There aren't really many steps up.
You can tell at a quick glance that it is only level 999.
Climbing so many steps might seem strenuous for ordinary people - imagine taking the steps up to a 50-story building.
But for practitioners, steps and so on are completely trivial.
Even for a first-level practitioner, running up so many steps is as fast as flying.
It's a pity that the practitioners on the field, let alone level 1, even level 5, are like old men, walking up slowly.
This is not only out of caution to save physical strength, but also because of the test of Taoism brought by the ladder to heaven.
Before this, no one knew what the so-called Tao Heart Test actually was.
Even magicians such as Kong Jinting and Cao Bin who have seen related words in ancient books have only a partial understanding of this.
After all, the ancient world of cultivation has been destroyed for too long.
It has been so long that all the tests of Taoist heart have become legends and only exist in imagination.
But at this moment, all the practitioners who climbed the steps, whether they were magicians or fusion practitioners, all felt the feeling of being tested in their Taoist hearts.
The first is the strong suppression of strength.
Anyone whose strength is lower than that of the former Master Zhang Xian will be brutally suppressed.
Not only will his cultivation be completely lost, but even the physical bonus brought by his cultivation will be greatly weakened, as if he has truly become an ordinary person.
But this was meaningless to Su Mo.
Because not only was he stronger than the people around him, he was also stronger than Master Zhang Xian.
The so-called suppression was like a soap bubble covering him, and it might burst even if he sneezed.
In addition to the suppression of strength, after stepping on the stone steps of the ladder, you will fall into a new illusion every step of the way.
The illusions at the beginning were very rough, even full-screen mosaics, which were completely misleading.
But the higher you go, the closer the illusion becomes to reality, and the mosaic begins to take on a shape and face, as well as body temperature, heartbeat, and humidity.
After reaching level 300, the scenes in the illusion are all shaped with great detail, as if they are the real world.
Su Mo looked at his fellow travelers who had expressions of sadness, joy, anger or pain, and curiously poked away at their illusions, peeking from the side.
Jiang Mingyan got a little lamb and she raised it for a whole year until her father slaughtered the lamb and made a whole lamb feast during the Chinese New Year. When Jiang Mingyan learned the truth, she almost burst into tears on the spot and cried after eating the lamb. string.
Xu Sixue brought breakfast to his high school female classmate for three months. After the female classmate transferred to another school, she transferred him to her best friend for 250 yuan. Xu Sixue was very happy about this.
Han Yingzhen encountered three male classmates fighting on the roadside with the dean because they were surfing the Internet. Han Yingzhen, who knew that he wanted to prevent violence, reported the illegal Internet cafe and shut it down.
Zhou Jiantai was obsessed with martial arts and challenged martial arts schools across the country, threatening that the loser would have a positive character written on his body. Two years later, a martial arts-level athlete looked at Zhou Jiantai lying on the ground and couldn't find a place to write.
Xu Anqi is finally no longer weak, and is in good health. She can eat eight bowls of rice at a meal, and successfully won the runner-up of Qinghu City Big Eater. With this, she entered the anchor industry and became a popular food anchor.
…
After watching the joys, sorrows and joys of the people around him, Su Mo was finally able to appreciate the training effect that illusion had on them.
Generally speaking, these illusions are constructed with a certain memory, a certain regret or a certain hope of theirs as the background.
Precisely because it is relevant to oneself and so real, it is so easy for people to be immersed in it and unable to escape.
If you cannot transcend, you will naturally not be able to continue climbing the ladder to heaven, let alone pass the test of Taoism.
This move is really high.
Even Su Mo had to admit it.
That Master Zhang Xian might not be able to beat him, but he would definitely be more skillful than him.
Moreover, this heart test is not just a simple test. Even if they fail to pass the test, the trials they experience during the test will bring them certain insights and help them improve their understanding of themselves and the world.
It can be said that this is a gift from Master Zhang to the testers.
Thinking of this, Su Mo couldn't help but look at his illusion.
He saw that the hand girl had grown arms, a body, and a face, like a beauty that only appeared once in four thousand years.
"No! My hand girl can't look like this!"
Su Mo slapped the illusion away.
Thinking of the scene just now, Su Mo felt his scalp numb.
The visions were truly terrifying.
With lingering fear in his heart, he couldn't help but look at the illusions of other people.
