Yun Nianshan's suspicions
Xiaobai stretched languidly, rose to her feet, and walked toward the sacred stairways.
Her stunning curves sent ripples through quite a few hearts.
Everyone looked at Xiaobai, holding their breath in concentration.
The first person in the Qianyuan Sect's history to possess Heaven Rank talent since its founding sect master!
Just what sort of surprise would she bring?
Or did she merely have talent?
Without the strength to match?
Xiaobai walked up to the four sacred stairways and paused briefly, seemingly considering which one to step onto!
A long moment later.
Under everyone's incredulous gazes.
Xiaobai's graceful figure actually headed toward the golden sacred stairway on the far left!
That was where the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway stood!
An uproar erupted-
An uproar swept through heaven and earth!
"Am I seeing things? Miss Xiaobai... Miss Xiaobai actually chose the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!"
"What do you mean, Miss Xiaobai? That's Big Sister Xiaobai! She's fucking awesome!"
"But isn't that choice a little irrational? It seems no one's chosen the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway in all these years!"
"It does seem a little rash! But I like it!"
"..."
They could hardly help getting excited.
In the Qianyuan Sect's history, only a scant few had chosen this Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
That was because ordinary cultivators could not even reach the tenth step!
How many steps would this Miss Xiaobai manage to climb?
Meanwhile.
Yun Tianci and the four Peak Masters were also watching what was happening.
Behind Yun Tianci, Yun Nianshan's brows were furrowed even more deeply.
The Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway?
This had to be a joke.
Yun Nianshan had already suspected that the sect was secretly letting Xiaobai and Lin Yu in through the back door.
Otherwise, there was simply no way to explain the string of absurd events that had happened today!
Had she not been mindful of her father's dignity, Yun Nianshan would probably have charged down without a care and confronted Lin Yu and Xiaobai already.
"Sect Master, that girl actually chose the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!"
"Such a choice is rather rash..."
"Indeed, taking one solid step at a time is the proper path!"
"Although her talent really is exceptional, her strength is still only at the Golden Core Stage, after all!"
The Peak Masters all frowned. It seemed this girl was still somewhat overconfident!
Yun Tianci, however, said nothing.
He stared straight at Xiaobai, who was about to step onto the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway.
The Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway was different from the other sacred stairways!
The stronger the climber, the greater the pressure the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway exerted!
So even a top-tier expert like Xiaobai would not have a very easy time!
At least, that was what Yun Tianci thought.
That was why he very much wanted to see just how far Xiaobai could go on this Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
Under everyone's gazes, Xiaobai moved with light, lotus-like steps, slowly stepping forward!
One step.
Two steps.
Ten steps.
Twenty steps.
Thirty steps!
In less than twenty short seconds.
Xiaobai was already standing on the thirtieth step of the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
Everyone present was utterly stunned, so silent that not even a crow or sparrow could be heard!
Tang Yu, who had been closely following the situation all along, looked livid, veins bulging on his neck as fury consumed him!
Just now, he had endured a thousand hardships merely to reach the twenty-sixth step of the Earth Rank Sacred Stairway!
Yet Xiaobai had now taken twenty seconds to stand on the thirtieth step of the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
Tang Yu felt as though his face was about to be slapped to pieces!
He looked around. Where had all those people who had been flattering him gone?
Not even their shadows remained!
They had all run over there to cheer Xiaobai on!
Tang Yu's face turned deathly pale. Nearly all the pride he had built over twenty years had been destroyed!
Before today, he had still been Young Master Tang of Spirit Ice City, admired by thousands, a supreme genius with the greatest hope of taking first place in the Qianyuan Sect's current trial!
But now, all the attention and glory that belonged to him were gone!
"Are you ready? I want to see their corpses after the trial ends!"
"Don't bother taking them alive anymore. Just kill them!"
Tang Yu sent another voice transmission to the elder.
This time, he directly ordered the deaths of Lin Yu and the others!
"Hmph, if you want to blame anyone, blame yourselves for showing off too much!"
"The tree that rises above the forest will be destroyed by the wind!"
A vicious smile appeared at the corner of Tang Yu's mouth.
Anyone who stood in the way of his position.
Had to die!
Meanwhile.
Xiaobai's performance was not over yet.
Xiaobai looked at the stairs beneath her feet.
Wasn't this thing supposed to put pressure on people?
Why couldn't she feel any at all?
Puzzled, Xiaobai looked around, then glanced at Lin Yu.
Who would have thought that Lin Yu had already narrowed his eyes and started sleeping?
Forget it. I'll just go a little higher.
Xiaobai muttered inwardly.
Meanwhile.
Seeing Xiaobai stop on the thirtieth step, the spectating cultivators and Yun Tianci's group finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that even Heaven Rank talent was not all-powerful!
"Look, Miss Xiaobai seems to be going higher!"
Someone suddenly cried out, utterly aghast!
They had thought Xiaobai no longer had the ability to climb farther!
Who could have imagined that she had merely been resting her feet!
Thirty-one steps.
Thirty-two steps.
Forty steps.
Fifty steps.
Sixty steps!
In another brief thirty seconds.
Xiaobai had actually reached the sixtieth step of the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
The looks in the eyes of the Peak Masters, who had barely managed to remain composed just now, had completely changed.
The sixtieth step of the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
What a terrifying notion was that?
The pressure exerted by the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway rose continually with the climber's strength!
Even they, with their Spirit Transformation Realm cultivation, could not stand on the sixtieth step of this Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway!
Their limits were around the fortieth step, and that was already an exceptionally outstanding level!
Sixty steps?
That had already surpassed the entire bounds of their imagination!
"Father, is there really nothing wrong with this trial result?"
Yun Nianshan looked at Yun Tianci with eyes full of suspicion.
That was the Heaven Rank Sacred Stairway, not some common cabbage!
How could anyone possibly reach the sixtieth step so easily?
Yun Nianshan was growing increasingly suspicious that something was wrong with this trial result!
Perhaps her father had secretly tampered with that sacred stairway!
Perhaps there was not even the slightest pressure on the sacred stairway right now!
Yun Nianshan had already decided that she absolutely had to test it herself later.
Had she not been mindful of her father's and the sect's dignity, she would have wanted to go right now!
"Well..."
Faced with his daughter's question, Yun Tianci found himself in a difficult position.
How was he supposed to answer?
Surely he couldn't tell her that the one up there was a tigress whose cultivation surpassed even the Spirit Transformation Realm?
Then tell her that the rather handsome young man was actually a cheat user?
Did they still want to keep their Qianyuan Sect or not?
After turning it over in his mind, Yun Tianci could only play dumb.
"Father, I knew there was something wrong with them!"
Seeing Yun Tianci's reaction, Yun Nianshan became even more convinced that her judgment was correct.
Father was definitely trying to shield these two!
"If you won't deal with this, I'll have to do it for you!"
Yun Nianshan spoke angrily.
She valued honesty and character above all else!
Once Lin Yu finished his trial, she would definitely expose them to their faces!