Bai Jiacao said, "Heh."
She did not even look at the boy named Ah Hao. She just walked straight to the cauldron.
But she "accidentally" stepped on Ah Hao's foot, causing the boy who had just created the best freshman of the year to jump three feet high in pain.
Before the students beside Ah Hao could help him, Bai Jiacao had already extended her leg to hook one of the cauldron's feet. With a light flick, the cauldron, which weighed three hundred kilograms and was as heavy as a mini Demonic Halberd Pig, flew up and landed steadily on her shoulder.
The way she lifted something heavy as if it was light was too beautiful. The freshmen in the area were stunned.
Even Ah Hao, who had been jumping around with his arms wrapped around his toes, grimaced.
Everyone, including him, had used the Tyrant Lifting Cauldron method. They had squatted down and knelt down to pick up or carry the cauldron.
There was no one who could use the strength of one leg to lift a cauldron and even catch it steadily.
Not to mention the fact that she was such a petite, doll-like girl.
Just what kind of terrifying power was hidden in those seemingly slender legs?!
"Who is she?"
"Is it that ridiculous?"
"I think she's from Construction High."
"She's ranked seventh in the city and third in our course!"
While the crowd cried out in surprise, Bai Jiacao carried the cauldron that weighed three hundred kilograms and strode up the stairway.
The first ten steps on the stairway were normal stairs. She did not stop at all. With just three steps, she climbed up the stairway like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water.
From the eleventh step onward, the stairway gradually shrank. Not only did the area where her feet could stand on become smaller, the distance between her and the previous step also became larger. The distance between each step was different, so the people could not memorize it.
But Bai Jiacao remained expressionless. Her gaze was firm, and she continued moving forward without hesitation. Soon, she reached the twentieth step.
"Seventeen seconds!"
"She actually only used seventeen seconds to climb up the twentieth step. Just now, Ah Hao used twenty-five seconds to climb up to this height!"
"She should have broken the speed record for the freshmen this year, right?"
"No, hurry up and check. She seems to have broken all the records for the freshmen over the years. Even when Wang Dao reached the forty-seventh step, he wasn't as fast as her when he climbed the first twenty steps!"
The onlookers gradually turned into a boiling pot.
Many people frantically swiped their phones to check the data.
More people lifted their phones and snapped pictures of Bai Jiacao's valiant and heroic appearance.
Bai Jiacao remained unmoved, but her round face turned slightly red. A crystalline drop of sweat appeared at the tip of her nose.
She pouted and blew away a strand of hair that had fallen down. She adjusted the position of the cauldron slightly and advanced towards the thirtieth level.
From the twenty-first step onwards, the Heaven Stairway not only became narrow and steep, but it also began to tilt left and right, as well as forward and backward.
There were a few stairways that were tilted at an alarming angle. If one wanted to maintain balance while carrying the cauldron, one's ankle would be fractured.
There were usually two ways to climb the Stairway to Heaven.
Or, he could fight steadily and make sure that his feet were firmly planted on the slope. Then, he could mobilize his spirit energy to strengthen his tendons so that he could ensure the balance of all his bones and muscles. Then, he could walk up one step at a time.
Or, he could use his peerless movement technique to soar into the sky like a large bird, his feet not touching the dust as he flew over.
Naturally, most of the new students chose the former.
After all, the failure rate of the latter was too high. Once they fell from the Stairway to Heaven, all their previous efforts would go to waste. Their grades would return to zero, and they could only get the most basic credits. They could then choose the new lecturers who had not been chosen by others and sleep in a shared room with dozens of people.
To put it bluntly, even if they knew that it would be difficult to get there and chose to retreat, they could still get points for the twentieth step and not be at the bottom.
After all, every year, there were twenty to thirty percent of the new students who fell from the Stairway to Heaven because they were greedy and rash.
As long as they were stronger than those people, it would be fine.
Hence, the Stairway to Heaven did not just test the new students' strength, balance, and exquisite control over their bodies. It also tested their willpower, mental state, and intelligence.
Everyone held their breaths and waited.
Just what sort of choice would this seemingly naive girl make?
Bai Jiacao did not hesitate for long.
Then, she did something that caused everyone's jaws to drop.
She stood on her tiptoes, and like a figure skater, she spun a few times on the narrow and steep Stairway to Heaven.
With centrifugal force, she threw the 300kg cauldron to the top of the Stairway to Heaven.
Without the cauldron restraining her, her body instantly became a hundred times lighter.
Everyone's vision blurred, and they saw a blurry afterimage moving on the Stairway to Heaven. In one breath, she jumped twenty-one to thirty steps and stood firmly on the thirty-first step. She might have moved later, but she arrived first. She grabbed the cauldron that arrived late and spun a few times like a figure skater to negate the impact from the cauldron. Then, she rammed against it with her heel, and the cauldron rolled down her waist and back to her shoulder.
The large field instantly fell silent.
The dozens of screens around them showed Bai Jiacao's light and graceful figure.
Everyone looked as if they had been struck by lightning. They were dumbfounded.
The only sounds left in the field were the metal balls spinning at high speed in the cauldron, and the sounds of metal scraping against each other could be heard.
Meng Chao held his parents' hands and sensed the cold sweat on their palms.