This time it is no longer a companion.
He saw Cao Bin practicing peerless skills and turned into Attack on Titan, roaring crazily, "Who is taller than me?" After thinking about it, Su Mo pinched Ultraman Tiga and put it in.
Then I saw Kong Jinting buying a bag of dog food and saying to someone, "Come here, little Baibai," and then the elegant middle-aged man rushed up like he was out of control. Thirty-five words were deleted here.
Later, I saw Liu Ci standing in an ancient temple, with his hands clasped together and his face calmly asking an ancient Buddha, "How can we achieve enlightenment?" The ancient Buddha suddenly came to life and replied in a loud voice, "Only by saving others can you save yourself." , Liu Ci, who had some understanding, returned to the organization and planted the Seal of the Flower God on everyone.
…
Su Mo looked at the illusions of these people and was slightly touched.
Because he found that some people's goals in the illusion have been achieved.
For example, Liu Ci, the president of the Flower God Society.
Maybe she never visited the ancient Buddha.
But she did plant the Seal of the Flower God on everyone in the organization.
And this mark has allowed those people to live and die with her unilaterally.
Others died when she died, but she was not hurt when others died.
Just as he was thinking about it, people on the field woke up from the illusion one after another and continued to move forward.
Although these illusions are very real, as long as you stay in them for a long time, you will always find flaws.
Maintaining so many illusions of different categories and different scenes would definitely be extremely difficult even if Master Zhang Xian were alive.
Not to mention that he is already dead. No matter how realistic the illusion here is, it cannot last for a long time.
Perhaps Master Zhang Xian had known this for a long time, so he had the rule that illusions would appear on every step.
Where quality is lacking, quantity makes up for it.
A simple illusion only consumes a little energy.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine, a pile of them could kill someone.
When we reached the 500th step, the first person to give up appeared on the field. As expected, it was Xu Anqi.
Jiang Mingyan looked at Xu Anqi, whose face turned pale, and also stopped, because she understood that even if she went forward, she wouldn't be able to hold on for a few levels, so she might as well stay with her friends.
After passing another hundred steps, Xu Sixue suddenly stopped - he was trapped in an illusion where the whole school was filled with girls except him and couldn't get out.
After another hundred steps, Liu Ci's two subordinates also stopped one after another.
After another hundred steps, Zhou Jiantai and a level 4 member of the Magician Alliance stopped at the same time.
At this point, only Han Yingzhen, Su Mo, Cao Bin, Kong Jinting and Liu Ci were left on the field.
Su Mo looked at Han Yingzhen, feeling very surprised that the other party could persist to this level. Didn't he see that the two inspectors from the Magician Alliance next to him were sweating profusely?
Little did they know that in the eyes of the two envoys, they also thought he was a monster. The third-level magician walked here without breaking a sweat. What could he be if he wasn't a monster?
After another hundred steps, Han Yingzhen seemed to have reached his limit and finally stopped.
Only Su Mo knew that it was not that her spirit could not continue, but that her body could not hold on.
As for the remaining Cao Bin, Kong Jinting and Liu Ci, their legs were shaking.
At this moment, they had no energy left to pay attention to other people.
All the energy was invested in the figure sitting at the finish line.
His whole body seemed to be blooming with endless light, so that his face could not be seen clearly.
But everyone knows that as long as they reach the top, they can get the Immortal Master's inheritance from him.
For a time, even if they were exhausted and wanted to sit down and rest, the three of them gritted their teeth and continued to climb up.
Another fifty steps passed.
Cao Bin and Kong Jinting didn't even have the last bit of strength.
Although there are only forty-nine steps from the end, these forty-nine steps are like a chasm, elusive and out of reach.
They were aware of their own limits, and in order to avoid exceeding the load, they rationally chose to stay where they were.
In fact, when faced with this kind of situation, there are very few people who can really resist the temptation like them.
From this perspective, they are indeed the elite of the Magician Alliance.
Liu Ci on the other side has already reached his limit.
Even reached the limit earlier than Cao Bin and Kong Jinting.
To reach her current position, she climbed up entirely on all fours.
Although the body is almost on the verge of collapse.
But the expression on her face was one of unimaginable fanaticism.
It's like seeing a fanatical believer with faith in his heart.
