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The damaged golden armor was still shining brightly. Cang Yun stopped in his tracks in the vicinity and looked over, his eyes flashing with curiosity and expectation.

Sensing his strange movements, Zhou Xian'er walked over to her side and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There's one question I'm curious about." Cang Yun stared at the remains of the puppet with a burning gaze as he slowly asked, "What is that? The energy it provides to the puppet?"

"You mean?" Zhou Xian`er's slender eyebrows twitched, and she could faintly feel the energy fluctuations from within the wreckage. A hint of curiosity appeared in her eyes as well.

"I don't know what it is, but I'll have my answer soon."

Cang Yun smiled. He extended his hand and extended it into the skull. The next moment, a bright crystal-like crystal appeared in his palm.

"This seems to be an Origin Crystal!" Staring at the pebble-sized white rock in his hand and sensing the extremely pure Origin Energy fluctuation within it, Cang Yun was slightly stunned before a shocked expression immediately surfaced on his face.

Origin Crystals were crystals condensed from extremely pure Origin Energy. Because the Origin Energy inside was large and pure, they were extremely powerful weapons for cultivators with high cultivation realms.

However, the conditions for the formation of the Origin Crystal were extremely harsh, and one would need to spend several tens or even hundreds of years in an extremely rich place to be able to produce one. Thus, Origin Crystals were quite rare, and according to Cang Yun's knowledge, his father was the lord of the Vastheaven Realm.

"It's fortunate that Big Brother Cang Yun was meticulous. Otherwise, we would have missed out on such a precious item." Zhou Xian`er was also pleasantly surprised. As the young miss of the Sunfire World, she clearly knew the value of these Origin Crystals.

"This Origin Crystal..."

Cang Yun laughed, and was about to speak, but just as he said that, Zhou Xian'er seemed to know what he wanted to say, she interrupted him and said: "I temporarily have no use for this, so take it, Big brother Cang Yun, when the time comes, Uncle Cang should be in great need of it."

"This... "Fine." Seeing the resolution in the young lady's eyes, Cang Yun hesitated for a moment before keeping the Origin Crystal into his bag. It was just as Zhou Xian'er had said, the energy in the Origin Crystal was too huge for them to use for cultivation.

"Let's go and see what the next test will be."

In the next moment, the two of them walked side by side into the passageway to the fourth level of the ancient pagoda.

Weng! *

After a burst of blinding light passed, the scene instantly changed. Cang Yun slightly composed himself and then looked around at his surroundings.

"They're coming up too." When his gaze made contact with the two extraordinary figures in front of him, Cang Yun slightly raised his eyebrows. Zhou Jun and Zhou An were indeed worthy of being the top geniuses of the Zhou Family. From the looks of their speed, they had left the other Zhou Family disciples far behind.

At this time, the two of them seemed to have sensed something and turned around. After glancing around, their gazes landed on Cang Yun.

It was as if he did not expect Cang Yun to be able to reach the fourth level so quickly. However, the next moment, when he saw Zhou Xian'er standing beside Cang Yun, the surprise in her eyes instantly turned into understanding.

Then, he retracted his gaze and smiled to the red-haired youth beside him. "A person who has relied on a woman to reach this step. I didn't think that you would be interested in him. It's quite funny."

His expression was the same as ever, but within the depths of his eyes, he was staring at Cang Yun. There was a trace of an extremely hidden and peculiar light, and only then did he issue out a rather meaningful sentence, "I feel that one day, he will be a good opponent, so I am looking forward to it."

Towards the youngster whose reputation was no less than his, he was somewhat unable to fathom it. Although they had come into contact before, every time the latter gave him a strange feeling, as if under the cover of his eye-catching appearance, he was concealing an extremely deep secret.

Therefore, Zhou Jun had always been wary of this person. Otherwise, with his haughty personality, even if he had tried to stop him, he wouldn't have been able to resist the urge to attack Cang Yun.

In the distance, Cang Yun naturally did not know about the contents of their conversation. However, as their gazes met, he also noticed Zhou An's peculiar gaze. This made him frown, while inwardly alerting himself.

"Could these ladders be the trial of this level?" At this point, Zhou Xian'er suddenly called out.

Hearing this, Cang Yun retracted his thoughts. His gaze followed Zhou Xian'er's line of sight, and indeed, a towering stone staircase appeared in the middle of the sky.

One could see that the stone stairs had a total of 99 steps. They were divided into 3 sections, with each section being 33 steps and each section being 30 feet high. It was as if a flight of stairs were standing in this space.

However, apart from its magnificence, the stone staircase did not seem to have anything special about it. One could not sense any mysterious aura, as if it was an ordinary stone staircase.

Swoosh!

Just as Cang Yun finished sizing up the stone staircase in front of him, a white figure suddenly flew past his line of sight and headed towards the stone staircase.

"Zhou Jun has gone over." Zhou Xian`er's eyes narrowed as she stared curiously in front of her.

Cang Yun was also alert. With Zhou Jun, the first to take the lead, they were able to determine whether this seemingly ordinary stone staircase was concealing some profound secrets or not.

Clatter!

In the next moment, under the breathless gazes of Cang Yun and the rest, Zhou Jun's feet lightly tiptoed as his body flew up into the air, before gently descending towards the first level of the stone staircase.

Weng! *

However, just as his feet made contact with the rock stairs, a light suddenly lit up on the first level.

In a split-second, Zhou Jun's expression changed slightly. His originally light and graceful figure also became sluggish for a moment, as if he had felt an inexplicable pressure.

"Looks like this stone staircase is not that simple after all." Cang Yun narrowed his eyes and said.

However, just as he finished speaking, he noticed that Zhou Jun's expression had returned to normal after slightly adjusting himself. He immediately moved his body and continued up the second flight of stairs. It was evident that although the staircase was a little strange, it was not too dangerous.

Such a discovery completely dispelled the last of his misgivings. After a brief conversation with Zhou Xian`er, the two of them leapt forward and ran towards the stone staircase as well.