Just when Li Yan's blood seemed to be about to explode, he took a step and finally stepped onto the sixth step.
Just when Li Yan's mind relaxed, an unprecedented terrifying pressure came again. Li Yan had no time to react. With a bang, he was pressed down on the sixth step!
Li Yan only felt a constant buzzing sound in his ears, and in front of him was a white light, and the jade-like steps and ground quickly enlarged in his eyes...
Then, his entire face was pinned firmly to the ground. Immediately, the blood in his body rushed straight to his throat. He felt that all his internal organs had been displaced by this impact.
A sharp pain instantly spread throughout his body, causing Li Yan to let out a heavy groan.
In the secret room, Pingtu saw the sixth ray of light on Li Yan's forehead suddenly light up, and he couldn't help but smile knowingly, but before he could laugh, the smile froze on his face.
Li Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, suddenly trembled and shook violently when the sixth ray of light appeared, and then he groaned loudly in pain.
In an instant, blood flowed from the corners of Li Yan's mouth and nose, and the sixth ray of light on his forehead immediately became extremely unstable and kept flickering.
"Not good, he's going to be knocked down by the pressure."
Pingtu's heart tightened when he saw this, and he did not delay any longer. The Foundation Establishment Pill was ejected directly, and the next moment, it was at Li Yan's mouth. Pingtu waved his hand again, and Li Yan's lips slightly opened, and the pill went directly into his stomach.
The place where Li Yan was knocked down was the edge of the sixth step. At this moment, half of his body was still hanging outside the stairs. A huge and even more terrifying pressure from the sky was pouring down with bursts of loud noises.
This caused Li Yan, who was lying face down on the edge of the stairs, to continue falling. He felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, as if his intestines were pulled, and his head was swollen.
When he became a little more sober, he found that half of his body had slid down. What frightened him even more was that the speed of his sliding down was getting faster and faster. He couldn't help but feel very anxious.
Li Yan suddenly supported himself on the ground with both hands and tried to stand up and roll into the stairs, but just when his body rose a little, the overwhelming pressure, as if it had been provoked by Li Yan just now, was already filled with anger.
With a faint roar, there was a bang, and an even more fierce pressure came down again. The veins on Li Yan's forehead bulged, but he groaned again, and his whole body was pressed to the ground again.
Moreover, one leg and half of the body had already slipped off the stairs!
Li Yan was horrified. He knew that once he fell, it would not be as simple as falling to the fifth step and then continuing to rush forward. Instead, he would directly roll out of the entire foundation-building step. The foundation-building step would disappear and he would stop at the fifth step.
But at this moment, most of his magic power had been used up in the previous moment, and it seemed that his internal organs had suffered serious injuries. The most terrifying thing was that the pressure from heaven and earth on the sixth step seemed to crush into dust anything that dared to stand here.
For a moment, the pressure was like a raging wave, making it impossible for Li Yan to stand up. In his current state, it was extremely difficult for him to even move a little finger, let alone stand up.
He could only watch himself sliding down. At this speed, it would only take five breaths for his entire body to slide out.
Just as Li Yan was anxious and thinking quickly in his mind, he suddenly felt an extremely powerful force in his body, arising from his dantian. The power was so great that Li Yan felt as if the heavy mountain pressing on his back was instantly relieved.
And this power showed no sign of stopping and was still growing continuously. This made Li Yan feel like a dead tree coming back to life. In just two breaths, he felt his body filled with magical power.
There was no time to think, he pushed his hands against the ground again, and his body rolled inwards, and in an instant his whole body shrank into the sixth step...
Li Yan slowly sat up and leaned against the steps, still breathing heavily.
He looked around and made sure that he was already sitting on the sixth step. Only then did he feel completely relieved. At the same time, the cold voice resounded through the world again.
"Formation killing foundation building, done!"
After hearing this, Li Yan's lips curled up into a smile, then his eyes focused and he hurriedly checked his body.
At this time, his body was full of vitality, and his magic power was like a surging river, rushing endlessly. The water of the spiritual energy condensate had changed from the original light color to a very thick one, as if every drop of water was heavy enough to wear through a rock.
The five spiritual power jars have become even bigger, and the ancient runes on them are clearly visible, as if they were cast on the jar bodies, flashing with a mysterious halo, making the five spiritual power jars look ancient and vicissitudes of life.
What made Li Yan happy was that at this moment, the injuries in his body had disappeared and healed completely.
“This power came inexplicably and suddenly. It should be the Foundation Establishment Pill that triggered it. It seems that I did not use this pill when I established my foundation before. Now that Senior Pingtu has seized the opportunity to use it, it is really a great move.
But the power of this elixir is not long-lasting, it is mainly used for impact, so I can't waste it like this!"
Li Yan had already figured out the reason. His eyes focused, and all the magic power in his body surged again. He laughed loudly, and stood up again despite the fierce whistling pressure.
Pingtu in the secret room couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the sixth ray of light on Li Yan's forehead had stabilized.
"With the power of this pill, he should have no problem reaching the seventh step, but the eighth step will be difficult. I wanted to use this pill on the eighth step, but it's a pity."
A trace of regret flashed across Pingtu's eyes. Li Yan had already used this pill on the sixth step. Now it was basically hopeless for him to reach the eighth step.
Just as Pingtu was thinking, Li Yan's forehead suddenly lit up and another ray of light appeared.
Li Yan stood on the seventh step with his hands on his knees. The wind above was whistling like a wind blade. The environment around the white jade steps had changed drastically.
Thick clouds hung low in the sky, and with every surge, a kind of pressure that seemed to crush the heaven and earth emanated, and one after another, layer upon layer, the pressure on the seventh step was no longer constant, but became stronger and stronger as it accumulated.
