On the first step, Su Shi'er and Zhong Shenxiu were not far apart.
Yet both wore grave expressions.
Standing here, they could feel the True Yuan within their bodies constantly draining away.
Even more so, invisible fluctuations of the formation and mysterious forces surged in from every direction without end.
The more they tried to circulate their power while wrapped in that force, the faster the True Yuan in their bodies drained away.
A powerful force was suppressing their Physical Bodies.
"No wonder the cultivators who came here to face these trials find climbing upward so difficult.
Under such suppression, without a deep foundation, it truly would be hard to pass."
Muttering quietly, Su Shi'er tapped the ground with his toes, sprang into the air, took one step forward, and landed steadily on the next stair.
For the vast majority of cultivators, such pressure was incomparably arduous.
But after years of painstaking cultivation and swallowing countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, his cultivation foundation naturally far surpassed that of other cultivators at the same realm.
Climbing these stairs was not exactly effortless for him, but he handled it with ease.
In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, he had already crossed more than thirty steps.
Not far behind him, Zhong Shenxiu was slightly slower, yet he still far outpaced the vast majority of cultivators present.
To be taken in as a disciple by a true inheritor of Tiandao Palace and entrusted with the task of reviving Tiandao Palace,
Zhong Shenxiu naturally possessed qualities beyond the ordinary.
One above and one below, one ahead and one behind, the two continued climbing upward.
Before long, they drew sidelong glances from the other cultivators around them.
"Where did these two fellows come from? Why do they look as though