The next day, thousands of people gathered at the foot of the Cloud Sect's mountain.
A dense sea of heads stirred. Su Mo mingled with the crowd, his ordinary clothes and utterly unremarkable appearance drawing no attention.
These people all wished to join the Cloud Sect. After they had waited quietly for a long time, someone finally flew down from the Cloud Sect above.
A gray-haired elder wore his hair loose and disheveled, looking thoroughly dispirited.
Beside the Gray-Haired Elder stood an exceptionally beautiful woman, her flowing long dress dancing in the wind.
Chen Meiren, who was among the crowd, stared at the woman from the Cloud Sect, his eyes instantly lighting up.
Su Mo, however, felt little at the sight of her. In terms of beauty, how could she compare to Ning Baixue?
Whether in bearing or looks, Ning Baixue was unquestionably as rare in this world as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
I wonder how Ning Baixue is doing now...
The gray-robed old man's eyes looked utterly weary. He glanced at the thousands below, then merely pointed languidly at the stairway leading straight to the Cloud Sect behind him and said:
"This is the Cloud Ladder. Only those who can ascend it within the time it takes an incense stick to burn will qualify to take the assessment..."
Everyone in the crowd froze. Wasn't it just climbing some stairs? What was so difficult about that?
The gray-robed elder from the Cloud Sect seemed too disinclined to explain, merely uttering one sentence.
"Begin."
At those words, everyone surged forward and began climbing.
But the moment they stepped onto the stairs, they discovered that the Cloud Ladder actually had restrictions placed upon it.
Even when they circulated their cultivation, the restrictions on the Cloud Ladder still weighed heavily upon them,