Chapter 27: Ascension Ladder

A few buzzing noises attracted the children's attention, and the spirit boat slowly started to move. In just a moment, the spirit boat slowly rose up and sailed towards the distance at a high speed.

They are all children who have rarely seen a real immortal cultivator. Everyone was shocked when they saw this scene. They were all deeply moved by this fantastic ability and marveled at the magic of cultivating immortals.

Although a small number of them have experienced the feeling of being above the heavens, most of them have never seen such a scene.

Yun Shang is a materialist of the 21st century, and all these things are simply a subversion of her cognition.

Now we have to overturn all previous concepts, such as gravity and atheism. Now she truly believed that immortals could really fly and hide underground.

The journey to the sect was long, and Yun Shang was still small and could not withstand the waves of the flying boat. So she returned to the room the monks had prepared for them.

The flying boat seemed to have passed through a layer of transparent film, and also pushed away the thick mist. In the distance, we could see green mountains, rushing waterfalls, and chirping birds. It was so beautiful and ethereal that it could not be described in words. Even Yun Shang, who had experienced a colorful world, could not help but be shocked by the scene before him.

"Senior Brother Lin!" A Taoist priest dressed similarly to the deacon who had tested spirits before came forward.

"Junior Brother Zhao, these are all the disciples selected from the secular world this time, a total of 283 people. Please take them to their places."

It turned out that the deacon who she had been working with for a long time was named Lin.

"Two hundred and eighty-three people! It's quite a harvest. Are there any good talents?"

There are nearly three hundred people, and the most number of people selected as disciples in previous years was no more than a hundred.

"It's not bad. There are four with single spiritual roots, and there are also a few good ones with double spiritual roots. I am just about to go to Chenghe Hall to report to the headmaster." Lin Chengzhi smiled and twirled his beard.

"Four single spiritual roots! Congratulations, senior brother, congratulations, senior brother!" Zhao Guangshun's heart skipped a beat.

Lin Chengzhi was really lucky. Originally, it was a task that no one in the Deacon Hall was willing to take, but he was asked to take it. But it was too late to regret now.

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Yun Shang and the others were placed in a hut at the foot of the mountain, two people per room.

Even until she lay down on the bed, she still felt a sense of unreality, but it seemed that the Immortal Sword Sect was really not bad!

After a good night's sleep, the next day everyone was gathered in a small square at the foot of the mountain. There were already more than 10,000 people gathered in the small square.

"My future junior brothers and sisters, I am Zhao Guangshun, the deacon of the Deacon Hall. I will inform you to complete this entry test."

Zhao Guangshun's sleeves fluttered, and his voice was heard by the novices in the square. Seeing everyone's performance, Zhao Guangshun nodded with satisfaction.

Then, he pointed to a small bluestone staircase towering into the sky behind him and said, "This is Ascension Ladder set up by our sect's founder, Daojun Qingyang. Please calm down and take a walk. The time limit is three days, but you must not give up halfway. Once you give up, it will be regarded as automatically giving up becoming a disciple of our sect, and we will send you back to where you came from."

Anyone who wants to become a disciple of Immortal Sword Sect must climb the Ladder to Immortality.

The Ladder to Immortality has a total of 10,000 steps, and disciples are required to reach the highest step within three days, otherwise they will be considered unqualified.

The first three thousand stairs do not have any formations, the middle three thousand stairs are the gravity multiplication area, which tests the disciples' perseverance, the last three thousand stairs are the illusion area, which tests the disciples' character, and the last one thousand stairs are ordinary stairs.

The elimination rate of Immortal Sword Sect's Immortal Staircase is actually very high. Once you step on it, all your spiritual power will be useless. It's unfortunate that she doesn't have physical training technique and can't practice it before.

Yun Shang watched others climb the ladder first before she began to climb. As soon as she stepped onto the first step, her whole body's spiritual power was imprisoned. It turned out that this was how it felt to have no spiritual power. She did not rush to climb up, but instead spent a little time to experience the feeling of having her spiritual power imprisoned.

Without spiritual power, the monks would not become weak, but would become like ordinary people. Without spiritual power, Yun Shang kept climbing up at a constant speed. She could not tell how much time had passed or how many steps she had climbed. She just kept climbing mechanically.

Differentiation occurs in the middle gravity multiplication area. This stage requires disciples not only to have strong willpower, but also to have a healthy and strong body.

Yun Shang felt just a little tired during the first three thousand steps, but when she entered the gravity multiplier area, she felt a huge force of gravity pressing down on her.

At the beginning, she can just work hard and could still move slowly, but the higher she went, the greater the gravity became, and her pace became slower and slower. When she was about to climb to the top of the gravity zone, her mind went blank, and the fatigue of her body was clamoring for her to stop. If there hadn't been a voice in her mind telling her not to give up, she would have probably fallen down.

Sweat dripped into her eyes, which stung a little, she looked up, took a step forward, and she would be able to pursue the freedom she longed for. She would just climb up slowly.

"It seems that there are several good seedlings in this class. They all have good perseverance and character. It's a blessing for the sect." A Yuanying elder on the main peak of Immortal Sword Sect said.

"The qualifications of the first few are good, and their family background is indeed extraordinary." Another elder followed up.

"Take a good look. If there is a suitable one, you can add one or two disciples." The head of Immortal Sword Sect said. The head was also very satisfied with the disciples selected by various families this time.

After a day, some were still at the end of the gravity zone, while others had already begun to crawl to the top. The few people in the top area were basically the children of the five major families, which showed that the families were still very good at training their disciples.

Yun Shang is in the middle, continued to climb upwards with tenacity, and before she knew it, she stepped into the illusion area.

The illusion area tests the monks' hidden thoughts. Yin Shuang saw her past life in the illusion. In her past life, she spent her life routinely every day, without any worries. 

But when she saw her past life again, she was filled with many regrets, regret that she doesn't pursue her dreams, regret just marriage with man introduced by family without love, regret just following the crowd manically everyday, in the end she just die in the last life alone without anyone accompanying.

Thinking about it now, why didn't she work harder? Why didn't she try before giving up?

Now that she has new life, she will live fulfilling life even though her body stattered, trying to live her life with conscience and not leaving more regret.

She doesn't want to live muddle headly anymore!

She want to live more freely without constrain!

The moment she cleared her mind, Yun Shang felt refreshed and her state of mind improved a lot. At this time, outsiders saw that her cultivation level had risen from third level to fourth level of qi training.

The elders on the main peak of Immortal Sword Sect were amazed at Yun Shang's sudden enlightenment after she broke through her own illusion and felt that she had a very high level of character and understanding.

Afterwards, Yun Shang climbed the ladder to immortality with a calm expression in the last one hundred stairs, and pass the test.