“Mr. Billy, once you go up, if you feel you can’t continue, remember not to push yourself. Just give up and return the way you came,” Madden Oneal reminded him again.


    “Got it!” Billy nodded.


    “The Ancestor has ordered that only one person can go up the stone steps at a time, so I can only apany you this far,” Madden Oneal said once more.


    “Thank you, Lord Madden!” Billy responded.


    After speaking, he lifted his foot and started up the stone steps.


    Having previously experienced walking on stone steps in the Forbidden Phantom Valley within the Forbidden Ruins Space, he was somewhat prepared.


    As expected, as soon as he stepped onto the stone steps, an overwhelming pressure enveloped him, much stronger than the pressure on the stone steps in the Forbidden Sanctum.


    Even with Billy’s current cultivation level, he felt a certain amount of pressure.


    Taking a deep breath, he continued upward.


    After climbing about ten steps, a phantom figure holding arge de suddenly rushed at him from the side of the steps.


    Without hesitation, the de in the phantom’s hand shed down at Billy with great speed and force.


    Caught off guard, Billy instinctively retreated two steps down. The de narrowly missed his clothes.


    The phantom didn’t pause; it turned and swung its de horizontally at Billy.


    By then, Billy had already reacted. With a flick of his wrist, he drew his Bloodshadow Fury de, and a de light met the phantom’s attack.


    The two forces collided, and the phantom was pushed back several steps, bing more translucent.


    Before it could stabilize, a second de light struck it.


    With a muffled sound, the phantom shattered and disappeared.


    Billy took a moment to catch his breath before continuing upward.


    As he ascended, the pressure increased steadily but didn’t pose too much of an obstacle for him.


    When Billy reached the twentieth step, two phantom figures holdingrge des appeared on either side of the steps.


    Prepared this time, Billy didn’t retreat. He gripped his Bloodshadow Fury de and charged forward.


    These two phantoms were slightly stronger than the previous one and moved faster. Theirbined attacks were formidable.


    However, at this level of strength, they were no match for Billy. After two rounds, both phantoms disappeared.


    “Interesting!” Billy looked up at the steps above, his eyes narrowing slightly.


    He continued upward as he had anticipated. Every ten steps, a new wave of phantoms appeared, each stronger than thest and increasing in number.


    Initially, these challenges posed no pressure for Billy; he could defeat each phantom with a single strike.


    However, as he climbed higher, it became less easy. After each wave of phantoms, he had to rest and recover his Chi power before continuing.


    Several hourster, Billy stood on the nieth step tform.


    As expected, nine phantoms emerged from both sides of the steps, each exuding a strong aura.


    Theirbat abilities were higher than those on the eightieth step tform, roughly equivalent tote-stage Entering Dao Realm strength.


    Nine figures attacked simultaneously from different directions, forming a sharp of de lights aimed at Billy.


    Billy’s eyes narrowed slightly. As he formed a defensive aura, he swung his Bloodshadow Fury de in a powerful arc towards several figures in front of him.


    With a muffled sound, four phantoms struck by the de light shattered instantly.


    The remaining five phantoms’ de lights allnded on Billy. However, such attacks posed no threat to him at this level.


    The de lights fell, pushing Billy back several steps but leaving him unharmed.


    Without pausing, Billy swung his de again.


    The de light cut through two more phantoms, making them disappear.


    The remaining three phantoms didn’t hesitate; their de lights shed again, pushing Billy back several more steps.


    Billy took a moment to catch his breath before striking again. The three phantoms shattered without resistance.


    After dealing with these phantoms, Billy looked up at the four wooden men on the tform above.N?velDrama.Org is the owner.


    He guessed that these wooden men had at least early-stage Perceiving Dao Realm strength or possibly more.


    After a brief rest, he continued to the top tform.


    Here, the pressure had reached its peak. For warriors below mid-stage Entering Dao Realm, this pressure alone would make movement impossible.


    As soon as he stepped onto the tform, a cold light carrying immense energy shed towards him like lightning.


    From its aura alone, it was clear that its strength wasparable to third-rank Perceiving Dao Realm!


    Fortunately, Billy was prepared. He swung his Bloodshadow Fury de to meet the attack.


    With a loud sh, both Billy and the wooden man were pushed back several steps, their breaths slightly disordered.


    Before Billy could stabilize himself, another cold light shed towards him with lightning speed.


    Billy frowned slightly. Unable to dodge in time, he hastily raised his de to block it.


    The attack tore through his de light and struck him heavily, pushing him back several meters again.


    To make matters worse, the other two wooden men also attacked simultaneously.


    This time, Billy didn’t take them head-on. He dodged to the side.


    Without wasting time, he activated his bloodline power and pointed at one of the wooden men.


    The wooden man charged towards him without hesitation.


    The energy wave from Celestial ck Finger collided with the wooden man, pushing it back several steps but leaving it otherwise unaffected.


    “Hmm?”


    Seeing that the wooden man remained unscathed after taking his Celestial ck Finger attack, Billy frowned slightly.


    He had expected that even with third-rank Perceiving Dao Realm strength, the wooden man would be reduced to splinters under his attack.


    But now, it seemed otherwise!


    “Interesting!” Billy released his spiritual power to investigate and quickly understood.


    The reason was simple: all four wooden men were reinforced with arrays!


    It was simr to the ‘robots’ he had made before.


    Unless one’s strength far exceeded these wooden men by several levels, it would be difficult to harm them-they were practically ‘undead’!


    Of course, another way was to find and break their array eye to disable their arrays.


    In such an environment, finding the array eye was possible but challenging.


    So he chose the simplest method!


    In an instant, his aura surged to its peak.


    Then he gripped his Bloodshadow Fury de and activated Heavenly Fury, shing out!