What puzzled Di Jiu was that the third step of the cosmic ladder was three stones of different colours, black and white and grey.
“Old Lone, how does this go?” Di Jiu looked at Lone Stepping Man in confusion.
Lone Stepping Man smiled heatedly, “This is where my Old Lone is better than others, most people at this time of the year are afraid to walk the black stones. But let me tell you, we still go grey.”
Di Jiu’s mouthful of Old Lone made Lone Stepper subconsciously call himself Old Lone as well.
“What’s the difference?” Di Jiu asked.
The Lone Stepping Man said, “The difference is big, to be exact, going from these three stones are all cosmic ladders that lead to leaving the Five Elements Universe. But the time is different, you may walk a million years from the black stone, I only need to walk a hundred years, or even a year to get there. Let’s go, and talk all the way.”
After saying that, the Lone Stepper did not hesitate to rush towards the black stone.
Di Jiu didn’t hesitate this time, he also followed and rushed over.
As soon as he entered the void, terrifying spatial arrows came tearing through, and at the same time the powerful corrosive aura of Dao rhythm began to penetrate Di Jiu’s armour.
Di Jiu breathed out, fortunately he had added the World Book. The World Book’s defensive ability was really powerful, several spatial arrows tore through his armour, only to be blocked by the World Book. As for the Dao Fire, this last barrier did not need to work at all.
With no more worries, Di Jiu’s attention fell on the Lone Pacer. He noticed that Lone Stepper’s route of evasion was a bit weird, and he was sure that Lone Stepper not only had the same armour as him, but also knew how to walk here.
He did not need to ask Lone Stepper about this method of evacuation, for it would be futile to ask. Once he had sensed the rules of the void here, he would know what was going on. After understanding this, Di Jiu sensed the dao rules around him as he crossed the void.
As Di Jiu was sensing the rules in the void, the Lone Stepping Man was watching Di Jiu just as much. He would not hesitate to pounce on Di Jiu as long as he had half a serious injury situation.
To his disappointment, the two of them crossed the void and arrived at the black stone block, and Di Jiu was not half affected.
“Daoist friend Di is really good at ……” Lone Stepman became more and more interested in the technique Di Jiu was practicing at this time, he vaguely felt that Di Jiu was practicing a Daoist technique, he hadn’t perceived it yet exactly.
Di Jiu pointed ahead and said, “Old Lone, four stones have appeared in front of us, how should we go? And how did this stone appear so quickly this time?”
Lone Stepman also saw four stones appear in front of him, and he didn’t hide it, “The next step of the Cosmic Staircase appears without a pattern, there is no pattern in time and space, and the number is also without a pattern. This time we take the fifth stone.”
“The fifth stone?” Di Jiu looked at Lone Stepper in confusion.
Lone Stepping Man laughed, “That’s right, it’s the fifth piece. It is a stone that cannot even be swept by divine thoughts, it can also be taken as colourless, you just follow me.”
After saying that Lone Stepper did not hesitate to rush into the void, Di Jiu did not follow Lone Stepper immediately, he waited for Lone Stepper to walk for a while before he rushed into the void and opened his Dao pupil at the same time.
Beneath the Dao pupil, there was indeed a faint stone, said to be colourless, but it had merged with the surrounding void.
The Lone Stepping Man kept his eyes on Di Jiu, this was his second chance to a*sa*sinate him. Later he would simulate to where the most dangerous edge of the Cosmic Staircase was, as long as Di Jiu thought that the place he was standing was a stone and also rushed over, then he would definitely be torn by the time blade aura, at this moment he a*sa*sinated Di Jiu with more than 60% certainty.
With the three layers of protection from the Void Mountain and the World Book and Dao Fire, Di Jiu’s had a much easier time vanish away in the void between the cosmic staircases. Otherwise, he really wouldn’t have had the chance to take his time to observe where the fifth stone was.
What made Di Jiu puzzled was that when he was about to reach the fifth stone, the Lone Stepping Man actually shifted his direction and he landed in the void where there was no stone at all. And looking at him, it was as if he was standing on the stone, smiling and calm.
What did it mean? Di Jiu understood as soon as his thoughts turned. He smiled coldly in his heart, he really did need some skills in this place, otherwise, he would definitely have to drink the foot-washing water of the Lone Stepping Man today.
