To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

The dreamy fat goose says: Read this book!

The stone gate was surrounded by shimmering sunlight, obscuring the view behind it.

Gu Fan stared at the stone gate in silence.

Su Nanzhi could open it, but he couldn't; the problem clearly lay with him.

"Fellow Daoist, would you like to try going inside again?" Su Nanzhi asked tentatively.

"Okay." Gu Fan responded and reached out to the light screen, but that familiar repulsive force surged again, pushing his arm away, just like before.

After a moment's thought, Gu Fan suddenly realized, "This sect must only recognize cultivators of the Taiji lineage, and has no affinity with my Creation lineage."

Su Nanzhi nodded slightly, leaped back from the floating island to the plaza, and the stone gate on the floating island closed again.

"Fellow Daoist, you're not going?" Gu Fan raised an eyebrow at her.

Su Nanzhi smiled faintly and shook her head: "If even you, fellow Daoist, cannot proceed, how could I, alone, dare to venture deeper?"

Then, the two fell silent.

Since the stone gate was difficult to enter, they had no choice but to leave the Liangyi Hall, and their separation was imminent.

Su Nanzhi knew that Gu Fan was not a cultivator from the Chu Kingdom and would not stay here for long. After hesitating for a moment, she finally spoke softly, "I have a question... Fellow Daoist, what you said earlier was probably an alias, right? May I ask what your real name is?"

Gu Fan was slightly taken aback, then suddenly realized.

Previously, he had always given Meng Wei's name.

He chuckled softly and slowly shook his head: "My name is Gu Fan."

"Gu Fan..." Su Nanzhi murmured twice, memorizing the name in her heart. She looked up at him, her tone gentle yet sincere: "The Su family is located in Jingyue Lake, in the eastern part of Chu Kingdom. If you have some free time in the future, you may visit the Su family. I will certainly welcome you with open arms."

"Definitely," Gu Fan replied with a smile, his tone sincere.

......

The Altar of the Sun gradually returned to its usual tranquility, as Su Nanzhi had already departed following the central magic array.

Before leaving, Gu Fan asked her for a Yin-Yang Token.

If the Liangyi Palace were to reopen in 500 years, he might be able to return to this place with this token. However, 500 years is a long time, and by then he would probably have already left the Qionghua Realm.

Gu Fan should have turned and left, but a sense of resentment lingered in his heart.

He knew he was rejected by the stone gate because he was not a descendant of the Tai Chi lineage, but he had come this far. Being turned away at the last minute, the sense of loss and resentment he felt was indescribable.

He stood quietly at the Temple of the Sun for a long time, the surroundings still empty, with no trace of other cultivators.

After a moment of contemplation, Gu Fan quietly activated his Myriad Manifestations Eye, scanning the stone gates around the plaza, trying to find a glimmer of hope.

However, those stone gates looked no different from ordinary mountain rocks, and they did not even reveal a trace of the array's spiritual light. Gu Fan sighed inwardly, feeling somewhat disappointed.

Just as he was about to withdraw his divine eye and give up completely, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a faint light in the distance.

Gu Fan's spirits lifted instantly, and he quickly tapped his toes, quietly moving several feet closer to that void.

Upon closer inspection, he finally saw it clearly.

In that seemingly empty void, there was actually a stone door that was like an illusion, barely visible!

"The Heavenly Cycle is forty-nine, but one has been elusive? How interesting."

Gu Fan's lips curled slightly, and with a flash of light beneath his feet, he leaped into the void, his palm firmly resting on the seemingly illusory, almost imperceptible stone door.

The next instant, the stone gate suddenly burst forth with dazzling spiritual light, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.

As the halo slowly dissipated, Gu Fan's figure disappeared behind the stone gate, vanishing without a trace.

......

The light flashed and disappeared in an instant. Gu Fan steadied himself and realized that he was in a vague and ethereal place.

The surroundings were neither a vast void nor a stable realm, but were shrouded in a layer of mist, making them hazy and difficult to discern.

He probed the fog with his divine sense, but it was like a mud ox sinking into the sea; he couldn't find out a single piece of information. It was as if the fog had a natural effect of blocking divine sense.

Before him, there was only a narrow path winding forward.

Behind them floated a shimmering white magic array, which turned out to be an escape route from the Liangyi Hall at any time.

The path was no more than seven feet wide, paved entirely with lustrous white jade, smooth as a mirror, and extended all the way to a majestic stone staircase.

Gu Fan looked up and saw that the stone steps pierced the sky, layer upon layer, hidden in the misty clouds, and where the clouds were hidden, there was a phantom of a celestial palace floating.

He stopped at the foot of the stone steps, not daring to step on them rashly, but instead squinted his eyes and pondered to himself.

He knew very little about the Liangyi Hall, let alone the origin of this illusory stone door. He could only guess that it might have been left specifically for a non-Taiji lineage cultivator like himself.

The Liangyi Hall was originally a sacred place for the inheritance of the Taiji lineage, but it inexplicably left opportunities for cultivators of other lineages. This arrangement truly delighted him.

But along with the surprise came doubts.

He was able to see this stone door entirely thanks to his Myriad Manifestations Dharma Eye. Could other cultivators perceive this hidden opportunity?

There was no way to delve into this question. After pondering for a moment, Gu Fan shook his head and temporarily suppressed his doubts.

Then, he lifted his foot and steadily stepped onto the first stone step.

Unexpectedly, the moment his foot touched the stone steps, a stream of light appeared, and countless tiny light patterns gathered and pieced together in the air to form a simple pattern.

"This is... an array diagram?" Gu Fan stared intently at it, a hint of surprise flashing across his face.

The diagram was clearly a formation diagram, and a very basic first-order formation at that, so simple it was almost straightforward.

He tried to ignore the array diagram and continue stepping upwards, but suddenly his body felt heavy, and a gentle yet irresistible force came, forcing him back.

Gu Fan instantly realized that the array in front of him was the test of the stone steps. Only by breaking the array could he step onto the next step.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He condensed a wisp of shimmering white light at his fingertips and lightly tapped the array diagram a few times, accurately hitting the key point of the array.

In an instant, the array transformed into countless fireflies and dissipated into the air.

To be honest, he hadn't touched a first-order formation in a long time, so this low-level test was nothing more than a piece of cake for him.

After successfully stepping onto the second set of stone steps, another array diagram appeared.

Gu Fan glanced at it and instantly found the key to breaking the formation. With a wave of his hand, he easily broke it once again.

And so, he broke through the array and climbed steadily, stepping on one stone step after another with effortless ease.

His climbing speed only slowed down slightly after he reached the thousandth stone step.

At this moment, Gu Fan frowned slightly, his gaze falling on the array diagram in front of him.

This array diagram already falls within the scope of third-order array formations. Although it is still not a difficult problem for him, he still needs to concentrate and think for a while before he can find a way to break the deadlock.

He looked up and saw that the white jade steps stretched endlessly, probably numbering in the thousands. He couldn't help but take the difficulty of this test more seriously, but even more so, he felt an irrepressible anticipation.

"What kind of opportunity does that celestial palace above the clouds hold?"

Gu Fan was secretly curious, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.

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