"Now... that counts as passing by the skin of my teeth, right?"
Lin Bai raised his head and gazed toward the clouds, a pure, radiant smile spreading across his face.
The bull-nosed Old Daoist Ma Qiuming's expression was as gloomy as could be. His eyes, as if he could devour someone alive, were fixed rigidly on Lin Bai.
The Heaven and Earth Gate Master's eyes glittered with killing intent. If he had not seen Xiao Cangsheng still sitting there, he would probably have struck at that very moment and wiped Lin Bai out.
"Pass!"
"Enter the Nine Tribulations!"
The bull-nosed Old Daoist forcibly suppressed his anger. Now that things had happened, there was no room to turn back. He could only let Lin Bai continue forward, hoping that the other disciples would kill him.
With the Celestial Fiends' Hundred and Eight Slashes Formation no longer in the way, the stairway leading into the clouds appeared before Lin Bai.
Lin Bai lifted his foot and stepped onto the stairway, leaving behind a bloody footprint.
The blood beneath his feet naturally was not his own. He had been standing on the platform and gotten it on himself from the bloodstains there.
With his sword in hand and four flying swords circling at his sides, Lin Bai climbed the stairway one step at a time, leaving a bloody footprint with every step.
Just then.
Among the surrounding Heaven and Earth Gate disciples watching from the sidelines, someone shouted, "Fellow junior brothers and sisters, don't panic! So what if he happened to pass the first trial? The experts within the Nine Tribulations will surely be able to kill him and avenge our fallen brothers!"
His words indeed roused their morale.
When they thought of the warriors guarding the Nine Tribulations, confidence immediately surged within