In the end, we failed to reach the staircase leading up to the third floor of Leila's cultivation garden.
A disappointment for sure, but one that was warranted by another worry—that we spent quite a lot longer in this garden than we were supposed to.
Sure, we didn't reach the level Leila suggested for us, but…
But she couldn't know we planned to redo our entire cultivation from scratch there, could she? And judging by how our resistance to the pressure of that place grew with our cultivation, it was quite possible that while boasting cultivation between the eighth and ninth rank of the mortal stage, we had the qualifications to go all the way up to the third floor!
"You know, I still wonder what's there," I admitted as we calmly walked back the very same path through the maze we took before, simply following the now right wall of the maze while enjoying the rare opportunity to just… walk while holding hands.