No one knew how much time had passed. Ian Song gradually adapted to the terrifying pressure, but his body still couldn't straighten up and remained hunched over. The next moment, he looked toward the 101st step.
A voice told him that the more steps he climbed, the greater the benefits he would ultimately receive.
"My soul has already undergone thirteen metamorphoses. In terms of strength, maybe I can't match a God-King, but in quality, even a God-King probably can't compare to me!"
Looking up, he saw that the endless staircase finally had an end—only ninety-nine steps remained.
"I'm going to climb every single step!"
For a moment, a crazy thought popped into Ian Song's mind.
But even at just a hundred steps, it felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his soul. If he kept climbing, his soul might get damaged. Still, pressure could be a kind of motivation.
Thinking of this, he took out several thousand drops of soul liquid and gulped them down like a drink.
Nourished by the soul liquid, his soul suddenly felt much lighter. Under the pressure, his soul absorbed the liquid even faster.
In just half a day, Ian Song absorbed thousands of drops of soul liquid, and his soul seemed to have improved yet again.
So, he swallowed several thousand more drops of soul liquid.
After taking over thirty thousand drops of soul liquid, he felt relaxed again, and his hunched body suddenly straightened.
"I can try stepping onto the 101st step!"
Boom!
As Ian Song stepped onto that stair, a formless pressure crashed down on his soul, making him stagger and nearly fall back to the hundredth step. Luckily, he steadied himself and slowly straightened up.
"Good! Very good!"
Ian Song gave a light shout, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth as he took out more soul liquid to drink.
After he consumed tens of thousands more drops of soul liquid, he continued climbing upward.
The 102nd step...
The 103rd step...
The 104th step...
The 105th step...
Bang!
The overwhelming pressure forced Ian Song to his knees on the steps, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. Even his soul developed a tiny crack.
The pressure on this step was simply too strong, like an ancient divine mountain pressing down—he could barely move at all.
Heh heh!
But Ian Song just laughed.
"Such powerful pressure is actually excellent!"
With a thought, Ian Song began to activate the Primordial Chaos Body. This technique was created by Pangu, and although it's called a sacred body, it tempers both body and soul at the same time.
At first, the Primordial Chaos Body ran sluggishly, like an old woman grinding grain—painfully slow. But under such pressure, this number one chaos technique exploded with unimaginable toughness and power.
Rumble rumble!
Every time the technique circulated, it was as if thunder rolled through his body.
And things kept getting better.
Finally, after several days, the Primordial Chaos Body circulated smoothly. As the technique ran, energy from the void poured into his soul, rapidly strengthening it.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Ian Song was still standing on the 105th step. In his sea of consciousness, his soul had shrunk by half, but now it looked like it was clad in golden armor—radiant and dazzling.
Meanwhile, the pressure from the 105th step had completely vanished.
Indeed, under such immense pressure, his soul had taken another step forward, transforming into a Divine Soul Golden Body. Although it hadn't reached the fourteenth metamorphosis yet, it was close.
So, Ian Song strode forward, climbing more than thirty steps in a row and reaching the 142nd step.
Here, the pressure on his soul became unbearably heavy again, as if another giant mountain had landed on him.
Heh heh!
With a cold laugh, Ian Song stepped up three more stairs in a row.
Rumble!
Crack!
Several cracks appeared on his Divine Soul Golden Body.
"At this level, even a God-King would probably get their soul scattered!"
As his thoughts flickered, Ian Song stepped up again.
Thud!
His body was pinned down on the 146th step. In his sea of consciousness, the Divine Soul Golden Body was covered in countless cracks, as if it would collapse at any moment.
"Primordial Chaos Body, get moving!"
With a loud shout, Ian Song frantically cycled his technique, trying to repair his shattered Divine Soul Golden Body. But the pressure on this step was just too much—no sooner had he fixed it than it broke again.
This repeated hundreds of times, until his Divine Soul Golden Body finally healed, its strength rising to a whole new level.
With that, he stepped straight up to the 149th step.
Pfft, pfft, pfft!
He spat out mouthfuls of blood. In his sea of consciousness, the Divine Soul Golden Body shattered completely. But at that moment, a surge of bloodline power erupted from within, forcibly fusing the broken pieces back together.
Not only did this bloodline power mend his shattered Divine Soul Golden Body, it also strengthened his physical body. He realized that his madness had forced out a power that shouldn't have appeared.
This wasn't good—it meant he was over-extracting his potential. But he had no regrets, because he was determined to reach the 199th step.
With the help of bloodline power, Ian Song climbed to the 180th step. At that moment, his soul was on the verge of metamorphosis. With a thought, he took out a huge number of Divine Pills and swallowed them.
He needed energy for his soul's metamorphosis.
Rumble!
Inside his sea of consciousness, it was as if he were undergoing a tribulation—thunder exploded again and again, and even divine lightning from the void struck his Divine Soul Golden Body. But instead of shattering it, the divine lightning was absorbed by his soul.
At the same time, he gained a sudden insight.
Pangu created the world, but died after its creation. So, the world itself doesn't want another Pangu to appear. Now, having forced out his bloodline power, he caught the attention of some mysterious existence, which sent divine lightning to destroy him.
Time passed slowly, and his sea of consciousness finally became calm.
Ian Song's soul had successfully undergone its fourteenth metamorphosis.
After the fourteenth metamorphosis, Ian Song felt the entire world had changed. He could see not just divine energy and laws, but the very essence of the world itself.
"Come!"
Instinctively, Ian Song called out. Instantly, the void split open, and drops of origin power flew into his mouth, where he absorbed them into his soul and the chaos vortex.
However, the origin power he could sense was limited in range.
He swallowed over ten drops, and put away the rest.
After absorbing several drops of origin power, the chaos vortex began a new metamorphosis.
He ignored the chaos vortex's automatic transformation and strode upward.
Soon, he easily reached the 199th step!
"Excellent! Since the founding of the Mixed Yang Sect, you are the first to fully ascend all 199 steps of the Divine Soul Stairway. You deserve to obtain the Creation Heaven Diagram! Enter the hall!"
A voice was heard, but no one could be seen.
Ian Song wasn't surprised. He strode forward toward the grand hall, pushed open the heavy palace doors, and walked inside. It was time to claim his reward.