Chapter 567: Lightning Stairway 3

"It’s finally coming to an end. I..." Shen Xu started but suddenly stopped.

A moment later, his qi soared, and his cultivation increased.

"Xiaolei has become a level thirteen fire." The double excitedly said after his cultivation settled.

"Congratulations." Zhen Yuan said and looked at Shen Xu with scrutinising eyes.

"You cultivation is a hair-breadth’s away from half a step into the great immortal realm." He said and the double nodded.

"I may directly advance to the great immortal realm after Xiaomu and Xiaoshui advance." He said.

"It would be great if you did, but that may be a bit difficult." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"There is a gult between the peak-stage of the heaven immortal realm and the early-stage of the great immortal immortal. You will still need to retreat if you want to cross that gulf." He said and Shen Xu nodded.

"I know." He said.

"Ayuan, I have thought of something." The double continued and Zhen Yuan raised an eyebrow.

"What?" He asked.

"I can’t use the sealed lightning qi in my dantian, and it would be a waste to expel it. I want to condense the qi into a crystal, and keep it for Yang Shi and the others." The double said.

"That’s a good idea." Zhen Yuan nodded.

The two originally thought that Zhen Yuan would also receive the qi rewards.

However, they soon noticed that Shen Xu received the qi but Zhen Yuan didn’t.

In the end, theu could only chalk it up to the man’s extraordinary cultivation and identity.

"Yang Shi and the others can use the qi crystals to practice and hopefully, they can help them advance a few small realms." Shen Xu said.

"That depends on what realm they will be at when we eventually reunite." Zhen Yuan said.

"It’s unfortunate that we are too far apart. Otherwise, I would have broken through using the qi feedbacks of Yang Shi, Feng Xue, Yin Shi, Li Wenqiang, and Hu Jiaojiao." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan smiled.

"You want something for nothing." He said, and the double stuck out his tongue.

At this time, the lightning on the ten thousandth floor suddenly increased and the two hurriedly sat.

They were used to the heavy lightning on each thousandth step.

However, the ten thousandth step was not only heavy but unceasing.

With gritted teeth, the two relied on pulse and inscriptions to emdure one year of heaven lightning.

By the time the lightning reduced, the two looked like human-shaped charcoal and barely had a breath left.

"Ayuan..." Shen Xu called.

"Take a pill quickly." Zhen Yuan said.

Because Zhen Yuan was worried about not being able to draw runes while injured, he had engraved five inscriptions on his body.

That way, he could use them to partially recover and regain some strength.

While Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan were recovering, a quake shook the entire stairway, twenty golden lightning bolts streaked in the sky, and a monument rose from the ground.

At the two thousandth step, a great immortal realm male cultivator raised his head and frowned.

"It’s twenty this time." He said.

"The number has increased from two to four to six,..., and now twenty. Assuming that the golden lightning has something to do with the two people who rushed ahead, we can conclude that they have already reached the ten thousandth step." Another said.

"Ten thousand steps in three thousand years? Does that make sense?"

"Fellow daoist Duan is right. We have been here for three thousand years, but have only climbed to the two thousandth step."

"Could it be that they are not Fellow daoists, but seniors?" Someone asked.

"Seniors..., It’s not impossible." A female cultivator said and quickly continued.

"Our lower heaven has received many visitors in the past few years. Maybe the two people are seniors from the middle or upper heaven."

"Their cultivation should be a lot higher than ours." Someone commented.

After deciding that the two people were seniors, the group resumed their training while Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan continued healing.

The two didn’t rush to engrave their names.

On one hand, they were on the top deep and after engraving their names, they would be teleported out of the stairway.

Considering that they were injured, the two decide to first heal and their engrave their names.

Three years passed and the two finally recovered.

On this day, they exchanged a glance and engraved their names on the monument.

A breath later, four boxes flew out of the monument, and two flew to each of them.

"Ayuan, I plan to leave Xiaolei here. I will take him back when we are ready to leave the Wuhu unknown area." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Xiaolei and the others know how to conceal their presence. No one will notice it even if we leave it here." He said.

"That’s..." The double began but didn’t get to finish because he and Zhen Yuan were suddenly teleported away.

A breath later, the two appeared at a vacant lot at the centre of the unknown area.

"Let’s rest for awhile." Zhen Yuan suggested and Shen Xu immediately agreed.

After all, they had been in a lightning hell for three thousand years and even if they had recovered, they still felt a little weary.

Soon after, they setup their portable cave, activated the formations, and promptly entered the space.

This time, the two didn’t go to the peach garden or bamboo hut.

Instead, they went to the medicinal hot spring at the back of the house.

"I feel like I could live here." Shen Xu said and sighed with satisfied expression.

"Mmh." Zhen Yuan agreed.

After being battered for three thousand years, the two felt like the hot spiring was an otherwordly luxury.

"Ayuan, how is your body? Do you have any hidden internal injuries?" The double asked and Zhen Yuan shook his head.

"I am pretty much healed. How about you?" He asked.

"My qi is contaminated with lightning aura, but I am otherwise fine." The double said.

His qi was usually an endless sea of flames.

However, at this time, the double could sense a crackle of lightning here and there.

That said, Shen Xu wasn’t worried because they had many qi cleansing resources.

"Ayuan, Let’s open the boxes." Shen Xu suggested and Zhen Yuan agreed.

Soon after, Shen Xu opened a box and saw a silver-purple cloud.

"This is the lightning element cloud." He said, but didn’t dare to touch it for fear of being struck to death.

"It has very rich lightning qi." Zhen Yuan observed.

Shen Xu sighed when he heard this.

"I worked hard but the benefits are for Yang Shi and Yin Shi." He complained and put the box away with an annoyed face.

However, Zhen Yuan knew that Shen Xu wasn’t little annoyed.

After all, Yang Shi and Yin Shi were his contracted monsters and in the end, their strength was his strength.

A moment later, Shen Xu opened his second box and found a silver stone.

At a glance, the stone looked like a full moon and even flowed with silverfish light.

"It’s a moonstone." The double muttered with a surprised face.

After all, he got many treasures from the lightning stairway and all were related to the elements.

However, the moonstone was a natural treasure that had nothing to do with the elements.

"The moonstone can transform ordinary immortal water into moon water." Zhen Yuan started and quickly continued. "Using moon water will result in more potent moon essence liquid and most importantly, the moonstone can replenish the moon scales cone." Je said and Shen Xu nodded.

"Our luck is not bad." He said and glanced at Zhen Yuan’s boxes.

Seeing the look, the man opened the first box and found another lightning dao fruit.

"I reckon that the ten lightning dao fruits contain the entirety of the lightning dao." He said.

"You can slowly comprehend them." Shen Xu said and couldn’t help but be happy for Zhen Yuan.

After all, ordinary laws could be found everywhere, but finding the sources of heavenly laws was a little tricky.

"Open the second box." Shen Xu urged and Zhen Yuan didn’t hesitate.

On opening the box, the two saw a purple stone with uneven surfaces and edges.

"This is..." Shen Xu started and narrowed his eyes.

"Ayuan, do you recognise it?" He asked but Zhen Yuan shook his head.

"We will have to check the library." He said.

With that, the two stored the gifts, and slumped on the hotspring walls.

Fifty space years passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan did not cultivate, study or train in any way.

Instead, they allowed themselves to relax and gradually, the fatigue from the lightning stairway slowly seeped away.

On this day, the two exited the hot spring and after a big feast, they entered the bamboo hut and went to their training room.

"It will take atleast one hundred years to get rid of the lightning aura in my body." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"I will see you in one hundred years." He said.