This Wudang Ladder Cloud Ascension skill had long been forgotten by Zhang nglong.
It's not particularly impressive, the speed is quite ordinary, at most tens of ters per second, which in this realm is akin to a turtle crawling.
However, it has a very special feature, which is that it defies the laws of physics; as long as the left foot steps on the right foot, one can climb infinitely upward.
"I understand now!" Zhang nglong pretended to ponder for a mont, then walked to the center of the crowd.
"Look, Gu Xiao is coming over again!"
"Could it be that he has discovered the secret of this Floating Island?"
"Truly the dark horse of our generation, he's still ahead of everyone else."
"Watch closely, it's not shaful to be behind him, but you must try to get onto this Floating Island before others."
...
It seed certain that Zhang nglong had figured out how to climb onto that Floating Island, as everyone refocused their attention on him, even making a large space for him.
"Do you know why you can't climb onto that Floating Island?" Zhang nglong didn't make any moves but instead first asked those around him.
The crowd looked at each other, this wasn't nonsense? If they knew why they couldn't climb to the Floating Island, would they still be pondering over it and ending up with bruised faces?
"Please, Brother Gu, show us the way!" soone imdiately asked humbly.
"Has Brother Gu discovered the thod? Please share with us, Brother Gu, we would be extrely grateful!"
"Of course," Zhang nglong said, "We are all here by fate, and since I've made so discoveries, I'm naturally willing to share with everyone. The reason why people can't climb up to the Floating Island is that their hearts are not pure, their minds filled with all sorts of distractions!"
"Huh?"
Everyone was stunned, what does this have to do with distractions?
...
"What's he saying?" Even the elders and disciples of those superpowers on the Floating Island were baffled.
They thought Zhang nglong truly understood the secret of the stance on this Floating Island, but as soon as Zhang nglong spoke, they realized he was babbling nonsense.
"Did he say that these people failed to climb the Floating Island because their hearts are not pure?"
"That's ridiculous!"
"I thought he was formidable, but turns out he's just so-so!"
"Hmph, just a charlatan craving attention," Wan Ning, who had a passing acquaintance with Zhang nglong, began to disparage him without reserve, "I want to see how he plans to climb onto this Floating Island with purity of heart?"
"Brother Wan Ning is absolutely right, there is a very special formation beneath this Floating Island, where everything is reversed within this formation. If one tries to forcefully break through, it only backfires. Only by reversing the operation of energy within the body can one step onto the Floating Island, and this is not an easy task."
"Indeed, reversing the flow of energy is exceedingly dangerous; if not well-controlled, it could even harm one's body. Without practice and adaptation over ti, it's impossible."
"I also want to see how he plans to climb up!" Brothers with good relations with Wan Ning echoed his view, and others seed to agree with him as well.
The secret to climbing the Floating Island lies in the reversed flow of energy, at least for those who have trained even a bit of Divine Breath energy. If they grasp the way of reversing energy flow, they can climb with ease. If it were as easy as relying on purity of heart, there would truly be no threshold at all.
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"Brother Gu, about that purity of heart you ntioned… we don't quite understand…"
"Well," Zhang nglong rambled, "I just attempted to climb, as you can see, it seed like I was trying to get onto the Floating Island, but I wasn't. I just went up to study, and those who know know that I'm actually an Array Master."
No one disputed this because in the past few days, Zhang nglong's ancestral lineage had been thoroughly dug up by others. He was skilled in Alchemy and Artifact Refining, and even the most obscure and difficult formations he was highly proficient in. When Zhang nglong ntioned formations, everyone was more serious about his claim.
Among the geniuses present, many had studied formations, but compared to Zhang nglong's legendary level of mastery, they all felt inferior.
"Brother Gu, have you discovered the secret of that formation?" soone imdiately inquired.
"That's right," Zhang nglong solemnly asserted, "Through my research, I've discovered it's a very rare formation. Anyone with an impure heart entering would be repelled by the formation's power. Only those whose minds are as pure as blank paper can cross the formation and climb onto the Floating Island."
"Such a magical formation exists?" Whether male or female, everyone's expressions were uneasy. If this formation truly depended on a person's inner purity, did that imply each one of them had an unclean heart?
"If you don't believe , I'll demonstrate!"
Zhang nglong slowly closed his eyes, recalling the words of a spa technician from his past visits, inhaling and exhaling calmly.
To the others, this seed like an act of emptying oneself, sohow resonating slightly with the idea of purity of heart.
Then, Zhang nglong suddenly exerted himself, rushing toward the Floating Island in the sky.
"Haha, looks like he really knows nothing!" Wan Ning could perceive from afar that Zhang nglong's energy wasn't reversing, and in his view, Zhang nglong definitely couldn't escape that stance and reach the Floating Island.
But in the next second, Wan Ning's expression turned ghastly.
As Zhang nglong's body passed over more than 20,000 ters of high altitude, there was indeed a montary impedint, but then his left foot stepped on his right foot, and he moved upward a dozen ters.
Then his right foot stepped on his left, once again climbing more than twenty ters.
Like this, he alternated his feet, advancing toward the Floating Island in a slow yet stable manner.
Witnessing this, even the elders twitched at the corners of their eyes.
Reversing one's energy flow was the only known thod to climb the Floating Island until now, but Zhang nglong's tactic shattered their previous understanding.
Could this really be possible?
Zhang nglong swapped his feet faster and faster, with his ascent speed increasing rapidly. It seed that the special stance wasn't hindering him at all, in fact, it seed to be accelerating his rise!
This stance was ant to be a special constraint, the more one tried to break through, the stronger the resistance!
But Ladder Cloud Ascension's feature was to defy conventional force, achieving a double-negative positive effect in this stance!
A few seconds later, Zhang nglong safely landed on the Floating Island and shouted to the people below, "Rember, eliminate distractions, keep your heart pure, and you can co up!"
"He really got up there!"
"It seems he was right; only the pure-hearted can ascend."
"Could it be that I am actually soone whose heart isn't pure?"
"Oh no, I'm filthy…"
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