563 Name Wall (1/2)
”Mental consciousness body?”
Ye Chen's eyebrows flicked. Amongst the information that the Battle Emperor had imprinted into his mind, most of them were about training. Therefore, Ye Chen had known about mental consciousness bodies.
More accurately, it meant a part of soul being separated from the main body. It did not have a consciousness of its own, only the one from the main body. It would be just like the mental projection, but in a more complex way, it was something that was greater than a mere mental projection. The power it could bear was even greater.
Of course, the Battle Emperor did not train one, so Ye Chen would not know more than the basic concept.
”Let's go up!” Yan Fengfeng walked toward the peak in the lead.
The path toward the Sky Martial Pavilion was a hundred miles long, a hundred meters wide staircase; there would be a wide platform after every one thousand steps. The second Ye Chen stepped onto a stair, he had finally realized why no one tried to fly up directly—the whole mountain was somehow covered in an invisible restraining power which forbade them from using their power in midair. All they could do was to take it step by step.
After a whole fifteen minutes, the four had finally walked to the peak.
”So crowded here!”
Once they stepped into the gate of the Sky Martial Pavilion, all four of them could see a wide plaza, and in the middle of that was a one hundred meters tall wall. Around that wall were hundreds of young men and women that were all under the age of forty.
”The pavilion is only opening once per year, so it is normal to have so many people here.” It was not Yan Fengfeng's first time here, so she did not feel strange about it at all.
The wall was very tall, so the four could already see that the wall was covered in names.
”Du Gujue, number one!”
”Dantai Mingye, number two!”
”…”
”Yan Fengfeng, number five!”
Indeed, Yan Fengfeng was ranked number five. Being able to rank into the top five of one thousand was already extremely impressive.
Yan Fengfeng said, ”The top two warriors are indeed the top two warriors of the Sky Martial Region. Perhaps they are not the most powerful warriors amongst the young generation, but they definitely have the most to compete with. You guys can see it by the color of the names. The white represents first three levels, blue means five levels, while red means six and seven levels. If one is able to pass even the seventh level, then the color would be purple. So far, only Du Gujue and Dantai Mingle were able to pass the seventh level. Therefore, their names are in purple.”
Hearing her, Ye Chen took a closer look at the wall. There were two purple names, fifty-something red ones, and the majority of them were blue ones: there were more than eight hundred of them. The white ones were less, only one hundred of them, and they fell all the way in the back.
”If you want to leave your name on the wall, then you will have to at least last three rounds. The longer you can hold on in the third level, the more likely you can make it.”
As Yan Fengfeng explained the rules, she was getting a bit emotional. She was the descendant of the Phoenix, so she was full of potential. Normally, it would not be that hard for her to be in the top one or two. But, the four warriors ranked before her was just too crazily powerful, especially Du Gujue and Dantai Mingyue. Those two had passed all seven levels of challenges almost immediately.
”Head sister disciple, is it really hard to pass a level?” Ling Tianhao asked.
She let out a breath and said, ”The first one would be with a mental consciousness body that is similar to your power while the second level would have two. The third level would have four, while the fourth level would have eight. Each level would have twice the challenge as the previous one. Do you think it is hard?”
”Doesn't it mean that on the seventh level, there would be sixty-four of them?” Ling Tianhao gasped. Even Miao Yin and Ye Chen were starting to look serious.
Yan Fengfeng said with a low voice, ”It challenges your battle technique, mindset, and the potential that you could explode with when you are pushed into a corner. Although, the cultivation and power would mean something as well, as it has been controlled to the minimum, and the consciousness body would be at your power level. If you have a lot of power, so would it.”
”I wonder where I could be ranked on that wall.”
When they first arrived here, Ling Tianhao was full of confidence, and now, all he felt was pressure and battling intent.
Ye Chen had understood what Yan Fengfeng was trying to say—the challenge of the wall had not much to do with one's cultivation and power. Of course, just as she had said, although the last two parts had been controlled and suppressed to the minimum, it still has some kind of effects. For example, if the cultivation was high, then there would be a deeper understanding of the battling techniques, and the style of battling would be unpredictable as well, which equaled more power as well.
”Ye Chen, you are here as well!” Right then, someone yelled out Ye Chen's name.
He turned around to see the Thunder Princess Jing Aoxuan, and Li Xiaoyun together. These two had both reached the Sea of Souls Realm just like him. They were both at peak Early level as well.
A smile appeared on his face as Ye Chen said, ”What a coincidence!”
Li Xiaoyun smiled as well, ”Yes and no.”
Ye Chen chuckled back; he knew what Li Xiaoyun meant. The two reaching the Sea of Souls Realm was not that much a surprise for him, since they both had reached the peak level Late Astral Reaching Realm earlier than him, so they had a chance of breaking through any second. Moreover, the Sky Martial Pavilion was only opened once a year, so it was almost doomed that they would run into each other.
”What about Chu Zhongtian?”
Although Ye Chen and Chu Zhongtian did not have the best relationship, and they were even fighting and arguing in the beginning when they first met, they were actually fair competitors afterward.