At the edge of the known world, a staircase carved into a mountain face ascends into the clouds. Those who climb it reach higher realms of existence — but the stairs don't stop at heaven. They continue. And what lies beyond mortal heaven was never meant to be found.
The Infinite Stair appeared three thousand years ago, carved into the face of Mount Xuankong overnight. Cultivators who climbed it ascended through the realms — Foundation, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Immortal Ascension — each landing a new level of existence. Those who reached the top entered the heavens and were never seen again. The sects built their entire cultivation system around the Stair's levels. Until Jian, a homeless orphan with no spiritual root, discovers something that shakes the foundation of everything: the Stair doesn't end at heaven. There are more steps. They continue past the clouds, past the celestial realm, into something that the founders of cultivation deliberately hid. And Jian can see them because he has no spiritual root to blind him to the truth.
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