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Li Chengfeng thought for a while, then he continued to walk down the straight line. This was in accordance with his philosophy: the chosen path had to continue moving forward!

In other words, even if he chose to kneel, he would still have to walk the path he chose!

After passing the fork in the road, Li Chengfeng discovered that he didn't see any other competitors. All he saw were endless misty clouds and endless stairs. He didn't know how many steps he had climbed before, nor did he know how long he had climbed.

At this moment, Li Chengfeng was covered in dew and sweat, making him look like a ball of mist. He knew that after a day of climbing, his body had begun to reach a critical point. He already felt incomparably tired, but he knew that as long as he persevered and endured through this critical point, his body would enter another stage.

After climbing another 3000 steps, Li Chengfeng was so exhausted that his body felt like it was on the verge of collapse. His legs felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and with every step he took, his legs felt like they couldn't be pulled out.

Li Chengfeng had been catching up to his opponents one by one. Every time he passed someone, he would feel excited. But now that he no longer had a competitor, all he felt was an endless emptiness and fatigue.

Gritting his teeth, Li Chengfeng thought to himself, "Does this mean that after reaching a certain stage in our cultivation, we will no longer compete with others, but with ourselves?" Or is it to tell us that this is what cultivation feels like when it reaches a certain stage: endless emptiness and endless pain?

Li Chengfeng was absolutely right. This was the purpose of the first stage! The cultivation path was extremely long. At the beginning, as beginners, they had to face many competitors and how to stand out among them. This was a problem that every cultivator had to consider.

Once they cultivated to a certain level, it would no longer be appropriate to use others as a reference point. After all, they still had to face themselves, and the only one they could surpass would be themselves! And during this long journey, the depression and depression in one's cultivation was enough to make 99% of the people in the world go crazy. Only by overcoming this suffering and suffering could one have the ability to win until the end!

Li Chengfeng continued to climb up the two hundred steps, then his body began to heat up and his head started to feel dizzy. His body started trembling violently and his chest felt like it was being pressed down by a huge rock, making him unable to breathe.

Li Chengfeng gritted his teeth and climbed another fifty steps. Suddenly, he felt a "bo" sound coming from his chest, and a wave of warmth flowed through his body. The fatigue, trembling, and pain from before all disappeared in an instant.

Li Chengfeng knew that he had passed through the most difficult trial and broke through the limit of his physical strength. At this moment, he had entered a phase where he was beginning to consume his Essence.

Normally, the body's energy, blood, breath, and true essence were all stored inside, and normally, what it consumed was the external storage, which was also the part that the person's physical strength represented. However, once this part was completely expended, it would be converted into internal storage.

This part of his energy consumption was like spending the savings of a family. The more he spent, the less he would have. It would not be easy to make up for it in the future.

However, the mystery of the human body was that once one's vital energy was used up and replenished, that person's vital energy would be increased by a lot, and their foundation would be even thicker. Even their organs, tendons, bones, and blood would become stronger.

This process was repeated over and over again. What he needed to temper was his body and the body's cauldron.

After Li Chengfeng had broken through the limit of his cultivation level, his steps became lighter, and his body continued to move at a steady pace. He climbed another 4,000 steps until his stomach started to feel hungry. Then, he stopped eating and drinking.

At this moment, Li Chengfeng's body temperature was astonishingly high. His face was like cinnabar, his head was steaming, and his clothes were soaked wet, but at this moment, he had climbed several tens of thousands of steps, yet at such a high height, he couldn't feel a single breath of wind!

Li Chengfeng was puzzled, but he didn't have the time to think about it. He carefully chewed the dried meat and swallowed it along with the water. After a short rest, he started walking again.

This time, he did not stop until it was night. However, just as he stopped, his legs gave way and he almost fell to the side of the road, rolling down. Li Chengfeng quickly stabilized himself. He looked behind him and saw a bottomless abyss!

Once one reached a certain level of cultivation, once one fell down, wouldn't that be like falling into a bottomless abyss?

