When Yun Xi, the guardian of the God of Light Temple, saw the two women begin climbing the Thousand-Layer Stairway, she silently followed behind them.
She was like an overseer, watching ahead without a word the entire time.
Being watched made Zhu Zhuqing uncomfortable all over.
With their full attention focused, Zhu Zhuqing and Hu Liena struggled upward again, one step at a time.
With every step, the boundless pressure grew a little stronger.
By the time they reached the twentieth step, they had to activate their soul power to force their way forward.
At the thirtieth step, they had activated both their soul power and spiritual power.
At the fortieth step, they had already used their Soul Bone Skills.
By the forty-first step, neither could climb any farther. The pressure coming from every direction felt as though it would crush them until they burst.
Just as Zhu Zhuqing was about to activate the Moonshadow Divine Armor, a sigh came from behind them.
"Alas, at this rate, forget one year-you couldn't finish even if you had ten!"
"What the Thousand-Layer Stairway gives you isn't pressure, but a way to temper your constitution. How could mortal flesh inherit a deity's position?"
"Only by strengthening your constitution, cultivating every part of your bodies, and blending your soul power and spiritual power together, slowly integrating them into your bodies to form a new power, can you complete this first trial!"
"A new energy?" Zhu Zhuqing turned her head in confusion, a movement that cost her a great deal of strength.
With her strength, she could probably have endured all the way to the fiftieth step.
It wasn't that she didn't want to push ahead, but her older sister was still beside her. She wanted to complete the divine trials together with her sister,