49 Will Power Mountain (1/2)
The sign up process was exactly very easy as it only required 5 qi stones. Also since they think many will fail they don't even bother taking DNA testing, or social security numbers. All they took was name, birthday, address, and a quick bone age test. Once you pass the bone age test you they would directly give you a white token with a Z on it signifying you can enter the first test.
”What group number are you Lin?” Ziyu asks.
”Group 4,” Jun answered.
Ziyu made a yikes face but quickly covered it. It didn't escape Jun's eyes through.
”Whats wrong with group 4?” Jun asks curiously. This was his first time taking the test so he doesn't have much knowledge on it.
”Just the number four is bad luck,” Ziyu sighed.
”Yeah a couple there was genius in group four that should have passed but failed. This not only happened once but multiple times over the past 20 years so group 4 has been considered a death group,” Xiao Hui explained.
”Maybe its just a coincidence,” Jun chuckles nervously.
”Little bro once might be bad luck, twice might be a coincident but in the last twenty years it happen 4 times! None of the other group had as much mishaps as number four!” Mei said loudly. ”Not only that but it happens in intervals of 4 so this is the 20th year meaning its gonna happen again.”
”I'll be more careful then,” Jun said lightly as he doesn't believe in the stories. Furthermore she said a genius that was suppose to pass failed meaning people still passed.
Then a loud and strong voice echoes across the land. ”The first test for the Ziyu college will be a test of your will! We will be going to the first testing site now! Follow the beam of light!”
Whoosh a thick beam of blue light in the shape of a rainbow extended out. It actually then turned into a rainbow bridge. The moment the first person stepped on, their body got covered in rainbow light before being thrust across the rainbow.
Jun… They took the translation to literal…
As each person stepped on the rainbow they were thrust across the sky. It only took an hour of rainbow flight power before they landed in the location that the instructor wanted. Before Jun stood an enormous mountain that could block out the sky. On the mountain entrance was a wooden ark and a stairway made out of stone. The stairway looked to be 200 meters wide as it ascends to the heaven.
”On this mountain there are 10,000 steps. A minimum of 100 steps is required to pass the first trial. The further you can go the higher your score will be. Do not go higher than what you can accomplish. Death is still possible! GROUP ONE BEGIN!” An old man with a megaphone like voice announce at the entrance.
The people in group one surges forward.
”Che only 100 steps out 10,000 and they call this a test? Ziren College sure is getting lax,” someone mocked.
”F*ck if your grandpa can't even make it to step 100 I will eat a table!” Another person roared to self motivate himself.
”Will Power Mountain get ready to call me daddy!”
”I will try my best!”
All sorts of words were being spoken as the first group of 1000 surges forward. The moment the first person stepped on the stone he immediately collapsed. Followed by every other person. The people behind couldn't stop themselves as they stepped on top of the fallen people before they fell themselves. Most of the people managed to brake in time before their first step. While there were many that failed on the first step there were also some success.
An hour passed and no one died but many were injured. Only 8 percent of the people out of 1000 actually made it to the 100th step. Two made it pass 150. Furthermore twenty percent couldn't even make it pass the first step.
”NEXT GROUP,” the elderly man yelled emotionlessly.
When Jun saw the situation he immediately activated his eyes to try and find a solution. Strangely enough even he could not find the invisible pressure that was causing this failure.
Could it be parabolic increase of gravity? Jun wondered. This might not even be a test of will but foundation.
Then group three went. Xiao Mei was in that group so Jun paid very close attention to her.
”Good luck XIAO MEI!” Xintong cheers loudly along with the rest of the group.
”Good luck,” Jun shouted along with them but not as loudly.
Jun found that the first ten steps were extremely easy for her like she was walking up normal flights of stairs. Then at the 11th step he saw her body tense up dramatically like someone just added a significant amount of weights at once.
From Jun's perspective each step was like someone adding 100 pounds of weight to your overall body, but at the 11th step the weight added dramatically increased.
Lets put this in perspective. In the Martial Body Realm at it's peak a person is able to curl 100 pounds with ease with a max of 300 pounds in each arm. In the Refinement realm that ease rate of curl increased to 200 with max at 500. After that the Nascent realm is 350 pounds with ease and max at 800 pounds. At the Martial Realm a person can lift 500 pounds per arm with ease with a max at 1200. At Master realm the body goes through a refinement that increase ease of weight to 1000 and with a max at 2500. King's realm is even more exaggerated with ease at 1500 and max at 3300 pounds. It is at Heaven realm that there is a qualitative leap from 1500 with ease to 7500, with max at 18,000. In the Ancestor realm those numbers double.
Now this is for cultivators that do not cultivate in the body at all. Meaning they do not do any sort of body training aside from the normal body training. For example Jun who trains in the fiend god body refinement even at the martial realm he is able to easily life 4000 to 5000 pounds with ease. He hasn't test out his life yet but if he was too he would be able to lift a max of at least 10,000 with the possibility of 15,000. That is almost comparable to Heaven realm cultivators with no body refinement. AlsoJun trains in a legendary pure dragon bloodline so his body refinement strength is a little over the top. Normal top tier body refinement would be about half of that.
From Jun's estimate Xiao Mei would be able to reach 120 to 130 steps before her real test of will begins.
Just like Jun predicted at the 121st she was sweating and every step she took required tremendous amount of energy.
Every step she took, took great effort like Atlas holding up the sky. Jun could see the bulging of her muscles and veins.
In ten mins she finally reached the 130th step. At the 131st step Jun saw her knee bent down half way but she gritted her teeth and took another step.
132.