He yelled even more vaguely:
"...I want to become enlightened..."
"...I want to become enlightened..."
"...I want to become enlightened..."
However, even limbs and will have their limits after all.
After passing another thirty steps, Liu Cimei's red clothes were in pieces, her fingernails were open and her flesh was bloody, and there were clear traces of blood on the steps behind her, but she couldn't even climb.
Her eyes were burning as she stared at the figure at the finish line and shouted at the top of her lungs:
“I finally had the opportunity to become enlightened, how could I stop at this place?!!”
As the words fell, the two subordinates at the 700th step were instantly shattered.
A large cloud of blood mist wrapped around the broken limbs and flew across the long steps. Under the shocked eyes of many candidates, they were all sucked into Liu Ci's mouth.
Replenished by her abundant energy, she seemed to have gained strength again, crawling forward crazily, as fast as a lizard.
But the further up she went, the greater the pressure, and the slower she became.
In the end, she became as difficult to move forward as before.
At this moment, her body suddenly shriveled up, as if something terrifying was ravenously plundering the energy in her body.
Then the shriveled skin bag showed a crack like a balloon.
A black cloth mouse the size of a fist suddenly jumped out of her head and rushed forward desperately.
In the end, there were only nine steps left from the end. The mouse stopped, lying on the steps and squeaking, still stretching its cloth claws forward desperately.
At this time, a long sigh came from the top.
A mysterious light seal glowing with purple light suddenly shot out from the apex.
The cloth mouse's stunned eyes fell on Su Mo, who was three steps behind it.
As the light seal fell, in an instant, the suppression on everyone in the ladder was lifted simultaneously.
Immediately, a clear voice suddenly came from the top:
"I have seen your efforts. Perhaps my test is too harsh for you. It is difficult for anyone to complete it now that spiritual energy is recovering. For this reason, I decided to give you another chance and arrange an additional trial. , if you can pass this trial, regardless of race or Taoist heart, you can all obtain my inheritance. I hope you will guard against arrogance and impetuosity and forge ahead."
When the Xuguang figure finished speaking, the cloth mouse's eyes suddenly burst into ecstasy.
Cao Bin, Kong Jinting and others also breathed a sigh of relief. They finally reached their current position. No one wanted to be easily eliminated. It was rare that Master Zhang Xian had given them another chance. Even they couldn't help but feel extremely lucky.
At the moment, they all started taking pills that could help restore their spirits, seizing the time to replenish the energy consumed in the third round of testing.
At the same time, Han Yingzhen, Xu Sixue and others all ran up and rushed to Su Mo's side.
And just when they arrived, the figure whose face was still so wrapped in light that it was difficult to see clearly suddenly reached out and waved.
The next second, a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke immediately appeared under the ladder.
On the battlefield, a large group of strange and powerful monsters were raging everywhere.
Only a few soldiers wearing ancient armor struggled to resist the demon.
The battle line is in danger and could collapse at any moment.
Some sharp-eyed people have even seen a certain demon break through the soldiers' defense line and go to the villages behind to slaughter them.
Each claw can kill several villagers holding farm tools, and each bite can swallow up women and children who have no time to escape.
Screams, cries, and curses continued to come from below.
No matter how cold-hearted a person is, he can't help but become angry when he sees this scene.
In the light, the figure said coldly:
"Every time there is trouble, Taoist priests will come down the mountain. Although we are devoted to Taoism, we are by no means heartless people.
The top three who kill those monsters the most will receive the Zixiao True Seal and my inheritance. "
Hearing this, everyone on the field was ready to move.
Immediately, the black cloth mouse could no longer restrain its desire to seek truth and suddenly pounced downwards.
And the moment it jumped into the air, a burst of energy pierced it on the spot and exploded into countless black smoke.
This dramatic change shocked everyone present.
Everyone looked at Su Mo who slowly took back his right hand.
Or confused.
Or unbelievable.
The figure in the light also froze slightly.
Immediately, a voice containing anger came from it:
"Why?"
Su Mo smiled softly and asked without answering:
"I have doubts in my heart, and I also hope that the immortal master can clear up my doubts."
"Why would you know about spiritual energy recovery a thousand years ago?"
PS: I don’t know what’s going on, but I have inexplicable angina pectoris, so I forced myself to finish writing this...
(End of chapter)
