Chapter 385: Chapter 385 - Thunder Defied
"Master Raymond, stop forcing yourself, come down already!" Everyone shouted frantically.
But I was incredibly stubborn. I raised my head to look at the massive hand above and gritted my teeth as I said, "I will climb to the top, no matter what!"
At this moment, my calf had already snapped, and the fingers on my left hand were completely shattered.
Trying to climb under such circumstances was like reaching for the heavens themselves!
"Your legs are already broken, how do you expect to climb?" Mr. Adams sneered repeatedly.
On the stairway to heaven, I painfully lifted my leg, struggling to crawl toward the Seventh Layer.
When I stepped onto the Seventh Layer, my left leg fractured completely.
On the Eighth Layer, my right leg shattered!
Just as everyone thought I would give up, I used my hands to grab the steps and kept going upward!
"Why fight so hard..." Fifth Elder murmured softly.
Mya Winona even shed silent tears. She covered her face, unwilling to watch any further.
The Ninth Layer, the Tenth Layer, the Eleventh Layer...
In this condition—where both legs had been completely destroyed—I forcibly climbed up to the Eleventh Layer!
Lying atop the Eleventh Layer, I was already on the brink of exhaustion, and my body nearly torn apart.
Both my skin and internal organs suffered immense trauma.
I lay on the Eleventh Layer, staring at the spinning world in front of me, as if it were trying to throw me off completely.
"You can’t do it, give up," a strange voice seemed to erupt inside my mind!
This voice carried a potent allure, directly influencing my divine sense, making it almost irresistible.
Even I, for a moment, felt confused.
My body swayed, an impulse to jump down surged within me.
"Mason, don’t give up, I believe you can do it." At that moment, another voice sprang forth in my mind, pulling me back just in time!
My dazed eyes suddenly erupted with an intense light of resolve!
I roared, "To hell with you! Whether I can or cannot climb is not for you to decide!"
In an instant, I seemed to go berserk. With my blood-drenched fingers, I gripped the steps and began to crawl arduously toward the Twelfth Layer!
At long last, I successfully ascended to the Twelfth Layer!
By now, I was unrecognizable.
At a glance, I resembled little more than a lump of mangled flesh squirming on the stairway to heaven!
"He climbed to the Twelfth Layer." The Pavilion Master gazed at this scene, a glimmer of astonishment flashing across her face.
She understood that if one wasn’t accepted, every step of progress would come with excruciating pain!
Even Paul Randall, once hailed as a prodigy, had only managed to reach the Thirteenth Layer!
"Hmph, I don’t believe he can reach the Thirteenth Layer," Mr. Adams muttered spitefully from the shadows.
Despite his words, unease gnawed at his heart.
Because this Mason Raymond—seemingly like a man possessed—showed no intention of surrender, despite his body being shattered.
This level of determination promised that, if he survived, he’d inevitably become an unstoppable adversary in the future.
On the platform, I lifted my head, staring at the spinning Thirteenth Layer stairway to heaven ahead.
"Eight more layers... I have to hold on..." I gritted my teeth fiercely and began crawling toward the Thirteenth Layer!
The Thirteenth Layer marked the highest record so far.
Everyone watched Mason with rapt attention, afraid to miss even the smallest detail.
Finally, I reached for the stairway of the Thirteenth Layer and began my ascent.
But just as I was about to step onto the Thirteenth Layer, my mind was struck as if by tens of thousands of Heavenly Thunderclaps, my entire divine sense feeling as though it were being ripped apart!
"Pa!"
The pain made my body tremble, and I plummeted downward.
"Mason!" From below, everyone shouted in unison!
"Hahaha! He’s finally fallen!" Mr. Adams shouted gleefully.
But in the next second, something extraordinary happened to everyone’s shock!
I caught hold of the stairway with one hand! My body teetered in the air, but I didn’t let go!
My fingers were broken, grasping the stairway with nothing but stark white bone!
The pain was unimaginable!
Even the Lord of Medicine God Pavilion turned pale!
"Ahhh!!!"
In midair, I roared madly!
Clinging tightly to the stairway with just one hand, I succeeded in pulling myself back onto it!
"Mason..."
Countless people burst into tears in this moment.
Perhaps out of sheer emotion or perhaps out of sheer exhilaration, everyone’s eyes filled with warmth.
"I will never give up!" I roared fiercely, and the divine sense in my mind erupted into a brilliant golden light!
At that moment, the tiny speck of golden light within my mind grew to the size of a peanut!
"Hmm?" The Pavilion Master’s eyes glimmered with radiance.
Mason... had somehow managed to strengthen his divine sense amidst such incredible suffering?
"Unbelievable," the Pavilion Master praised sincerely.
On the stairway to heaven, I continued climbing arduously, a bloodied figure.
The Fourteenth Layer, the Fifteenth Layer!
Only three layers remained from the enormous hand above!
"Impossible!" In the shadows, Mr. Adams’s face turned utterly grim!
How could anyone in this world stubbornly climb to the Fifteenth Layer!
"Boom, rumble..."
As I stepped onto the Fifteenth Layer, the sky suddenly darkened.
Bolts of lightning, like Touring Dragons, began brewing within the black clouds.
"Heavenly Thunder approaches, and nothing survives its wrath." The Pavilion Master murmured softly.
This Heavenly Thunder was no ordinary thunder; it could obliterate a person into nothingness!
Touch it, and both body and spirit would be destroyed!
"I refuse to believe you can make it past the last three layers!" Mr. Adams ranted furiously, almost maniacally.
"Boom, rumble!"
The Heavenly Thunder streaked across the clouds, illuminating the darkened sky!
"Come on then, I’m not afraid of you!" I screamed madly, staring at the sky.
It seemed as though the Heavenly Thunder had heard my defiant roar. With thundering rage, a bolt crashed down aggressively!
"Crack!"
This single bolt of lightning struck me squarely!
At the moment of impact, my body turned into charred remains!
Even the Best Thin Armor I wore disintegrated into nothingness!
"Ahhh!!!" I howled maniacally, enduring the Power of thunder and lightning as I pressed onward toward the Sixteenth Layer!
Such defiance appeared to anger the heavens further!
Bolt after bolt of Heavenly Thunder descended from the sky, turning the surroundings into a Sea of Thunder!
The torrents of lightning formed an impenetrable wall before me, blocking my path!
"To hell with you, you won’t stop me!" I roared in fury, throwing my fist forward!
"Crack!"
My fist plunged into the Sea of Thunder, instantly charring black, my consciousness briefly slipping away!
Countless bolts enveloped me, infiltrating my body through my pores with sizzling intensity!
In this moment, my brain was consumed by the Sea of Thunder!
My divine sense was wrapped entirely within the lightning’s ferocious grasp!
My vision faded to darkness, and my blood nearly burned dry.
"I... will never give up..." I forced the words out painfully.
Through sheer strength and unwavering will, I began crawling toward the Seventeenth Layer!
