Chapter 235: Arduous Heaven Seeking Staircase (1/2)

Chapter 235: Arduous Heaven Seeking Staircase

Translator: Sparrow TranslationsEditor: Sparrow Translations

On the Yan City Plaza, the competition had reached it’s peak, and the atmosphere was electric. The crowd’s loud cheers raised the level of excitement in the competitors, even causing them to perform a few levels better than normal. No one was willing to hold back in this fight for a chance to enter the Zhen Mo Continent.

While Jiang Xiushan and Feng Zhengqiu intentionally left out the problem of the competition boundaries, but the battles on the ten stages were very self-regulating. No cultivators Yuan Dan Stage and above took the initiative to challenge Transcending Mortality Stage cultivators, and no True Lake Stage cultivators challenged the Yuan Dan Stage cultivators.

This was not only a matter of pride, but it was also related to whether the person would be despised by Zhen Mo Continent’s experts. After all, in front of such a large crowd, the act of challenging someone who was much weaker than yourself was very disgraceful. Booing was one thing, but this might even incite a riot.

Perhaps a Yuan Dan Stage cultivator could take out a Transcending Mortality Stage cultivator in seconds, but everything was not determined in a single match, and he might be taken out by a True Lake Stage cultivator in the next match.

There were very few True Lake Stage cultivators below 50 years old, but it didn’t mean that there were none. For example, Feng Luojian was at True Lake Stage Level 2 despite being less than 50 years old in age.

Cen Shuyin stood on Stage Number 1, and she was very happy. She was at Transcending Mortality Stage Level 9, and had easily defeated two people. With one more win, she would be able to advance to the next round.

Even though her cultivation level was not the highest there, but her ravishing beauty made the cheers at Stage number 1 the loudest.

”Hmm!” Xia Mu, which had not been paying much attention to the competition until now, turned to look at Stage Number 1. When he saw Cen Shuyin, his gazed became fixed on her to the extent that he did not even realise that he had slowly stood up.

This woman was too beautiful, and even in Zhen Mo Continent, he had never seen a woman as beautiful as her. What made him even more satisfied was that, he felt that this woman was very open, and did not use a veil to cover her unworldly looks.

Perhaps this woman’s talent was nowhere close to Bei Suting’s, so the help she could provide to him would not be as great as Bei Suting. But as the star lord of Zhen Mo Continent’s Star King Mountain, was there anything wrong to have a gorgeous woman that he loved from the bottom of his heart?

The red faced tall man at Xia Mu’s side did not have to wait for Xia Mu to ask, and the moment Xia Mu stood up staring at Cen Shuyin, he reported, ”That is the legacy disciple of Heaven Seeking Palace’s Sword Lake, Cen Shuyin. Her talent is extremely good. Heaven Seeking Palace is considered the number one sect in Lost Continent, and there’s a place called Heaven Seeking Staircase within in. I heard that she could reach the 54th step when she was at Transcending Mortality Stage Level 7, and was at 50th place.”

”What’s the Heaven Seeking Staircase?” Xia Mu furrowed his brows as he asked.

The red faced man answered solemnly, ”The Heaven Seeking Staircase is not an ordinary thing, and from my enquiries this past few days, this Heaven Seeking Staircase is clearly a real ancient treasure. As for its grade, even the elders of Heaven Seeking Palace are unsure of it. There hasn’t been a single person that could reach the top of the Heaven Seeking Staircase. On it, the higher your cultivation level the greater the pressure, and the younger you are the lower the pressure. While special envoy Sir is advanced in cultivation, your age is much smaller than the geniuses here, hence I believe that you definitely will be able to reach the top of the Heaven Seeking Staircase if you decide to climb it.”

Nodding his head, Xia Mu replied, ”Good, after things end here, we’ll go climb that Heaven Seeking Staircase.”

Quietly, the red faced man spoke again, ”Actually even if you didn’t ask about it, I would have suggested for you to climb the Heaven Seeking Staircase once. The origins of the Heaven Seeking Staircase is very mysterious, and no one has been able to reach the top after so many years. Who knows, there might be a great opportunity waiting up there. Moreover, I’ve heard that the higher one climbs, the more one understands about cultivation, and the more one will achieve in the future.”

”Not bad.” This piqued Xia Mu’s interest, and he followed up saying, ”This matter of the Heaven Seeking Staircase is settled then. Once that woman called Cen Shuyin is done with her match, ask her to come over. I’ll give her a surprise.”

”Yes Sir,” The red faced man quickly responded.

He knew what kind of surprise Xia Mu had in mind, and this was the type of surprise that only an arrogant woman like Bei Suting would turn down. If it were anyone else, it would be considered a pleasant surprise.

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On the Heaven Seeking Palace’s Heaven Seeking Staircase, Mo Wuji mustered his elemental energy to intentionally form a circulation route with his 100th and 101th meridians as he stepped onto the 99th step.

The instant his foot landed on the ground, a raging pressure and rotating force rushed at him, and the elemental energy within Mo Wuji’s 100th and 101th meridians burst forth at the same time.

The wild pressure and rotating force were defended against by Mo Wuji’s explosive elemental energy, allowing him to step onto the 99th step with ease.

The 100th, 101th, 102th step…

”Crack!” When Mo Wuji finally reached the 103th step, his legs finally broke. Even though his elemental storage meridian still provided the elemental energy, his body could not take it anymore. With a little dissatisfaction, he looked up. There were only five steps left; as long as he could climb another five steps, he would stand at the top of the Heaven Seeking Staircase.

Fighting against the terrifying pressure and force from the 103th step, Mo Wuji swallowed quite a few healing pills. At the same time, he started circulating his spiritual energy based on the Immortal Mortal Technique to speed up the rate of healing.