There is an artificially excavated rock staircase in the back mountain of Bifeng, the staircase is very wide, and it is not built according to the winding of the mountain like the ordinary mountain stone staircase, it is like being cut straight on the mountainside with a giant knife, and if you look carefully at a close distance, you can also see that each stone step is finely chiseled, and the amazing thing is that almost all the stone steps are the same height and width.

This staircase lying on the side of Bifeng Mountain is very famous in Qingyang Mountain, not only because it can be called the level of exquisite carving, but also because it is widely spread in Qingyang Mountain, and its entire construction process is completed by one person.

It is conceivable how many boring years and extraordinary perseverance it takes to complete the construction of such a ladder, but there are still people who have completed it.

It was a mediocre disciple of Qingyang Academy, not even a disciple, at that time his identity was just an orphan who was kindly taken in by the elders in Qingyang Academy, but his mediocre martial arts talent and bloodline made him still stay in Qingjing at the age of twenty, and he was no longer valued by the sect and ridiculed by other disciples, but he was not willing to be mediocre. One day, in order to make himself feel the existence of [Qi], he thought of the simplest and most clumsy method, starting to build a ladder in the mountain behind Bifeng, through each tapping and polishing process, he could feel the flow of power in his body, as well as the subtle changes in the power around him. In this way, this act was incomprehensible to outsiders, but his comprehension of [Shu] and [Qi] continued to deepen in thousands of repeated movements, until one day when he completed the last order, the rest of the sect found that he had already broken through the Holy Realm, and his name was recorded in the character books of Qingyang Academy.

His name was Tang Chuan, and this 18,000-step staircase was called the Ladder to Heaven.

Later, on this ladder to heaven, nine attics were built in turn, and the nine lofts are also called heavenly pavilions, and according to the order from bottom to top, they are called one to nine heavenly pavilions, which means that they soar to the sky.

In the early morning, Tang Chuan started from the first step of the ladder and climbed the steps, which has been his habit for many years, perhaps because he personally built it little by little, whenever he saw the traces left by the erosion of the years of wind and rain, he was heartbroken, and sometimes he would look at a certain place for a moment, maybe he saw himself who was reluctant to sweat on the mountainside day and night, regardless of the wind and sun.

When he passed the first attic, he glanced at the two teenagers under the eaves who were talking to each other, and the two of them were suddenly silent, shrunk their heads, and pretended to look away, for these two teenagers who had been punished by the Discipline Hall for violating the rules of the sect and fighting in private, he didn't pay much attention to it, and continued to go up the stairs step by step.

When Tang Chuan walked away, the two teenagers breathed a sigh of relief.

A teenager said: "When I came back yesterday, I was worried that I would definitely not be able to get out of bed this time if I didn't lie down for ten days and eight days, but I didn't expect that it would be fine now, I don't know if I haven't gotten the news from the precept Tang yet." ”

Another teenager said, "Yuanxi, is the master really so strict? ”

Yuan Xi leaned his head over and said softly: "Su Yuan, don't you know, just some time ago, when a senior brother of the Sixfold Heavenly Pavilion challenged the Sevenfold Heavenly Pavilion, he accidentally damaged a small part of the stairs during the fight, and it was the size of a palm. In private, who doesn't know that this ladder is like the daughter-in-law of the master, let alone breaking it, it is usually terrifying to walk up. ”

Su Yuan was stunned, and looked at the staircase lying on Bifeng Mountain with an unnatural expression: "You just said that it took Shizun forty years to complete the construction of this staircase, and it is already a holy realm?"

"Isn't it, in our Qingyang Academy, there are a total of two people who have broken through the Holy Realm, one is the sect master, and the other is our master. ”

Su Yuan remembered that night he had a conversation with Tang Chuan on the top of Bifeng Mountain, Tang Chuan once said that it is not only the innate talent and bloodline that determine a person's martial arts achievements, but also a person's heart and will also play a vital role, and he himself is the best example. Moreover, Tang Chuan also said to Su Yuan that he had penetrating opinions about [technique] and [qi], thinking that he had realized it in a knock and a chisel.

Yuan Xi once told him that Tang Chuan would occasionally promote outer disciples to enter Bifeng's core - Yanwutang, and he had always been unbiased towards all disciples, perhaps because of his experience and understanding of martial arts.

Before, Su Yuan speculated that Tang Chuan should be in the middle or late stage of the Xuan Realm, but he didn't expect that Tang Chuan had actually reached the Holy Realm many years ago, and it was the most famous powerhouse in the entire empire, and among the powerhouses known throughout the ages, the Holy Realm was already the highest level that a martial artist could reach.

