Chapter 436: Heavenly Ladder
"What's wrong with you?" The second daughter saw Ma Fan holding a stone in her hand just now, looked at it in a daze with stunned eyes, and asked puzzledly.
"Here................ It used to be a battlefield ................" Ma Fan came back to his senses and said to the second daughter.
"What? Battlefield? How come we haven't heard of it? Empress Huaiyang asked puzzled. For thousands of years away from the Ruin Realm, since there was Immortal Mountain, no one had ever heard that this was once a battlefield.
"This stone................ Let me feel the great battle................ "Ma Fan's mind once again resurfaced the scene he had sensed just now, this time he actually found that he had only noticed the battle between the middle-aged swordsman and the humanoid monster just now, and in addition to the two, there were many belligerents. Although the battle of these belligerents was not as shocking as the other two, it was no less tragic.
On the top of the immortal mountain, there were ruins and broken walls and broken bodies everywhere, countless broken weapons were scattered everywhere, and many seriously injured people were crumbling, supporting their bodies to persist in fighting.
There are also countless demon beasts in the sky and underground participating in the battle. All kinds of monsters fought together, and from time to time, the bodies of monsters fell from the sky.
"This is a tragic battle between man and demon!" Ma Fan immediately understood that one of the two warring parties was a human being, and the other was a demon.
However, what the final outcome of this war will be, Ma Fan does not know.
Since ancient times, the two races of humans and demons have been incompatible, and there have been countless wars between humans and demons in the endless years.
Ma Fan himself had experienced a man-demon war, so he felt the most profoundly. However, that battle between humans and demons did not take place in the Haotian Continent, but in a cultivation space outside of Lin Wai, which was not far from the space where the Haotian Continent was located.
"Human-demon war? What is Human-Demon Wars? The third princess heard it in a fog. If this was said by someone else, the third princess would definitely think that he was talking about it. However, these words came out of Ma Fan's mouth, but the third princess was convinced.
"Human-demon war? I used to hear about the ............... Legend has it that tens of thousands of years ago, there was a great war between humans and demons in the Ruin Realm, but in the end, the two warring sides were almost wiped ..................out," at this time, Empress Huaiyang suddenly spoke.
"You've heard of it?" Ma Fan was a little surprised when he heard this. It seems that this realm of ruins is not as simple as it seems.
"Yes................... I also listened to my grandfather, and my grandfather seems to have heard from my ancestors................... But I didn't expect this human-demon war to be real, and the battlefield is here! ”
"Brother Fan, how do you know? Is there anything unusual about this stone? The third princess asked curiously.
"On this stone............... With a residual sword intent, it made me feel the tragic battle back then.............. Here, it used to be much wider, and it was a training ground.................. And there used to be a lot of stones falling on it, which should be stepped stones.................. It seems that this mountain path should be a test bench up............... "This kind of layout Ma Fan is very familiar with, Xuantian Sect also has such a test bench, and the ladder on it is a common means to test the potential of cultivators."
"Test bench?" The third princess and the empress of Huaiyang were very puzzled.
"Yes, this type of test bench is actually an upgrade means to test the qualifications of cultivators................ In ancient times, in order to select top cultivators, some sects would often set up some test benches, some of which were high mountains, some were deep seas, and some were in extreme environments such as extremely cold and hot places................... These sects set up formations in such places, setting up some obstacles and resistances, and only those who have gone the farthest in the testing session on these test benches are likely to be selected..................." Ma Fan explained.
"I see! Hey, aren't some of the current cultivators also going to use some means to select? It turned out that it would have been like this a long time ago! The third princess nodded.
"But................. The current Xiuzhen sect seems to have much fewer means, and there is no such large-scale formation................ If this is the case, and this was once a test bench, then many cultivators in the Ruins Realm came to the Immortal Mountain to explore before, wouldn't it be the same way as this test bench................
Empress Huaiyang suddenly realized.
"Huh? If that's the case, just this remnant of the Immortal Mountain is full of countless dangers, and the cultivators who came here to test it before really don't know how terrifying it is!" The third princess smacked her tongue.
"Hehe, it's too weak to leave the ruins realm now!" Ma Fan spoke softly, but there was no disparaging meaning in his words.
"Yes, it's a fact that the ruins are declining more and more. Not only is the cultivation method increasingly lacking, but also whether it is the Dan Dao, the Fu Dao, the Instrument Dao or the spell, it has gradually become a ................. of history," Empress Huaiyang nodded.
"Let's go, let's go up and find out!" Ma Fan's divine sense probed around, but found nothing.
