In the blink of an eye, the sixth step turned into rubble and fell into the endless void. Then, the seventh step made a sound like breaking porcelain, and spider-web-like cracks appeared on it.
Li Yan could feel that the half of his body that was still on the seventh step began to sink. He was startled and without thinking, he leaned forward suddenly, raising both hands at the same time, with a look of madness in his eyes.
Just as he placed his hands on the eighth step, the seventh step shattered with a loud bang and turned into debris that floated away in an instant.
Li Yan was like a gorilla bending over to climb a tree, with both hands and one foot clinging to the edge of the eighth step, while the other leg was hanging in the bottomless black space below.
Li Yan was anxious. Looking at the large pieces of white jade steps falling below him, he looked around hurriedly. After taking a quick glance, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
The crack that was quickly breaking the steps stopped after the seventh step. There was no more crack on the eighth step. Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that all this was only a temporary phenomenon. It might be because he had not stepped onto the eighth step, or because he had not triggered some rules.
Now he is in the same situation as in the last level, once again on the edge of the stairs. He never knows when the shattering will happen, and by then he will really have no way out.
Moreover, he didn't know whether this counted as him stepping onto the eighth step, at least the voice had not appeared yet.
Pingtu looked at the eighth ray of light that had just appeared on Li Yan's forehead, which seemed to be about to disappear at any time, and his eyes could not help but focus again.
"He has stepped onto the eighth step, but it looks like the situation is not good. He may fall at any time. This should be because the steps begin to break into pieces, causing him to step onto the eighth step in a hurry before he was fully prepared. This is why this happened."
Pingtu has lived for millions of years and knows this small foundation very well. He also has a pretty good idea of Li Yan's situation. However, this is a secret realm, not the fairyland, so some elixirs are not available here.
His cultivation had not recovered either, so he could only sigh in despair, unable to intervene.
After Li Yan was sure that he was temporarily safe, he breathed a sigh of relief. He was now between the seventh and eighth levels, neither going up nor down.
Here, he could also feel the waves of oppressive force emanating from the eighth step. Although he had expected it, after actually feeling some of the pressure from the eighth step, he couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart.
He hadn't even stepped on it yet, but was just between two steps when he felt like he was about to be knocked down.
His body was shaking continuously under the pressure from above. Li Yan exhaled a deep breath and was about to use all his strength to rush forward, but he was stunned.
He suddenly realized that although his hands were grasping the edge of the eighth step, he was actually relying on the temporary grasping force of his hands and the strength of one foot.
These forces should not be able to resist the pressure coming from above the eighth step. The reason why he was still standing on three legs like a gorilla was because a thread of mucus was produced between his hands and the soles of his feet and the steps.
Li Yan was no stranger to this mucus. He had used spiritual power to practice it during the Qi Condensation Stage. However, the amount of mucus was very small at that time, just a thin layer at most. But now, it had condensed into a large piece of something like water.
"Is this 'Stay Together Forever' by Fragmented Twelve?"
Li Yan muttered to himself somewhat uncertainly. He didn't use this poison very often because it had no direct effect on the enemy. Instead, the poison itself had extremely strong stickiness, which would stick different objects together, but it would not corrode or turn into a deadly poison that would enter the body.
Its greatest function is that those things that are stuck together will assimilate and merge firmly into each other after twelve hours.
Li Yan had done several verifications when he was in the Qi Condensation Stage. For example, by gluing a piece of black bamboo and a piece of stone together, after twelve hours, it would form something similar to a hammer.
There won't be any trace of the glued part, as if it was naturally like this, it is so exquisitely crafted that even if Li Yan deliberately uses the magic sword to split the glued part in half, large pieces of rock will come out from the bamboo head.
After trying it several times, Li Yan lost interest in this poison. It couldn't kill people quickly, so for a Qi Condensation cultivator, it was of little use. If he couldn't kill his opponent quickly, then he would be the one to die.
His cultivation was too shallow, and if time went on for too long, any accident could lead to Li Yan's immediate death. However, since his characteristics had been discovered, he was given the name "Stay Together Forever".
In today's emergency, he couldn't help but activate his magic power, and his hands and feet were filled with the poison. He didn't expect it to have such an effect. Looking at the mucus under his palms, after his spiritual power turned into liquid, even Zhili Twelve began to change a lot.
It actually helped him when he was building his foundation. Of course, Li Yan didn't care how many hours it took. Even if he hung there for twelve hours, he would not be assimilated with the steps. These venoms were originally transformed by his own magic power, and he could control them freely.
All of this became clear to Li Yan in a flash. He knew that this was not the time to think about these things. He immediately felt the power of the foundation-building pill in his body, and found that about 60% of it had disappeared.
However, according to my current position, with the remaining 40% of the medicine power, plus my own magic power, I still have hope. I should make a concerted effort and climb to the eighth step first.
Li Yan's mind sank. Just as his magic power roared out from his dantian and twisted into several pillars of spiritual power, his body suddenly shook violently as if he had been hit hard.
An unprecedented tearing pain directly attacked his consciousness, and the breath in his body became even more chaotic. The magic power that was originally very obedient, like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, began to rampage in Li Yan's body.
Li Yan was so angry and angry by this sudden change that his blood boiled.
He was terrified and tried to concentrate, but the power became more and more chaotic and mixed, and he began to lose control of it.
"Oh no, Fragment Twelve is about to break through!"
In times of crisis, Li Yan became calmer and forced himself to keep his mind clear and his thoughts racing.
According to the introduction about the three major poisonous bodies he had seen in the sect's classics, although there was not much related knowledge introduced, there was still some information about the promotion of the poisonous bodies.
