Chapter 570: Fire Stairway 1

From what Shen Xu remembered, the portable Palace was an apprenticeship token sent down by a level nine god.

In the book, Xiao Weimin used the resources in the portable Palace to learn immortal and divine arts.

Unfortunately, by the time the book ended, Xiao Weimin hadn’t met his benefactor because the person was in the ninth level of the god realm.

’Maybe they will meet in this life.’ The double thought.

"Fellow daoist Shen..." Bai Guo called and Shen Xu immediately regained his focus.

"You must know that we are twins." He stated without beating around the bush.

Hearing the statement, Bai Guo frowned but nodded.

"I know." He said and quickly continued.

"I know but I don’t understand."

Shen Xu sighed when he heard this.

"Our mother and my father were accidentally poisoned in a secret realm. They had a one-time relationship but our mother did not want my father to take responsibility."

"They went seperate ways when the secret realm closed, and I presume that our mother sent me away after I was born. That’s all I know." He said and shrugged.

"So that’s how it is." Bai Guo muttered but still felt uncomfortable about the situation.

After all, his parents loved each other deeply and disdained getting involved with others.

"Are you planning to look for our mother?" Bai Guo asked, and Shen Xu nodded.

"I will meet her, but I don’t plan to develop a relationship." He said.

Bai Guo raised an eyebrow when he heard this.

"Why?" He asked.

"It’s enough that our mother has your family, and it’s enough that I have my family. There is no need to force things." Shen Xu said and Bai Guo looked at him for a long time before speaking.

"Our mother is in the upper heaven. You will have to work your way there." He said and Shen Xu nodded.

"I know."

After that, the four had a perfunctory conversation before leaving the cave.

"It’s fate that we met here. Why don’t we climb together?" Xiao Weimin suggested and the couple didn’t refuse.

On one hand, excessively rejecting the group would be too suspicious, and on the other, Shen Xu wanted to see Xiao Weimin’s current level.

[Xiaoxu, Xiao Weimin is a five-elements spiritual root cultivator and can comfortably climb the fire stairway, but most of the others don’t have fire spiritual roots. Could they have elements refining techniques?] Zhen Yuan wondered.

[Book Xiao Weimin didn’t have such techniques, but they have Zhu Huang in this life. Maybe the system gave him the techniques.] Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[Makes sense.] He said.

After climbing nine stairways, the first step of the fire stairway felt like midday sun.

That said, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan didn’t immediately climb to the second floor. Instead, they sat cross-legged and began to practice.

Seeing this, Xiao Weimin and the others also sat and began to refine the flame balls that were raining from the sky.

[System, I want to buy Shen Xu’s and Zhen Yuan’s profiles.] Zhu Huang did.

[Are you sure?] The system asked.

After all, it still remembered what happened when Zhu Huang last bought the two people’s profiles.

[Price?] Zhu Huang asked

[One billion for Shen Xu, and ten billion for Zhen Yuan.] The system said and Zhu Huang subconciously shuddered.

[System, you have opened the lion’s mouth.] He complained and the system couldn’t help but feel wronged.

[This is the price sent down by the mother system.] It said.

[Can you give me a hint? Will there be more information in the profiles?] He asked but the system didn’t answer.

In the end, Zhu Huang gritted his teeth and bought the profiles but almost lost his mind when he saw the outcome.

[What is this?] He asked through gritted teeth.

[Shen Xu’s and Zhen Yuan’s profiles.] The system answered in a confident voice but Zhu Huang wished he could materialise it just so he could beat it into bloodmist.

[You took eleven billion immortal stones but gave me two blank profiles?] He asked and the mechanical voice didn’t respond until three breaths later.

[Host, I warned you.] It said but Zhu Huang couldn’t be placated.

[We know their names, gender, approximate age, romantic and blood relationships, their talents, their cultivation level, and even their hometown but why are the profiles blank? Are you broken?] He asked.

[Host, this system is functioning properly. The problem is those two people.] The system defended itself.

[There was some information the last time I bought profiles. Why has it become like this now?] Zhu Huang asked but the system also wanted an answer but had no one to ask.

[Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. The host should learn from this and no longer buy those two people’s profiles.] It advised in a self-righteous voice.

’This damned system is becoming more and more treacherous.’ Zhu Huang thought and forced himself to suppress his frustration.

In the end, Zhu Huang could only swallow the loss and focus on his cultivation.

Ten years passed and a gap opened between the large group.

First, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan were climbing much faster than Xiao Weimin’s group, while Xiao Weimin was climbing faster than the rest of his group.

Similarly, Zhu Huang was faster than the others, while the others were roughly climbing at the same speed.

’This is good.’ Shen Xu thought.

After all, he and Zhen Yuan didn’t like spending too much time with the main protagonist’s group.

[Xiao Weimin and the others should have already climbed some of the other stairways.] Shen Xu speculated and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[Wood, earth, water, and metal.] He said and quickly continued.

[Bai Guo is a light spiritual root cultivator but he doesn’t seem to have been to the light stairway.] He said.

One hundred years passed and the two reached the one thousandth step.

However, because their bodies had been transformed on other stairways, surviving the torrential flame balls wasn’t too difficult.