Chapter 114 - As Easy As Walking On Flat Ground (1/2)

Chapter 114 As Easy As Walking On Flat Ground

Although the flight of stairs to the fourth floor was heavy as usual, the distance could not stop Ou Yangming anymore.

He progressed forward step by step and was calm even when he felt the enormous pressure inside and outside his body.

This was because he knew he could definitely make it to the fourth level before his essential Qi depleted. Sure enough, just as Ou Yangming had a bit of essential Qi left, he managed to put one foot on the fourth level’s stairs.

However, when he stepped with his other foot too, his body suddenly loosened up.

Yes, the flight of stairs still exerted pressure on him due to the gravity, but it seemed lesser than the second level.

This meant that a Force Grade martial artist could also complete this flight of stairs by having strong willpower.

Ou Yangming furrowed his eyebrows a little. He was not afraid of the difficult test, but even if one had thought with one’s toes, one would know that each level on the Testimony Path was harder than the last. Why was the fourth level easier instead?

After a moment of hesitation, Ou Yangming tried to take a step forward.

He was extremely cautious that his consciousness had also risen to the maximum point where he could make judgments in advance no matter the changes ahead.

One step, two steps…

Nonetheless, even when he walked carefully through the fourth level as though he was walking on thin ice, and arrived at the top of the flight, he did not feel extra pressure.

Ou Yangming looked behind him in disbelief and in confusion.

‘Are the Ni family’s powerhouses suddenly making things easier for me? But isn’t this too obvious?’

Regardless of the reason, Ou Yangming had completed another level and was only two levels away from his final target.

Even then, he had no idea that he was already qualified to enter the forbidden area after successfully walking past the fourth flight of stairs.

The first three levels of the Testimony Path tested a person’s fitness and power. As long as one was at the peak of Yin Grade Cla.s.s Five and had extraordinary willpower, one could make it to the fourth floor even if one would be exhausted.

That said, everything was completely different from the fourth level onward.

This was because the fourth level tested one’s mental power instead of one’s physical power.

It was especially impossible for a person without sufficient mental power or the potential to pa.s.s the fourth level.

The Ni family had many geniuses each generation, but not all had the mental power or the potential. Therefore, most geniuses failed the fourth level after pa.s.sing the third level.

On the other hand, not to mention Ou Yangming’s potential, his mental power alone had doubled after he absorbed the half-spirit beast’s flesh and blood, as well as when he broke through in the dense forest to control the Blood Flight Art. With that, the restriction could be regarded as nothing for him.

If his mental power or its potential was lower than 10 Points, he could not pa.s.s this stage regardless, but with 25 Points of mental power…

The point advantage allowed him to get through the stage effortlessly.

Ou Yangming advanced to the fifth level at ease as if he had taken a stroll in the park.

Nevertheless, he was not aware that his freaky performance had caused everyone in the Ni family to be in an uproar.

At the top of the tower, Ni Jingtong and the five most powerful Yang Grade powerhouses looked at each other as though they had just seen a ghost.

“Did he really pa.s.s the fourth level?” Ni Jingtong mumbled.

Ni Xueshu and the other elders smiled bitterly because they wanted to know more than Ni Jingtong did. Though they knew very well that the l.u.s.ter would not lie to them, the fact that Ou Yangming pa.s.sed the fourth level in a flash…

They looked at the great ancestor and thought, ‘Can Great Ancestor achieve it too?’

“If I had attempted the fourth level instead, I can easily complete it too.” Ni Jingtong scoffed as if he perceived their looks, then said to himself after a pause, ‘Maybe I’ll be slightly slower than the young fella?’ That being said, he did not ponder upon how long exactly it would take for him to pa.s.s the level.

‘Perhaps Third Brother is the only one in the Ni family who can compete with the young fella in this aspect,’ Ni Jingtong wondered.

“Great Ancestor, given that Ou Yangming actually pa.s.sed the fourth level so quickly, could his mental power…” Ni Xueshu expressed as he thought. The eyes of the four other elders glowed as well when they thought about the possibility.

Ni Jingtong responded with a bitter smile, “We’ve seen plenty of people who are gifted with strong mental power, for instance, Yinghong the little girl, who was born with great mental power and is able to use it as she wishes after cultivating for years, but the young fella is one year younger than the little girl, even if he had started cultivating in his mother’s womb, it’s impossible for him to have such mental power…”