Although Tang Chuan said that Emperor Shenwu once said that the Holy Realm is not the end of the martial arts, no one has been able to touch that realm so far.

"Where did you get this knife? I haven't seen it before. Yuanxi's question interrupted Su Yuan's thoughts, and his eyes stared at Su Yuan's frightening dream hanging on his waist.

"Oh, I exchanged it from the Armory, so I don't have a weapon to take advantage of. Su Yuan didn't tell Yuanxi about the process of getting the dream, and casually found an excuse to prevaricate.

In his opinion, this is the secret between himself and Liufeng Yueling.

"I don't know much about this Heavenly Pavilion, you can tell me about it. Su Yuan was worried that Yuanxi would continue to entangle the saber on his body, so he hurriedly shifted the conversation.

"This nine-fold heavenly pavilion was built by the master later, each attic has four floors, and when the pavilion was built, it was stipulated that only one person was allowed to enter each floor, which is usually called occupation here, such as the one-fold heavenly pavilion where we are now, and the floor where we are located is equivalent to the "territory" we occupy In all the thirty-six floors of the Heavenly Pavilion, only those who have a seat in the Yanwu Hall are eligible to occupy one of the floors, and here they must be occupied in the order of the top layers, and there are all kinds of books including martial arts in each layer, and some of them have the cultivation insights left by their predecessors. ”

It has been more than ten days since Su Yuan officially entered the Bifeng Yanwu Hall, but it was the first time he came to the Tongtian Ladder. After Yuan Xi's explanation, Su Yuan learned that the ladder of heaven and the Yanwutang are somewhat similar, both of them are only the corresponding strength can occupy the corresponding attic level, the difference is that the role of the Yanwutang is replaced here, Bi Feng's core disciples' daily cultivation and competition are here, and the martial arts books collected in the attic are also convenient for disciples to refer to at any time.

There are only two people in the First Heavenly Pavilion now, Su Yuan and Yuan Xi are naturally on the first layer when they first come, and Yuan Xi is the one who occupies the fourth layer without giving up.

Yuanxi suddenly noticed that Su Yuan was looking at him with a strange expression, and asked a little unnaturally, "Why are you looking at me?"

"I remember that there are twenty-nine disciples in the Yanwu Hall, and there are thirty-six floors here, except for us, two floors here are empty, then there should be five floors of the attic above us that are empty, it stands to reason that others should not put the higher attic without occupying it, so why are you still in the First Heavenly Pavilion. ”

Yuan Xi's face suddenly turned red, as if someone had discovered his disgraceful thing, "Okay, it's okay to tell you, now the guy on the first layer of the Double Heavenly Pavilion has had a holiday with me, and he would rather go up to the Heavenly Pavilion empty than let me go up, and my strength is a little lower than him, and I have lost him a move and a half every time before, so ......"

"So he deliberately made things difficult for you, so that you have been laughed at in the First Heavenly Pavilion. Su Yuan saw that Yuanxi was a little embarrassed, and added the words for him.

"How is his strength, why don't I meet him?" asked Su Yuan.

"His ranking in the Yanwutang is twenty-five, and if you beat him, it should be relatively big. "Yuanxi is very aware of Su Yuan's strength, not to mention that the two defeated him with one move when they first competed, even if he could compete with the powerful Ji Yuan for a short time.

"Su Yuan, I know you want to help me, but you don't have to defeat him in order to help me, or even leave him not to go too far afterwards. This is a grudge between me and him, as long as I give me some time, I will defeat him with dignity. Yuan Xi's eyes were firm, maybe he had been squeezed for too long, or maybe it was this ladder to heaven and its deeds that infected him, he looked towards the double heavenly pavilion, the distance between the two heavenly pavilions was not very far, there was a young man who was looking down from here condescendingly with a smile, carrying a long knife on his shoulder, full of provocative taste.

"In two months, I will definitely defeat you, you wait and see. Yuan Xi clenched his fists and said loudly.

Since he met Yuanxi, he gave Su Yuan a bit of a hanging appearance, but the firmness and determination he suddenly showed now seemed to be a different person, perhaps this was also the reason why Tang Chuan promoted him from the outer disciple to the martial arts hall that represented the core of Bi Feng, otherwise a person who seemed to be unable to find merit and stagnated in martial arts for most of the year, presumably no one was willing to waste resources and time to cultivate.

"Well, I'm not going to challenge him for two months. Su Yuan also happened to be able to use this time to flip through the books in the First Heavenly Pavilion, and for him who was new to it, this was an opportunity to enrich and improve his martial arts knowledge.