was a sf-made variant of the one hundred flowers wine

Using the countless flowers in the space, Shen Xu had experimentally made the wine and the result was better than expected.

"A man after my own heart." The double said and removed a gourd and two wine cups from the space.

After pouring the wine, he took out a plate of fried water peanuts, and placed it on the table between them.

The scenery passed, the two people drank, and before they knew it, the ship landed at a large clearing.

"The entrance is fifty metres ahead." Li Bo said, but he didn’t need to because the others had also noticed it.

"I just overheard someone say that there are unique rewards for first-time attempts." Shen Xu suddenly said.

If he had a choice, the double wouldn’t bother mentioning this information.

However, he and Zhen Yuan didn’t want to start climbing only to be interrupted by task obligations.

Considering that, they decided to reveal some information so that the others would delay their climbing until the clan made the final decision.

"Is that true?" Wang Cheng asked and Shen Xu nodded.

"That person said that they climbed to the twentieth step but chose to climb down to message his sect. Later, he resumed his climbing but felt that the quality of qi drops improved at a slower rate than before. Several others also noticed the issue." The double said and continued.

"They speculated that the stairways may distinguish between first and other attempts." He said and the others fell into thought.

"This is possible." Li Bo said.

After all, he had been to many unknown areas and knew that some had peculiarities.

"What should we do?" Zhou Man asked and subconciously frowned.

"We can explore the unknown area but delay the climbing until after the clan decides." Zhou Xuan suggested.

"Young Master Zhou is right." Su Ming immediately agreed.

Although the escort task was lucrative, everyone understood that cultivation was their priority.

Considering that, they chose to forego the immediate benefits, and planned to hold on for better rewards.

With that, the group disembarked, and Li Bo collected his ship before they began walking towards the entrance while listening to gossip.

"The eighth brother said that the fourth brother died without leaving a complete body."

"Isn’t the fourth brother an earth spiritual root immortal? How could he die without leaving a complete body?"

"He was bombarded by rocks, and his body was crushed into blood mist."

Silence fell when the surrounding people heard this, and Zhou Man gasped in horror.

"This..." She muttered, and subconciously stepped back.

In her heart, she was just an alchemist and didn’t to suffer so much to advance her cultivation.

Rather than risking her life on the wood element stairway, she felt it was better to refine promotion pills or buy natural treasures.

"This unknown area is not a place for alchemists." She muttered.

"Manman, you can choose to go home when the time comes." Zhou Xuan said and Zhou Man sighed in relief.

Hundreds of people were crowding around the entrance and the group waited for half an hour before they were able to go in.

Looking around, the group discovered that they were at the centre of a circle, and the stairways were situated at equal intervals along the circumference.

"Shall we seperate or go together?" Su Ming asked.

"Unknown areas are dangerous. It’s best if we go together." Wang Cheng said and the others agreed.

"Let’s start with the water element stairway." Zhou Ruyan said and began walking.

Seeing this, everyone immediately followed, and headed to the water stairway.

The stairway was ten kilometres from the centre.

After arriving, everyone subconciously looked upwards but even with their good eyesight and spiritual sense, they couldn’t see the top.

However, they could see hundreds of people struggling their way upwards.

"There is a sea on each step, and unending rain from the sky." Zhen Yuan said.

"The challenge is to withstand and control the water. Otherwise, one will drown and die." He continued.

While speaking, everyone took out their image stones, and began recording.

When that was done, they approached several cultivators who had just escaped the stairway.

"Fellow immortal, can we talk for a moment." Su Ming asked.

"We have just arrived and don’t know what’s going on with the stairs. Can you help us?" Wang Cheng asked, and used one thousand immortal stones to encourage the people.

"The steps are fine in the beginning; just like being rained on while walking in a shallow pool."

"However, the pool soon turns into a turbulent sea, and the rain becomes a torrential disaster."

"Most importantly, the water becomes dense; sealing the pores, nose, mouth, and even the eyes. If not careful, this dense water will enter the body, slowing your reaction, and eventually drowning you."

"Also, the dense sea water will trap your legs and hinder movement. It’s horrifying."

Zhou Man shuddered when she heard the description.

At the same time, she was grateful that she wasn’t a water spiritual root cultivator but at the back of her mind, she knew that the wood stairway would likely be equally difficult.

’I want nothing to do with these stairs.’ She thought.

"Fellow immortal, how many steps did you climb?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"I climbed fifty-six steps before I was forced to escape." The person said.