Ye Xiaobai felt like stars were spinning around him and the world was transforming; even the grass by the roadside seemed to be telling him, "Ye Xiaobai, damn it, you've struck it rich, your big break is coming."

12 times 110 equals 1,320.

The entire stash of Blood Spirit Pills accumulated by the Ye Family over the years probably wouldn't even make a fraction of that amount.

"Stay calm! Stay calm!" Ye Xiaobai kept reminding himself internally. Tang Rao had only temporarily taken the lead; who knows if a stronger contender might climb up later? This was something nobody could be sure of.

"Exhale... inhale... slowly relax..." Ye Xiaobai muttered under his breath.

Too bad there's no bubble tea for sale on this mountain, or he would definitely get ten cups of pearl milk tea to calm his nerves.

"Xiao Bai, you alright?" Ye Fengsheng asked with a bit of perplexity, patting Ye Xiaobai's shoulder, "What are you muttering about with all this exhaling and inhaling? If you're about to stop breathing and die, I can book a coffin for you."

Ye Xiaobai: "..."

"Big brother, do you think it's possible for pies to fall from the sky in this world?" Ye Xiaobai asked Ye Fengsheng.

"Hmm, preferably made of iron, to conk you on the head and kill you," Ye Fengsheng gave Ye Xiaobai a look and then decided to ignore the younger brother.

What on earth is going on in that brain of his all day long...

...

"Forty-sixth level, let's give it a try anyway," Tang Rao murmured as he looked at the area of the forty-sixth level.

If it's too hard, he could always go back.

Those puppets are actually a type of energy form, similar to real puppets in various functions, but they lack a physical body. This is why these puppets always exist.

As long as there is Spiritual Energy to support them, these energy puppets will never vanish.

They can re-form shortly after being destroyed.

"Grandpa Tang is here, come at me!" With a leap, Tang Rao landed with a bang in the middle of the layers.

"You puppet riffraff, let Grandpa Tang smash you all!" Tang Rao boasted mightily; he couldn't lose his stance.

Although these puppets are just lifeless objects.

But there's no harm in intimidating them.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

The scene remained deadly still, nothing happened, and the puppet riffraff that Tang Rao was expecting didn't appear.

"Damn it, what a waste of my expression," Tang Rao coughed, thankful that no one was around, otherwise, it would have been truly awkward.

However, since there were no puppets, there must be other obstacles.

Perhaps even more fierce than the energy puppets, otherwise Mi Fukan, the Bald, wouldn't be stuck at the forty-fifth level.

"Thud!" A muffled sound rose next to Tang Rao's ear.

Subsequently, the surroundings began to morph as if everything was dissipating and collapsing.

The walls crumbled to dust, the floor started to change, and it turned pitch black, as if he was in a strange alternate space.

And there Tang Rao stood, suspended in the air of this bizarre space.

Then beneath Tang Rao, there began to emerge a vast expanse of black-and-white checkered platforms...

These platforms slowly joined and transformed, eventually forming a massive Five Elements and Eight Trigrams.

Yes, the Five Elements Eight Diagrams Plate, a mysterious blend of black and white.

"Is this... a walking Array?" Tang Rao's mouth hung open, utterly flabbergasted. Because he noticed that there was no trace of Spiritual Energy around, and if it were an Array to be broken, Spiritual Energy would be needed as support.

Walking an Array is not the same as breaking one; breaking an Array requires various techniques and tremendous strength; but walking an Array is different, you only need to understand how the Array operates, step into the key spot, and exit the Array to succeed.

In the Seventy-two Domains of the nine realms, walking an Array is quite popular.

Tang Rao's mouth slowly curved into a smile; to be honest, he was not good at breaking Arrays because many techniques to do so are exclusive to Array Masters, and they wouldn't be shared publicly.

Walking the array...

"Sorry, but I, Tang Rao, am like a walking encyclopedia, known as the little prince of array walking," Tang Rao mumbled to himself with a brilliant smile.

"Let's see… The changing array based on the Li fire position within the main Eight Diagrams Formation…"

"Let's go!" After observing, Tang Rao took confident strides forward, swinging his arms, looking up and puffing out his chest with a proud and lofty air.

"I jump!"

"And I jump again!"

"Damn, that's far…"

Who knows how long it took, but Tang Rao arrogantly stepped into the final array position.

"Whoosh!" As soon as he stood firm, everything around him began to revert back to normal, the Five Elements Eight Diagrams Plate dissolved, and everything was as it had been before.

"Hey, straight to the forty-sixth floor," said Tang Rao, glancing around at the surroundings that were clearly different from the forty-fifth floor.

And there was no one else here - it must be the forty-sixth floor then.

No wonder Mi Fukan could only make it to the forty-fifth floor; walking an array... If one isn't utterly familiar with all sorts of arrays, it'd be impossible to complete.

Here on Blue Star, such knowledge is really closed off - they barely understand the arrays at all.

Let alone walking an array, they probably don't even know what this array is or where it evolved from.

To complete it would be like winning a billion-dollar lottery seven or eight times...

"It's nice to have no one else around." Looking at the empty rooms on the forty-sixth floor, Tang Rao felt incredibly satisfied in his heart, relieved that he didn't have to fight anymore.

Well, time to keep walking the array, to the fiftieth floor!

Tang Rao snapped his fingers, thinking that there should still be a Bone Pool on the fiftieth floor. The higher up, the stronger the Spiritual Energy contained in the spirit bones.

If he could make it to the last floor, Tang Rao felt that breaking through to the Enlightenment Realm wasn't impossible.

...

On the forty-fourth floor, Mi Fukan and Ji Yongye of course did not come to blows.

To them, there was no difference between the forty-third and forty-fourth floors; neither was the top rank.

"Brother Ji, why don't… you go up and check?" Mi Fukan suddenly said.

"It can't be that fast, right? It hasn't been that long. That array is very tricky; there's no way to break it." Ji Yongye clearly knew what Mi Fukan meant - he wanted to check if Tang Rao had broken through the forty-fifth floor.

After so many years of the Heavenly Ladder existing, it seemed like no one had ever managed to reach the forty-sixth floor.

Because no one knew how to break that Five Elements and Eight Trigrams array, it was completely nonsensical, and utterly unclear what needed to be done.

"I'll go down first and come back up in half an hour," Mi Fukan said.

"Holy crap, half an hour what are you doing, six puppets okay!"

"You've been fighting for so many years, you must have some insights, Amen." Mi Fukan didn't bother with Ji Yongye and directly left the forty-fourth floor area.

Half an hour later, Mi Fukan stepped back onto the forty-fourth floor, losing no time, he started to challenge the puppets and then enter the forty-fifth floor.

In the center of the forty-fifth floor, there was only Ji Yongye.

"Indeed, he is extraordinary, this young man has great virtue, great virtue indeed!" Mi Fukan's face broke into a radiant smile.

It was clear that Tang Rao had already left the forty-fifth floor and entered the forty-sixth.

After so many years, someone had finally broken this shackle.

"Brother Ji, we both took the lead," Mi Fukan said nodding, being able to draw Tang Rao into their sect would mean grasping the lead.

"It was me who took it first, you're shameless! Tell me, did you promise Tang Rao some special benefits? You baldy, I knew you looked honest but were sneaky at heart," Ji Yongye said with dissatisfaction.

Mi Fukan just shrugged with a smile, not uttering a word.

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