"What nonsense are you thinking? Our wager was for me to take you past him."
Qin Shaofeng laughed when he heard that. "You may know a little about me, but surely you don't think that is all there is to me, do you?"
"Ah?"
Xian Xiaoying froze.
The others grew even more curious.
What did he mean by that?
Did he truly think that, with Xian Xiaoying in tow, he could still win his wager against Luo Yan?
"Let's go!"
Qin Shaofeng paid no attention to anyone's thoughts.
He tightened his grip on Xian Xiaoying's hand and strode toward the stairs.
With one step, an illusion appeared.
Without any need for him to act, the Heavenly Dao Lotus Platform activated on its own.
An illusion that did not even possess one-tenth the power of the illusion stairs instantly shattered.
The pain in his body and soul upon stepping onto the stairs gradually began to emerge as well.
Having experienced a true trial before, he did not find this level of pain difficult in the slightest.
The only thing that warranted even a little of his attention was the pressure, which far exceeded what his cultivation should have been able to bear.
If he reached the nine hundred and ninetieth step, the pressure might attain an unimaginable level.
He might not be able to keep bringing Xian Xiaoying along then.
But for now, there was no difficulty at all.
His left foot lifted his body upward.
Baili Yue and Rui Beisheng both needed to temporarily steady themselves on this step and adapt to the burden brought by the various pressures.
Yet he directly stepped his raised right foot onto the next stair.
"How is that possible? Even if he has just stepped onto the nine-hundredth stair, shouldn't he at least stabilize