On the towering Heaven Asking List, there was only one first name on the first ranked line, and as for the names behind it, they were actually blank, and there was a number of steps after the blank name.However, that number of steps made all the people from the Heavenly Questioning Palace suck in cold air, because the number on it was 108 steps.
The cultivators who came from elsewhere didn’t know how difficult the Heaven Asking Steps were, or hadn’t been able to appreciate what one hundred and eight steps meant, but the people from the Heaven Asking School Palace were very clear about what this one hundred and eight steps meant.
“What’s going on?”Feng Zhenqiu asked in a cold voice.
The Deacon of the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace’s Affairs Hall who had long been standing to the side hurriedly came over and bowed, “Back to Dean Feng, this situation appeared more than half a month ago.I was going to report it to the dean individually, but I just didn’t get the chance until now.”
He didn’t make this statement up, as soon as this situation appeared, he was in a hurry to report it to the higher echelons of the Heavenly Enquiring Academy.Because of the Extraterrestrial War, the several Deans, Elders, and Peak Masters of the Questioning Heaven School Palace were all absent from the Questioning Heaven School Palace.By the time he had the chance to report to the dean, he couldn’t see the dean at all and only received an order to cover up the Heavenly Questioning List with a red cloth.
It wasn’t until now that he had the chance to say a word to the second dean.
“I already know about this matter, you go down first.”Bei Suting’s voice came from one side.
“Yes.”This deacon hurriedly bowed and saluted before retreating, cold sweat already breaking out behind him.He also didn’t know why this situation had occurred, to say that someone had climbed the 108th step of the Heaven Asking Steps, then he would never believe it.He had climbed the Heaven Asking Steps as well, and that kind of hardship was not something that could be achieved with perseverance alone.
“Senior Sister Su Ting, what’s going on?”Even though Bei Suting was far younger than Feng Zhenqiu, Feng Zhenqiu still addressed Bei Suting as Senior Sister, which was a sign of respect for the Head of the Heaven Asking Palace.
At this moment, Feng Zhenqiu’s heart was surprisingly a little terrified, the Heaven Asking Steps was the symbol of the Heaven Asking Academy Palace, once there was a problem with the Heaven Asking Steps, would the Heaven Asking Academy Palace still be the Heaven Asking Academy Palace?
Bei Suting pondered for a moment and said, ”I also learnt about this matter not long ago, and I have briefly communicated with several elders and peak masters.It is very likely that when we went to participate in the Extraterrestrial War, a disciple of the Heaven Asking School Palace climbed the Heaven Asking Steps and stepped onto the top of the Heaven Asking Steps.This disciple might not have been willing to reveal his name, so there was no engraving of his name at the top of the Heaven Asking Steps.”
“There is still this kind of genius disciple in my Heaven Asking Academy?”Feng Zhenqiu trembled a little with excitement, and it quickly occurred to him that what Bei Suting had said was most likely true.This was because only this kind of disciple who was unwilling to become famous would climb the Heaven Asking Steps when everyone was not in the Heaven Asking School Palace.After climbing to the top, they didn’t leave their names behind either.
“I’ve already asked people to find out which disciples didn’t leave the Heavenly Questioning School Palace during the Extraterrestrial War, I believe there will be results soon.”Bei Su Ting said, in her heart, she also longed for a genius disciple to really appear in the Heaven Asking School Palace who had ascended to the Heaven Asking Stage.
Feng Zhenqiu nodded and said again, “There’s one more thing, there’s a rumour outside that loose cultivator 2705 was taken away by Zeng Houyi, a powerful person from the True Stranger Continent, saying that Zeng Houyi coveted the treasures on him.”
Bei Suting sighed, “Even if this is true, there’s nothing I can do about it in the Questioning Heaven School Palace.Since that loose cultivator chose the path of loose cultivation, it was his fate for something like this to happen.Alas, I wonder when my Lost Continent will have a supreme powerhouse so that we ourselves can speak for ourselves.”
Speaking at the end, Bei Suting was even more filled with despondency.Whether it was the invasion of the extra-territorial cultivators that almost exterminated all the cultivators of the Lost Continent, or the strength of the visitors from the True Stranger Continent, it made her feel a deep sense of powerlessness.Even she, the leader of the Lost Continent, was powerless, and the rest could be imagined.
“Dean Feng, what’s going on?”Xia Mo’s face was a bit ugly, originally he had planned to summit the Heaven Asking Steps, but he didn’t expect that he had actually been short-changed.
