"Brother Lin Dong!" Lin Qingtán softly called out as she watched the army ahead step onto the stairs one after another.
"Qing Tan, we should still be careful. Grandpa said the three stages of the assessment were personally arranged by Master. Master is a real monster!" Lin Dong reminded her.
"Brother Lin Dong, be careful talking about Brother Xiao Han behind his back. He might make things difficult for you!" Lin Qingtán teased with a playful smile.
"Hehe, as long as you're here, Master won't do anything to me unless I make some outrageous mistake." Lin Dong chuckled.
Uh!
The speaker had no intention, but the listener took it to heart. Lin Qingtán thought of how Lin Xiao had already promised her to Xiao Han, and how they were bound by an engagement. She could not help recalling the scene of Xiao Han helping her suppress her Nine Yin Fiend Body. Her cheeks immediately flushed red.
Thud, thud, thud.
Up ahead, those seed contestants who looked down on Xiao Han's assessment jogged up the stairs as if provoking him. It seemed they wanted to rush to the mountaintop in one breath and slap the Misty Immortal Sect in the face.
However, after charging up six hundred steps in one go, they could no longer hold on and began gasping for breath. Refusing to admit defeat, they still forced themselves onward.
But their speed plummeted. By the time they reached the seven-hundredth step, they walked like feeble old men on their last legs, shuffling forward at a snail's pace.
After climbing another thirty steps, their heartbeats crawled like turtles. By the time they used every ounce of strength to climb another twenty steps, their clothes were already soaked through. Sweat poured down their foreheads like rain. They were shocked to discover