Han Sen smiled. He didn't mind. His Demon Bug Bai Sema wasn't even afraid of a King class attack. He wasn't going to worry about a small magma bug.
"Is the Undying Bird on this island?" Ji Qing asked with curiosity.
Bao 'er was perched on Han Sen's shoulder. Her big eyes were looking at the small island with curiosity.
The island wasn't very big. With Han Sen's speed, it wouldn't take long for them to circle the island. But the plants on the island were very thick. It was like a tropical rainforest. There were many flowers and insects there.
Moreover, standing on the island, they couldn't feel the high temperature of the magma that was close to them. They only felt that it was as warm as early summer, making them feel lazy and sleepy.
Bai Wei didn't answer. She walked into the forest. Han Sen and the others thought there might be danger, but they quickly realized that the creatures there weren't even xenogeneics. They were just ordinary creatures. They weren't a threat.
In the center of the island was a white mountain. It was only a few hundred meters tall. From afar, it looked like a big bun.
At the peak of the mountain was an old tower. It looked like it had been there for a long time. It was so old that it looked like it was going to collapse at any moment.
When they reached the mountain, Bai Wei looked at the old tower. She shouted, "The descendants of King Bai are here. Is Lady Undying Bird here?"
After Bai Wei shouted the first time, her voice echoed across the island. But there was no response from the tower. So, she shouted it two more times.
After shouting for the third time, he suddenly saw the door of the dilapidated tower at the top of the stone mountain open with a creak.
Han Sen and Bao 'er looked at the tower's door with wide eyes. They were curious to see what a deified Undying Bird would look like. The tower wasn't very big, so if the Undying Bird lived there, they didn't think it would be very big.
Everyone looked at the tower door curiously. They heard the patter of footsteps coming from inside. Not long after, they saw a figure walk out from the tower door.
"Is she the Undying Bird?" Han Sen and the others opened their eyes wide. They looked at the shadow that had just come out of the door with confusion.
It wasn't a bird that came out of the tower. It was an old woman with a crooked back and a cane. Her face was wrinkled like the bark of a tree. Because she was old and hunched, she only reached Han Sen's waist. She wore big, round glasses and a red robe. She looked very strange.
"Who is making a racket down there?"
The old woman's eyesight wasn't very high. She stood in front of the door and looked down the mountain. She couldn't see clearly. She pushed her glasses up her nose, and her eyes, and then focused on Bai's group.
Bai Wei hadn't expected a person like that to come out of the tower, but she was a queen. Although she was shocked, she still answered, "I am King Bai's daughter, Bai Wei. I am here on my father's orders. Are you Lady Undying Bird?"
The old woman pushed her glasses up again. She squinted her eyes and looked at Bai Wei. Slowly, she said, "You are King Bai's heir. I am not Lady Undying Bird. I am just an old woman who cleans the tower."
"Please tell Lady Undying Bird that King Bai's heir is here," Bai Wei said.
"You are too late," the old woman said slowly. "Lady Undying Bird is dead."
"The Undying Bird can die?" Han Sen and the others opened their mouths wide. Their eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Bai Wei was frozen, too. She hadn't expected things to turn out this way. If the deified Undying Bird was dead, what was the point of her being there?
The old woman sighed and went on to say, "But Lady Undying Bird told me that if King Bai's heir comes, if they pass the test, they can take what he left behind."
Bai Wei's face looked better. She quickly asked, "I am willing to give it a try. What is the test?"
The old woman didn't answer. Her old, yellow eyes peered through her thick glasses. She looked at Han Sen and the others and said, "What is their relationship to you?
They don't seem to be of the Extreme King. If they aren't related to you, just kill them. Lady Undying Bird's home isn't a place where just anyone can enter. "
Han Sen and the others felt a chill. The old woman looked as if she had one foot in a coffin, but when she looked at them, Han Sen and the others felt a chill run down their spines. They felt a great sense of danger.
Bai Wei looked at Han Sen and answered the old woman. "They are knights of the Extreme King. They escorted me here."
"I see."
The old lady nodded and didn't say anything else. She walked step by step to the stone steps on the side of the mountain with her walking stick. Her swaying appearance with each step made people very worried that she would accidentally fall to her death from the top of the mountain.
Standing at the top of the stairs, the old woman said, "Back in the day, Mister Undying Bird and your father, King Bai, fought for a thousand days. They destroyed many stars, but in the end, there was no clear winner. They agreed to fight again a thousand years later, when their children became Marquises, to decide the winner.
Lady Undying Bird failed to give birth. She couldn't give birth, and she died in childbirth. She couldn't keep her promise to fight again. "
After the old lady said that, she looked sad. She pointed at the stairs and said, "Before Mister Undying Bird died, she set up these life and death stairs. If you can walk up those stairs and finish all of them, you win. You can take the item that Mister Undying Bird and King Bai fought over.
If you can't reach the top, you can go back. "
Bai Wei looked at the old woman at the top of the mountain and asked, "Are there any other conditions?"
"No. It doesn't matter what you do. You just have to reach the top of the stairs. Even if you have to climb them, you win." The old woman coughed.
"If there are no other conditions, I will start now," Bai Wei said. Then, she walked up the stairs of Steamed Bun Mountain.
Han Sen and the others looked at the stairs. The mountain was only a few hundred feet high, and the stairs went straight from the bottom to the top. There were only a few thousand steps. Han Sen didn't see anything special about the stairs. He didn't know what sort of test awaited them, but he was curious.
Of course, Han Sen was more interested in what Undying Bird and King Bai were fighting over. He thought the old woman was dangerous, so he didn't want to provoke her. He just watched Bai Wei take the test.