Chapter 431 – Stairway to the Heart

Buzz!
Just after stepping onto the steps, a circle of shimmering light erupted from the entire first step.

In an instant, Jiang Chengxuan only felt that all the emotions he had latent in his inner heart were all seduced in this instant.

Joy, anger, sadness, excitement, greed ……

And so on and so forth.

Fortunately, this kind of emotion that had been evoked was not particularly strong.

Without a moment’s effort, Jiang Chengxuan suppressed them all.

But as a result, it also allowed Jiang Chengxuan, to have a rough guess about this step in front of him.

Wasn’t this a staircase of inquiring minds?
Each step represented a layer of testing.

The higher up it went, did it represent a higher level of difficulty?

With this speculation flashing through his mind, Jiang Chengxuan’s feet didn’t hesitate and immediately stepped onto the second step.

Buzz!
Sure enough.

Compared to the first step, the emotions invoked within him by the second step were obviously much stronger.

From this, Jiang Chengxuan was almost completely certain.

This, by all accounts, was an Inquiring Heart Staircase.

The higher up it went, the higher the difficulty.

Moreover, at this time, he had a strong premonition in his heart that on this ladder, as long as you go back, then it signaled that you had failed the challenge and would not have a second chance.

So.

I can only go up here, I can’t go back?
Thinking about this, Jiang Chengxuan once again went up.

Buzz!
Only this time, what appeared in Jiang Chengxuan’s body was no longer a mere emotion, but a killing intent.

That killing intent could be described as pure to the extreme, constantly stimulating his nerves.

So much so that his cold hairs, they couldn’t help but stand up.

When he reached the ninth step, what appeared in front of him was clearly the battlefield where shouting and killing shook the sky.

Countless floating battleships were leaping across the sky.

All sorts of spirit energy giant cannons and runic light beams streaked across.

Large swathes of blood and limbs flew about.

Even he himself had become battered and bruised in a war of this scale.

All over his body, he didn’t know how many wounds had appeared.

It wasn’t until some time later, when Jiang Chengxuan detached himself from this illusion, that he realized that at that moment, he was standing on that ninth step just fine.

Where was there any floating battleship, where was there any scaly body.

Fake, all fake.

Although this was the case, Jiang Chengxuan’s heart was slightly aghast.

He felt very clearly that if he had just been immersed in the atmosphere of the war, and was unable to detach himself from it, then it was not good to say that the so-called falsehood would most likely turn into reality.

In other words, on top of this Heart Inquiry Staircase, it was not completely without danger.

Once the illusions in this room exceeded the limits of what you could bear, it was very likely that you, as a whole, would actually sink into that illusion.

At that time, what would happen would be something that no one could say.

After realizing this, Jiang Chengxuan couldn’t help but be more and more cautious about the Heart Inquiry Steps in front of him.

However, he had no intention of withdrawing.

Right now, he was curious.

Such a huge ladder of inquiring minds, if when he had traveled all the way through, he stepped onto that top.

At that time, what would happen.

And what different scenery could be seen.

So in the next moment, Jiang Chengxuan’s footsteps, he was clearly stepping onto the tenth step.

Buzz!
Unlike the previous nine steps, when Jiang Chengxuan’s person, stood on top of the tenth step, what appeared in his mind were all sorts of incomparably fragrant images.

All sorts of beautiful women in light clothing danced in front of him.

Jiang Chengxuan could even smell very clearly the gusts of fragrance emanating from those beautiful women.

And his body, too, unconsciously reacted in this situation.

Fortunately, his consciousness, was not really confused by the images in front of him.

However, he knew that what was in front of him was only just the beginning.

Because as he continued upwards, the fragrant scenes intensified.

In the end, even with a stamina as strong as his, he couldn’t help but almost fall prey to it.

Fortunately, this level eventually came over to him.

When he was about to step onto the twentieth step, not far away from the Heart Inquiry Staircase, several recluse lights suddenly swept in.

Among them were his acquaintances.

For example, Heavenly Monarch Xuan Yang and Dongfang Tianxing.

In addition, there were also a few guys from the Eastern Pole and the Central Domain.

A Chu Xinghe from the Chu Clan of the Eastern Pole, as well as a Heartless Daoist from the Central Domain.

When the two sides met, naturally, there was an unavoidable bout of saber-rattling.

But very quickly, their attention was drawn in unison to Jiang Chengxuan, who was located on the Inquiring Heart Staircase.

Both sides locked eyes.

Jiang Chengxuan directly ignored that Chu Xinghe and Heartless Daoist, and instead utilized voice transmission to speak about the situation on that Heart-Inquiring Staircase with Heavenly Monarch Xuan Yang and Dongfang Tianxing.

Of course.

He didn’t say the words to death, but only told them that this place was a Heart-Inquiring Staircase.

However, anyone who stepped onto the ladder would inevitably undergo a test in terms of asking the heart.

As for what the test would be, Jiang Chengxuan didn’t explicitly say.

After all, he couldn’t be sure that the content of the heart test that the people who stepped onto the ladder would undergo would be exactly the same.

In case it wasn’t, it would instead cause misdirection for Heavenly Monarch Xuanyang and Dongfang Tianxing.

The loss would not be worth it.

