I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

On the 365th step, the violent golden light resembled a waterfall of mercury weighing tens of thousands of tons.

Xiao Ting gripped the cracks in the stone slabs tightly with both hands, his fingernails cracking and bleeding profusely.

He was panting heavily, and the lightning magic on his body had completely dissipated.

"Oh crap, I can't take it anymore."

Xiao Ting rolled his eyes, sprawled out on the gray steps, too weak to even move a finger.

Li Changge was less than two meters away from him.

This usually ethereal and otherworldly swordsman was now kneeling on one knee, using his three-foot-long flying sword to support his body.

Sweat mixed with blood dripped down his chin, evaporating instantly upon touching the bluestone slab.

Li Changge gritted her teeth, her usually cold face contorted slightly with pain.

The situation was even worse on the steps below.

At the 180th level, Li Xuangang, like a collapsing iron tower, slammed one knee onto the white jade slab.

The physical strength of a hundred thousand tons was repeatedly defeated in the face of the torrent of laws.

"I can't take it anymore."

Li Xuangang's chest heaved violently.

Feng Wuhen stopped at level 165. His Bloodlust True Intent was forcibly forced back into his body, and the scarlet baleful energy couldn't even leave his body half an inch.

Gu Qingshan, on the other hand, remained at level 200.

Everyone understood perfectly.

The baptism at Kunlun and the ascent of the White Jade Heavenly Steps are only the first step.

These 999 steps serve as both a selection process and a tempering process.

The second step of the baptism, and the most crucial opportunity, is to comprehend the ten-thousand-meter-tall golden statue at the end of the void, which radiates boundless golden light.

The golden statue can directly address the essence of martial arts.

The closer you are to the statue, the higher the level you climb, the purer the martial arts essence unleashed by the pressure of the laws, and the more exponentially the comprehension effect will increase.

However, if one's vital energy is completely depleted under heavy pressure, leading to the collapse of one's spiritual consciousness, then one will lose even the qualification to comprehend it.

Let's stop here; there's no point in forcing it.

Gu Qingshan gathered his remaining true intent and sat down cross-legged on the two hundredth step.

He raised his head, his gaze passing over the golden streams of law light dancing in the sky, and landing on the majestic statue deep in the void. His mind quickly sank down, severing his sensory resistance to the immense pressure from the outside world.

Following closely behind, Li Xuangang, Feng Wuhen, and the prodigies of Kunlun Academy and Longjing Academy one after another gave up their futile struggles.

Some sat cross-legged, while others could barely maintain a seated posture. They all closed their eyes and concentrated all their mental energy on comprehending the golden statue.

"I'm AFK, I'm not playing with cheaters anymore."

Xiao Ting cursed and rolled over, managing to sit up cross-legged.

He took a deep breath, and the innate lightning within his body gradually subsided. As he closed his eyes, a phantom image of lightning re-condensed in his sea of ​​consciousness, and began to deduce the true meaning of lightning in the face of the magnificent golden light.

Li Changge let out a soft hum, laboriously pulled out the flying sword stuck in the floor tile, and placed it horizontally on his lap.

He sat upright on the 370th step, his polarized sword energy no longer radiating outwards, but instead flowing through his eight extraordinary meridians with his breath.

In the vast emptiness above Welcoming Peak, all the peerless geniuses stood still.

Only Shen Tian.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of sonic booms exploded wildly in the space above level 450.

The environment here has deteriorated to an unbelievable degree.

The surroundings have transformed into a world of dark gold crystals.

The whole world was poured into a kaleidoscope.

Level 460!

Level 480!

Shen Tian's black battle suit had long since turned to dust, revealing his muscular upper body with perfect muscle lines resembling those of an ancient Greek sculpture.

He let out a low, animalistic roar.

His fists, like heavy pile drivers, transformed into countless black afterimages.

Snap—Bang!

The giant crystal pillar, thirty meters long, shattered inch by inch under his fist, like an ice sculpture.

The violent reaction force transformed into visible, transparent shockwaves, tearing a vacuum tunnel hundreds of meters long through the surrounding space.

