Chapter 59: One Move Shocks Everyone!

  This is the second day of the first trial!

  It was almost at the moment when the first ray of sunlight arrived on that morning, and the oppressive feeling that had increased in the black misty mountains where the sealed ancient beasts were located began to dissipate, returning to normal. At this time, Ye Wang was the first to move.

  He calmly opened his eyes, got up and walked towards the 601st step. He had no idea what happened last night. For someone who was always proud, he wouldn't even bother to look at the token. He always thought that others didn't have the qualifications to be his opponent, the only one who had this qualification was himself.

  Step by step, Ye Wang, wearing a red shirt like fire, walked towards the stairs with his high pride. In his heart, there was a determination that this time he must reach the 900th step in the first trial. He clearly remembered that last time his endpoint was at more than 800 steps, where he was extremely exhausted and unable to take another step, having no choice but to give up. At that moment, he raised his head and seemed to see a strange stone statue on the summit of the mountain peak.

  Unfortunately, the statue's appearance was too far away for him to see clearly, but just this one glance made Ye Wang infatuated, and in his heart, pride and uniqueness had already merged into his bones. He wanted to go take a look at the mountain top that others couldn't see!

  He yearned to stand there, bow his head and look down at the multitude below.

  He proudly wore the fiery red jersey, and as he walked further and further into the mist, he knew in his heart that he must be the first!

  He gritted his teeth and walked upwards, muttering to himself nonstop. Panting heavily, he didn't seem to rest at all, but instead frequently checked the token in his hand to see the ranking of Bi Su.

  Bi Su was always three steps ahead of him, and the two seemed to be competing with each other, constantly comparing themselves. In fact, this had been the case since yesterday, and Chen Chong was quite resentful in his heart.

  "Your grandma's, you said you'd either walk a few steps faster and create some distance so I wouldn't be worried, or slow down a bit. Now that it's like this, aren't you tired? You're tired, I'm tired too!" Zhēn Chōng was sweating profusely, although it was daytime, but coming from over 400 floors up, he could feel the pressure from the top of the mountain that almost made people feel suffocated. The feeling of fatigue surged throughout his body like a tidal wave.

  Bi Su was also panting heavily now, despite having rested for a night. As he ascended the ranks and felt the increasing pressure, his pride was gradually suppressed. Especially when he saw that Ye Wang, who was ranked first, was still ascending steadily at over 600 levels, Bi Su couldn't help but feel a hint of reverence in his heart.

  After losing the idea of competing for first place, he began to target Chen Chong, vowing to crush him under his feet. In his view, his opponent was only Chen Chong, and thoroughly defeating this person would be enough to make his name resound even if he lost to Ye Wang in the first round.

  Especially now, Ah Gong... Bi Su's eyes gleamed with a hint of expectation and fantasy as he coldly smiled.

  Wu Sen's complexion was somewhat pale, and after a night's rest, his condition not only didn't improve but instead worsened with the passage of time. The drawbacks of losing his original blood began to emerge one by one. His expression was gloomy as he walked step by step, occasionally glancing at the ranking on the command plate in his hand. The second-ranked Bi Su had an air of discontent surrounding him.

  His ranking, still twelfth, but Ou Sen knew that he had no hope of entering the top ten. Those people in front of him, who were normally inferior to him in the clan, now...

  Wu Sen sighed quietly.

  Compared to the others, Su Ming seemed much calmer. He didn't continue up the mountain, but instead sat cross-legged on the 248th step, subtly controlling the circulation of his internal blood and Qi, causing the fifty-nine blood lines in his body to continuously decrease before increasing again.

  He exerted his utmost ability and used that balanced pressure to make his bloodline, whether increasing or decreasing, always fixed at one line.

  In his feeling, this subtle manipulation was very interesting, just like he was refining medicine stones, only this time it was with himself as the crucible, with the internal Qi and blood as the flame, with his body as the half-finished herbs, controlling the strength of the flame to refine his body.

  As time passed, the hundreds of people in the outer square looked at the rankings on the statue one by one, and there were constant discussions.

  "Yè Wàng was in first place without a doubt, he had already climbed more than 680 steps, and no one could catch up to him."

  "The second and third places will also be between Zhen Chong and Bi Su, you see their rankings have been chasing each other non-stop, it seems that the two of them are now facing off against each other."

  "What a pity for Wu Sen, I don't know what unexpected thing happened, it's really beyond comprehension."

  "Unfortunately, Musso, who was in second place last night, remained motionless until noon today and continued to be overtaken, and is now in 47th place..."

  In the midst of heated debate, suddenly on those nine stone statues, among over a hundred names, one name had a gray light flash up, flickering for an instant, causing its name to become gray in the blink of an eye.

  This sudden change immediately caught everyone's attention, but they didn't show any surprise.

  "Somebody gave up!"

  "The first pass of the trial of the ages will appear on the second day, a large number of abandoners will emerge, they are powerless to move forward, and even more so under the pressure of the high mountain, if they do not leave, there will be a crisis of qi and blood oppression."

