World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 1162 - 521: To the Demonic God Ruins! Dragon Emperor Origin!

Chapter 1162: 521: To the Demonic God Ruins! Dragon Emperor Origin!

The Autumn Gate, if Lanling wasn’t mistaken, would lead to a world where gravity doubled once entered!

Autumn signifies harvest, signifies the weight of ripe fruits.

Each step up the stairs, gravity doubles.

If it were before, this would undoubtedly be the best trial, but now Lanling has already surpassed the level of a Demon Warrior, and simple weight training has become negligible in effect.

These four gates are the only path Lanling can take to reach the top of the Pyramid.

He must consider the worst-case scenario; if he dies after entering the Autumn Gate, he will indeed be reborn, but he’ll never hope to reach the top of the Pyramid again.

It’s not just the Demonic God Ruins at the top of the Pyramid.

The hope of breaking through in cultivation is at the top of the Pyramid.

Even the hope of leaving the Ghost Realm World is at the top of the Pyramid.

He has already wasted three opportunities, and there is no fourth chance to waste.

It can be said that if he fails at the Autumn Gate, he will be trapped in this Ghost Realm World forever.

He can no longer act rashly.

Taking a deep breath, Lanling entered the Autumn Gate, completely bare, without any burden!

...

After entering the Autumn Gate, sure enough, the sun carried the unique colors of autumn, the autumn breeze was a bit cool, but ultimately comfortable.

The air seemed to be filled with the scent of harvested fruits.

Lanling walked up the stairs.

Sure enough, after ascending one step, Lanling clearly felt the doubling of gravity.

His body, originally weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, now became three hundred and twenty pounds.

Of course, this gravity was insignificant to him.

He continued climbing the stairs, step by step.

The ninth step, the tenth step, the eleventh step.

At this point, Lanling’s body weight had risen to one thousand nine hundred and twenty pounds.

The twelfth step, the thirteenth step, the fifteenth step, the twentieth step.

At this point, Lanling’s weight had risen to three thousand two hundred pounds.

He was already feeling extreme pain, the Golden Bloodline began to release energy, tempering his lineage and bones.

Then, Lanling ascended another step, and the weight increased by another one hundred and sixty pounds.

Thus, Lanling arduously climbed step by step.

Each step up brought with it incomparable pain, the Golden Bloodline constantly pouring out energy, tempering his bones and muscles.

But even so, when Lanling climbed to the thirty-first step.

His entire body had reached its limit and could not ascend even half a step further.

More than that, his body, tendons, and bones could no longer bear such tremendous pressure, and began to collapse!

"Crack..."

Lanling’s entire skeletal structure broke inch by inch.

The Golden Bloodline continuously released energy, attempting to restore his vitality, and recover his bones.

But...it didn’t work!

The speed of his body’s destruction outpaced the speed of the Golden Bloodline’s repair.

First, the bones collapsed, then the muscles collapsed, and finally, the collapse of life itself.

This meant that, if it continued normally, Lanling would die.

He was going to die on the thirty-first step.

And once he died, he would naturally resurrect outside the gate, but could never reach the top of the Pyramid or escape.

How many steps are on this staircase?

Ten thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand?

But no matter what, Lanling’s best record among these four gates was less than one percent.

If one wanted to climb these tens of thousands of steps with their cultivation alone, how powerful would their cultivation need to be? Lanling didn’t know, maybe as strong as the Dragon Emperor?

At this moment, Lanling’s body was rapidly collapsing, destroying itself.

He didn’t have much time left, maybe two minutes at most; he was about to die.

Within these two minutes, he had to figure out a way, had to find a way.

Autumn is the harvest season, so the possibility of reaching the top of the Pyramid through the Autumn Gate should be the greatest.

But wanting to climb tens of thousands of steps to the top of the Pyramid with his cultivation alone was utterly a fool’s dream, requiring tremendously strong power, millions of pounds!

Having millions of pounds of power, one could almost destroy cities and part mountains.

That was completely the power of the Dragon Emperor, with one sword, possibly splitting open a valley.

There’s a saying that goes, humans’ bodies are too heavy, causing their souls to not ascend.

Suddenly, Lanling’s mind lit up.

The human body has weight, but the soul and spirit do not.

And what is the essence of human life? It is spirit and soul.

Lanling’s body could not complete these tens of thousands of steps, but his spirit and soul could.

The soul and spirit are not afraid of fire, cold, corrosion, or gravity.

The human body is the dwelling place of the soul and spirit.

Spirit Transcendence Skill, Lanling learned it very early. But as spiritual power transcends, it is still connected to the body.

Spirit Transcendence is like a kite flying into the sky, always tethered to the body by a string.

And at this moment in the Ghost Realm World, Lanling’s body was dying.

Then, at the moment of his death, his spirit and soul would transcend instantly, completely detaching from this body.

...

Lanling’s body was still collapsing, still destroying, death was drawing nearer and nearer.

His spiritual power was desperately converging, converging, converging.

Lanling’s entire skeleton had completely broken, his whole body entirely collapsed.

"Splat..." Instantly, like a layer of flesh, it slammed onto the steps.

At the same time, Lanling’s spirit and soul burst out of its shell, leaving the destroyed body.

Spirit detachment and the death of his body occurred at precisely the same moment.