Li Chengfeng retched a few times as he wiped off the white foam at the corner of his mouth. He turned around and looked at it with some fear in his heart, he didn't dare to imagine what it would be like if he were to roll down in such a situation.

Even if he fell down and didn't die, with so many steps to climb up again, he would probably collapse on the spot!

Thinking of this, Li Chengfeng's heart fiercely shook, 'Isn't cultivation the same as this? Once he climbed to a certain height and suddenly fell down, this cultivator would definitely be crippled! Almost no one had the courage to start from zero again!

Li Chengfeng let out a sigh of relief and rested for a while before he gritted his teeth and continued moving forward. After another two hours, it was already evening. Li Chengfeng was extremely tired, so he curled up into a ball and slept on the ground again.

When Li Chengfeng woke up, he was initially in a daze, but soon after, cold sweat broke out all over his body because he was scared to death from his previous sleep. If a child were to stab him with a knife, his life would be lost here.

Li Chengfeng raised his head to look at the sun. He didn't know how many stone steps he had left, so he didn't dare to delay. He quickly ate some dried meat and drank a few more mouthfuls of water before climbing the seemingly endless stone steps once again.

He climbed the stairs like this for seven days and seven nights. When Li Chengfeng shakily climbed up to the 999,000 step, he finally discovered that he could see the end of the stairs!

At this moment, his clothes had already turned white. His sweat had dried them, leaving behind a layer of salt. His clothes were now stiff, and his shoes had been worn through!

In just seven days, he had lost a large amount of weight. His cheeks had caved in, the stubble on his beard had also appeared, and there was only a patch of green hair on his cheek. Only his sunken eye sockets were faintly burning with unyielding flames.

Li Chengfeng was a somewhat unruly and hedonistic person, but he was also a stubborn and unyielding person. The moment he touched Li Chengfeng's bottom line, his stubborn and stubborn temper would flare up.

All this time, Li Chengfeng only had one thought in his mind: if he wants to win, he must win! He had to win against everyone! Because this was the only way for him to enter the Pagoda! Only in this way would he have the opportunity to become a great cultivator, and only then would he be able to avoid being bullied by others. Only then would he be able to protect the people around him!

Li Chengfeng gritted his teeth. At this moment, he could no longer stand and could only use his hands and feet to climb up. Every step he took left a wet footprint, and a bloody handprint was left on his hand.

Li Chengfeng climbed up the stairs with great difficulty. He saw that he was getting closer and closer to the last step!

Finally, when he climbed the last step, he saw a vast expanse of prairie before him. At the end of the grassland was a continuous sea of clouds, and right now, there was no one in front of Li Chengfeng!

Unknowingly, he had completed this part of his journey. He had climbed a total of 99,999 stairs!

Li Chengfeng didn't know that Sun Boyi was lying to them. If they wanted to complete the Heaven Stairway, it was almost impossible. Not only did they need superhuman strength, they also needed superhuman willpower!

This was an almost impossible task because the Spirit Mountain Sect didn't want anyone to pass the three trials in a row. This was because the sect had always selected people, and there was no reason for disciples to choose sects!

When that time came, this super great genius who had cleared all three stages in a row would pick any one of the Heavenly Pavilion. He would be insulting and injuring the other three Heavenly Pavilions!

Moreover, what if this person suddenly stopped cultivating in the Spirit Mountain Sect? The Spirit Mountain Sect's face would disappear! How would the great Spirit Mountain Sect establish its foothold in the world?

Thus, no one was allowed to successfully pass the three trials!

In the thousand years of the Spirit Mountain Sect's history, only forty-three people had managed to climb this Heaven Stairway!

And the people who passed the three stages consecutively were people who had lived for thousands of years … There were only three of them!

And these three, without exception, were all world-shaking cultivators in the world of cultivation. Without exception, all of them also became the Sect Leaders of the Spirit Mountain Sect!

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