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The broken golden armor was still releasing a bright light, Cang Yun stopped in his tracks near her, his eyes looking straight ahead, his eyes shining with curiosity and anticipation.

Sensing his somewhat abnormal movements, Zhou Xian'er stepped forward gently and arrived beside him while frowning: "What's wrong?"

"There's one question I'm curious about." Cang Yun's bright eyes stared at the puppet's remains, and slowly said: "What is that, the power it provides to the puppet?"

"You mean?" Zhou Xian'er raised her delicate eyebrows, as she also faintly sensed the energy fluctuations within the wreckage, as a hint of curiosity rose in her eyes as well.

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

Cang Yun laughed, and then extended his hand out to look into the skull. In the next moment, a crystal bright like thing 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 fluctuations of the source power, Cang Yun was slightly stunned before a shocked expression surfaced on his face.

Origin Crystals were crystals condensed from extremely pure source power. Because the source power inside were huge and pure, they were considered powerful cultivation weapons for warriors with high realms.

It required one to be in an extremely rich place in the Heaven and Earth, and then undergo several tens or even hundreds of years of nurturing before being able to produce such an Origin Crystal. Thus, this caused the Origin Crystal to be extremely rare and precious, and according to Cang Yun's knowledge, as the master of the azure world, his father only had a few pieces of it in his possession.

"Fortunately Big Brother Cang Yun was careful and attentive, 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 finished speaking, Zhou Xian'er seemed to know what he was going to say, interrupted him and said: "I temporarily do not have any use for this, so take it Big Brother Cang Yun, and give it to Uncle Cang, he should be in great need of it."

"This... "Fine." Seeing the determination in the young lady's eyes, Cang Yun hesitated for a while, before taking the Origin Crystal and putting it away. It was just as Zhou Xian'er had said, the energy in the Origin Crystal was too much for them to cultivate.

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

Thus, in the next moment, the two of them walked side by side into the passage that led to the fourth floor of the Old Tower.

Weng! *

After a burst of blinding light passed, in an instant, the scene changed. Cang Yun slightly composed himself, and then swept his gaze across 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 eyebrow. This Zhou Jun and Zhou An were indeed worthy of being the top geniuses of the Zhou Family.

At this time, the two of them seemed to have sensed something and turned around, after scanning around slightly, their gaze landed on Cang Yun.

Zhou Jun slightly narrowed his eyes, his eyes revealed a rather unexpected gloominess, as if he didn't expect Cang Yun to be able to make it to the fourth floor so quickly. However, in the next moment, when he saw Zhou Xian'er, who was standing beside Cang Yun, the surprise in his 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."

However, Zhou An seemed to not feel the ridicule in his words, his expression was still normal, and when he looked deep into Cang Yun's eyes, an extremely hidden, unusual light shone out, before he threw out a rather meaningful sentence, "I feel that one day, he will be a good opponent, so I am really looking forward to it."

Hearing these deliberately mystifying words, Zhou Jun fell into a state of silence. Towards the youth beside him whose reputation was not inferior to his, he was a little unable to fathom his words, and even though they had come into contact every time, the latter gave him a rather 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 arrogant nature, he wouldn't have suppressed the thought of attacking Cang Yun when he was stopped previously.

In the distance, Cang Yun naturally did not know the contents of their conversation. However, as their gazes intersected, he also noticed Zhou An's strange expression, which couldn't help but frown, and his heart also secretly became vigilant.

"Could these ladders be the trial of this level?" Just then, Zhou Xian'er suddenly said.

Hearing this, Cang Yun withdrew his thoughts, and his gaze followed the direction where Zhou Xian'er was looking at. Sure enough, a towering stone staircase appeared in the sky above him.

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 stairs in front of him, a white figure suddenly flew past his line of sight, and rushed towards the stone stairs.

"Zhou Jun has gone over." Zhou Xian'er's eyes slightly narrowed, as his curious gaze instantly concentrated in front of him.

Cang Yun was also alert. With Zhou Jun, the bird that took the lead, they could understand, if this seemingly normal and ordinary stone stairs were concealing some profound strength.

Clatter!

In the next moment, under the breathless gazes of Cang Yun and the others, Zhou Jun tiptoed lightly and his body flew up into the air, then immediately floated down towards the first floor's stone stairs.

Weng! *

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

In an instant, Zhou Jun's expression changed slightly, and that originally light floating figure also became sluggish, as though she had felt an indescribable pressure.

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

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 to climb the second level of the stone stairs.

And with this discovery, the last bit of worry in his heart completely disappeared. Hence, after a brief conversation with Zhou Xian'er, the two of them leaped forward and also ran towards the stone stairs.