Without hesitation, Di Jiu landed on the fifth colourless stone and then looked at Lone Stepping Man with a smile.
Seeing that Di Jiu could actually know where the fifth stone was, Lone Bu Ren’s face changed, then he opened his mouth and spat out a stream of blood, then his body turned around and also landed on the colourless stone after him.
“Old Lone, why are you spitting blood?” Di Jiu looked at Lone Bu Ren in confusion.
Lone Stepping Man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, smiled and said, “Fellow Daoist Di, you are really deep in hiding, you can see even this colourless cosmic staircase that cannot even be swept by divine thoughts, I am sort of cocooned.”
There was no need for him to hide, Di Jiu already knew what he was up to and was on guard against him at all times. The blood he spat out just now wasn’t from being angry, but was truly injured by the Time Blade Mane.
Di Jiu secretly cried out in his heart, had he known that he would have hesitated a little more in the void, maybe this old man would have been injured even more.
Instead of being backstabbed by Di Jiu, he was backstabbed by Di Jiu. The Lone Stepping Man acted as if nothing had happened, still talking and laughing with Di Jiu.
The two of them climbed the Cosmic Staircase, and the Lone Paceman had also plotted against Di Jiu a few times along the way, but unfortunately, they were not successful once. Sometimes the ladders appeared one after another, and sometimes it took more than ten years before one appeared. In this way, Di Jiu and Lone Paceman walked on the Cosmic Staircase for hundreds of years.
On this day, Di Jiu had just stepped onto an orange Cosmic Ladder stone after Lone Stepper when he was surprised to find a particularly huge flat stone not far from them. Di Jiu’s divine mind took a cursory look at the flat stone, which was at least a square kilometre.
There was nothing wrong with a huge boulder appearing in the middle of the cosmic staircase, what puzzled Di Jiu was that there was actually a cultivator in this boulder, and there was more than one. A sweep of his divine thoughts showed that there were at least a few dozen guys on the boulder.
“Old Lone, is this the Five Elements Universe that has left?” Di Jiu looked back at Lone Stepping Man, he didn’t understand, but Lone Stepping Man surely did.
Lone Stepping Man shook his head, “How is that possible, it’s still very early to leave the Five Elements Universe. The place we saw was a resting place halfway up the cosmic ladder, you see a lot of people up there right, in fact some guys have been coming here for a hundred times more years than you’ve been born until now.”
“This is what you said before about entering the Cosmic Staircase first?” Di Jiu asked.
The Lone Pacer said smugly, “That’s right, although these people also go through the Cosmic Ladder, they don’t know how to go through the Cosmic Ladder at all though. I am the only one in the Five Elements Universe who knows how to go down the Cosmic Ladder.”
“Because you have a cosmic nest, I heard some people say before that he was the only one who knew about the cosmic ladder.” Di Jiu said indifferently, with a hint of mockery in his tone. There were many loopholes in the Lone Pacer’s speech, which was why Di Jiu only half believed him. Di Jiu also knew that Lone Bu Ren didn’t care about these loopholes at all, both sides knew what they were doing together, and it was pointless to cover it up.
Along the way, although he had learned a lot of knowledge that he had never come across before from the mouth of the Lone Pacer, he had also been backstabbed by the Lone Pacer at least seven or eight times.
This guy was a viper, he was full of smiles and called you a brother, then he was not soft in the process of crossing the cosmic staircase.
The lone pacesetter didn’t care about Di Jiu’s ridicule, his skin had long been thickened after this journey, “Fellow Daoist Di, we can go straight to the next step of the cosmic staircase without going up. In that case, we can save a lot of time.”
Di Jiu said indifferently, “I don’t really think so, I’m going to go over there to see what’s going on and then find a few people to talk to.”
“Fellow Daoist Di, there are many Third Step powerhouses here, it’s dangerous for us to go over like this.” Lone Stepper definitely didn’t want Di Jiu to go to this resting place in the middle of the Cosmic Staircase, he only wanted to go alone with Di Jiu and himself. The cosmic staircase was still long, he didn’t believe that he couldn’t f*ck Di Jiu.
Di Jiu didn’t even bother to pay attention to Lone Stepper, and without hesitation, he took a step towards the huge flat stone.