Outside the old castle, just as Mo Lin had said, the training those five children underwent over the following month had absolutely nothing to do with the word "pleasant."
Their additional training was simple enough in principle: leave the area around the castle and take a "stroll" along Hell Road.
To ensure that their psychological endurance training progressed gradually, Mo Lin had specifically gone to the outer reaches of Slaughter City to obtain some metal. Using Divine Machine Craft, he quickly produced five modified Six Harmonies Pearls capable of adjusting the degree of shielding.
In short, while on Hell Road, they could selectively block all or part of the killing intent and bloody stench. They were perfectly suited for training the five children's mental resilience.
Inside the castle, the past month had been just as bustling. Nearly a hundred soul masters went to the Hell Staircase every day to attempt the challenge, hoping to complete their objective as soon as possible and avoid holding their respective teams back.
Yet even among people with strong mental fortitude, there were inevitably those who were impatient for quick success. Every one of them was the sort Mo Lin described as "forgetting the pain once the wound healed, and making trouble even without a wound," or else they wanted to show off in front of him.
On the first afternoon alone, Mo Lin carried twenty people out of the Hell Staircase. All of them had an excess of competitiveness and desire to prove themselves. Either they had not properly listened when Mo Lin shared his own experiences beforehand, or they had clearly reached their limit yet insisted on forcing themselves down one more step. Then, bit by bit, they got carried away. When it was time to return, they could not even walk more