"Hoo..."

Suddenly, Lanling felt his body become empty, the dreadful, painful gravity vanished.

He felt light, and experienced an incomparable sense of freedom.

His spirit and soul detached from the body.

His body turned into a semi-transparent shadow. He became a spirit of light and shadow.

Then he continued climbing upwards, step by step.

...

Ascending the stairs, Lanling’s spirit and soul climbed tier by tier towards the pyramid’s peak.

The ten thousandth tier.

The twentieth thousandth tier.

The thirtieth thousandth tier.

Still hadn’t reached the pyramid’s top.

At this moment, Lanling sensed the gravity again, for his soul’s image was gradually compressing, making him a bit shorter.

It turned out, the soul indeed has weight.

Previously, Earth’s data indicated 21 grams, approximately the weight of a human soul.

The higher Lanling climbed, the shorter his soul image became, subjected to more compression.

At the forty thousandth tier.

Lanling’s soul image was less than one meter tall.

At the fifty thousandth tier, Lanling’s image was less than one foot tall.

At the sixty thousandth tier, Lanling’s soul image had compressed into a circular light shadow, less than an inch in diameter.

At the seventy thousandth tier, Lanling’s soul image compressed into a light sphere less than a centimeter.

At the seventy-five thousandth tier, Lanling had become a light resembling a firefly.

Then, he thought of something, Yao Xing!

When Yao Xing entered his body, it felt just like this, compressed into a single point of light.

However, at the time, Yao Xing’s light was very dim, whereas now, Lanling’s light remained dazzling.

Immediately, Lanling recalled a novel on Earth called "Three-Body".

Humans tried to send someone across to another star system, but his body was too heavy, and the spaceship’s energy couldn’t carry him across several star systems.

Thus the spaceship sent only a brain across, and it reached the other star system.

Several years ago, someone attempted to traverse Yao Xing from this world to Earth, which required not merely crossing star systems but dimensions.

Therefore, further reduction in weight was necessary, resulting in almost weightless Demon Star Energy.

Moreover, Yao Xing itself had to supply the energy for inter-dimensional travel.

Perhaps, Yao Xing itself is a soul!

Just that it lost many memories because it had traversed too many dimensions?

It’s not an energy body at all; it’s fundamentally a soul?

Then whose soul could it be?

...

Lanling continued climbing!

Then, suddenly... the boundless stairs reached an end.

Lanling arrived at the pyramid’s peak.

It is a vast platform, tens of thousands of meters high, covering a massive area of over ten thousand square meters!

He saw the Demonic God Ruins, which appeared as a mass of light shadow.

A light shadow tens of meters in diameter, constantly swirling, sometimes like a giant eye, sometimes resembling a surging soul, and other times as if flames were burning.

"Wow, finally after countless years, a second person has climbed this dark pyramid, completing these seventy-five thousand three hundred ninety-two steps, arriving before me to see my true form." This light shadow spoke, then instantly transformed into a pair of upright light shadow eyes.

These eyes resembled the famous Eye of Sauron from "Lord of the Rings"!

Its voice was filled with magnetism and allure, yet was without any gender.

Simultaneously, the terrifying gravity around vanished instantly, Lanling reverted to his original soul light shadow, standing before the massive light shadow eye.

"Are you the Demonic God Ruins?" Lanling asked.

"If you say so, then it is!" said the massive light shadow eye.

Lanling said, "You mentioned I am the second person to climb these numerous stairs to see your true form. May I ask who the first was?"

"I don’t know who it was," replied the Demonic God Ruins light shadow eye. "However, this person arrived before me three thousand two hundred thirty-nine years ago."

Dragon Emperor!

Lanling immediately thought of this person.

The timeline only matches with Dragon Emperor.

The Demonic God light shadow eye said, "Anyone who arrives before me, I will grant them one wish, no matter the wish, I can fulfill it. Unbelievably powerful strength, unparalleled beauty, supreme authority, anything you name, I will certainly grant it."

Lanling asked, "What was the wish of the previous person?"

The Demonic God light shadow eye replied, "The first person wanted unbelievably powerful strength to conquer the world, the power to move mountains and fill seas."

Lanling asked, "And you granted it?"

"Yes, I granted it," said the Demonic God Ruins, the light shadow eye.

Indeed, this person must be the Dragon Emperor.

Perhaps this is the origin of Dragon Emperor’s strength? He left here heading north, founding the Flame Demon Empire, unifying all of the Near-Human Tribe, establishing a powerful empire.

The Demonic God light shadow eye said, "I can bestow such mighty power upon him; I can also give it to you. Now, tell me, what is your wish? You have only one opportunity; once you express it, I will certainly fulfill it!"

The voice of the Demonic God light shadow eye was filled with boundless temptation.

The Demonic God Ruins light shadow eye slowly said, "What do you desire? Unbelievably powerful strength, capable of overturning seas, exterminating countless enemies? Ultimate power, supremacy as the king of kings? Speak your wish, and I’ll make it come true!"

At the center of the light shadow eye, there seemed to be a flame flickering constantly, that was its pupil center, tightly observing Lanling, waiting for him to declare his wish.

Is this the source of Dragon Emperor’s strength? Lanling faced an unprecedented temptation!

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