Lu Ren stepped onto the stairs, and purple moonlight poured down over him. At once, he felt a wave of pressure envelop his entire body, making him deeply uncomfortable.
However, this bit of pressure naturally had no effect on him.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The twenty-four of them began madly climbing step after step. The first ten steps were quite easy for Mana Realm ninth-layer cultivators.
But upon reaching the eleventh step, everyone felt that the purple moonlight had grown noticeably denser, and the pressure had multiplied.
Lu Ren frowned slightly, then leaped directly onto the eleventh step and continued climbing.
At this moment, among Ning Cai'er and the other twenty-three, aside from Ning Cai'er herself, the remaining twenty-two had visibly slowed down. They were no longer as relaxed as before.
Naturally, Lu Ren was charging at the very front. Even after reaching the eleventh step, his speed did not slow in the slightest. He climbed frantically and soon reached the twenty-first step.
Seeing Lu Ren reach the twenty-first step, Ning Cai'er clenched her silver teeth, utterly unwilling to accept it. She erupted with her mana and chased after Lu Ren.
At the twenty-first step, the purple moonlight grew even denser as it spilled over Lu Ren's body, and an even more terrifying pressure came crushing down.
Yet Lu Ren remained unaffected and continued climbing wildly. Ning Cai'er, on the other hand, was clearly beginning to struggle. Though she unleashed her strength and chased him with all her might, she simply could not catch up.
Before long, Lu Ren had climbed to the fifty-first step!
Xia Xuanqing, Huo Lanyou, and the others all turned grave at the sight.
It was said that the Purple Moon Heavenly Ladder had one hundred and eight steps. For Mana Realm ninth-layer cultivators, the first fifty