After the countless wind blades shattered, they quickly reformed again. A loud sound reverberated as Bai Xiaochun’s body whooshed past Lu Tianlei’s side in the blink of an eye.
The reformed wind blades behind him quickly chased and attacked him as if unwilling to admit defeat.
Lu Tianlei froze for a moment as he stared, his eyes felt as if they would pop out of their sockets. His scalp numbed and his mind was in a daze.
“Impossible!” He was shocked. He had personally witnessed the innumerable wind blades chasing after Bai Xiaochun, but they had actually… not caught up with him. In the blink of an eye, Bai Xiaochun had already dashed out of the zone filled with the wind blades.
The wind blades couldn’t chase after Bai Xiaochun outside and raged on the boundary when they suddenly seemed to notice Lu Tianlei…
“No… No!” Lu Tianlei’s heart thumped loudly. Even if he wanted to decrease his speed and his lightning-like figure immediately halted, those wind blades that were left behind by Bai Xiaochun would still throw themselves at Lu Tianlei.
Soon, a horrified scream rang out.
Bai Xiaochun could vaguely hear this scream as he ran ahead. He was very surprised, but had no time to even turn his head around as Elder Zhou’s furious howls seemed to be right behind him. Bai Xiaochun had a sullen look as he bitterly clenched his teeth and once again focused on running.
Fortunately, Elder Zhou passed through the wind blade zone while in pursuit of Bai Xiaochun. He rescued Lu Tianlei who was left in an extremely miserable state after being encircled by the countless wind blades and had had his clothes torn to shreds. If he hadn’t been rescued, Lu Tianlei would have likely been forced to give up on the trial.
“Bai Xiaochun!” Lu Tianlei’s eyes were red. He had recognised Bai Xiaochun and bellowed out.
Bai Xiaochun was completely unaware that he had caused a person to hate him down to the bone and continued running with lightning speed, passing one deserted zone after the other. Half an incense stick worth of time passed before the end of the bridge finally appeared in the distance.
“I am finally about to escape!” Bai Xiaochun was getting excited as he didn’t even notice the figure near the bridge’s end. That figure was struggling forward step by step.
Shangguan Tianyou was breathing heavily. The whole way up to the last zone had been very easy for him. Only now did he experience difficulties.
“This zone is actually suppressing my spiritual energy!” There was a fierce look in his eyes. Spiritual energy was shackled in this area and an immense pressure weighed down upon him as if he was carrying a mountain on his back. What was even more shocking was that with every step he took, it was as if an additional mountain was placed on his body. It seemed like a walk through a mere hundred steps, yet the difficulty made his whole body shudder as he was quickly reaching his limit.
The pressure increased as the mountains that weighed down on him increased even more, especially near the end. Currently, he seemed to be only eleven steps away from the exit, but he knew that the difficulty of these eleven steps was something that had surpassed everything that he had previously experienced in his life.
Shangguan Tianyou took a deep breath as a firm look surfaced in his eyes.
“The first place in the qualification battle originally already belongs to me. My goal lies within the Heaven’s Chosen War between the South and the North Bank. I will step into the inner sect with the status of the first in the Heaven’s Chosen War, and years later, I will step into the Spirit River Sect’s Legacy Order!” Shangguan Tianyou gritted his teeth and prepared to take a step forward when he suddenly sensed something. He turned his head around and took a glance behind him, immediately spotting Bai Xiaochun.
“It is him…” There was almost no one who did not recognise Bai Xiaochun in the South Bank. Even if they had not seen him before, they had attended his funeral and seen his portrait. Shangguan Tianyou was slightly astonished because he originally assumed that it was only natural that the person behind him would be Lu Tianlei.
“It seems like my expectations for Lu Tianlei might have been too high. He too is trash.” Shangguan Tianyou retracted his gaze. He was only slightly surprised and decided to disregard Bai Xiaochun. In his heart, Bai Xiaochun and him were not people of the same level. After taking another step forward, Shangguan Tianyou’s whole body shuddered. He clenched his teeth as all the bones in his body creaked.
Almost in the same moment when Shangguan Tianyou took this step, Bai Xiaochun entered the zone. He didn’t really feel anything when he took the first, second, third, fourth…
Only after he had taken the fiftieth step in a row did his body pause all of a sudden. He raised his head in surprise and glanced towards the sky.
“What is going on? I feel as though my body is slightly heavier.”
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