The Magical Bus Fantasy Beast Taming Chapter 345: Climbing the Ladder to Heaven
Before my eyes is a ladder that reaches straight to the sky without any support.
The ladder is snow-white and is made of an unknown white stone. Each step is ten meters long and each step consists of five white stones.
The ladder is very plain, without any fancy embellishments, nor are there any engravings of flying dragons, colorful phoenixes, auspicious clouds and lotus. It is simply made of white stone steps and then left alone.
If he didn't know and just saw this ladder, Shi Yan would have no idea that this ladder was the 'ladder to heaven'.
I came to the tenth floor this morning. The tenth floor is said to be a world, but it is actually very small. You can see the boundary of this layer with your eyes. It is gray and you can't see through it. However, this world is infinitely high. This can be known by just looking at the ladder. The ladder penetrated the clouds and passed through thirty-six layers of clouds before it sank into the blue.
This was not the first time Shi Yan had seen the ladder. He had discovered it a week ago. He had wanted to come and see it out of curiosity, but he could not get close to it. It turned out that the ladder he had seen a few days ago was just a projection of the ladder on the tenth level. The ladder here was the real one.
The people behind him were seeing the ladder for the first time. Although they were curious, they had not yet reached the point of being prohibited from going there after two weeks of training. However, without Shi Yan's permission, they would not go forward to take a closer look.
"Is this the ladder to heaven?" Shi Yan looked at the ladder in front of him that reached the sky and asked Long'er.
"Yes, this is the ladder to heaven." Long Er nodded and said with a smile: "Although this is the first time I have seen the entity, I know it is this, no doubt about it."
Mo Zixie came to the ladder, looked at it carefully, and fell into deep thought.
Mo Chou looked at it and said, "Is this a ladder to heaven? Why doesn't it look like one to me?"
Shi Yan rubbed his nose awkwardly and said, "I don't think so either. Although it did reach a very high altitude, a place we couldn't reach even if we flew, he really didn't think so when he looked at it."
Long Er rolled his eyes at them and said, "The ladder is the ladder, whether you believe it or not, it is the ladder. Your doubts are actually doubting me, right?"
Shi Yan and Mo Chou looked at each other, smiled bitterly and said nothing. This was too unbelievable, how could a ladder that could reach the sky be so simple?
Even if it doesn't have to be dazzling, at least there should be a dragon carving as decoration, right?
"Long'er is right. This must be the ladder to heaven!" Mo Zixie suddenly said, "I once saw an ancient book with the ladder to heaven recorded on it. I studied it for a while and was even obsessed with it. I wanted to go out and look for the ladder to heaven, but my master woke me up and said, 'If there is a destiny, why bother looking for it? It will find you, or you can see it when you go to a certain place.' I didn't expect that I really saw it today!" Mo Zixie was extremely happy and smiled, "This is the ladder to heaven, there is no doubt about it."
"But this is too crude, it doesn't 'represent the will of heaven' at all..." Mo Chou was telling the truth. In the Xuanlong Realm, everything related to heaven was presented in an extremely luxurious manner, and was called 'representing the will of heaven'. He had been influenced by this since he was a child, and he once thought that this was the way it was related to heaven.
"Mediocre!" Mo Zixie patted Mo Chou's head and said, "What is heaven? Heaven is the master of all things and is supreme! Luxury is just the basis for people to satisfy themselves and show off to others. Tell me, does heaven need to show off to anyone? This world was created by him, does he still need to use luxury to satisfy himself?"
Shi Yan thought about it and it seemed to be true.
The truth is simple; perhaps this is what it means.
Shi Yan looked at the stairs, his eyes following them upwards, upwards, until finally reaching the visible end.
Suddenly, Shi Yan saw a skeleton, a glittering skeleton, appearing on the 300th ladder.
"A glowing skull? Could it be a body that has reached the pinnacle of Taoism?" Mo Zixie also saw it and took a breath of cold air. "It is said that when one reaches the pinnacle of Taoism, one will become an immortal. The skull of an immortal body is surrounded by glowing clouds like this. This is the condensation of his great power when he was alive!"
Shi Yan was extremely surprised, "You said, that was an immortal?"
"I'm afraid so." Mo Zixie nodded.
"But why did an immortal die here?"
"I don't know." Mo Zixie shook his head and was silent for a moment, then said, "At least we can guess that the ladder is not safe."
"You mean, the immortal died because he climbed the ladder to heaven?"
"It's possible."
Mo Chou turned his head, looked at Shi Yan, and said with a smile: "You will die, do you still want to go up?"
Shi Yan smiled and nodded, "Of course, I said, I still have to grab Tian's neck and ask him why he gave me so much suffering!"
"Sure enough, I knew you wouldn't give up." Mo Qiu said, "I also plan to climb up and take a look. It is said that the scenery from a high place is the most beautiful. I wonder what the scenery at the highest point in the world is like. I think the scenery up there should be pretty good."
