After muttering to himself, Chu Huan stepped onto the next stair.
The three of them clearly saw Chu Huan's body shudder.
Then—
He straightened up again and began walking up the stairs step by step.
"He can endure that kind of pain without even making a sound?"
"Is he still human?"
"And that brat even talked to himself, saying he wasn't as good as Qin Shaofeng. But isn't Qin Shaofeng unable to walk steadily either?"
All three of them could not help grumbling.
Their unwillingness to admit defeat was instead suppressed somewhat by this speechless situation.
Especially since Chu Huan, whom they had unconsciously begun to admire, had actually said that he was inferior to Qin Shaofeng. That made them even more conflicted.
Just as they were about to pull themselves together and resume their climb,
Another figure arrived.
Compared to Chu Huan's dignified bearing, this man was fat-faced and big-eared. His round body looked as though he might turn into a rolling gourd at any moment.
His kind, benevolent appearance made it even harder for them to believe that someone like him could have made it this far.
Yet words nearly identical to Chu Huan's muttering rang out.
"Qin Shaofeng, I'm afraid I'll never catch up to your footsteps in this life, but I, Ge Wantao, absolutely will not let you leave me too far behind!"
The fatty who had just arrived was none other than Ge Wantao, whose luck had defied the heavens and allowed him to be born directly near the Honored Immortal Hall.
With his seasoned experience and sharp mind, he had forcibly turned Qi Xian from a useless second-generation dandy into the Formation Master he was today.
Ge Wantao truly looked like an honest, simple-minded fatty in this life.
Yet everything from the Vast Void