Chapter 263 The Pressure Ladder
Yunxi saw Ye Yirui standing at the end of the Huaxian Sect cultivators' line from afar, accompanied by the beautiful woman and an elderly man. She guessed that the other party must be someone sent by Medicine King Valley.

Just then, Yunxi sensed a sudden change in the wind direction at the core of the Baohua Mountains. She looked up at the sky, and many other perceptive cultivators did the same thing.

In the next instant, five Nascent Soul Venerables appeared in the air, forming hand seals and throwing their jade tablets into the air according to the five elements. The five jade tablets floated in the air, forming a circle with their ends connected.

As various types of spiritual energy were injected, the ring rotated faster and faster, forming a hollow circle. Then the circle slowly grew larger, forming a black hole with a diameter of fifty meters.

Hao Hui and Hao Qing looked at the entrance to the secret realm above them with serious expressions and sent a telepathic message to the sect disciples to prepare.

Only after the black hole completely stabilized did the five Nascent Soul cultivators land again.

Yunxi took a deep breath and felt the rich spiritual energy emanating from the black hole. It was clear that there must be many rare and precious treasures in this secret realm, and she became excited.

Venerable Minghong proclaimed in a clear voice:

"Disciples of the Western Regions, listen to my command! Enter the secret realm in order!"

"Yes!"

As the response faded, the disciples of the Famous Sword Sect took to the air. A Nascent Soul cultivator was the first to enter the black hole. He was not rejected by the entrance and disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant. This discovery caused the other cultivators to have different expressions.

Then came the Nascent Soul cultivators from the Famous Sword Sect, followed by the Golden Core cultivators. All of them successfully entered the secret realm, followed by the cultivators from the Vast Ocean Sect.

Hao Hui and Hao Qing exchanged a glance. Hao Hui was the first to appear at the entrance, but was repelled by an invisible force. He frowned and gestured for Hao Qing to try as well.

Haoqing also appeared at the entrance and encountered the same situation as Haohui. He was also rejected by the secret realm. This situation puzzled everyone. Why could the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Famous Sword Sect enter, but the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Haoran Sect could not?

This question echoed in everyone's minds. After thinking for a moment, Venerable Minghong said to Haohui:

"The one who just went in was Venerable Mingxian. His lifespan is almost over, and this time he entered the new secret realm as a last-ditch effort to seek a breakthrough."

Hao Hui understood immediately. The Nascent Soul cultivator who was about to die was desperate, which was why the secret realm let him in. But for young cultivators like him and Hao Qing, the secret realm would not give them any chance at all.

After figuring this out, Venerable Haoqing waved to the disciples of the sect. The Nascent Soul cultivators entered first, followed by the Golden Core cultivators. Yunxi, like everyone else, flew through the black hole.

With a dizzying sensation, Yunxi felt herself being spun around in the mixing tank twice before being vomited up. She staggered a couple of times before regaining her balance.

Before Yunxi could release her divine sense, she heard a voice above her shouting, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" She looked up and saw a dark shadow crashing down on her head. She instinctively activated her Wind-Sweeping Step and moved away from her original position in less than half a breath.

With a loud "bang," a human-shaped crater was smashed into the ground. Yunxi felt the pain for the other person. Just as she was about to leave, it started raining dumplings from the sky. Cultivators fell in different ways, and the open space suddenly became lively.

To avoid being hit, Yunxi took several steps back, then slowly released her divine sense to investigate where she had landed.

Then Yunxi found herself in a huge square, which looked like the entrance to some sect. There was also a staircase leading straight to the sky. She extended her divine sense to the limit, but she still couldn't reach the end of the staircase.

However, she did see that some cultivators had already stepped onto the steps and were climbing upwards with great effort. The one walking at the very front was Venerable Mingxian from the Famous Sword Sect. The next moment, her divine sense was repelled.

Yunxi was stunned for a moment. When she tried to extend her divine sense again, she found that her divine sense was restricted. Obviously, this place did not allow her to use her divine sense to explore.

As more and more cultivators fell down, some of them discovered the stairs and tentatively stepped onto them. In a short while, they had reached the top of twenty steps and slowly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Song Ke was already standing beside Yun Xi. He looked at the cultivators climbing the steps and asked softly, "Why is there a ladder to the clouds here?"

Yun Xi thought for a moment and said:

"I guess it's to test the strength of those who enter. I think Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deity Transformation cultivators will be sent to different places in the secret realm."

Song Ke also felt that Yunxi's guess made sense, so he said:
"Elder Feng, let's set off then and see if it's as we predicted."

Yunxi nodded, but before stepping onto the steps, she raised her hand and sent a flame to Song Ke.

Song Ke was startled and subconsciously made a hand seal to defend himself, only to find that the flame only circled around him once before returning to Elder Feng's hand.

"Elder Feng, what is this?"

Yun Xi smiled and said:

"Didn't you realize you've been tagged?"

Song Ke's heart tightened, and he immediately released his divine sense to scan himself from head to toe, but found nothing. Yun Xi waved her hand and said:
"Don't bother looking, I've already burned it. Be more careful next time, let's go!"

After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the steps. Song Ke took a deep breath and followed closely behind, stepping onto the first step.

Yunxi saw that Wei Yunqing was already ahead, looking quite relaxed, and was chasing after Sheng Yuhong ahead. Wei Chenyin and the other three only stepped onto the steps after they had all gathered, and walked behind her and Song Ke.

The moment Yunxi stepped onto the steps, she felt her divine sense retreat back into her sea of ​​consciousness, and her spiritual power was also imprisoned within her body, making it impossible to mobilize. She couldn't even open her storage ring.

She and Song Ke exchanged a glance, both realizing that how far they could climb depended entirely on their physical strength.

"Let's go! Let's see how good our basic skills are."

After Yunxi finished speaking, she took the lead and climbed the steps, each step very steady.

After exhaling a breath of stale air, Song Ke stepped onto the second step.

Yunxi maintained a steady pace as she stepped onto the stairs, prioritizing stability over speed. Song Ke followed suit, trying to move forward at a uniform pace as well.

However, as the pressure on his body increased, Song Ke's skin began to bleed, and eventually even his seven orifices began to bleed. He could no longer take a step and finally stopped at the 327th step.

Just as Song Ke was thinking of giving up, he was enveloped in a ball of white light and instantly disappeared from the steps. At the same time, quite a few other cultivators also disappeared. Yun Xi discovered that the cultivation levels of these teleported cultivators were mostly in the early or middle stages of the Golden Core realm.

Among them, Sheng Yuhong, Wei Yunqing, Du Yuling, and Mu Ningzhu were also among the cultivators who were teleported away.

Yunxi instantly felt the air around her was fresher. Being in the same environment as the male and female protagonists made her feel a lot of pressure, fearing that the two of them might cause some trouble and implicate her. Now that they had been teleported away, she could concentrate on continuing to fight against the pressure steps.

After pausing for a moment, Yunxi continued to walk upwards, this time focusing all her attention on the steps in front of her, steadily climbing one step at a time.

It wasn't until Yunxi was walking alongside a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages that she realized she had already reached over five hundred steps.


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