As for Heavenly Monarch Xuan Yang and Dongfang Tianxing, after learning about the situation concerning this Inquiring Mind Staircase, they did not hesitate for a second.

Immediately, they both raised their steps and stepped onto the Heart-Inquiring Staircase.

Seeing this, Chu Xinghe and Daoist Heartless were clearly somewhat surprised in their hearts.

They did not expect that Heavenly Monarch Xuanyang and that Dongfang Tianxing would be so resolute as to step onto that ladder.

This immediately caused their eyes to just flicker for a while.

The two of them couldn’t help but glance at each other.

In the next moment, almost without hesitation, the two of them immediately launched an attack on that Xuan Yang Heavenly Monarch and Dongfang Tianxing, who had already stepped onto the Inquiring Heart Stairs.

In an instant, terrifying light blossomed.

One could only see a duster and a pagoda, all enveloping towards the Xuan Yang Heavenly Monarch and Dongfang Tianxing who were located on the ladder.

Buzz!
However, what made both Chu Xinghe and Daoist Heartless somewhat unanticipated was that when their attacks, at the moment they were about to approach Heavenly Monarch Xuan Yang and Dongfang Tianxing.

Above that Heartseeking Staircase, a light blossomed out all of a sudden.

Only two thumps were heard.

The attacks of Chu Xinghe and Daoist Heartless were actually directly bounced away just like that.

For the Xuan Yang Heavenly Monarch and Dongfang Tianxing, who were located within them, they caused no effect at all.

Seeing this, Chu Xinghe and the Heartless Daoist could not help but be somewhat surprised in their hearts.

They had never expected that things would actually take such a turn for the worse.

As long as someone was located on top of that Heart-Inquiring Staircase, they would not be able to be affected by the attacks from the outside world.

If things were like this ……

Chu Xinghe and Daoist Heartless once again glanced at each other.

At that moment, without the slightest hesitation, the two of them also stepped onto that Heart-Inquiring Staircase with a single step as well.

However, unlike the Xuan Yang Heavenly Monarch and Dongfang Tianxing, when Chu Xinghe and the Heartless Daoist stepped onto the Heart-Inquiring Staircase, their bodies immediately stumbled and almost did not fall off the staircase, as they had no understanding of it.

At the same time, their hearts were appalled.

This place, surprisingly, was able to evoke the emotions within them, thus amplifying them.

When the two of them calmed down from that tickled emotion, their gazes, almost subconsciously, immediately looked towards Jiang Chengxuan, who was already located on the twentieth step.

That fellow, he had actually reached that twentieth step.

Then what had he experienced on the past steps?
At this moment, Chu Xinghe and the Heartless Daoist already realized.

This place, most likely, was the place where incomparably great opportunities existed.

At the same time, for no reason at all, a trace of urgency rose within them.

Who called the current Jiang Chengxuan, who was already too far ahead of them.

In case, in case the chance here could only be obtained by the first to reach the top.

Then wouldn’t all of them, all of them, become runners in the race?

Wasting time for nothing?

Especially when they, seeing that it had only been such a short while, Jiang Chengxuan had already crossed another step.

This made them even more unable to remain calm.

However, what the two of them didn’t know was that the most important thing on this kind of Inquiring Mind ladder was that they couldn’t be impatient.

Once one was impatient, then anything could happen during the next step forward.

Especially if your inner emotions are infinitely amplified by the steps here.

If you don’t get it right, you may go overboard.

And this kind of going crazy, in the early stage, is not easy to be detected by oneself.

Wait until you really notice the time, everything, I’m afraid it’s already too late.

That’s it.

Several hours passed.

Jiang Chengxuan was already at the thirty-seventh step.

As for Heavenly Monarch Xuanyang, Dongfang Tianxing, and Chu Xinghe, they had only arrived at the sixth and seventh steps.

They hadn’t even reached the tenth step.

From this, it could also be seen that there was a gap between Jiang Chengxuan and them.

One must know that in that initial meeting, he was almost just one step at a time, one step at a time.

It was only when his footsteps, when he came to the twentieth step, that he began to slowly slow down.

Jiang Chengxuan’s footsteps, is about to cross the thirty-seventh step, came to the ground thirty-eight steps, the distant sky, suddenly once again swept to a number of recluse light.

That fly in the forefront, is not someone else, it is his Jiang Chengxuan Dao couple, Shen Ruyan.

Behind her, there was also Murong Xian, as well as the Ten Thousand Seas Heavenly Monarch, as well as the Long Mountain Heavenly Monarch three people.

Can be said.

At this moment, a group of them from the Northern Border and the Western Desert were all already gathered together.

And when they, upon seeing Jiang Chengxuan, Heavenly Monarch Xuanyang, Dongfang Tianxing, as well as Chu Xinghe and Daoist Heartless, who were located on that Inquirer’s Staircase at this moment, each of their faces couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise.

They did not expect that on top of that Inquiring Heart Staircase, between Jiang Chengxuan and the others, and Chu Xinghe and the Heartless Daoist, they could actually be that harmonious.

In the midst of this, there was bound to be something they didn’t know about.

Thinking about this, the gazes of Shen Ruyan’s group, almost subconsciously, immediately looked towards Jiang Chengxuan, who was already on the thirty-eighth step. (End of chapter)