Following the direction of Dan Ting’s finger, Qian Li Zhenren felt his head buzzing.
To him, Ye Yu being a sect leader at Earth Immortal Realm was already outrageous.
After all, this was after the Heavenly Realm calamity, a special situation.
Before the calamity, let alone Earth Immortal Realm, even peak Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivators had no qualification to open sects.
But Qian Li Zhenren truly did not expect
that Ye Yu, at Earth Immortal Realm, was not even the sect leader,
and his sect leader was actually a peak Xuan Immortal Realm fairy.
What the hell!
What is going on in this Heavenly Realm?
Is everyone mad?
Wait, something’s not right!
During this time, Zhuo Lanqing had unexpectedly reached the tenth step.
How was this possible?
It practically broke Taiyan Dao’s record.
It was known that no Xuan Immortal Realm immortal had ever reached beyond the fifth step.
Clearly, this fairy was not as simple as she seemed!
Qian Li Zhenren furrowed his brows and continued looking upward.
Ye Yu had already one foot on the fiftieth step.
At this moment, the real test of the Ascension Stairway was just beginning.
“I truly look forward to how high you can ascend!”
Ye Yu’s expression grew somewhat serious.
His tightly closed eyes began to strain slightly.
At this moment, he seemed to enter a dim world full of mist.
Occasionally, thunder rumbled around.
“Bold immortal, how dare you trespass the Peak of Heaven! This is not a place for you. Retreat quickly and you may be spared. Otherwise, execution without pardon!”
A fierce shout suddenly rang out.
Ye Yu looked up to see a giant over thirty meters tall standing before him, holding a huge sword.
His ferocious expression was fearsome.
From him, Ye Yu felt an unprecedented oppressive pressure.
Even a peak Immortal Lord would not have such an aura.
Could this giant be an Immortal King?
While Ye Yu pondered this,
five more golden-armored giants appeared, each wielding different magical instruments.
Their voices thundered as they shouted sharply, “Little immortal, why hesitate? Want to die?”
“What’s the use of talking? Just kill him!”
“Let me! Don’t dirty your hands!”
“What nonsense!”
One golden giant took out a massive tower engraved with countless runes, glowing blue.
He suddenly hurled it to the sky.
The giant tower flashed multiple lights in midair,
then transformed into a huge mountain pressing down on Ye Yu.
But in the blink of an eye, it was above his head.
Ye Yu wanted to dodge, but found his body empty inside, without any immortal energy.
He could only endure it!
Ye Yu raised both hands, preparing for a final resistance.
Boom!
When the huge mountain fell, it shattered completely into fragments, slowly disappearing.
Ye Yu was covered in blood.
This was his first time nearing death outside of a dream.
The golden giants were very surprised.
“Oh? Still alive? Lucky boy.
Good physique, a moldable talent!
Kneel and kowtow, and I’ll take you as my disciple, how about that?”
Other golden giants chimed in,
“Kneel!!”
“Kneel quickly!!”
“This is your great opportunity! Kneel!”
The golden giants’ voices grew louder one by one,
making Ye Yu feel dizzy.
But the next second, fury surged {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} from his heart.
Just now you wanted to kill me, and now you want me to kneel?
Who do you think you are?
Ye Yu gathered all his strength and raised his right hand.
Suddenly clenched!
Under each golden giant’s feet appeared a shining formation.
Then, a black heavenly flame surged from their bodies.
This technique was the forbidden art: Burning Blood Heavenly Flame!
In an instant,
the giants turned to dust and completely dissipated.
The surrounding scene began to shift constantly, finally returning to normal.
The wounds inside Ye Yu’s body also vanished.
Everything just now had been an illusion!
At this moment, Ye Yu opened his eyes.
Seeing this scene,
Qian Li Zhenren and Dan Ting were both stunned.
Impossible!
Was there a problem with the Ascension Stairway?
It was known that all who stepped on it would enter a sleeping state,
facing all their inner fears.
How could Ye Yu open his eyes?
Not only they felt puzzled, but the surrounding sect leaders also noticed something wrong.
Yet none doubted that the Ascension Stairway artifact was faulty.
Instead, they thought this might be the stairway’s uniqueness.
The first fifty steps were climbed with eyes closed; the last forty-nine steps were with eyes open.
A sort of cycle, barely called reincarnation.
Some careless sect leaders even rushed to Qian Li Zhenren to ask if this guess was correct.
Qian Li Zhenren nearly wanted to kill someone over such a question.
“Correct? Bullshit!”
Ye Yu stared ahead, completely ignoring the reactions below,
continuing to ascend the steps.
Even while opening his eyes, he encountered various tests.
But with experience from fifty steps behind him,
Ye Yu had only one thought:
No matter what stands before him,
there was only one word:
“Kill!”
With this momentum,
Ye Yu did not pause at all and ascended straight to the ninety-ninth step.
Looking back,
he saw Duan Yangfeng still at the thirty-first step.
Behind him, Zhuo Lanqing and Zheng Nuanxiu stood at the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth steps respectively.
The distance was quite close.
This surprised Ye Yu greatly.
He clearly did not expect even they would ascend the stairway.
Well, this was interesting.
Ye Yu immediately telepathically whispered to Zhuo Lanqing and Zheng Nuanxiu,
“All is illusion; everything can be killed!”
Both women trembled and stepped up firmly once more.
After that, Ye Yu no longer urged but quietly watched them progress.
After half an hour,
the final results emerged.
In the previous life, Duan Yangfeng who obtained the Four Symbols Ink Bamboo Robe,
had stopped at the fifty-first step.
Zhuo Lanqing stood at the seventy-eighth step.
Most terrifyingly, Zheng Nuanxiu reached the ninety-eighth step,
only one step away from Ye Yu.
Such results caused a commotion among all present.
They even began to suspect Taiyan Dao itself was cheating.
Otherwise, why couldn’t they ascend?
And why could Ye Yu and these two fairies ascend so smoothly?
Simply unbelievable.
When Duan Yangfeng woke,
he could not accept this result,
shouting it was impossible!
Seeing the crowd so agitated,
Qian Li Zhenren cut through the noise without nonsense, walking forward.
After silently sensing the stairway,
he said gravely, “There is no problem with the Ascension Stairway; these results are valid.
If anyone doubts, you may try again.”
Hearing this, the venue fell into silence.
As the saying goes, no comparison, no pain.
They had all ascended once and knew its terror.
Even if they tried again,
the outcome would not change.
Why bother going up to lose face?
