"Hmm? This feels so familiar."
Qian Renxue's voice echoed in his mind.
The Angel Holy Sword's strong reaction still awakened her from her slumber.
Qian Renxue sensed the rich aura of angelic light emanating from the Long Stairway to Godhood, and a stream of light emerged from between Huo Yuhao's eyebrows.
Looking down at the Long Stairway to Godhood beneath her feet, Qian Renxue couldn't help but shed two streams of tears, sobbing with joy, "This... this is the Long Stairway to Godhood! I... my divine position still has a chance to be restored..."
" Yuhao, I'll need your help now. Once I obtain the Angel's Heart, the highest Long Stairway to Godhood, I can restore my shattered divine position. Moreover, given enough time, my body can even regain its vitality!" Qian Renxue said sincerely.
Huo Yuhao stomped hard on the step, finding it surprisingly sturdy. "I will help you. After that, you will see the brilliance of divine light being swallowed by the darkness."
Without any hesitation, Huo Yuhao stepped onto the next step.
The increased pressure was as slight as a feather, so slight that Huo Yuhao almost couldn't feel it.
After those dark purple eyes looked down at the steps, some of the mysteries within slowly emerged, but not completely, so Huo Yuhao gave up his plan to study them.
"In that case, let's relax."
Huo Yuhao smiled slightly, stretched, leaned forward slightly, and took a step forward with his right leg, instantly starting to run on the Long Stairway to Godhood.
The audience outside was also shocked to see Huo Yuhao's black figure suddenly running.
The pressure on the steps increases continuously. Even a Titled Douluo dares not run on them, because the slightest misstep could result in severe injury from the sudden change in pressure.
Huo Yuhao seemed to ignore the pressure of the steps and ran with ease.
Soon, Huo Yuhao's figure disappeared from the visible steps.
"This... this... this is a monster..." someone exclaimed.
At this moment, both Heavenly Sun Douluo and Xue Haotian stared wide-eyed, speechless for Jiujiu.
At the same time, the two were also relieved that they had befriended this Shadow; otherwise, with his strength, becoming the emperor of the Dou Ling Empire would have been a simple matter of a word.
As Xiao Xiao watched the Shadow disappear upwards, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, constantly praying that Huo Yuhao would be safe and sound.
Xiao Xiao hoped that Yuhao would come out soon; ideally, Yuhao hoped he would already be out.
With light steps, Huo Yuhao easily ran up one step.
His speed continued to increase.
Huo Yuhao waited for Xiao Xiao to come out before entering, so there was no one on the first twenty steps. He ran up the steps with ease.
At the top of the twenty-five steps, the muscular man who had pushed Huo Yuhao was now struggling to climb upwards.
Suddenly, he felt a strong yet cool breeze coming from behind him, and he felt much more relaxed despite his exhaustion. But for some reason, his pores were involuntarily tightening.
"Hmm? That's strange. Could this be something unique to the Dou Ling Festival?"
While the burly man was still wondering, he was about to step onto the next step.
Suddenly, the originally transparent barrier turned blood red in an instant, blocking the burly man's advance.
The burly man knew exactly what this meant and was about to turn back to discuss it.
A massive, pitch-black hand suddenly enlarged rapidly in his pupils, and before he could react, the terrifying giant lifted his body up.
Through the gaps between his fingers, he could only see a black robe, the five fingers tightening like iron clamps.
Crack, crack, crack... The burly man could clearly hear the sound of his skull breaking under the pressure.
The burly man opened his eyes wide in fear. Under the intense pressure, his eyeballs bulged out like bullets, with a faint blood trickling out.
"Spare... spare my life..."
The instinct for survival made the burly man shout out in trembling voice, his massive body shaking uncontrollably like a small woman.
Huo Yuhao looked up and met the burly man 'Huo Yuhao eyes, which held a disregard for life. A pungent, scarlet liquid kept flowing out from the seam of the burly man's pants.
Huo Yuhao frowned, his eyes filled with disdain, and a soft black tentacle split off from his sleeve and snatched the burly man's storage bag.
Then, Huo Yuhao casually tossed the burly man backward, and the man's body plummeted straight down.
The poor, strong man didn't even have a chance to resist before being thrown down like trash; at that height, he would be half-crippled if not killed.
As the burly man disappeared, the crimson color of the barrier in front faded, and the restriction was lifted.
Huo Yuhao regained his climbing speed and rushed upwards with sparks and lightning. At this moment Long Stairway to Godhood were as flat as flat ground under Huo Yuhao's feet.
The number of people above gradually increased, with one or more Soul Master at each level.
Huo Yuhao rushed in even when some of them were still fighting.
Huo Yuhao didn't bother defeating them one by one; he charged straight at them, and the gust of wind he generated alone blew his opponents away.
Of course, Huo Yuhao's Slime Bodysuit was also busy, not letting any storage bags or anything else go uncollected, and putting them all away.
As Huo Yuhao put it, even a small mosquito is still meat!
On the arena, one after another, figures of light appeared, and countless defeated opponents were moved aside by Heavenly Sun Douluo.
Even so, Heavenly Sun Douluo was still startled.
The time interval between each eliminated person was generally no more than five seconds, which means that these people didn't even have a chance to resist before being teleported out by the stairs.
Heavenly Sun Douluo couldn't help but marvel at the terrifying strength of Shadow, and was even more grateful that he hadn't angered Shadow.
In less than two and a half minutes, Huo Yuhao reached the fiftieth step.
The immense pressure emanating from his body finally made Huo Yuhao feel some strain.
If Huo Yuhao were to describe it, it would be roughly the same feeling of physical relaxation he gets after running about ten kilometers without using his Soul Power.
Huo Yuhao was no longer in a hurry. After doing some warm-up exercises on the steps for a while, he entered the fifty-first step.
As the scene changed, all that could be seen was a sea of red.
The barrier behind him also turned red, and Huo Yuhao wanted to observe this unusual change further.
An ice spike formed from the power of ice was aimed directly at Huo Yuhao's face.
Although the attack was launched at an extremely fast speed, it appeared as slow as an ant crawling in Huo Yuhao's eyes, and he slightly twisted his neck.
With a crack, the ice spike landed on the barrier behind him and shattered, without harming Huo Yuhao in the slightest.
"Damn! Such a quick reaction!"
A clear, cold voice rang out from ahead.
Huo Yuhao looked up and saw a woman dressed in white robes, whose appearance was somewhat similar to his own.
This was the first human Huo Yuhao had encountered on this Long Stairway to Godhood who dared to attack him.
Huo Yuhao also became somewhat interested.
If Xiao Xiao were here, she would immediately recognize this woman as the first adversary she encountered on the steps.