The ancient stele, deeply smashed under the ground, I don't know how many thousands of catties it weighed, although it was standing between the deep valley formed by the two mountain peaks, but it did not lose its majesty and domineering at all, standing in front of the stele, as if facing a sacred stone standing up to the sky.

Behind the stele, a layer of white mist shrouded it, and the inside was full of waves and mysteries.

"System, can you sense what's up ahead?" Ye Chen asked at the system.

【Ding! There is a very strange force behind the white fog, and now the system level is low, and the situation after the white fog cannot be detected yet! 】

After listening to the system's answer, Ye Chen became even more curious about the white mist behind the stone stele.

"Where is the Ascending Ladder?"

Ye Chen looked at the mysterious white mist and the stone tablet in front of him, which was towering and exuding a strong Dao rhyme, but he didn't see any trace of climbing the immortal ladder, and couldn't help but be curious in his heart, and asked.

"When you enter the Misty Valley in front, you will naturally be able to see the Ascending Immortal Ladder." Liu Ru said.

As soon as the words fell, Liu Ru took two steps forward, bowed respectfully to a stone man, and said: "I have seen Kong Lao, the disciple was ordered by the master to bring the junior disciple to climb the immortal ladder. ”

After seeing Liu Ru's movements, Ye Chen suddenly discovered that there was actually a person next to the stone stele.

The old man, dressed in a dark hexagram robe, sat cross-legged under the stone tablet, motionless, without even a trace of anger emanating from his body, as if he were a lifeless stone.

Liu Ru didn't wait for the old man to answer after asking, and directly turned to Ye Chen and said, "You can go in." ”

"Do you want to go in now? Don't need the consent of this senior? Ye Chen was a little strange, since he didn't need the old man's consent, why did he have to report to him in the same way?

Liu Ru said: "Kong Lao is the guardian of the Dengxian Tower, but he doesn't care if the disciple enters the Dengxian Tower, he will only wake up when the disciple ascends the twenty-fifth step of the immortal ladder, open the Tianyuan Ancient Mirror on the stone tablet, and ask him for instructions is just out of politeness." ”

"Is it difficult to climb the twenty-five-step immortal ladder?" Ye Chen asked with some curiosity.

Liu Ru glanced back at him, nodded slightly, and said: "There are a total of 100 inner disciples on the Qingyun List, and all the people on the list are Tianjiao who is rare in the Qingyun Sect. ”

"But even if it is Tianjiao on the Qingyun List, there are only twenty or thirty people who can climb the twenty-fifth immortal ladder."

"And more than ninety percent of them are not able to climb the twenty-fifth step for the first time, how difficult do you say it is?"

Although climbing the ladder is more of a test of a monk's talent, the stronger the talent, the higher the ladder that can be climbed, but the cultivation also occupies a large part, the higher the cultivation, the higher the ladder that can be climbed.

"Wow!"

While Ye Chen and Liu Ru were still chatting, a spiritual light flashed in the Misty Valley, and then a man covered in scars appeared behind the stone tablet.

"Failed again, this twenty-fifth order immortal ladder can't go up at all, the difficulty is too great, it's just a perversion." The man wiped the freshness from the corners of his mouth and glanced back at Misty Hollow.

"Cheng Meng, you failed again." Liu Ru looked at the man and spoke.

After Cheng Meng heard the voice, he turned around and walked towards Liu Ru and said, "Liu Ru, didn't you just climb the immortal ladder once three days ago, and come again so soon?" ”

Liu Ru shook his head and said, "No, I just brought someone here on the order of my master." ”

"Bring someone here? The sect master has accepted a new disciple? Cheng Meng was a little surprised, and soon his eyes fell on Ye Chen's body, looked him up and down, and then continued: "The sect master's new disciple is him?" ”

Liu Ru nodded slightly.

Ye Chen arched his hand slightly, "I've seen Senior Brother!" ”

"It's just that I just broke through the foundation building realm and came to climb the immortal ladder, I'm afraid I can't even go up to the tenth floor." Cheng Meng was very disdainful, and he didn't think that with Ye Chen's current cultivation, he could go far on the immortal ladder.

He was naturally very clear about the difficulty of climbing the immortal ladder, and he didn't believe at all how high a hairy boy who had just broken through the foundation building realm and didn't seem to have much talent could climb.

was looked down upon, Ye Chen was not annoyed, he just smiled slowly.

On the contrary, Liu Ru opened his mouth and said: "Cheng Meng, you talk too much, it is not up to you to decide whether the junior brother can board it or not." ”

"It seems that you have quite confidence in this little junior brother, then I, as a senior brother, want to see how many levels of the immortal ladder he was finally knocked down." Cheng Meng sneered, and then sat directly cross-legged and began to heal directly.

