After Li Tong passed out, it was pitch black, and he didn't know how long it had passed.
Consciousness returned, and he tried to open his eyes.
A vast expanse of white space.
Beside him is a stone tablet showing that one ten-thousandth of the progress has been completed.
Hunger, fatigue, and pain enveloped the entire body.
Li Tong couldn't figure it out, could anyone really pass such a test
This crippled body, let alone reaching the end, may not even be able to complete the next one-ten-thousandth of the journey. He will die of exhaustion on the road, yes, he will definitely die of exhaustion on the road!
Think about it, what kind of experience is it to walk up the stairs until you are about to die, and only complete one ten-thousandth of the distance
This is also the reason why Li Tong was so desperate that he fainted the moment he learned the truth.
Woke up now, but still desperate.
"Impossible, no one can pass such a trial!"
"You're playing with me, aren't you?"
Li Tong looked up at the sky and shouted in despair.
There was no response, and what answered him was a cold space and endless stairs.
Li Tong trembled and hesitated for a long time.
Finally, looking at the endless stairs, he took a difficult step.
keep climbing...
He won't give up!
It was obviously an impossible task, but for some reason, he really didn't want to give up.
Unwilling to fail here, his perseverance is invincible, to climb to the death!
He trembled and kept crawling, only to find that his body seemed to be in constant motion.
I don't know how long it took him to climb, but he climbed only 10,000 steps.
Li Tong smiled wryly.
I guess you won't be able to see the second stele until you die, right
As a genius of the Dou Zhan Shenzong, he came all the way to the Sijiu Xianzong to dream of the Xianzong. This dream will eventually be shattered...
Li Tong is not reconciled... How could he leave like a defeated dog
He bit it and continued to climb.
The idea of giving up has flashed through his mind countless times, his body that is enduring great pain persuades him to give up, his pride as a genius persuades him to give up, his reason persuades him to give up...
However, he is really not reconciled! !
Li Tong's state of mind has changed. The various thoughts in his mind have disappeared, and there is only one thought, which is to continue climbing.
Big deal, die on the road.
Sometimes, from immaturity to maturity, it may be just a moment.
Li Tong forgot how long he had been climbing, fainted several times, woke up and continued to climb.
I don't know where the 2/10,000 stone tablet is...
Until one time when he fainted from exhaustion, when he woke up leisurely, he found himself in a spacious hall, surrounded by tens of thousands of people who participated in the trial with him.
"Did you fail?" Li Tong murmured with his eyes flushed.
Then, he found that most of the monks were looking at him with strange eyes.
what happened
Why do these people look at him as a loser with envy and admiration
At this time, a very beautiful woman in white clothes appeared in front of him with a smile on her face.
The woman in white is the one who designed this trial, Bai Ling.
"Congratulations, Li Tong, you won the first place in this trial." Bai Ling smiled.
"No... first place?"
Li Tong was stunned and stuttered.
"I, haven't I reached the end?"
He remembered that he hadn't even reached the second ten-thousandth stone tablet. After experiencing countless coma, he finally came here between fainting and waking up for the last time.
"The end?" Bai Ling blinked, "That trial has no end."
Li Tong was confused again, and took a moment to say: "Didn't you say that the trial is successful only when you reach the end? And the stone tablet also said the distance to the end..."
"Oh, I lied to you. In fact, the stairs are endless and can never be climbed." Bai Ling confessed naturally.
Li Tong: "..."
Li Tong couldn't tell what kind of feeling he felt in his heart, he wanted to vomit blood.
The other nearly ten thousand monks looked at Li Tong sympathetically. When they heard the news, they also felt very fucked up. Some monks even fainted again...
Bai Ling put his hands behind his back, and looked into the void, as if he could see through the long river of time, and said slowly: "The ladder has no end, why is the road of seeking Tao not like this?"
"In the endless years, how many people have fallen on the road of seeking the Tao? No one can see the end of the Tao. The only thing you can do is to keep moving forward and see who goes further."
"Some people will despair and collapse because of the difficulty of seeking the Tao, and some people will give up soon. But there are also some people who keep walking and are not willing to stop like this. The only thought is to go on. There seems to be an end point, but I can't reach the end point at all, and then I am exhausted on the road."
Nearly ten thousand monks listened to Bai Ling's words, thoughtful, and some even lowered their heads in shame. Yes, this is a test of perseverance, everyone understands it.
However, understanding and being able to do it are really two different things.
Bai Ling looked at Li Tong with a look of approval on his face: "You are the only one who has not given up, and has walked the longest and longest steps among all the people here. You are the well-deserved number one!"
Hearing Bai Ling's words, Li Tong was once again moved by his persistence.
"Papa papa..."
I don't know who applauded first, and then the applause continued to roar, straight up to the sky.
Most of the monks were convinced by Li Tong's persistence.
Li Tong burst into tears unknowingly: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
When the monks heard his acceptance speech, the applause gradually cooled down.
Bai Ling: "..."
"Next, the top 1,000 people in the trial will have the second trial with me, and the rest will stand by and accept the establishment of the disciples of the outer cabinet, but there is also a trial, whether to go or stay, you can make a decision on the spot " Bai Ling said.
"Trial still?" Li Tong's eyes widened.
Bai Ling smiled coldly: "Do you think it's easy to be a core cabinet disciple of the Sijiu Xianzong?"
Li Tong stopped talking.
Just one trial of 10,000 people eliminated nearly 9,000 people. The next trial will be even more terrifying, right? Thinking of the feeling of life and death before, Li Tong panicked.
Even An Lin, Xuanyuan Cheng and others who were eating melons were shocked.
They put themselves in that trial and imagined that it was like a nightmare, and they might not be as good as Li Tong.
Climb the stairs until you die, just ask if you are afraid
Bai Ling is indeed a specialist in trial design, it's too scary!
Those monks who were eliminated were the first to give up.
Although they were disappointed, there was nothing they could do. The next thing they could do was to decide whether to continue to participate in the trial and strive to become the outer cabinet disciples of the Four Nine Immortal Sect.
The disciples of the outer cabinet deal with peripheral affairs, and the exercises and cultivation resources they have obtained cannot be compared with the core disciples of the cabinet.
But suzerain An Lin said that exceptionally outstanding foreign cabinet disciples have the opportunity to be promoted to core cabinet disciples...
Li Tong and nearly a thousand trial participants followed Bai Ling into the second trial.
(end of this chapter)