Those shattered fragments of law, carrying domineering energy, struck Shen Tian's flesh and blood without hindrance, forcibly squeezing into his meridians and bones through his pores.

Level 490!

Shen Tian was like an ancient ferocious beast that had smashed through the illusion.

His bulging muscles were as if cast from divine metal, and dense patterns of laws appeared on his body, shimmering with a vast golden light.

"Boom!"

The seemingly indestructible white jade slab shattered into pieces, with stone fragments being swept into the sky by the violent airflow.

……

The 500th step is almost here.

Shen Tian raised his leg and stomped down hard.

The moment I landed, the entire 10,000-meter-long staircase trembled violently like never before.

Ten thousand meters above the ground, Cang Yunzi and the other two eighth-level elders were shaken so badly that they almost fell from the clouds.

"Level 500... Level 500!"

The gray-robed elder's eyes were bloodshot, and he was breathing heavily.

At the 370th level below, Xiao Ting, who was concentrating on comprehending the golden statue with his eyes closed, was abruptly awakened by the tremor.

He suddenly opened his eyes, dark blue lightning crackling in them. Looking at the violently shaking lightning image above him, he almost collapsed on the spot.

"Holy crap, is this some kind of commotion to demolish Mount Kunlun?"

Xiao Ting swallowed hard.

Li Changge also opened his eyes, cold sweat pouring down his forehead. His natal flying sword trembled wildly on his knee, as if it were afraid of some even more terrifying ancient pressure.

On the 500th step.

Shen Tian stopped.

The moment his feet were firmly planted, the dark golden crystalline world around him seemed to have been turned on by some kind of destructive switch.

Click—click—

A crisp cracking sound rang in everyone's ears.

The dark gold law crystal pillar, which was originally as solid as a physical object, completely vaporized at this moment.

The scene in the sky suddenly changed drastically. The originally dazzling golden torrent of laws abruptly contracted, replaced by a deep and boundless dark purple starry sky.

An ancient aura, spanning millions of years, surged down from the depths of the void like a tsunami.

Shen Tian raised his head.

Against this dark purple starry backdrop, the ancient totems engraved on the surface of the white jade steps came to life, transforming into enormous phantoms that roared and hovered on both sides of the steps.

Immediately afterwards, blurry figures appeared out of thin air on the steps above the 500th step.

These figures are translucent, glassy in color, and include men and women, young and old.

They wore ancient coarse linen clothes or tattered animal skin armor, and the aura they exuded was so powerful it was suffocating.

Although the face was blurred, the overwhelming arrogance and desolation that dominated the world seemed to play a silent ancient war song in the void.

"That is..."

Cang Yunzi cried out in alarm from above the clouds, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Time and Space Remnants".

Ouyang Qianjue narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint flashing in his cloudy pupils.

"Only when future generations reach the heights that these ancient sages once attained, and their innate potential resonates with the Heavenly Ranks, will the Heavenly Ranks recreate the images of these sages climbing the barriers of time and space in the human world."

Shen Tian stood quietly on the five hundredth step, gazing at the illusory figures in front of him.

Just three meters in front of him, on the 501st step, stood a burly man with a bare upper body.

The burly man's body was covered in horrifying claw wounds, and he held a massive bronze axe riddled with nicks and chips upside down in his hand.

He was panting heavily, his illusory muscles bearing an extremely terrifying pressure from the heavens and earth.

The big man seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around.

That instant, a gaze that transcended millions of epochs, caused Shen Tian's blood and qi to boil completely.

The burly man's eyes held no fear of the oppressive weight of the laws, only a wild fighting spirit to sever his destiny.

"Humans..."

Shen Tian uttered two words softly.

Above the burly man, at the 510th step, stood a graceful woman, wielding a withered wooden staff, surrounded by a seven-colored elemental storm, forcefully tearing open the cascading waterfall of laws.

At level 530, an elderly man with white hair sat cross-legged with a guqin on his lap. As he plucked the strings, the sound waves transformed into tangible spatial blades, slicing the void within a hundred meters radius into pieces.

One after another.

Hundreds and thousands of afterimages of ancient sages covered the entire staircase leading to the golden statue.