Chapter 323 - Chapter 323: Chapter 25: Climbing the 79 Steps Again (2/2)

Just then…

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A reflection like water appeared above the pool, just like the reflection of the pool itself.

Lin Jing then stood up, looked at the water curtain reflection above, and with a leap, he entered into the reflection.

Stepping through the water curtain reflection, Lin Jing found himself directly in the midst of the desert’s howling winds.

Before.

The sand grains that once could scratch Lin Jing’s skin, now, blowing against him, couldn’t even tickle.

This showed just how strong Lin Jing’s physical body had become.

Upon entering, Lin Jing looked around before heading straight in the direction of the Trial Grounds.

……

Just two quarters of an hour later, Lin Jing arrived beside the dilapidated stone stele.

Lin Jing’s speed was much faster than before.

Moreover, after his physical strength increased, traveling through the sandy areas no longer caused him any deterioration.

At this moment, Lin Jing was still in peak condition.

Turning around, he approached the staircase. Lin Jing looked up at the eightieth and the eighty-first steps, his eyes filled with determination.

This time, Lin Jing was resolved to reach beyond the eightieth step— he even wanted to attempt the eighty-first.

Then, Lin Jing stepped forward and began to climb the first step.

The pressure from the first step was nearly zero to Lin Jing at this state.

Without stopping, he climbed up one step at a time…

After so many trials, Lin Jing knew the pressure on every step like the back of his hand.

It was not until crossing the fifty-fourth step that Lin Jing’s speed finally slowed.

However, he did not pause.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lin Jing reached the sixty-fourth step.

On the sixty-fourth step, Lin Jing took a short break to adjust his condition before stepping onto the sixty-fifth.

The pressure of the sixty-fifth step could already have a significant impact on Lin Jing.

Yet, this impact was still far from reaching Lin Jing’s limit of endurance.

After that, he paused on each step.

Allowing his body and Divine Sense to adapt before continuing the climb.

In this way, it took Lin Jing over an hour to reach the seventy-third step.

Starting here, it became more challenging, and Lin Jing needed much longer to adapt than before.

Still, even though he reached as high as the seventy-third step, Lin Jing did not activate the boosting feature.

With persistent tempering over this time, the strength of Lin Jing’s Divine Sense was incomparably stronger than before.

This was his greatest gain over the past two years.

Then, from the seventy-third to the seventy-eighth step, it took Lin Jing three days to ascend.

During this period, he entered the System Space several times for recovery.

It was fortunate that he had the System Space to catch his breath.

In this place devoid of Spiritual Power, even if one exhausted their power, there was no way to replenish it. Lin Jing wondered how others managed to climb up here.

From the information left by the Lin Family Ancestor, Lin Jing knew that the highest the ancestor had ever reached was this seventy-eighth step.

He had never managed to climb any higher.

Without the System Space, Lin Jing feared he might not have been able to reach the seventy-eighth step.

At the seventy-eighth step, Lin Jing sat down cross-legged.

He needed to stay here for quite some time—last time, Lin Jing had stayed for nearly half a month.

This time, it seemed he might need less time than before.

Subsequently, Lin Jing began to cultivate, circulating his Cultivation Technique on the seventy-eighth step.

……

Seven days later.

Lin Jing, who had fully adapted to the seventy-eighth step, stood up.

After stretching his body, he stepped towards the seventy-ninth step.

As soon as Lin Jing’s foot touched the seventy-ninth step, the fierce repulsive force came at him, attempting to topple him off.

But Lin Jing was prepared.

He forcefully anchored his foot onto the seventy-ninth step.

Then, lifting his other foot, he stepped up as well…

Once Lin Jing firmly stood on the seventy-ninth step, the repulsive force disappeared.

Instead, he faced the terrifying oppressive force and the vast pressure of the Divine Sense.

Under such oppression, Lin Jing clenched his teeth and desperately held on.

The pressure of the Divine Sense was far stronger than on the seventy-eight step.

Even though he had been more than capable on the seventy-eighth step,

Here, the fierce Divine Sense pressure nearly caused him to lose his composure and cry out in pain.

However, even so, Lin Jing still did not use the boost feature.

If he used it now, the ascent to the eightieth step would become much more difficult.

Thus, Lin Jing needed to use the pressure of the Divine Sense here to temper his own Divine Sense.

To make it stronger, so that when attempting to climb the eightieth step, he wouldn’t fail outright.

Compared to the fierce pressure of the Divine Sense, the physical strain seemed much easier.

Perhaps,

it was because Lin Jing had cultivated the Overlord Divine Physique to the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment stage, Lin Jing’s body felt relatively at ease on this seventy-ninth step.

After stabilizing on the seventy-ninth step, Lin Jing then sat down cross-legged and started to temper his body and Divine Sense using the oppressive force and Divine Sense pressure.