Outside the light shield, the leader of the Qingyun Sect and two great elders silently watched the situation in the square. There were nearly 10,000 teenagers in the square with different expressions. Some were laughing wildly, some were crying loudly, some had fierce looks on their faces, some were self-destructive... all kinds of expressions were revealed.
Some people who had emotional breakdowns and were about to go crazy or commit self-harm were bounced out of the light screen by the formation, and disciples of Qingyun Sect immediately came forward to feed them Qingxin Pills.
The boys and girls who took the refreshing pills woke up in just a dozen breaths, but those who woke up showed disappointment on their faces. Some girls even cried sadly. They understood that they could not make it through this first level.
In less than half an hour, nearly half of the participants had been eliminated. At this moment, a young man sitting cross-legged in meditation in an inconspicuous corner of the square caught the attention of Tie Zhong and the two great elders. The young man had a calm expression, showing no trace of emotion.
"This boy's mind is so resolute that it has never been so strong! You have to know that this is a second-grade illusion array, which will dig out the fears and hopes deep in the hearts of those trapped in the array, and can amplify their emotions tenfold. Low-level cultivators like them are lucky enough to keep their emotions from breaking down, but he can remain calm..." an elder sighed.
"Yes, she is already comparable to Yu'er!" Another elder also praised.
"Well, let's see how he performs next..." Tiezhong also looked at the young man with admiration.
This young man is Erniu.
Countless negative emotions flooded towards Lai Siyu like a tide: a devilish fat stepmother, an indifferent father, and a brother who always took pleasure in teasing her...
She wanted to kill her fat stepmother and leave with her kind and beautiful mother. Her desire was so strong...
When I was six years old, it was the middle of winter. My fat stepmother threw a pile of dirty clothes at me. I squatted in the cold wind, my little hands frozen red in the freezing water...
Lai Siyu couldn't bear it any longer after seeing this scene, and she rushed towards her fat stepmother...
At this moment, a cold current quickly rose from her hand, and she couldn't help but shudder. Her mind instantly became clear, the illusions in front of her eyes shattered one by one, the endless darkness faded away, and she appeared in the square again.
Seeing that she woke up, Erniu withdrew his hand without leaving any trace and continued to meditate with his eyes closed.
Lai Siyu looked at the crazy, painful, and dancing people in the square, and the young boys and girls who were bounced out by the formation in their madness. She finally understood what had happened to her just now. It was a close call!
Remembering the cold current coming from her left hand that instantly woke her up, Lai Siyu raised her hand and looked, but didn't find any clues. Instead, Brother Erniu was sitting on her left side with his eyes closed in meditation.
Could it be Erniu who helped her? Lai Siyu shook her head. Although Erniu was emotionally stable and his face was calm, he still looked like he was in a dreamland. If he wasn't helping her, then who could be helping her?
Just a moment after Lai Siyu woke up, hundreds of people disappeared from the square, and there were still about a thousand people left.
At this moment, the six disciples of Qingyun Sect removed the formation, eliminating over nine thousand people in the first round! This formation was too powerful. Would the next test be even more difficult? Lai Siyu secretly worried for herself and Erniu.
However, several senior officials of Qingyun Sect seemed very satisfied with the result. After sending away more than 9,000 losers, the second round of assessment began.
In the second round of assessment, participants will climb the Qingyun Ladder on foot, and the top 400 will enter the third round before dawn the next day.
Looking at the long ladder reaching into the sky, no one dared to be careless, and their faces were all solemn.
The Qingyun Ladder, named after the meaning of rising straight to the sky, has a total of 9,999 steps. If you can complete it, it means that you have left the mortal world and entered the immortal realm.
Lai Siyu followed everyone into the mountain gate. When she stepped onto the first stone step, all the people around her disappeared. Could this also be a formation?
If there is no one here, then there is no one. Just walk with your head covered. It’s just climbing the stairs. Lai Siyu really doesn’t feel any pressure.
In the square, a huge stone tablet emerged from the ground. The tablet was a hundred feet high and was carved with intricate patterns.
Red spots of light moved across the stone tablet, each with a name behind it.
"Wow, look at this! Gongsun Chong is already way ahead right from the start, more than 200 steps ahead of the others."
"This year's champion will definitely belong to the Gongsun family again. How come the Gongsun family has so many geniuses? Not only did they have Gongsun Yu, but now they have Gongsun Fei."
"The Gongsun family is a renowned immortal cultivation family in Pengcheng. Their family heritage is unmatched by people like you and me..."
"It's too early to draw conclusions. There are quite a few geniuses participating in the Qingyun Sect selection this year. I think Yang Liu from the Yang family is stronger than Gongsun Fei. The Qingyun Stairs competition is not about speed."
"Yeah, that's right. It's still uncertain who will be the champion this year."
Climbing the ladder was a piece of cake in Lai Siyu's eyes, but she soon discovered something different. Every time she climbed a ladder, the pressure on her body increased. Even though she could walk briskly while carrying a pig weighing one or two thousand pounds, she now felt quite stressed.
And now, she had only climbed more than 500 stairs.
As the sun sets, the afterglow casts a layer of orange on the stone tablet. The speed of the red dot on the tablet slows down obviously, and its position also changes. It is no longer Gongsun Fei who is far ahead.
Gongsun Fei, Yang Liu and Shao Zhidong led the top three, with the distance between them not too far, while Lai Siyu ranked 456th.
Lai Siyu touched the sweat on her forehead and wanted to use her spiritual power to resist the pressure, but she found that she couldn't use any spiritual power at all. She looked up at the endless stairs, gritted her teeth, made up her mind, rolled up her sleeves and went into the space.
Take a shower, eat a full meal, take a nap, and continue running...
Fortunately, there is no need to mobilize spiritual power to enter the copper space.
Fortunately, the red dot representing her on the stone tablet just stopped and did not disappear.
There was a time difference between this space and the outside world, so Lai Siyu wasn't worried about missing the selection process. She'd rested enough in the space, her previous fatigue long gone. With the energy of a pig on her back, she climbed up, her red dot on the stone tablet surpassing others, drawing exclamations from the observing Qingyun Sect disciples.
"Who is this Lai Siyu, and why is she so fast?"
"Look, she actually went from last place to over 300th place!"
"Her speed is still increasing. Look, she has surpassed another fifty people!"
"What an abnormal speed..."
"Tsk~ What's the point of suddenly exploding? We still have one night left, and the road ahead is going to be tough!"
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