The description says that usually after a cultivator breaks through a major realm, the poisonous body they cultivate will have a breakthrough, but the general timing of this happening is after the realm of cultivation has been stable for a period of time. Whether there will be an unexpected occurrence like today is not very clear in the classics. After all, since the establishment of the Wuliang Sect, there have been only a few people with the three major poisonous bodies, and their poisonous body breakthroughs all occurred after their cultivation was stable.
Li Yan's sudden change this time might be because he inadvertently used his poisonous body when he was trying to reach the ninth level of foundation building, which triggered a full-scale outbreak.
When Li Yan thought of this, he felt like crying but had no tears.
The force he just used in a hurry was just an instinctive reaction after long-term training. He didn't expect that it would lead to such a result.
Now that he was trying to reach the ninth level of foundation building, his magic power was out of control. Not only was he likely to fall back to the seventh level of foundation building, but in his current state, it was hard to say whether he could make his poisonous body break through normally.
For a moment, the matter was no longer under his control. Although there was no sweat on Li Yan's forehead, anxiety began to appear in his eyes. He tried his best to calm himself down, but his body was already a mess.
After the twelve pieces of flesh were separated, they began to gather together again. This gathering was not a big deal, but it blocked Li Yan's meridians that had just expanded.
Li Yan only felt that his magic power was running out of steam. What was even more terrifying was that the pressure from the eighth step was like a battering ram that hit him straight at the wall, knocking Li Yan's body down continuously.
Even the "everlasting together" mucus on the palms and the soles of the right feet has begun to stretch, showing traces of concern.
Pingtu looked at the light that seemed to be faintly visible just now, but now it began to disappear and was almost completely invisible. This was the sign that was being knocked down by the eighth step.
His heart was sinking a little bit. If Li Yan ended like this, he would be at the seventh level of foundation building. Although this was already very good for many cultivators, for the sparsely populated Five Immortal Sect, it meant the loss of a powerful person.
Looking at the sticky thread that was getting longer and longer, Li Yan's whole body had changed from the initial three-point leaning with a bent waist to a continuous tilt, which made his falling speed faster and faster.
The most hateful thing was that the pressure and bombardment from above almost made Li Yan breathless. His heart was beating at a terrifying speed. At this moment, Li Yan felt that his heart would explode directly from his intestines.
At the same time, enduring the pain of the fragmented poisonous body in his body being separated again after it had just merged, Li Yan's body kept twitching, and he fell upside down in just two breaths.
The sticky threads on the palms and soles of the feet have been stretched to two inches. As the sticky threads continue to stretch, many of them have begun to be broken, and then they shrink reluctantly and finally turn into a drop of water at the origin. The traction force of Li Yan's body is constantly decreasing.
At this time, Li Yan's mind had begun to become confused. The moment of clarity he had just had was now replaced by the tremendous pain of his poisonous body being separated. There was only one thought in his mind, which was to get out of this painful state as soon as possible.
However, his body kept falling, making it impossible for him to concentrate on his practice. Subconsciously, he suddenly struck a posture, which was exactly the posture he could make in his current state.
When he assumed this posture, a great force suddenly emerged in his body. This force did not come from his dantian or purple organs, but from his muscles and bones.
As soon as this force emerged, it was like thousands of troops and horses, directly filling Li Yan's entire body, and directly breaking his slowly separating poisonous body into dozens of pieces.
However, this sudden impact was too violent. Li Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the secret room, suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood, which shot out like a blood arrow several feet away.
But then, Pingtu's eyes lit up, and the light that was almost disappearing on Li Yan's forehead slowly lit up again.
Li Yan felt that his internal organs were suddenly impacted by a strong force, as if they were being stirred by someone's hands. He almost fainted.
However, having practiced this familiar pain thousands of times, his instincts had become habits, and as he groaned, he felt his mind suddenly become clear.
The moment he woke up, he found that although his hands were still on the eighth step, his body was strangely twisted and seemed to be suspended in mid-air.
At this moment, there were surges of power surging in his body, and his reassembled poisonous body was instantly broken into dozens of pieces. Even his originally dried-up tendons and veins were recovering at an astonishing speed with magic power like a tide.
Looking at his strangely twisted body, Li Yan's eyes flashed.
"Qiongqi Purgatory Technique? I never thought that this technique could produce such strange power here."
However, this was not the time for him to think too much, nor was there time to check the condition of the fragmented poisonous body in his body. When he felt his physical strength was full, Li Yan clenched his hands into fists and grabbed all the remaining long sticky threads.
At the same time, the foot that had started to move away from the steps moved around, wrapping hundreds of sticky threads around the ankle. He shouted loudly and exerted force at three points at the same time, pulling it upwards.
The body, which was originally upside down, straightened itself up at an incredible speed under the huge pressure.
At the same time, his other foot had hooked onto the eighth step from suspended in the air. This process was very short, and the sticky threads had already broken under this strong pull.
When Li Yan straightened his body, there were less than fifty sticky threads in his hands. However, Li Yan did not stop, and with the pressure like a knife, he slowly stood up with a roar...
The Guishui Sutra and the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique in his body were running at the same time at this moment. He suddenly raised his leg, and amid the rumbling sound of the rules of heaven and earth suppressing him, he actually stepped on the ninth step again.
At this moment, an extremely cold and indifferent voice sounded in Li Yan's ears.
"How dare you, ant!"
The voice was as cold as eternal ice. Li Yan suddenly felt as if he was falling into the abyss. His rising body suddenly stopped, as if he was frozen in mid-air.
That voice went straight into Li Yan's heart, making him feel invincible, as if he could suppress everything. And at the same time as this voice was being heard, the eighth step under Li Yan's other foot began to shatter!