Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

Geoffrey took a few steps forward, carefully studying the relief sculpture on the platform.

The relief of the Snake Spirit King was extremely intricate, but something caught Geoffrey's eyes.

It seemed some parts of the carving were smelted, as though someone had tried to burn them.

Did someone climb to the top of the pillar to destroy the relief before?

The pillar was undoubtedly very solid. Geoffrey wouldn't have been able to damage it, even if he tried.

Back when he was at the foot of the pillar, he had asked Ziya to give it a try, but even Ziya couldn't leave a mark on the pillar.

Except for these strangely burnt parts, there was nothing exquisite about the relief.

Geoffrey frowned in disappointment.

It hadn't been easy for him to climb all this way, yet the journey seemed fruitless.

At the very least, he had helped the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord connect the sword to the eleventh stair.

An Other Shore Token on the eleventh stair was supposedly quite decent; however it was still connected to a red light beam like before. This meant it was surely inferior compared to the Other Shore Tokens on the last ten stairs.

'If I drill a square hole here and insert the black stone in it, will it work?"

Geoffrey's eyes flashed excitedly as he came up with this bold idea.

But he dismissed the idea just as quickly as he hatched it.

The pillar was too solid. There was no possible way he'd be able to dig a hole in it!

'What if I asked Ziya for help...'

It had taken him several months to climb to the top of the pillar, which meant it'd take several more months to go down. Thus, it would take him nearly a year to make a round trip.

As he pondered over this, he inadvertently walked to the center of the platform, where the Snake Spirit King's eyes lay.

Without even looking where he was going, Geoffrey accidentally stepped right on the Snake Spirit King's eyes. Then, the sky began to stir, as though it was unsettled.

Initially, the sky of the main world was as dark as a moonless night.

Whenever he looked up, the sky was always pitch black.

But the instant Geoffrey stepped on the Snake Spirit King's eyes, he noticed a huge courtyard floating nearby.

floating in the center of the four

courtyard was tethered by thick chains that glowed brightly. The glowing chains were connected

Geoffrey's mouth fell open

at the foot of the pillar, he

he stood now, it was impossible

courtyard were three cone-shaped stones. It looked as though the floating, massive stones were supporting the courtyard, keeping it afloat.

the courtyard to its top. His eyes suddenly widened in shock.

Is this the real

sky had changed miraculously.

the pitch blackness, the sky was now

though it extended infinitely, with strange yet beautiful things

object floated far away, with its wheel

that almost resembled a sphere glowed a deep red, almost

some fragments

so far yet so huge. Geoffrey was in

a long time, he stared blankly into the sky

reality, he took a step forward. Everything disappeared in an instant. Even the courtyard was gone.

a step backward, and the sky

some trick of the Four Spirits

little strange,

King's

connected to the pillar he was on by a thick

out the other three pillars, since the courtyard was chained

stepped away from the Snake Spirit King's eyes,

the sky—truly disappear? Or were

location of the chain, Geoffrey took a deep breath and left the Snake Spirit King's eyes.

edge carefully, until his fingers brushed

completely invisible, Geoffrey was confident

pillar to the courtyard was long, about half the distance between the two pillars. It was

for a few hundred feet, Geoffrey

trembled slightly as he realized there was nothing under him.

there

World, a huge stone heart was beating slowly yet energetically.

throbbing stone, staring

body was now extremely

in itself, but the price he had to pay when she was defeated after descending to the Source World was even more

but now, the Yellow Thearch was overcome with regret.