Fists hammering, feet lashing, knees crashing, the onslaught was relentless.

After shattering Dou Mian’s saber momentum, Wanderer Yun had maintained an unwavering grip on the situation.

Under the barrage of blows, Dou Mian was hurled back and forth in the air.

He couldn’t even muster a complete saber technique, yet he clung tightly to his Tiano Saber.

Wanderer Yun had said so much, but he still couldn’t recall who Wanderer Yun was. During the process of controlling the Lingkong Hall, there were some obstacles, but they were easily crushed, without any opponents that left a deep impression on him.

While being suppressed, he spoke intermittently, “Zhong Qin is merely one of my subordinates, nothing more. Who… are you?”

There could be nothing more laughable in this world.

The person you consider your mortal enemy doesn’t even know who you are.

A prestigious lineage bears down, and you are but a speck of dust.

He casually makes a move, easily obliterating all your efforts.

Your schemes, your patience, your plans, are known to no one!

But Wanderer Yun suddenly awoke from his uncontrollable rage.

“I sacrificed eighty years of my lifespan to break through to the Third Realm Outer Tower, gaining the strength to contend. Was it all just for a moment of anger?”

He asked himself in his heart.

With a sudden kick, he sent Dou Mian crashing to the ground. He formed the Mountain Seal with his hands, and an ethereal, formless pressure coalesced into substance. A phantom “Mountain” character materialized in the air, pinning Dou Mian in place, rendering him instantly immobile.

“I’ll kill you once your Golden Body fades!”

It had to be said that Dou Mian’s Fighting Golden Body was truly formidable. After enduring such a continuous assault, he still appeared unharmed, not even spitting out a mouthful of blood, and still brimming with energy, eager to unleash his saber.

But such a divine power could not possibly last.

Wanderer Yun chose to suppress him, waiting for the divine power to dissipate, and then returning to kill him, undoubtedly the most rational choice.

Now, the most important thing was, of course, the Cloud Peak Immortal Palace!

Wanderer Yun suppressed Dou Mian and immediately turned around, flying back to the pavilion, reaching out to seize the only authentic cloud-patterned token from the past scene.

The white-robed Daoist boy in the past scene, completely unaware of what was happening before him, still presented the cloud-patterned token with a reserved expression, offering it to a black-robed cultivator wearing a veiled bamboo hat in the past scene.

Wanderer Yun snatched the cloud-patterned token. In the past scene, the black-robed cultivator still received the cloud-patterned token, but the token in the past scene had become illusory, indistinguishable from the other lingering shadows in past time.

Wanderer Yun’s gaze inadvertently swept over the black-robed cultivator, without any particular feeling, but when he turned back to the token-presenting white-robed Daoist boy, his memories suddenly sharpened, and he was struck by a sudden realization!

He didn’t know why he hadn’t noticed it before, but now, looking closely, he suddenly realized that the white-robed Daoist boy looked far too familiar!

It was clearly his own appearance when he was just a child!

“It’s a coincidence!”

Wanderer Yun suppressed the unease in his heart, clutching the cloud-patterned token tightly. No matter what, he had obtained the secret key to enter and exit the Cloud Peak Immortal Palace, giving him the opportunity to inherit the entire Cloud Peak Immortal Palace. A sense of satisfaction welled up in his heart.

He had waited too long for this moment!

Among the three non-independent lineages of the Late Cloud Mountain, the Lingkong Hall was the weakest. He had originally schemed in every possible way to secretly control the Lingkong Hall, to gain the upper hand in the Late Cloud Mountain Assembly, but Dou Mian had intervened before he could succeed.

Dou Mian had learned of some secrets of the Lingkong Hall in an accident, and decisively seized it. The Cheng Kingdom side turned a blind eye, not out of fear of Dou Mian, but out of fear of the Dou Clan behind Dou Mian, the Chu Kingdom.

He certainly didn’t dare to resist, and had to find another path.

He was indeed less than thirty years old, which was why he was eligible to enter the Late Cloud Mountain. The reason he appeared so old was because he had paid a huge price, sacrificing eighty years of his lifespan, to push himself to the Third Realm Outer Tower, thus gaining the ability to defeat Dou Mian.

Paying such a high price, of course, implied a grand ambition. And the fruits of victory were indeed sweet.

While clutching the cloud-patterned token, he looked at Dou Mian with a cruel glint in his eyes.

“How long can your divine power last? Twenty breaths? Thirty breaths? It’s truly a pity for a direct descendant of the Dou Clan to die here!”

But Dou Mian didn’t look at him, but at the sky. Firmly pinned down by the Mountain Seal, the Tiano Saber in his hand remained unyielding.

“Acting mysterious!” Wanderer Yun scoffed, but a shadow inexplicably crept into his heart, so he also looked up.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the flowing clouds outside the mountain seemed to have “returned” to their movement. This might indicate that time in the Late Cloud Mountain was beginning to equalize.

What did this represent?

Wanderer Yun abruptly lowered his head. The cloud-patterned token clutched tightly in his palm was dissolving, bit by bit, slowly but resolutely, like flowing water!

He finally realized where his unease came from.

The two wenches from the Lingxiao Pavilion hadn’t followed him into the Welcoming Pavilion. He had prepared many methods for them, but hadn’t had time to use them. He had once believed that the two people were too weak to break his restraints—but now he was clearly wrong!

Those two wenches had completely disregarded the Cloud Peak Immortal Palace and had gone straight for the Divine Power Fruit!

But even if the Divine Power Fruit was taken, the time in the Late Cloud Mountain would end this time. He already possessed the cloud-patterned token, so why would it become invalid?

Could it be that the Cloud Peak Immortal Palace… already had an owner?

“No!”

Wanderer Yun howled in agony.

He desperately wanted to clench the cloud-patterned token tightly, wanting to hold onto all his hope, but the token stubbornly continued to dissipate, finally vanishing without a trace.

“Hahahaha.”

Dou Mian, suppressed under the Mountain Seal, laughed wildly: “A beautiful plan foiled, success falling short! Old thing, how does it taste?”

“You’re about to die, yet you still have so much to say!”

Wanderer Yun gritted his teeth and lunged toward Dou Mian, but suddenly, the world spun, and the scenery shattered.

Meanwhile, on the summit of Late Cloud Mountain, the cloud staircase descended from the firmament, leaving Jiang Wang and Ye Qingyu in awe.

At the same time, they also noticed that the flowing clouds outside the mountain had returned to normal, and the different flow rates of time had been erased.

They understood, therefore, that time in Late Cloud Mountain had ended.

But… what did this cloud staircase represent?

Where did it lead?

“Is this how we leave Late Cloud Mountain?” Jiang Wang asked.

Ye Qingyu returned a bewildered gaze.

“I don’t know either.” She said with some embarrassment.

“Let’s go up and see.” Jiang Wang suggested.

Ye Qingyu steered the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage forward, wanting to rush directly into the high sky. But a gentle force pushed back, pushing the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage and Ye Qingyu back to the mountain top… but leaving Jiang Wang behind.

Jiang Wang landed on the cloud staircase with a bewildered expression, and his whole body was rising rapidly, while the cloud staircase below him was disappearing one level at a time.

“Don’t come down! Go up and see!” Ye Qingyu suddenly remembered something and shouted from the Seven-Colored Flag Cloud Carriage.

Jiang Wang’s mind stirred, and he didn’t resist.

In the next moment, he passed through the huge void in the firmament.