Up on the southern VIP terrace, Gu Changsheng took a sip of hot barley tea and watched the first hundred fire-traps ignite along the jade stairway. The Four Sect Masters really spent fifty thousand spirit stones rigging this staircase with Rank 5 fire arrays, Gu Changsheng thought with a shake of his head. To Tuntun, that’s not a death trap—that’s a revolving spicy hotpot buffet.
CLICK—ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!
The instant nineteen-year-old Holy Son Chu Tian twisted the blood-red [Master Trap-Control Jade Key] on Step 2 and limped frantically backward behind a shield of fifty Supreme Sword Sect disciples. The entire first three hundred white-jade steps of the Heavenly Stairway Secret Realm turned glowing magma-red!
In the original trial rules designed by the ancient Sword-Emperor three thousand years ago, only one minor flame-pillar was supposed to rise every ten steps to test a junior cultivator’s footwork.
Now, under Chu Tian’s malicious override, three hundred hidden dragon-mouth fire vents along the balustrades of Steps 1 through 300 blew open simultaneously!
HISS—BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three hundred thirty-foot-long, bucket-thick [Rank 5 Crimson Samadhi Fire-Snakes]—condensed from three-thousand-year underground core-magma. Ferocious crimson fire-spirit venom capable of melting Rank 5 spirit-steel armor into puddle-slag in three breaths—erupted from the stone vents in a single, inescapable tidal wave of purple-crimson flame!