  But the sky curtain suddenly distorted at this moment, and a wisp of fog pierced through, rushing straight to the ground. After the fog dispersed, a young man in his early twenties appeared inside. His face was pale, and after landing, his body stumbled, almost unstable, apparently being forcibly transmitted out.

  He seemed extremely uncomfortable with the gaze of the crowd, so he lowered his head and quickly walked to a distant place belonging to his tribe, sat down silently, and looked dejected.

  Such abandonment, in the afternoon, appeared more and more, those one by one darkening names, those faint silhouettes rolled out from the twisted sky curtain's black air, became the second day's, attracting people to watch scene.

  Those who gave up, mostly sighed secretly and went to the location of their respective tribes. Among them, there were also many from the Wind Gully Tribe.

  "Over a hundred people have already given up, haha, you see, by tonight, all the people who were in the top fifty will also give up. And at midnight, many more will one by one abandon their quest. After all, even if they stop moving forward at midnight, under extreme exhaustion, it's hard to resist the countless pressures that increase at night."

  "Every big test's first round is not just about ranking, but also a fun way to watch those who give up one by one."

  "It's not, especially for those who are still quite good, giving up and coming back here, that tense look, the expression of being afraid of being overtaken again, is very interesting."

  Just as these words were echoing in the square, someone suddenly carved a statue, with an excited look on his face.

  Mo Su moved!!

  As soon as this was said, it instantly attracted almost everyone's attention, and countless eyes converged on the row of statues belonging to Su Ming.

  Su Ming opened his eyes, and the blood veins in his body, after being subtly manipulated for more than half a day, could no longer continue with only twenty-one left. Su Ming lifted his head, gazing at the stairs within the fog ahead, and slowly stood up.

  He didn't know that he had already attracted the attention of many people, and now there were only two thoughts in his mind: one was to use this place for subtle cultivation, and the other was not to disappoint Grandpa.

  "I'll give it my all and make a good fight of it!" Su Ming was still a young man, with the vigor and determination of youth.

  His eyes flashed, and he suddenly took a step forward, stepping onto the 249th step. A massive pressure came crashing down, causing Su Ming's body to shake.

  "What a powerful pressure!" Su Ming's face was slightly pale, and he had a faint feeling that there was a fierce beast rushing towards him on this mountain path.

  Su Ming's eyes gleamed with determination, and as the pressure approached, the blood and Qi in his body surged violently. Fifty-nine blood lines emerged one by one, and he took a fierce step forward.

  Two hundred and fifty-one, two hundred and fifty-five, two hundred and fifty-eight... Su Ming took a deep breath and walked out more than twenty steps in a row, until he stood at the 270th step, where his breath slowly relaxed.

  Sweat dripped from his forehead as he walked up the stairs in daylight, without the nourishment of moonlight. For Su Ming, it was a bit strenuous, but the more so, the more resolute he became. Moreover, the increasingly intense pressure that fell upon him clashed with the fifty-nine blood lines within his body, making Su Ming feel an ominous premonition that his blood lines were about to increase.

  He knew that this was because he had found the secret of those six numbers and constantly manipulated the flow of qi, making precise control under subtle manipulation, not only did the qi get precise control, but also brought out the potential inside the body with subtlety.

  Especially after he obtained the true barbaric enlightenment from Grandpa, and that one drop of barbaric blood from Grandpa, all were released in this subtle way, during this climb, under the pressure from the top of the mountain, truly absorbed.

  With a fierce gritting of teeth, Su Ming took another step forward, continuing to rapidly ascend upwards. A dull rumbling sound echoed within his body, and as he moved forward, the sixtieth bloodline immediately appeared on his body!!

  Article sixty-one, article sixty-two... At the moment Su Ming stepped on the three hundred and first step, his body's bloodline erupted with the sixty-seventh article!!

  Sixty-seven blood lines wrapped around Su Ming's entire body, making him seem to possess a kind of unprecedented power. Although his whole body was sweating profusely, his gaze at this moment was even more resolute than before.

  Su Ming didn't know that his move, from the 248th step to the 301st, brought what kind of shock to the hundreds of people in the outer square below!

  The chief of the Black Mountain tribe also looked over fiercely, his expression revealing a rare solemnity.

  "It's another sixty moves!! This Mo Su is motionless if he doesn't move, but shocking when he does!!"

  "Haha, I've been waiting for him to make a move, and he didn't disappoint me. Mo Su, get into the top 30, best if you can get into the top 10!!!"

  "He remained unchanged all day, and even if he moved now, his ranking was only thirty-sixth, not as good as yesterday..." In the midst of those gossiping voices, the person who had been pretending to be disdainful suddenly opened their eyes wide and swallowed back the words they were about to say.

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  The number of votes exceeded my expectations, since everyone is so enthusiastic, I won't be discouraged. Tomorrow will be a big explosion! As I said before, three updates are not considered an explosion, this statement still stands. Tomorrow, four updates will explode!

  At dawn, there will be the first shift. A new week, let's not care about cheap votes, and don't look at those messy impressions. We only care about recommendations. In this new week, can we still maintain 7,200 votes every day?...

  To be honest, I'm a bit nervous, I don't know the answer, but I'll be more serious and look forward to it!