The Princess Agents Want a Divorce

Gu Lingxi finally witnessed the cruelty of the cultivation world; human life was truly as worthless as grass! More than eight thousand living people had already perished before even reaching the palace gates!

The three siblings were unharmed and, after regaining their composure, continued on their journey!

After walking for about an hour, we finally arrived at the white marble steps without any major incidents!

Having experienced the devastation of the first two waves, all the remaining cultivators were now extremely cautious! Some had already taken out all the defensive talismans and magic treasures they could find before even stepping onto the stairs!

Gu Lingxi and her senior brother also took out several defensive talismans and activated them!

Stepping onto the jade steps leading to the palace, one step, two steps, dozens of steps later, no danger was found!

The long jade staircase stretches as far as the eye can see, with at least tens of thousands of steps!

But after walking for an hour, everyone clearly felt something was wrong! It was as if there was no end to these stairs!

The cultivators skilled in formations had already begun studying the area, trying to see if any kind of illusionary formation had been set up. However, to their disappointment, they found nothing!

After three days and three nights, Gu Lingxi rubbed her legs and plopped down on the jade steps!

Holy crap, who came up with this insane thing?! Is this ever going to end?! Will it never reach its conclusion?

He Wentang took out two recovery pills and handed one to each of them! "Take some pills to recover, then we can continue our journey!" Fortunately, they had enough pills!

Not far ahead, two cultivators clashed and started fighting! The purple-robed cultivator was no match for the gray-robed cultivator and was pierced through by a flying sword! Blood splattered on the jade steps, and the cultivator rolled down in defeat!

Seeing the corpse roll down, Gu Lingxi quickly got up and dodged! Damn, what bad luck!

The jade steps at my feet were stained with blood, which looked very eerie!

"How unlucky!" Gu Lingxi slammed a palm strike of spiritual energy onto the jade steps in annoyance!

To her astonishment, the jade steps, having absorbed the blood and been activated by her spiritual power, revealed a row of blood-red characters!

One person died, leaving two thousand three hundred years behind!

What does this mean? Hearing Gu Lingxi's words, the nearby cultivators also gathered around to watch!

Others, as if they had discovered something, injected spiritual power into the bloodstains, and sure enough, the same words appeared!

One person died, leaving two thousand three hundred years behind!

"卒一人" could mean that someone just died.

What does "remaining two thousand three hundred years" mean? What does "two thousand three hundred" mean? "Year" means year! So, two thousand three hundred years remain?

Does that mean they're going to be trapped here for 2,300 years?

Where did these 2,300+ come from? Could they be people who are still alive?

Soon, some cultivators realized that even if they walked themselves to death, they would never finish climbing these jade steps! If one person represents one year, then for two thousand three hundred people, it would take them two thousand three hundred years to climb them.

Some cultivators panicked. Their lifespan was only five hundred years at the Foundation Establishment stage and one thousand years at the Golden Core stage! Weren't they going to be trapped here and die?

Some cultivators became secretly wary! If one soldier showed up, what about two, three? Would the time limit decrease later?

A cultivator at the fourth level of the Golden Core stage was getting impatient and took the initiative to attack. The two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators closest to him were easily dealt with without any ability to resist!

Sure enough, when everyone looked again at the numbers displayed on the jade steps,

Three soldiers were killed, and two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight men remained!

Everyone gasped in shock, and almost everyone felt a sense of impending doom!

The Golden Core stage experts exchanged glances, and one by one they understood! They wanted to kill all the lower-level people; the fewer people they killed, the better!

The massacre has officially begun! Screams and suicide explosions fill the air!

Gu Lingxi stopped resting and opened the glass umbrella to protect herself and her two senior brothers! She tightly gripped dozens of third-tier talismans in her hand!

Senior brother, don't step out of the protective range of the glass umbrella. If anyone attacks, throw a talisman! This umbrella can withstand attacks from Golden Core cultivators!

The two cultivators at the fourth level of the Golden Core stage killed their way through, showing no intention of letting Gu Lingxi and her two companions go!

What troubled them was that after attacking for so long, the defensive umbrella remained completely unmoved, and the three of them had so many talismans in their hands, throwing them out one after another! Gu Lingxi even took out talisman paper and a talisman brush and started drawing talismans on the spot! She was actually a talisman master!

The two cursed and charged towards their next target! These three were tough nuts to crack; they'd deal with them later!

After being attacked four or five times, no one was going to waste their spiritual energy attacking the three of them anymore!

Looking around, there were no more Foundation Establishment cultivators to be seen on the jade steps! Apart from the three Foundation Establishment cultivators, almost everyone else was at the Golden Core stage!

A month later, the numbers on the jade steps had changed to...

There were 2,100 soldiers, and 200 men remained.

The three of them were numb. Looking at the jade steps that had turned from white to red, they felt as if they were climbing a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood! It was extremely eerie!

Looking up at the palace again, it seemed clearer and much closer! Even though they hadn't left the steps at all!

Aside from meditating to recover some spiritual energy each day, Gu Lingxi spent the rest of her time drawing talismans under the cover of her two senior brothers! She drew over a hundred fourth-tier talismans! Most of them were third-tier talismans!

Fortunately, Gu Lingxi had prepared enough talismans and pigments in her space, and her spiritual power was replenished at any time by the spiritual spring and Ah Li's pills; otherwise, this defensive umbrella alone would have been far from enough!

After enduring hundreds of attacks, cracks appeared on the umbrella! Fortunately, they had talismans that scared away wave after wave of cultivators. The second senior brother was a weapon refiner, and he used some weapon refining materials to temporarily repair the umbrella, so it could barely hold on!

One month, two months, three months, a year have passed, and the killing among Golden Core cultivators has entered a white-hot stage!

Some cultivators have already exhausted all their food, pills, and talismans! They are at their wits' end!

However, it seems that someone discovered that Gu Lingxi's trio is actually a weapon refiner, an alchemist, and a talisman master!

Some shameless individuals came over to buy talismans and pills from the three of them!

Gu Lingxi's eyes lit up. Selling to you isn't impossible, but there are restrictions. Each person can only buy two talismans and one pill every few days, and the price will naturally be dozens of times higher than outside! Moreover, you must swear an oath against your inner demons, promising never to attack the three of them again!

To save their own lives, the Golden Core cultivators had no choice but to agree to this tyrannical clause! The three Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn't cause any real trouble; it was only three years, they could tolerate it!

Two years have passed, and those who are still alive are almost all those who swore an oath not to harm the three! Gu Lingxi and the others are now eating and drinking well, and besides cultivating, they sell talismans and pills, watch the remaining Golden Core cultivators fight, and have even removed their defenses. They are living a carefree life!