After Li Tong fainted, it was unknown how much time had passed in the darkness.
When he regained consciousness, he tried to open his eyes.
It was a vast expanse of whiteness.
Beside him was a stone tablet that indicated that the progress was already one ten-thousandth.
Hunger, fatigue, and pain enveloped his entire body.
Li Tong couldn't understand. Was there really someone who could pass such a trial?
With this crippled body, he probably wouldn't even be able to complete the next one ten-thousandth of the journey, let alone reach the end. He would die of exhaustion on the road, yes, he would definitely die of exhaustion on the road!
Think about it. What kind of experience would it be to walk up the stairs until one was on the verge of death and only complete one ten-thousandth of the journey?
This was also the reason why Li Tong fainted in despair when he found out the truth.
Now that he had woken up, he was still in despair.
"That's impossible. No one can pass this trial!"
"You're playing me, aren't you?"
Li Tong looked up at the sky and shouted in despair.
There was no response. What answered him was an ice-cold space and an endless flight of stairs.
Li Tong's body trembled as he hesitated for a long time.
Finally, he looked at the endless flight of stairs and took a step forward with great difficulty.
He continued to climb …
He would not give up!
It was clearly an impossible mission, but for some reason, he really didn't want to give up.
He wasn't willing to fail here. His willpower was invincible. He was going to crawl until he died!
His body trembled as he continued to crawl, only to find that his body seemed to no longer obey his commands.
After climbing for an unknown amount of time, he had only climbed ten thousand steps.
Li Tong bitterly smiled.
He probably wouldn't be able to see the second stele even if he crawled to his death.
As a prodigy of the Battling Divine Sect, he had come all the way to the Four Nine Immortal Sect to pursue his dream of becoming an immortal sect, but this dream was going to be shattered in the end …
Li Tong was unwilling … How could he leave like a defeated dog?
He gritted his teeth and continued to climb.
The thought of giving up had flashed through his mind countless times. His body, which was enduring immense pain, urged him to give up. His pride as a genius urged him to give up. His rationality urged him to give up …
But he really couldn't accept it!
Li Tong's state of mind had undergone a transformation. The chaotic thoughts in his mind had already disappeared. There was only one thought in his mind, and that was to continue climbing.
At most, he would die on the road.
Sometimes, from immature to mature, it may only be a matter of a moment.
Li Tong had forgotten how long he had been climbing. He fainted a few times from exhaustion, but when he woke up, he continued climbing.
He did not know where the two-ten-thousandth stone tablet was …
One day, he fainted from exhaustion. When he woke up, he found himself in a spacious hall. Beside him were thousands of people who were participating in the trial with him.
"Did he fail?" Li Tong's eyes were red as he murmured.
Then, he noticed that most of the cultivators were looking at him with strange gazes.
What was going on?
Why did these people look at him, the loser, with envy and admiration?
At this moment, a very beautiful woman in white appeared in front of him with a smile on her face.
The white-robed woman was the person who had designed this trial, Bai Ling.
"Congratulations, Li Tong, you've obtained first place in this trial." Bai Ling smiled.
"First … first place?"
Li Tong was dumbfounded and stuttered.
"I, I didn't reach the end, did I?"
He remembered that he hadn't even made it to the second one-thousandth of the stele. After passing out countless times, he had finally arrived at this place between fainting and waking up.
"End?" Bai Ling blinked. "That trial doesn't have an end."
Li Tong was dumbfounded again. He paused for a moment before replying, "Didn't you say that you had to reach the end in order to pass the trial? Also, that stone tablet stated the distance to the end … "
"Oh, I lied to you. The stairs are actually endless and you can never climb to the end," Bai Ling confessed in a very natural manner.
Li Tong: "…"
Li Tong couldn't describe the feeling in his heart. He wanted to vomit blood.
The other ten thousand cultivators looked at Li Tong with sympathy. When they first heard this news, they also felt like sh * t. Some cultivators even fainted from anger again …
Bai Ling clasped her hands behind her back and gazed into the void, as if she could see through the river of time. She slowly said, "That stairs have no end. Isn't the path of seeking dao like this?
"Over the course of countless years, how many people have fallen on the path of seeking dao? No one can see the end of the path. The only thing you can do is to keep moving forward and see who can go further.
"Some people will fall into despair and break down because of the difficulty of seeking dao, while others will give up very quickly. However, there are also some people who don't stop. They are unwilling to stop just like that. Their only thought is to keep moving forward. They walk on the path that seems to have an end, but they can't reach the end at all. In the end, they die of exhaustion. "
Close to ten thousand cultivators fell into deep thought as they listened to Bai Ling's words. Some of them even hung their heads in shame. That's right, this was a test of perseverance. Everyone understood that.
However, understanding and being able to do it were two different things.
Bai Ling looked at Li Tong with approval on her face. "Among everyone here, you are the only one who didn't give up and walked on the stairs the longest. You are the undisputed number one! "
Li Tong was once again moved by his own perseverance as he listened to Bai Ling's words.
Clap clap clap …
No one knew who started the applause, but the thunderous sound of the applause went straight to the sky.
Most of the cultivators were completely won over by Li Tong's perseverance.
Tears welled up in Li Tong's eyes. "Waah … I really am a prodigy, I really am the most bad * ss …"
When the crowd of cultivators heard his acceptance speech, their applause slowly cooled down.
Bai Ling: "…"
"Next, the top one thousand cultivators will participate in the second trial with me. The rest of you will remain where you are. You can accept the position of outer pavilion disciple, but you still have to participate in the trial. You can decide whether to leave or stay," Bai Ling announced.
"There's still a trial?" Li Tong's eyes widened.
Bai Ling chuckled coldly. "Do you think it's that easy to become a core disciple of the Four Nine Immortal Sect?"
Li Tong didn't say anything.
Close to nine thousand people were eliminated in just one trial. The next trial would probably be even more terrifying, right? Li Tong started to panic as he thought back to that feeling of near death.
Even An Lin, Xuanyuan Cheng, and the others who were watching from the sidelines were astonished.
If they put themselves in that trial's shoes, they would feel like it was a nightmare. Perhaps they wouldn't even be able to do as well as Li Tong.
Climbing the stairs to death! Are you afraid?
As expected of a trial designer, Bai Ling was too terrifying!
The cultivators who were eliminated were the first to give up.
Although they were disappointed, there was nothing they could do. The only thing they could do now was to decide whether they wanted to continue participating in the trial and fight to become an outer pavilion disciple of the Four Nine Immortal Sect.
Outer pavilion disciples dealt with external affairs, and the cultivation methods and cultivation resources they received definitely couldn't compare to inner pavilion disciples.
However, Sect Leader An Lin had said that especially outstanding outer pavilion disciples had a chance of being promoted to inner pavilion disciples …
Li Tong and close to a thousand other trial-takers followed Bai Ling into the second trial.
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