"I'm going too!" Mo Zixie said. Seeing the surprised expressions of Shi Yan and Mo Chou, he explained with a smile, "I said before that I was fascinated by it and even planned to give up everything just to find it. Now that I've found it, why should I give up? What if there's danger? I'm over a hundred years old. If I don't break through the Jindan and my life span is not extended, I can only live for a few more decades. Instead of regretting it in the last few decades, I might as well give it a try today and fulfill my wish!"
"Haha, good!" Shi Yan laughed loudly, feeling heroic. "Then the three of us will climb the ladder together, conquer it, go to the end, and see the most wonderful scenery in the world!"
"Okay!" The three of them looked at each other, then laughed, then turned around resolutely and walked towards the ladder.
Long Er knew he couldn't stop them, so he shouted, "If you can't hold on any longer, give up, or you'll die."
Shi Yan nodded and said, "I know. We are not that stupid. We are not in a hurry. If we can't finish it this time, we can come next time."
After hearing what Shi Yan said, she felt relieved and said with a smile: "Well, Brother Shi Yan, I'll be waiting for your triumphant return downstairs!"
"Okay!" Shi Yan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, then opened his eyes and resolutely took the first step.
"boom!"
A loud bang came into Shi Yan's ears. Shi Yan raised his head and found that Mo Chou and Mo Zixie beside him were gone. Looking back, Long Er and everyone else were gone!
The world seemed to have changed the moment I stepped onto the ladder to heaven.
There was endless darkness around him, but beneath his feet was a staircase of light. In front of the staircase, there was a towering gate, and an old man was standing beside the gate.
When they arrived in front of the towering giant gate, the old man said, "Welcome here, young man." When the old man saw Shi Yan, he laughed.
"You are..." Shi Yan was confused, "Are you Tian?"
The old man laughed, "How is that possible? I'm just an unknown old man who guards the gate for the sky."
"Oh," Shi Yan scratched the back of his head and saluted with a smile, "Hello, old sir."
"Well, hello." The old man returned the greeting and then asked, "Why, are you planning to climb the ladder to heaven?"
Shi Yan nodded, "Yes, I plan to climb to the top and ask the sky a question."
"Oh? Over the years, I have seen many strong people who want to climb the ladder. Some of them seek power, some seek truth, but you are the first one who wants to see the sky and then grab him by the neck and ask him questions."
Shi Yan felt a little embarrassed when the old man knew what was in his heart. He thought, "This old man is not kind. He reads people's hearts just like this..."
The old man laughed and said, "Haha, I am alone here guarding the gate. The only fun I have is to see what's in your hearts."
Shi Yan was embarrassed again.
"You know that climbing the ladder is dangerous. Do you want to think about it again?" Although he knew the answer, the old man still wanted to ask.
"No need." Shi Yan said.
"Okay, but you have to remember, if it doesn't work, give up," the old man instructed.
"Thank you, I see." Shi Yan smiled and walked towards the stairs. The closer he got to the stairs, the brighter the light became, and finally it became crystal clear.
Finally, Shi Yan took his first step.
Rumble, thunder sounded in the sky, Shi Yan suddenly found himself on top of a mountain, with thunder and fire in the distance.
"roar……"
When an angry roar was heard, two bloody spots appeared in the sky, as if there were two blood-red suns hanging in the sky.
Those were the two eyes of a huge beast. The red light emitted from the eyes was so terrifying that it made people's hearts palpitate! A huge beast appeared there.
The huge beast had power as vast as the ocean, endless. With just a slap of its big hand, it could destroy an entire domain.
Suddenly, an ordinary jar flew in front of the beast, and then slammed down, swallowing the beast. Shi Yan was stunned. A beast with such strength, a beast that could easily destroy an entire region, was subdued by a jar?
Suddenly, a city flew over, with an ancient palace on top of it. A huge hand stretched out from the ancient palace, like a demon shadow, and grabbed the jar that absorbed the ferocious beast.
Suddenly, a flawless hand as white as jade appeared from the horizon and pushed the giant demonic hand back into the ancient temple.
At this time, a roar was heard from the ancient temple, a puff of black smoke floated out, and a black-haired man sitting on five skulls emerged from the black eyes.
At the same time, a dreamy light was flowing in the sky, and an ancient city also flew out. The whole ancient temple was filled with a holy atmosphere, and it was full of light and beauty.
A woman with a blurry face flew out of the city and looked at the man.
The two looked at each other without saying anything. Suddenly, they both attacked at the same time.
Simple and unpretentious, both of them simply stretched out their palms, and the two hands, one black and one white, suddenly collided with each other.
"boom"
Suddenly, a strong wind blew up, and the world collapsed. The surging rivers dried up, the mountains that were thousands of feet high collapsed in an instant, the boundless grasslands collapsed, and the scorching desert suddenly became completely cold and then shattered. The ocean dried up and turned into a valley bottom, and the earth collapsed. Turned into ashes, everything will become history, the world is collapsing. At this moment, the mountains and rivers under Shi Yan's feet all collapsed, and turned into dust in the rumbling sound.
The magnificent rivers and mountains suddenly disappeared, everything was burning, the sky and the earth were flames, and the flames shot up into the sky.
"boom"
The space collapsed and the sky collapsed.
This trend is spreading and amplifying rapidly.