His divine consciousness level is still too low to find more clues. In the scene of the battle between man and demon that Ma Fan sensed just now, many weapons, monsters, and the corpses of humans and demons were scattered in this immortal mountain, but now there is no trace of them.
Needless to say, tens of thousands of years of erosion have already turned these weapons and corpses into dust. And that stone was miraculously left on the immortal mountain, which has to be said to be a miracle.
The second daughter followed Ma Fan towards the top of the fairy mountain.
Although it was badly damaged in the Great War between humans and demons, the later people opened up another path on this immortal mountain. Several people climbed up more than a thousand meters, and gradually Ma Fan sensed a faint trace of formation power.
"There is still a remnant of this formation?" Ma Fan felt a little incredible.
"How I feel more and more tired! It seems that the footsteps are getting heavier and heavier! "The third princess felt the most obviously, because her cultivation was the lowest among the three.
Ma Fan and Empress Huaiyang are both in the early stage of the Yuan Infant, and they don't have any special feelings at this time.
"Gravity Suppression!" Ma Fan blurted out.
This test method is the most basic and common test method.
"Gravity suppression? That's a fitting statement! The third princess nodded, looked at August on Ma Fan's shoulder, and said, "Brother Fan, why don't you let August fly up to take a look?" ”
When the third princess said this, she suddenly felt a little nervous.
At the beginning of August, I wanted to fly up, but Ma Fan didn't allow it. Ever since he knew that this place was once the battlefield of the Great War between humans and demons, Ma Fan was extremely cautious, for fear that there would be some unknown dangers here. After all, August's realm is still very low now, and Ma Fan will not let August run around like he did in the human realm.
In fact, Ma Fan still has many means to explore this immortal mountain, but now Ma Fan has not revealed his identity to the second daughter, so it is inconvenient for him to take other means.
After thinking about it, Marfan decided to let August investigate. However, Ma Fan told August that he must fly away from Xianshan and be vigilant.
Because Ma Fan always felt that this immortal mountain was not like what he saw now, it was just a remnant of the battlefield of the battle between humans and demons.
August was ordered, and quickly flew into the sky, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
And Ma Fan and the others continued to climb towards it.
After climbing another two thousand meters, the third princess finally couldn't walk.
The increasingly obvious gravity suppression made the third princess tired and out of breath.
Empress Huaiyang also felt a little tired. She had heard some legends about the Immortal Mountain before, and she had also heard that there were cultivators who had told the story of the experience after returning from the expedition to the Immortal Mountain, which was similar to what she had experienced today.
Seeing that the third princess couldn't walk, Ma Fan took out a pill and gave it to her.
"What kind of elixir is this?" The third princess knew that Ma Fan had many pills, but she had never seen this pill herself.
"This is the Gathering Elixir, specially used to replenish the ............... that lacks aura," Ma Fan explained.
"Good stuff!" When the third princess heard this, she took this pill without hesitation.
At the entrance of the elixir, the third princess only felt that the aura that she had almost exhausted just now had recovered almost instantly, and the powerful aura of the Gathering Spirit Pill made the third princess full of strength.
"I feel like I can climb another kilometer!" The third princess said confidently.
Ma Fan smiled, noncommittal.
Several people continued to climb towards it.
However, the higher you go, the narrower the mountain road becomes. It should be four or five thousand meters high, and the nearby mountains are covered with white snow, and there are no trees or weeds in sight.
Above the mountain road, some remaining stepstones began to appear in the eyes of several people.
"There are some stepstones here!" The third princess and the empress of Huaiyang looked at Ma Fan, and it turned out that what he said was really right.
Stepping on a stepping stone, the third princess suddenly felt that her body was even heavier, as if she was pressed by a heavy object all over her.
However, the third princess was still able to persevere.
After continuing for a few hundred meters, after turning a cliff in front of them, a neat row of stairs appeared in the eyes of several people.
At this time, both sides of the staircase seemed to be full of cliffs, and there was not even a trace of snow in sight. Only under the mountain behind him, there is some faint white snow.
"This is the ladder!" Ma Fan blurted out. This kind of ladder Ma Fan has seen many times, and if you go up as expected, there will be a number showing the steps.
The third princess and the Empress Huaiyang looked at the neat stairs in front of them in amazement. These stone staircases seem to be built in the air, and there are no things on either side, and there are even some white clouds lingering on the sides of the stairs, which looks like a fairyland.
The third princess gritted her teeth and wanted to step towards it, but found that her legs were as heavy as a thousand pounds, and there seemed to be a great resistance in front of her, blocking her steps.
Empress Huaiyang and Ma Fan also began to rush to a trace of pressure, but they didn't have much difficulty walking.