"Hahaha…"
Xie Zhou sighed heavily. She was very tired. At first, it was very easy for her to climb. She didn't even need to use her hands. Instead, she used her lightness skill and the power of her feet to jump up and climb over a few floors. But she didn't expect that the higher she climbed, the more different the attacks would be.
This was completely different from how easy it was on the lower levels. It was getting much more difficult. Xie Zhou felt her strength draining away and she was sweating more and more. Every now and then, a strong wind would blow by, and she had to be careful not to be blown away.
She gripped the hilt of the sword tightly, sometimes almost letting her hand sink into the blade, otherwise she would have had several more cuts on her hand.
Fortunately, he only broke the skin slightly and felt a sharp pain. Xie Zhou immediately withdrew his hand, gripped the sword hilt, and stopped unconsciously touching it. Otherwise, his hands would have been ruined.
Sword Mountain has virtually no extra stones, nor is it missing any. It is entirely composed of swords inserted into the mountaintop, forming a path made of interlocking spirit swords. One must then slowly climb upwards using the swords as a means of ascent, which is indeed quite difficult.
Xie Zhou gripped a sword in one hand and leaned against it. Her heaving chest showed how tired she was. She leaned against it, but she couldn't fully relax. If another strong gust of wind came, she would be blown away again.
Looking around at the swords, Xie Zhou exhaled a breath of turbid air, trying to calm his racing heart. It felt like an endless mountain of swords, and he suddenly felt a little tired. These 108 floors were no joke.
I've only climbed less than halfway up, and I'm already this exhausted.
These swords all emitted sword energy, clearly aimed at him. If Xie Zhou hadn't activated his mental barrier to protect himself, he would have been badly injured by these sword energies and might have accidentally fallen from this bottomless abyss. He would have become a wronged ghost with no one to collect his body.
No, we've climbed this far, we absolutely can't give up. Xie Zhou moved her aching hands and feet slightly, leaning against the swords. She skillfully avoided their vital points, using the swords as support.
She really wanted to rest a little longer. If she had known the guard would say that, she wouldn't have been so curious. She should have rested for a few more hours before coming to experience something that constantly made her feel frustrated.
Xie Zhou wiped the large beads of sweat from her forehead, then gritted her teeth, grabbed the sword hilt above with one hand, and stepped on it with the other, forcibly pulling herself up to the next level. In this way, she frantically climbed upwards without slowing down at all.
Strike while the iron is hot. Feeling that she was not yet completely exhausted, she had to finish the third trial and climb the sword mountain immediately.
She memorized the 108 floors and silently counted the number of floors she had climbed, wondering how many more she was still to go.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
The pressure from above increased, and the sword energy became increasingly turbulent. She felt that even touching the hilt of the sword would cause her harm. Fortunately, there was a magical artifact in her spatial storage that could protect her hand, so Xie Zhou put it on.
She continued climbing the awe-inspiring Sword Mountain, Xie Zhou grasping at the pride and arrogance in her heart. She desperately hoped that she could maintain the same level of performance as in the previous two trials, completing this trial perfectly in a short time and climbing swiftly.
"This is probably the most time-consuming and physically demanding activity in history. All the work I've done over the years has been embodied on this sword mountain..."
"So tired..."
We're almost at the sixtieth floor!
She felt her fingers were getting weak and starting to feel numb, but she still stretched out her hands and gripped the sword hilt tightly, crossing the next layer, more than sixty layers.
The next wave of attacks will be even more intense, so she must plan ahead and mobilize her mental strength to protect herself.
She used all her strength to climb each floor, but she was almost exhausted and could only climb up to the sixty-something floor.
Xie Zhou felt he couldn't climb any further, so he leaned against it to rest. He couldn't even speak a complete sentence, and he was panting heavily.
"Whew...so tired!"
She felt like she could wring a bucket of sweat out of her clothes, and her hands and legs felt as if they were filled with mud, extremely heavy. She felt that she was completely unable to climb this 108-story sword mountain, and how disappointed she would be if she only stopped here.
She understood the difference between the 108th floor and the 60th floor, but her hands and feet were too clumsy to continue climbing.
This is when the system starts making fun of Xie Zhou.
The system told her, "Hahaha... The true purpose of Sword Mountain is to temper disciples, to temper your will, to see if you can slowly destroy your will under so much pressure, and whether you can persevere to the end! Will these sword energies defeat you?"
These words landed in Xie Zhou's mind, and she immediately understood that the system's initial teasing laughter was not intentional; it had a good purpose!
Knowing that the purpose of Sword Mountain was to temper one's will, Xie Zhou thought to herself, if she couldn't pass this third trial, what was the point of coming here? Was it just to simply get the rewards from the first two trials? That wasn't enough; she wanted more, she wanted to become stronger.
Under her leadership, the Sword Sect will flourish even more, and she will definitely achieve that!
She didn't have any particular wishes, only that every disciple of the Sword Sect could be well.
Then, Xie Zhou looked at the sword covered in sword energy and suddenly thought of a solution.
She began to sense the power of the sword energy while still in place.
"Found it! It's up there!"
Using mental energy to search, it was quickly discovered that the sword energy on the sixty-sixth floor was extremely powerful.
So, at the bottom level, the sword energy became so strong because of the sword energy of the sixty-sixth floor. Once the sixty-sixth floor is destroyed, the rest will be much easier to deal with.
Then, she resolutely started climbing down, and once she finally made it to the top, she came right back down.
"If the source of sword energy is above, it must be below as well..."
While searching for a suitable level to comprehend sword energy, Xie Zhou arrived at the thirty-third level and began to comprehend sword energy.
The system then prompted, "Host! Don't forget how the sword energy the sect leader bestowed upon you came about. You should also try to comprehend it."
Sword energy doesn't have to be used entirely for destruction; it can also be used for one's own benefit.
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