As a result, when Li Yan reached the seventh step, his body, which had been standing upright, could no longer stand, and he could only support himself by supporting himself with his hands on his knees.
"This won't work. The pressure here is getting stronger and stronger. If we stay here for a while longer, the difficulty will increase several times..."
Li Yan's mind was spinning rapidly, and in just a moment, he had made a decision. He roared, and his body straightened up again with a series of startling "crackling" sounds.
The "crackling" sound became louder, as if his skeleton would break at any moment and become a pool of flesh. Li Yan slowly raised his knees again, and the mana in his body instantly ran to the extreme that it could reach at present. At the moment when his mana was running, Li Yan was also stunned. He felt that the mana at this moment was completely different from before.
It was as if several thick, twisted ropes were formed, which made his magic power more condensed. They shuttled through the meridians like sharp arrows, not at all as gentle as the previous flowing water, and the speed was simply incomparable.
Moreover, the power of each strand of magic power twisted together was several times greater, which made his knee-raising movements seem to be a bit faster.
Li Yan separated a wisp of his spiritual consciousness and hurriedly investigated. Only when he knew what was happening inside his body could he make a better plan.
When he saw the spiritual power tanks in his body again, Li Yan was stunned. The five spiritual power tanks in the purple viscera of his dantian had disappeared. In their original positions, there were five four-legged round tripods floating there.
The five large tripods were emitting bursts of five-colored light, with runes crisscrossing on them. Between the tripods, streams of thick spiritual power were flying out from one tripod and falling into the next four-legged round tripod, flowing endlessly, back and forth.
"This... This, this is the change brought about by 'Foundation Building with Tripods', the seventh step?"
Li Yan looked at the five large tripods and was stunned for a moment, remembering the cold voice that had just disappeared.
"Setting up the foundation, done!"
However, this was only a moment of daze, and his knee-raising movement was not affected. He continued to raise his knees little by little under the pressure that continued to descend from the sky.
"Faster, faster, faster!"
Li Yan kept roaring in his heart. He wanted to step onto the eighth step before the medicinal effect of the foundation-building pill wore off.
Although his strength would increase dramatically every time he stepped onto a step, the pressure from above increased many times, and he could not resolve this crisis at all.
Li Yan did not worry too much about the changes in his body at this moment. Instead, he withdrew his consciousness and focused on rushing to the next step. As his feet were lifted up a little bit, time seemed to freeze at this moment.
"One Inch"
"Two inches"
"Three inches"
… …
"Faster, faster..."
Li Yan let out a low roar. He felt that the magic power in his body had reached a peak.
He knew that once his magic power reached its peak, the medicinal effect would dissipate and his strength would drop sharply. At that time, he would not be able to make any impact at all.
Pingtu looked at Li Yan's chest, which was stained red by the blood gushing out, and a hint of anxiety began to appear in his eyes.
"Thirty breaths have passed since I swallowed the pill. There are only about twenty more breaths left. If I can't reach the eighth level, it will be hopeless."
At this moment, although he had all kinds of supernatural powers, he was powerless against this kind of thing.
Although Pingtu knew that in addition to the fairy world, there was also a seventh-level elixir called "Wenxu Dan", which could enhance the magic power of cultivators who had just established their foundation, formed their elixir, or condensed their Nascent Soul.
At the same time, it will also warm and nourish his body that was damaged after the breakthrough. However, this pill is extremely precious even in the fairy world, and he doesn't have it at all now.
Other elixirs are either of insufficient grade and therefore cannot achieve any effect, or are of too high a grade and have overly potent medicinal properties. The fragile meridians of cultivators who have just established their foundation or formed their elixir cannot withstand the erosion of the medicinal properties.
Once taken, the newly expanded meridians and dantian in the body will be instantly turned into a mess.
Another way to help Li Yan is for cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage to use their own great magical powers to assist him in breaking through the ladder. However, no matter which method is used, in the end it still depends on the cultivator himself to climb the ladder. These external forces are ultimately external forces.
Li Yan stared at his feet, he could feel that he was exerting a huge amount of energy. Every time he raised his feet a little, he felt as if he was trapped in a huge swamp, as if ten huge mountains were hanging under his feet.
There was a constant "cracking" sound coming from his knees. With each sound, he felt as if his leg bones would break into several pieces like the sugarcane in the fields with a "crack".
The feeling of his muscles being pulled down and torn apart seemed to pull every piece of his flesh and blood, every inch of his tendons out of his legs. The immense pain made Li Yan's eyes red, and his whole body trembled like a sieve.
In order to lift his knees and move his legs, he no longer supported his knees with both hands, but stood on one leg, and the pressure on his body increased dramatically.
Watching the soles of his feet being lifted up little by little, the magic power in his body surged throughout his body like a tide. While fighting against the invisible pressure in the air, Li Yan could already hear a series of intensive explosions produced by the magic power on his body and the surrounding pressure.
At the moment when Li Yan's magic power reached its peak, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared continuously, while his feet suddenly raised two inches!
Then, he took a heavy step forward!
Just as he stepped onto the eighth step, the sky suddenly changed, and an even greater pressure descended upon him, almost blasting Li Yan, who had just stepped one foot onto the eighth step, off the entire staircase.
Then, a scene that made Li Yan even more frightened appeared. The entire nine-step staircase shook violently as if the end of the world had come. Li Yan, who had not yet firmly stood on the eighth step, was on the verge of falling.
Amidst a loud "crash", Li Yan looked down and saw a scene that made him terrified. Starting from the first step, the steps that were originally as solid as carved from white jade were breaking into pieces and falling into the endless void below.
The speed of spread was extremely fast. Just when Li Yan lowered his head to check, the shattered steps below had spread to the sixth step. Suddenly, there were countless cracks. The seventh step where he was standing also had fine stone chips falling into the endless void!