Hearing Wu Yaochen's words, Tang Zhile said in disbelief: "Do it again... all over again?"
"right."
It was Yin Xueze who answered.
He raised his head and looked at the heavenly steps. His three white eyes, which were always fierce, were slightly narrowed at this moment, showing a bit of solemnity.
Everyone's jaws dropped.
Tang Zhile still didn't give up. He caught a glimpse of Jing Yingrong nearby, as if seeing the last life-saving straw. With the only glimmer of hope left in his arms, he asked: "Fellow Taoist Mirror, Taoist Jing, you said you don't really want us to start again." Climb up again?!"
Jing Yingrong said: "We will arrive at the square within seven days. The standards have not changed."
Her words, to everyone's ears, were a disguised confirmation of what Wu Yaochen and Yin Xueze had said.
Tang Zhile's eyes completely lost focus.
"It's over."
He said blankly.
The place fell into deathly silence.
Finally, as if the string was stretched to its limit and suddenly broke, someone broke the dead silence:
"What a joke! This is impossible! I quit!"
These words were like sparks splashing into a frying pan, directly igniting resentment and anger in everyone's hearts.
"Yes! I won't do it either!"
"The Taichu Guan is clearly playing tricks on us. How many of them can pass the selection if it's like this?"
"I'm quitting anyway. I don't want to climb it a second time."
"Me too, I quit."
"I'm quitting too. I can't pass anyway."
"It's too much to bully others in Taichu!"
"That's right. If you don't want to recruit disciples, don't hold a disciple recruitment meeting. It's a waste of our time."
Everyone cursed, and many people decided to quit the assessment and give up their qualifications.
The Taichu Temple disciples who came took away the tokens from those people without saying a word, and allowed the crowd to get angry without any explanation.
The people in the Zhenwu Academy were more or less shaken. Everyone looked at Tang Zhile in unison, and Tang Zhile looked at Yin Xueze.
He clenched his fists and said bitterly: "Brother Yin, you must be fine, but we're afraid..."
"How will you know if you don't try."
Yin Xueze interrupted Tang Zhile's words. He looked at the heavenly steps, his eyes solemn and filled with evil aura, but he was extremely firm.
Zhao Jinxu was still a little hesitant at first, but now he felt reassured and said loudly: "Yes, the seven-day period has not come yet. This time we have experience and it will definitely take less time than the first time." Maybe it will work.”
Hearing this, most of the wavering intentions of everyone in the Zhenwu Academy were dispelled.
"That's right. Giving up halfway would be too embarrassing for us, Dean Song. Come on, everyone, it's just another climb. What's the problem?"
Tang Zhile cheered everyone up. Seeing that everyone was still not in high spirits, he quietly said to Jing Yingyong: "Fellow Taoist Jing, can you encourage us? We can't count on Brother Yin, he will only call us trash."
Jing Yingrong: "How to encourage?"
"Just...say something that gives us hope? The kind of words that will make everyone full of hope and confidence."
Jing Yingrong thought for a moment and said, "Okay."
She said to the others in the Zhenwu Academy: "You can pass this test."
Tang Zhile: "..."
Jing Yingrong: "This time it will go smoothly."
Tang Zhile: "..."
Facing the confused look from Jing Yingrong, Tang Zhile raised his forehead and said, "...it's good, thank you very much."
Jing Yingrong: "You lied."
Tang Zhile's face turned red. Everyone else was also holding back their laughter.
Yin Xueze glanced at him and said, "Trash."
This scolding immediately cheered up everyone in the Zhenwu Academy. The group of people cheered up and their fighting spirit was high.
Ji Sha Jian: "I think they are sick."
Jijie Pen: "Hahahahaha——"
On the other side, people from the Di Rong clan asked Wu Yaochen for his opinion:
"Young Master, do we want to continue?"
"of course yes."
Wu Yaochen said decisively, with a categorical tone, "When did our Emperor Rong clan ever give up? Surrendering without a fight or giving up without fighting would be a great shame!"
"yes!"
Wu Yaochen did not look at the awe-inspiring clan members, his eyes were falling in the direction of the Zhenwu Academy.
A smile appeared on his lips: "You go first, I'll go meet old acquaintances."
"As commanded."
When everyone in the Zhenwu Academy saw Wu Yaochen approaching, they all exuded hostility.
Yin Xueze looked at him expressionlessly, and Zhao Jinxu subconsciously moved closer to him.
Wu Yaochen smiled and said, "Should we compete to see who reaches the square first?"
Yin Xueze: "Not interested."
Wu Yaochen's last voice was raised, and his words were provocative: "Are you scared?"
Yin Xueze: "Get out."
Wu Yaochen chuckled and stood still.
Yin Xueze stopped looking at him and turned around to climb up the heavenly steps.
Wu Yaochen's eyes flashed, he stepped on the stairs almost at the same time, and got very close to Yin Xueze.
Zhao Jinxu: "Why are you—"
"Jinxu." Yin Xueze called. He looked at the steps without squinting, "Don't pay attention."
Zhao Jinxu stopped talking and followed Yin Xueze obediently.
Jing Yingrong walked with the people from Zhenwuyuan, her pace was exactly the same as when she first climbed.
This time, after a long time, the first pass did not appear.
Tang Zhile said worriedly: "No, is it possible that the pass has changed this time? Then wouldn't our previous experience be useless?"
Jing Yingrong: "There is no pass."
Tang Zhile: "What do you mean?"
Jing Yingrong: "There are no more passes on the heavenly steps."
"You mean..." Tang Zhile touched his chin and said while thinking, "This fifth level of pass is the last level. It just allows us to walk through the heavenly steps again and we will not go through the previous four levels of passes? "
Jing Yingrong: "Yeah."
"how do you know?"
"All formation restrictions and mechanism runes on the heavenly level have been closed."
Tang Zhile opened his mouth, "What are you doing about this...that's all, are you sure?"
Jing Yingrong: "OK."
The group of people looked at each other, then let out cheers full of surprise. Others on the heavenly steps heard this and asked why. They were all overjoyed when they knew the answer.
If there is no pass, just climbing the stairs, the remaining time should be enough anyway.
Wu Yaochen actually had another look of regret: "It's boring to compare like this."
Yin Xueze turned a deaf ear.
In mid-air, an elder from Taichu Temple said with emotion: "I have heard that this conference will increase the difficulty of the assessment. Now it seems that the news is true."
Others echoed: "Yes, this is just the first item, and so many people have been defeated. In the past, there were only three levels of passes for climbing to the heaven level. This time, five levels were opened, and the difficulty of the first four levels was very high. It’s all increased compared to previous years.”
"The first four levels are just an increase in difficulty. These five levels are temporary new passes. It is said that they are only used once and will not be used again in the future. The people participating in the conference this time can be regarded as bumping into each other."
"Are there many people who were scared away by the fifth level? How do they feel now?"
An elder said rather gloatingly. After several other people looked at each other, they looked towards the resting place where the eliminated monks were placed in a tacit understanding.