Ye Chen whispered to Liu Ru at this time, "Senior sister, who is this person?" ”

Liu Ru slowly spoke: "His name is Cheng Meng, the true disciple of the Great Elder, ranked ninth on the Qingyun List, and his cultivation has reached the realm of half-step Jindan. ”

"Half of my feet have stepped into the Jindan realm, haven't you been able to climb the twenty-fifth immortal ladder?" Ye Chen was a little shocked.

A monk who stepped into the golden pill with half a foot, if this was in the outer courtyard, it would be a strong person at the level of an elder properly, and such a powerful cultivator would not be able to climb the twenty-fifth immortal ladder?

Liu Ru did not shy away from it at all, and said slowly: "Cheng Meng's talent is limited, and it is impossible to climb the twenty-fifth immortal ladder when he wants to build the foundation realm, but he is arrogant and insists on suppressing his own realm, and he just wants to climb the twenty-fifth immortal ladder in the foundation building realm." ”

"Is there any benefit to climbing the twenty-five-step immortal ladder in the Foundation Building Realm?" Ye Chen asked.

"Of course, ascending the immortal ladder is the holy treasure of my Qingyun Sect, mainly to test the talent of the disciples in the sect, and every time you climb the immortal ladder, you can get the power given by the immortal ladder to wash the marrow and refine the muscles."

"If you can climb the twenty-fifth rank when you are building the foundation realm, the rewards you will get in the future will be even more generous, and you will even have the opportunity to obtain the best spirit stone."

After listening to Liu Ru's words, Ye Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.

The best spirit stone, that is a treasure that can not be found.

If he can get this top-grade spirit stone, maybe he can upgrade the system.

The more Ye Chen thought about it, the more excited he became, and he looked at the Misty Valley in front of him and wanted to rush in immediately.

"Alright, you hurry into the Misty Valley and go to the Ascending Immortal Ladder." Liu Ru said.

Ye Chen didn't delay any longer, nodded, and then directly crossed the stone tablet and headed towards the Misty Valley.

The Ascending Immortal Ladder is a staircase that extends to the sky, going up one step at a time, as if it reaches the sky.

Endless years have passed, and now no one knows who built this ladder to ascend the immortals, and even the ancient books of Qingyun Sect only have these three words.

This Ascending Immortal Ladder is one of the oldest buildings in the Qingyun Sect, and there is no record of who built it, when, and where it came from.

Ye Chen walked straight past the stone monument and entered the Misty Valley, and the mist swallowed him in an instant, completely disappearing from the field of vision of Liu Ru and the others.

Entering the Misty Valley, Ye Chen finally saw a very majestic staircase spiraling upward, and the mist shrouded the sky, as if this immortal ladder could really lead to the realm of immortals.

"This shouldn't be an immortal ladder that can really ascend to the realm of immortals?"

Ye Chen looked at the mysterious and majestic immortal ladder in front of him, his heart was a little shocked, he touched his hand on the mottled cyan ruins around the immortal ladder, slowly closed his eyes, and instantly felt an ancient breath.

"It's such an ancient breath, could it be that this immortal ladder is from an ancient thing?"

Recalling the terrifying power that came just now, Ye Chen's heart palpitated.

Ye Chen exhaled deeply, raised his feet and took a step forward.

"Huh!"

The moment he stepped out, Ye Chen instantly felt that the world was spinning, and there was a very brief moment when he lost all consciousness.

When he regained consciousness again, he realized that the world was already pitch black in front of him, and all the fog around him had disappeared, as if he had stepped into another dimension.

Suddenly, a strange voice came into Ye Chen's mind.

"Welcome to the first floor of the Ascending Ladder."

I don't know where this voice came from, it didn't pass through Ye Chen, it was like a system that appeared directly in his mind.

However, Ye Chen can also feel very clearly that this is not a system-like existence, it seems to be a divine thought, a divine thought that has been preserved since ancient times, immortal, as long as everyone in the world steps into this immortal ladder, such a sentence will appear in their minds.

"System, can you detect what this Ascending Ladder is?" Ye Chen asked the system.

After waiting for a while, the unprecedented system didn't give him any response, as if it was blocked by some force.

Seeing that the system didn't give any response, Ye Chen frowned.

"This seat is the guardian spirit beast on the first layer of the Ascending Immortal Ladder, Gu Grade."

Just when Ye Chen hesitated, suddenly a halo emanated from this dark and boundless space, although this light was very faint, but with this light, Ye Chen could also vaguely see the surrounding space.

Ye Chen was standing on a suspended platform at this time, the place was not big, there was only less than ten steps of space, no matter which direction, as long as Ye Chen took ten steps, he would fall into the pitch-black abyss.

Below the platform, there is a smoky abyss, bottomless, even the power of the divine soul has no way to detect it, if it falls from such a high altitude, even the powerhouse of the Jindan realm will probably die without a body.