Feng Zhenqiu hurriedly walked over and said, “Envoy Xia, I’m not very clear on why this change occurred at the Heaven Asking Steps.If it wasn’t for the fact that it was impossible for someone to reach the top of the Heaven Asking Steps, I would have suspected if someone had secretly climbed the Heaven Asking Steps.I believe that as long as someone climbs to the top of the Heaven Asking Steps again and carves their name, then the first place will definitely change hands.”
Xia Mo knew that Feng Zhenqiu was prevaricating, and there was even a hint of squeezing in his words, that is, no one could climb to the top anyway, and who this first place would be would not have half an effect on him, Xia Mo.
However, he did not object to Feng Zhenqiu’s words, as long as he could step to the top of the Heavenly Enquiring Steps and carve his own name, then the first without a name would naturally fall to the second.Instead of babbling with this surname Feng now, it would be better to make it himself and show it to all the Lost Continent’s cultivators.
“All of you heroes who will be travelling to the True Stranger Continent, although you have stood out from the many competitors, please let me see your potential.Now I will bring you all together to climb the Heaven Asking Steps, and I hope to see your names on the Heaven Asking List again.”Xia Mo stood before the first step of the Heaven Asking Steps and said aloud.
All of them were rubbing their fists, many of them had long admired the Heaven Asking Steps, but they just weren’t in the Heaven Asking School Palace and didn’t have the chance to climb the Heaven Asking Steps.Now that there was this good opportunity, who would want to miss it?More people thought that they must leave their names at the top of the Heavenly Enquirer List, in which case the envoy would definitely look at them differently.
Xia Mo was very satisfied with the crowd’s reaction, and with a wave of his hand, he said, “Now everyone join me and come to conquer the Heaven Asking Steps.”
The word conquest made the people of the Questioning Heaven School Palace very upset, but the vast majority of the cultivators here were filled with joy.Conquering the Heaven Asking Steps of the Heaven Asking School Palace was naturally the dream of every single person’s heart.
Xia Mo was the first to step onto the Heaven Asking Steps, and when he easily crossed from the first step to the second, his heart sank.
Indeed, this thrust was almost equal to nothing for him.But the thrust of the second step was actually close to double that of the first step, this kind of terrifying thrust, once it was extended to one hundred and eight steps, how terrifying would it be?
He quickly calmed down, his age wasn’t great here, even younger than some cultivators at the Transcendent Mortal Realm.But he was an existence at the fourth level of the Void God and was expected to cross into the Earth Extremity Realm.(Correction: Xia Mo is only at the tenth layer of both Yuan Dan and True Lake, and is expected to cross into the Earth Extremity Realm, not already in the Earth Extremity Realm.)He believed that there should be no one who could surpass him in the Lost Continent yet.
It was just when he thought of that nameless first place, his heart was a burst of annoyance.Originally, even if he couldn’t ascend to the top of the Heaven Asking Stage, taking away the first place in the rankings would be no problem, but now the first place was actually a hundred and eight steps.
Xia Mo raised his head and glanced at the Heavenly Questioning Steps that he couldn’t see the top of, and took a deep breath, he went all out, he might not be able to ascend the 108th step.
Xia Mo was the first to step onto the Heaven Asking Steps, and the one hundred Lost Continent cultivators who had been selected began to climb the Heaven Asking Steps one after another.Even Gou Zi Han and Feng Lu Jian who had already climbed once, also climbed the Heavenly Questioning Steps again.
The square in front of the Heavenly Questioning Steps quieted down, and the countless cultivators who had come to watch were all watching these superbly qualified powerhouses climb the Heavenly Questioning Steps.
Feng Zhenqiu looked at Bei Suting on the side and sighed in his heart, if Bei Suting had also gone to climb the Heavenly Questioning Steps, she might have been able to cross the hundred steps.
At this moment on the Heavenly Questioning Steps, Xia Mo had already climbed the fortieth step, and by this time, he sensed some strain.For the first time, Xia Mo felt that even if he had good qualifications, if he wanted to climb to the top of the Heavenly Questioning Steps, his chances were extremely slim.
Another two hours passed, as Xia Mo ascended the 70th step, his speed was getting slower and slower.And for the first time, someone had surpassed him as the True Stranger Continent’s envoy.
