Facing the ascending steps, Feng Qi climbed upward one step at a time.
The pressure pouring down from the top of the pyramid structure steadily increased.
Fortunately, years of training had forged his body into something exceptionally resilient.
The growing pressure only made his movements slower, as if he were walking through water, filled with resistance but causing him no real harm.
This level of weight was nowhere near the pressure brought by the Demon Blade Second Stage Release.
But from the eighty-eighth step onward, the pressure on the higher stairs increased noticeably, and Feng Qi's climb slowed accordingly.
At that point, he felt as if he were carrying a mountain on his back.
Every step became a difficult shuffle beneath crushing weight.
When he stepped onto the hundredth stair, the pressure surged. An invisible force bent his waist.
Faced with the pressure, the ferocity in Feng Qi's heart was stirred.
At that moment, he only needed to activate Blood God to easily overcome this pressure challenge, but he did not.
When he had first chosen the Demon Blade path, he had decided that he would never use Talent Abilities during his training.
This was his cultivation challenge, as well as his promise to the Demon Blade.
If he activated Blood God whenever he encountered a desperate situation, then the challenge and training would lose all meaning.
Abilities such as the Blood God talent would also drain his life potential and drastically shorten his lifespan.
That was why he had never used Talent Abilities throughout all these years of training.
In the Demon Blade's words, if he chose to use Talent Abilities whenever he encountered hardship, then training would have no effect at all, because he would know there was still a way out.
The meaning of the Ascension Challenge