Step 1: First, Seal the Boundary Gate

Yuan Yu's right foot had just stepped firmly when a pulling force came from behind.

Sea God's Light did not attack the body directly; it suppressed Soul Power from the front and pushed people outward from behind. With both forces appearing simultaneously, standing on the first step was already more strenuous than advancing against the sea wind.

After the Void-Aspect Boundary Gate was sealed and halted, Yuan Yu could still sense the Space Pattern, but he could not condense the silver doorframe. The seal only took effect when he stepped onto the staircase, and it would lift once he left the Sea God's Light.

"The pressure is calculated based on rank ninety-five," Yuan Yu looked back and said. "Don't prepare yourselves according to my movements when you come up."

Ma Hongjun had originally wanted to follow closely and try, but hearing this, he pulled his foot back. "On the same flight of stairs, can the pressure even be different?"

Bo Saixi's voice came from the other side of the foot of the mountain. "The Sea God's Nine Trials and Myriad Phenomena Borrowed Trial will adjust according to the candidate's cultivation, while the remaining trials use fixed divine light. You will each know once you step onto it."

She did not leave, simply walking to the Inner Sea's bank to inspect the underwater seal.

Yuan Yu continued upward.

The first ten steps did not make him stop. Walking to the twentieth step, the frontal pressure was already sufficient to make a Soul Sage struggle to lift a leg. The Myriad Phenomena Wheel rotated slowly behind his back, splitting the divine light falling on his shoulders to both sides of his body.

Stepping past the thirty-seventh step, the Rosy Cloud-Aspect Garment instantly lost its response.

The force previously unloaded by the cloud