Chong Mo extended his Divine Sense into the distance, only to discover that even Divine Sense was blocked here.
They could not use Spiritual Qi or Divine Sense. Everything beyond a mortal's understanding was rendered useless here.
And now, they were merely a group of ordinary people with stronger physiques.
Yet did anyone dare stop here?
When they first set foot on the steps of the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, most felt no pressure at all. Some even thought little of it. To them, climbing stairs was far easier than fighting Blood Demons.
Although they could not use Spiritual Qi and had to walk with mortal bodies, their safety was still assured as long as they were careful not to fall off the steps.
After all, scarcely anyone in the world had senses as keen as Chu Luohen's, so at first, they had never considered what truly awaited them ahead.
In roughly the time it took an incense stick to burn, most had climbed the first hundred steps.
Standing on the steps, they gazed into the distance along the stairway. Unfortunately, all that lay ahead was still a stretch of gray. They could neither see its end nor guess where it led. With their hearts adrift and unsettled, some inevitably grew increasingly irritable.
At the same time, some finally began to feel tired.
"I haven't felt this kind of purely muscular exhaustion in decades."
Without Spiritual Qi to nourish their bodies and meridians, they naturally experienced the fatigue of ordinary people. And since the path they walked was no ordinary path, that exhaustion only grew heavier.
Many stopped here to rest for a while.
Yet after resting, they found no relief. Instead, they felt even more exhausted, and a deep weariness began to settle into their hearts.
Some, however, soon