Sitting comfortably on the southern VIP terrace, Gu Changsheng peeled a tangerine as the bronze golem guardian lumbered onto Step 601. A ten-ton bronze sandbag for Nian’er to test his new warm-sun fists, Gu Changsheng thought. It’s thoughtful of the Four Sects to provide free gym equipment during the exam.
RUMBLE—CRACK—BOOOOOOOOOOM!
As ten-year-old Gu Nian, eleven-year-old Ye Xiao, eight-year-old Su Nuannuan. Seven-year-old Jiang Tuntun stepped out of the floating strawberry soap bubbles onto the wide white-jade landing of Step 800, the entire upper mountain of the Heavenly Stairway Secret Realm shook violently!
At the center of the Step 800 platform stood a thirty-foot-tall. Fifty-ton colossus carved from indestructible Rank 5 Mid Star-Core Black Granite: the [Ancient Stone-Armored Sword Golem], the final combat guardian of the Heavenly Stairway!
Normally, the Stone-Armored Sword Golem only activated one arm at thirty-percent strength to exchange three symbolic sword moves with any junior who reached Step 800.
Put fifty steps higher up on Step 850, nineteen-year-old Holy Son Chu Tian (Unstable Rank 5 Early)—limping frantically on his swollen. Purple winter-melon foot—had just jammed the blood-red [Master Trap-Control Jade Key] into the golem’s control pedestal and slapped a crimson [Berserk Scapegoat Blood-Talisman] across the golem’s back!