This made Xia Mo’s heart shocked, even if the Ask Heavenly Steps was that the higher the cultivation the greater the thrust, he didn’t believe that there were still people in the Lost Continent who could surpass him.Because the higher the cultivation, the stronger the resistance ah.What’s more, he wasn’t that old.Wasn’t it true that the younger one was at the Questioning Heaven Rank, the less pressure one had to exert?
Without waiting for Xia Mu to regain his senses, another person surpassed him.
Xia Mu’s face turned a little ugly, fortunately, he didn’t say the words that he would definitely become number one before stepping onto the Heaven Asking Stage.
Yuan power was drummed up, and Xia Mu accelerated his speed as well.
Eightieth Step ……
Ninetieth Step ……
There were many people who couldn’t hold on and fell off, Xia Mu didn’t rush to first, he was still third.The first and second he knew, one was called Lei Hongji, Protector Xu had even specifically named him, this was an extremely good Thunder Spirit Root cultivator who had just entered the Yuan Dan realm.
The second was called Xi Yixuan, this person was a genius disciple of the Great Diffusion Sect, at the ninth level of the Yuan Dan realm.On the contribution score list of the Hundred Sect Alliance, he was second only to the three cultivators 2705.
Jiang Xiushan was extremely excited, his Great Diffusion Sect had suppressed the Questioning Heaven School Palace on the contribution list.Now that it had come to the Heavenly Questioning Steps of the Heavenly Questioning School Palace, it had suppressed the genius of the Heavenly Questioning School Palace, Gou Zihan, in the same way.
Apart from the unnamed, unknown and even fake first place, Gou Zihan was the second place on the Heavenly Questioning Steps.Moreover, the number of steps Gou Zihan had ascended was ninety-two, and at the moment, Xi Yixuan of his Great Diffusion Sect had already crossed the ninety-fourth step.And another genius of his Great Diffusion Sect, Lei Hongji, even crossed the ninety-eighth step.
Xia Mo swallowed the mouthful of blood that had reached his throat, quietly felt out an elixir and sent it into his mouth, and then crossed two more steps upwards, coming to the ninety-fourth step.Xi Yixuan at the ninety-fifth step finally didn’t continue to climb upwards, he struggled to write his name on the clean white stone tablet on one side before being sent down to the Heavenly Questioning Steps.
Xia Mo looked at the ninety-fifth step, it seemed to be right in front of him, but it was out of reach for him.
He sighed, knowing that he could only reach the ninety-fourth step.If it was any other time, he wouldn’t even be willing to leave his name behind.But now that so many people were staring at him, if he didn’t leave his name before leaving, he was afraid that people would think he was narrow-minded.After hesitating for a while, Xia Mu still wrote down the words Star Emperor Mountain Xia Mo on the stone tablet next to him.
Just after writing these words, Xia Mu was sent down by the Heaven Asking Steps.
“Not bad, not bad, this time the True Stranger Continent has chosen some talented disciples.”Xia Mu was lost in his heart, but still praised with a smile on his face.
But at this time, no one went to ridicule him, to be able to step onto the ninety-fourth step of the Heaven Asking Steps was already a genius among geniuses.Even the people of the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace thought that Xia Mo was a genius, because the strongest person in the Questioning Heaven Academy Palace, Gou Zi Han, climbed the Questioning Heaven Steps for the second time, and was still sent down at the ninety-second step.Ask Heavenly Academy Palace’s first genius, Dan Tower’s Smokey was sent down after climbing the ninetieth step because her cultivation was less than the Yuan Dan realm.
“Senior sister Smokey, you don’t need to lose heart, as long as you advance to the Yuan Dan realm, you can definitely climb the hundredth step of the Heaven Asking Steps.Climbing the Heaven Asking Steps, the Dematerialisation Realm is the most disadvantaged.”Seeing that Smokey who was sent down the Heaven Asking Steps was a bit despondent, Shi Jinwen hurriedly went up to comfort her.Master Granny Linglong had been nowhere to be seen, and to her, Smokey was the future of the Dan Tower.
No one cared that the first genius of the Heaven Asking Academy had been sent down, all of them stared at Lei Hongji who was still at the ninety-ninth step of the Heaven Asking Steps, all of them wanting to know whether or not this Extreme Thunder Spirit Root Genius would be able to climb up to the one-hundredth step or not, or climb up to the one-hundred-and-eighth step in, conquering the Heaven Asking Steps.