Meng Chao grinned and squeezed his parents' palms gently to show them that he was fine. "Don't be nervous. It's fine. You have to have confidence in Young Cao!"
But in his heart, he was also surprised. 'Just when did Young Cao grow to this extent?
'Night Demon Blood is indeed powerful. It hasn't even awakened completely, but it can already help Master execute such an astonishing technique!
'No, it's not just because of the blood. If I put it that way, it's too unfair to Young Cao.
'Just now, she displayed astonishing balance and flexibility. She used her muscle fibers, capillaries, and branch meridians to negate the force and release force. It's clearly an Ultimate Style technique.
'Looks like my sister might say that she doesn't like the Ultimate Style and only likes the mighty and domineering Overkill Style, but she's just being stubborn. Behind my back, I taught her the Ultimate Style, and she hasn't stopped practicing it.
'In just two short years, she managed to cultivate the Ultimate Style to this extent. The sweat she shed and the hardships she went through aren't any less than mine.
'But every time I see her, she's relaxed and lively. When I ask her whether it's hard for her to cultivate, she shakes her head like a rattle-drum.
'That stubborn girl is really stubborn. It's no wonder why she could cause such a ruckus in the Other World with the name of the Dark Witch in my previous life!'
When Meng Chao thought of this, the crowd finally registered what was going on.
Cries of surprise, praises, and discussions surged toward them like a tidal wave.
Everyone was shocked by Bai Jiacao's actions. Even if they wracked their brains, they would not have expected that someone would dare to play such a stimulating game while they were still in the Stairway to Heaven.
There were also people who whispered among themselves and questioned whether it was against the rules.
However, regardless of whether it was the admission test for Dragon City University or Agricultural University, there were practically no rules. Aside from not using despicable methods to attack a student's vitals or using poison, acid, hand grenades, and other forbidden items, the students were allowed to do whatever they wanted. In fact, they were even encouraged by the university.
After all, monsters did not care about rules when it came to humans.
Being able to take advantage of loopholes, find loopholes, and successfully use the rules was a test of a new student's imagination and creativity!
Besides, even if they told the new students that they could play this way, no one could be like Bai Jiacao and toss around a three-hundred-kilogram cauldron.
"A 'Hao, it's no wonder why she didn't want to talk to you just now."
When the students saw Bai Jiacao's amazing skills, they snickered. "By the looks of it, she's about to break the new record of Rank 45 that you just created. Besides, she used at least thirty seconds less than you!"
"…"
The boy named A 'Hao's face turned red, and he whispered, "It's not that easy. The difficulty of the Stairway to Heaven increases with each level. If you're the slightest bit careless, you'll lose your footing, and all your previous efforts will go to waste!"
Indeed, there were plenty of unlucky students who had already reached Rank 40 but were still greedy and wanted to get more points during the admission test. In the end, they ended up with one wrong step and suffered a lifetime of regret.
Since the girl was so cute, all the boys, including A 'Hao, who had just been stepped on, prayed in their hearts.' Come on, stay steady, don't fall! '
Just as expected, Bai Jiacao became cautious.
From Rank 31 to Rank 40, she did not play any terrifying tricks. Instead, she behaved herself and advanced step by step.
The red on her cheeks gradually spread to her neck, then to her arms and her entire body. Along with the white steam rising from her body, it was clear that she had reached the limits of her fatigue.
"I'm at Rank 40! It's time to go back!"
When they saw that she had reached Rank 40 without any danger, many of the students sighed in relief.
But they were also worried about her next step.
Even though spirit energy stimulated cells and spirit energy increased vitality magnetic fields, it could reduce the difference in fighting strength between men and women to the maximum.
But there were differences between men and women, and the advantages they had in fighting were also different.
Usually, men were better at explosiveness and endurance, while women were better at balance, flexibility, and stability.
When it came to the Stairway to Heaven, the girls' results were more average. Many of them could steadily reach Rank 20 or Rank 30. In fact, they could remain calm even when they were below Rank 40.
But once they reached Rank 40, the Stairway to Heaven under their feet would start to slip and shake nonstop, and the girls' chances of making mistakes would increase in a very steep curve.
Boys were relatively rash. Quite a number of very capable boys would drop for all sorts of strange reasons when they reached Rank 20 or Rank 30. Some of them would overestimate themselves and go up, but they would not be able to go down.
But once they reached Rank 40, it would be easier for them to stabilize their mental state. The ones who tried to challenge the record were also boys, like Wang Dao a few years ago and Ah Hao this year.
Hence, quite a number of people felt that Bai Jiacao should stop while she was ahead.
Even though the average score of the new students this year had increased by leaps and bounds, Rank 40 was still a rather dazzling number. It was enough for her to choose a tutor she liked and exchange it for a lot of cultivation resources so that she could have a good start.
There was no need for her to take the risk just to gain one more rank and lose one rank.
After all, even if she took two more steps forward, could she really break Ah Hao's record?
But who knew that even if Bai Jiacao's hair was already wet, and sweat had already drenched her heaving chest, she still did not stop at Rank 40 for even half a second.
It was as if she had never treated Rank 40 as her final destination. She just casually and without hesitation, she fell!
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