Divine War Pill Emperor

CRACK...

As Jiang Chen’s foot landed on the final step, the entire staircase rumbled, and a crisp crack echoed through the air.

The moment Jiang Chen planted both feet on the final step...

RUMBLE...

...the entire staircase immediately let out an even more violent roar.

He stood there like a deity, as immovable as a mountain.

At that moment, Jiang Chen’s figure was majestic.

His aura soared to the heavens, pressing down upon the steps below.

CRACK...

Another strange cracking sound broke the silence.

Jiang Chen didn’t look down, but a crack had abruptly appeared beneath his feet.

The crack wasn’t large, but its appearance on the step beneath him was startlingly conspicuous.

It was like a scar carved into a flawless work of art.

Of course, this was far from over.

Everything was just beginning.

CRACK... CRACK...

The sound of cracking continued to echo from beneath Jiang Chen’s feet.

That single crack began to spread downward without warning.

CRACK...

The one-thousandth step split completely open.

Then, the nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth step also began to crack.

The nine-hundred-and-ninety-eighth...

The crack continued its inexorable spread downward.

On the nine hundred and eighty-third step, Flame Dragon could climb no further. He had been stuck here all along.

He knew that he could never surmount these stairs. Only Jiang Chen could.

It was like an insurmountable chasm, a feat as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

But of course, no matter how difficult, the god-like man at the very top had overcome it all the same.

CRACK...

Just then, Flame Dragon suddenly heard a strange sound from nearby.

He whipped his head around and saw a crack spreading down from above. It had already reached the step he was standing on.

”This...”

”How is this possible?”

”The stairs are cracking?”

Flame Dragon’s jaw dropped, utterly shocked.

After all, the material of these steps, enduring such immense pressure, had to be terrifyingly resilient.

But some unknown force was causing them to crack. What kind of terrifying power would it take to break these steps?

He couldn’t even imagine it.

CRACK... CRACK...

Then, the crack continued its journey down the steps.

He snapped his head up, his horrified gaze landing once again on Jiang Chen, who stood on the top step, as still as a mountain.

’Is it him?’

Flame Dragon couldn’t believe his own suspicion.

He didn’t want to believe that Jiang Chen was the one causing the steps to crack.

CRACK... CRACK...

Wen Shixuan had been staring at Jiang Chen on the highest step, his heart completely overwhelmed with shock.

But then he heard a strange sound and quickly looked away.

He saw the step before him cracking as a fissure snaked its way down from above.

”Hm?”

’What’s going on? Why are the stairs cracking?’

He froze. After all, these steps, enveloped by the Gravity Domain, were made of an extremely hard and sturdy material. How could any ordinary external force possibly break them?

But now the steps were cracking, and he couldn’t feel any force capable of causing such a thing.

He looked up toward Jiang Chen and Flame Dragon.

Finally, he shook his head.

’It can’t be them. The stairs must be ancient and are just cracking on their own.’

’That has to be it.’

Beside him, Grand General Ming Zhe also wore a look of utter astonishment.

Many people saw the steps cracking, and the expressions on their faces were a sight to behold.

The crack continued its descent until it reached the very first step.

CRACK...

The final cracking sound stopped there.

The sixth level fell into a dead silence.

No one spoke. Everyone held their breath.

The situation was simply too bizarre.

First, Jiang Chen had died and vanished, only to be reborn from the flames and successfully reach the summit.

Now, the stairs were cracking without any warning.

Everything was eerily strange.

No one had any idea what would happen next.

’These steps... they must shatter. They must be destroyed.’

Jiang Chen stood at the highest point, slowly lowering his head.

His body was still wreathed in flames.

Finally, he let out a sudden, mighty roar.

”Shatter!”

As Jiang Chen’s voice rang out, the steps of the sixth level rumbled once more.

At the same time, innumerable cracking sounds erupted.

CRACK... CRACK...

Starting from the very top, countless new cracks began to appear.

The fissures spread rapidly downward from the top.

Shocking cracking sounds echoed throughout the entire sixth level.

Flame Dragon, Wen Shixuan, Lord Wangu, and the others all gasped in shock.

They watched in horror as the steps around them fractured in unison at Jiang Chen’s roar.

Every single step was now covered in a dense web of innumerable cracks.

Moreover, the cracks were still widening.

The steps began to break apart into shattered fragments of stone.

’How is this possible?’

’It really is him. He’s the one destroying the stairs.’

Everyone now understood. It was Jiang Chen. He was the one who had made the steps crack and shatter.

But that wasn’t all.

BOOM...

The heavily scarred steps suddenly let out a deafening roar, starting from the first level.

The steps began to pulverize, finally unable to support their own weight, and collapsed completely.

The staircase had collapsed.

The first step, the second, the third... the stairs collapsed and crumbled one after another.

Layer by layer, they fell away like soft earth.

The collapse moved upward, step by step. The higher steps shattered even more violently before collapsing with a thunderous roar.

Lord Wangu cried out in alarm.

He tumbled down from the steps as they gave way beneath him.

Most shocking of all, as the staircase crumbled, the immense Gravity Domain covering it instantly dissipated.

The pressure vanished.

Everyone felt their bodies lighten.

A sensation of light, blissful ease spread through their bodies.

”The stairs... they’ve collapsed!”

”My heavens!”

Wen Shixuan had only a moment to exclaim in shock before he hurriedly leaped from the collapsing steps.

The step where he had just been standing shattered instantly.

The instant Flame Dragon felt the pressure disappear, he shot to his feet and soared into the air. He was initially worried the pressure might remain, but he found it completely gone. His figure moved like a bolt of lightning.

WHOOSH!

He appeared directly before the passageway at the top of where the stairs once were.

He looked at Jiang Chen, who wore an indifferent expression, as if he had just done something utterly trivial.

In truth, Jiang Chen himself didn’t know why he’d had the sudden impulse to crush the staircase.

And as a result, the stairs had actually collapsed.

He was a little surprised himself.

A moment later, Jiang Chen also stepped into the passageway.

RUMBLE...

The sounds of the ongoing collapse continued to echo from below.

Dust billowed up. Amidst the final rumbles, the entire staircase of the sixth level vanished completely, leaving behind nothing but a ground covered in dust and rubble.

”Big Bro, you’re simply on another level.”

A look of pure adoration filled Flame Dragon’s eyes. After all, Jiang Chen’s ability to destroy the staircase was far beyond anything he could have anticipated.

Jiang Chen, however, was speechless.

Soon, the dust settled. Wen Shixuan and the others were overjoyed.

With the staircase gone, the pressure had vanished.

One by one, they quickly scrambled up from below.

But as they emerged in front of the passageway, they all looked at Jiang Chen with a certain trepidation.

At that moment, Jiang Chen was a truly fearsome sight.