Chapter 510: Journey to the Palace of the Divine King
The Palace of the God King is not far from the evil place, only half a day's journey away.
This place is indeed the most revered place in the fairy world in the past. The entire southernmost land was its sphere of influence. However, it is now divided between the Tianyuan Sect and the Taihe Sect. Except for the main hall on the main peak in the middle, the rest no longer exists.
Cheng Qing brought Zhong Ling'er to the halfway point of the main peak of the Palace of the God King and found a huge rock to hide their bodies.
Not far ahead, two groups of disciples were playing and fighting while climbing the hundred or so steps ahead.
Strangely enough, all the disciples who were climbing the stairs seemed to be having a hard time. Almost no one could complete the climb, and most of them broke down in a sweat before they had climbed halfway.
The mountain breeze brought the sound of their laughter.
"Fifth Brother, you can't do it. You can't do it after climbing just over thirty. You have too many distracting thoughts. You need to clear them."
"Hahaha, Senior Brother Li, you're not even twenty. Let me guess. You must not have gotten over the lustful heart."
"It seems that Senior Sister is really amazing. She climbed a total of seventy-three steps, the highest among us."
Zhong Ling'er was curious, "Is there something mysterious about this staircase? Could it be some kind of test?"
Chengqing snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "With just their strength, they still want to climb the ladder of inquiry in the Palace of the Divine King. It's wishful thinking."
"This is what we use in our Divine King Palace to assess our disciples. Every step forward is an examination of one's conscience. As they say, lust, greed, jealousy, comparison, fear, selfishness, etc. Every step is a self-examination. Only when one has a clear conscience can one move on to the next step."
"You can't enter the Divine King Palace just by reaching the level of cultivation. You have to pass the test of the Heart-Searching Ladder, be truly determined, and climb all 100 steps before you can enter the Divine King Palace."
"Don't even mention them. Even you can't climb the ladder of inquiry."
Zhong Linger smiled, "Then you have reached the position of God, so you must have gone through the torture of the Ladder of Inquiry."
Chengqing said proudly: "Of course!"
Zhong Ling'er didn't think much of the Ladder of Inner Conscience. At most, it could understand a person's momentary thoughts and make a preliminary screening and judgment on those who climbed it, but it couldn't truly explain a person's character. Just like those fallen angels, I'm afraid half of them had climbed the Ladder of Inner Conscience, but didn't they still escape at the critical moment of the battle with the devil.
A young girl came running over and asked everyone to go up the mountain, saying that the elders of the two factions had already reached an agreement.
The disciples flew to the top of the mountain, and Zhong Ling'er pulled Chengqing to the bottom of the Ladder of Inquiry.
"To be honest, I'm curious whether I can stand the test of interrogation. How about you accompany me to walk the Stairway of Inquiry again?"
Chengqing was stunned and stood there without moving. Could his heart withstand the torture now? He didn't want to know the answer at all.
Zhong Linger raised her eyebrows and laughed sarcastically, "Why, from being a Supreme God to a Fallen God, you don't even have the courage to question your conscience? God King Palace, didn't you say that you are the king among the Supreme Gods? Is this all?"
"You don't have to use provocation, it doesn't work on me!"
Zhong Ling'er gave another mocking smile and walked towards the stairs with firm steps, neither hurried nor slow, walking steadily and calmly.
This back view also stimulated Chengqing. This little girl who had not yet ascended to become an immortal dared to step onto the Ladder of Integrity in the Palace of the God King. He was once a god. Was he really inferior to her?
Chengqing stepped onto the stairs, and the past rushed through his mind like running water.
When was the first time he retreated? It was when the army of demons poured into the fairy world and treated everyone as their food, tearing them apart, strangling them, swallowing them and chewing them. He saw with his own eyes that his former companions were torn into pieces and eaten bite by bite by bite by the demons. At that time, he felt that they were no longer the high and mighty gods, but a chicken and a piece of meat.
The power of the demon made him take a step back. He didn't know whether he was sad about the death of his companion or scared by the demon's cruelty. In short, he didn't rush forward, and his fellow brothers didn't rush forward either.
Afterwards, they became despised cowards, became Fallen Angels, and were thrown into the God-forsaken Land to fend for themselves.
But he was unwilling to accept this. What right did those people hiding behind them have to judge him? When the army of demons rushed in, it was all the people in the Palace of the God King who stood in front of them, and it was he who killed one demon after another.
The army of demons at that time was not like it is today. There were only a few demons leading a group of monsters. It was an army composed purely of demons. The Nothingness, which is feared by the immortal world today, was just a nobody at that time.
In that battle, both the demons and the gods were defeated. The truly powerful demons were all killed, and only these few gods were left. Those who survived were labeled as cowards and were brought out for trial.
He survived because he took a step back and did not rush forward, and therefore he endured the infamy for tens of thousands of years. Then he learned that the few junior brothers who were left in the immortal world and did not participate in the war were also exiled to the God-forsaken Land by those people. He was furious. All the reasons were lies. Those immortals who held the banner of justice were only trying to overthrow the rule of the God King Palace and become the king themselves.
He established the Ascension Pavilion, gathered all the fallen gods, and vowed to return to the fairyland one day to settle accounts with those people. Then, they began to rack their brains to find the Dingkun Pearl, and cooperated with those monks who knew the secret of the God-Forsaken Land and knew that the God-Forsaken Land was about to be destroyed.
The Dingkun beads are not so easy to get. Inside each Dingkun bead, there are either demons or a large number of monsters. If they take the Dingkun beads, the released demons and monsters will undoubtedly be a disaster to the world of immortal cultivation. But those cultivators don't care. They only care about power and whether they can escape from the land abandoned by the gods and ascend to become immortals the moment the ascension channel is opened.
And then, what happened next? He cooperated with those people. He knew very well that they were not good people and that they were the same as those people in the fairy world who had harmed him. But he still helped them do a lot of things, and finally even cooperated with them to lead the demon into the land abandoned by the gods.
Now that he has returned to the fairyland, he wants to seek revenge on those who harmed him, but how is he different from those people?
Zhong Ling'er asked him if he dared to climb the ladder of conscience again, just to make him ask himself whether he had a clear conscience and whether he would feel guilty.
Chengqing suddenly felt his mind become clear. When he came to his senses, he found that he was standing in the middle of the 100 steps. He didn't know how long he had been there. At the end of the steps, Zhong Ling'er was already standing next to the stone tablet at the exit, looking at him with a smile.
"Oh, you're awake. I thought you fell asleep while standing."
Zhong Ling'er's words made Cheng Qing feel hot on his face. He snorted coldly and flew up immediately.
Without waiting for Zhong Ling'er to ask, Chengqing looked puzzled and asked, "Did you really climb up here? You are greedy and lustful, how could you possibly pass the Ladder of Inquiry?"
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