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Poseissi looked oddly at Luo Yu, who was leisurely stretching his body.

What's up with this guy?

Can't you see that this group of so-called geniuses barely climbed more than thirty steps before they failed miserably?

Don't you get the concept of knowing when to retreat?

Are you really going to be so stubborn, get defeated, and then come back down?

Luo Yu said speechlessly, "What's with that look in your eyes?"

Poseissi walked over.

Her figure swayed gracefully, a pair of fair legs appearing and disappearing under her red robe, exuding a hazy beauty.

She lowered her voice, "I think you should consider this carefully, don't rush to conquer this challenge. You still have a year to train and improve."

Luo Yu asked in surprise, "If I can clearly go up now, why should I wait another year?"

Poseissi bit her silver teeth, cursing Luo Yu for not understanding her good intentions.

"You say you can go up now, but what if you can't climb many steps? How embarrassing would that be?"

"It's okay if you're embarrassed, but this could cause everyone to doubt the Sea God's judgment, and then shake the Sea God's position in everyone's hearts."

"I … embarrassed?"

Luo Yu's pupils dilated, his expression comical.

"So you don't trust me at all?"

He was somewhat between laughter and tears.

Poseissi shook her head repeatedly, quickly explaining, "It's not that I don't trust you, but under the coverage of the Sea God's Light, climbing these one thousand and one steps is even harder than becoming a Titled Douluo overnight."

"By your logic, I might as well leave the island quickly, so much for a challenge," Luo Yu said irritably.

"No way!" Poseissi immediately panicked.

Luo Yu's deep black eyes stared into Poseissi's.

"For other matters, you need not intervene."

"Let me handle the stair climbing."

"You just need to keep doing your job."

Poseissi was somewhat dazed. How many years had it been? No one had dared to speak to her like this for many years.

She wasn't angry, but instead, she felt a strange sensation.

She wasn't very averse to Luo Yu's overbearing manner.

"What do I need to do for you?"

Luo Yu said, "Didn't you say before, that my test is to kiss you until I've climbed all the steps?"

"This…"

Poseissi's intentionally avoided thoughts were brought up again.

Actually, her repeatedly advising Luo Yu not to rush into the challenge was really because she feared facing this situation.

She wasn't ready to give away her first kiss just yet.

But now, faced with Luo Yu's swift and decisive attitude, she felt she couldn't refuse.

Wait a second!

Poseissi's eyes suddenly lit up.

She had thought of a perfect way to stall.

"Ahem."

She said to Luo Yu, "I'm willing to join you in the assessment and offer any help, even if it means kissing you."

"However, there's a problem now. If you don't have the capability to pass the one thousand and one steps, and I let you kiss me, and you still fail, then wouldn't I have sacrificed in vain?"

"Sacrificed?" Luo Yu raised a black line on his forehead. "Please watch your language."

"If I kiss you, it's clearly because I am forced by the Sea God's requirement, sacrificing my personal purity. How can you say you're at a loss?"

Poseissi clenched her teeth.

"How is it not my loss? It's my first kiss, after all!"

"It's my first kiss too!" Luo Yu replied without a change in expression.

Poseissi rolled her eyes.

I don't believe you for a second!

Do you think I'm blind, not seeing that you're always with a pretty young girl?

And it's obvious from the spring in the young girl's brow that she just recently came of age.

Luo Yu touched his nose.

"Who says only the first kiss is valuable!"

Poseissi felt a headache coming, begging, "Can we not talk about this anymore?"

"Then what should we talk about?" Luo Yu asked.

Poseissi's silver eyes flickered with intelligent light.

"You just need to prove to me that you have the ability to climb the one thousand and one steps, and then I'll let you kiss me all the way up."

"Is that a promise?" Luo Yu asked.

"Ah?"

Poseissi was stunned. He had agreed so easily?

This wasn't what she had expected at all.

Although she found Luo Yu's quick agreement strange, she thought it was good news that he had agreed.

"Alright, then it's settled."

Luo Yu didn't dawdle. His gaze swept over the faces of the Seven Pillar Guardians and all the young failures present.

Finally, it rested on Poseissi.

"Watch closely, I'm going up."

With that, he turned and stepped onto the jade staircase, where the Sea God Hall above the thousand steps was sprinkling divine glory under the sunlight.

The Sea Horse Douluo mumbled in complaint.

What did he think this place was, that he could just say he was going up?

Soon he would know what it was like to be put in his place.

The Sea Dragon Douluo crossed his arms, waiting to see the joke unfold.

The other Pillar Guardians also watched with interest, with an attitude of waiting for a good show.

Purple Pearl clenched her tiny hands, somewhat nervous.

While she had faith in her man, the Titled Douluos and the Ultimate Douluos present didn't think highly of Luo Yu.

This caused her to also feel a flicker of concern.

"Step!"

The sound of footsteps on stone rang out as Luo Yu firmly placed his foot on the first step.

His expression was as usual.

And the corners of his mouth lifted.

This flight of stairs covered in Sea God's Light was indeed interesting. As soon as he stepped onto them,

he felt a tremendous pressure coming from all directions, aggressively squeezing his body.

It was like pushing a finger into a balloon. The deflated balloon tried to pop him out, aiming to squeeze him off the steps.

A layer of golden mist appeared around his body, and Luo Yu could clearly feel that this substance was constantly draining his Soul Power.

Just as he had expected, those young ones probably fell because they couldn't withstand this sort of pressure.

"What's that guy doing standing there? He can't be having trouble with the first step, can he?" frowned the Sea Dragon Douluo.

The Sea Horse Douluo shook his head.

"Shouldn't be. I think this kid is pretty strong; he definitely isn't that weak. He should make it at least a hundred steps."

"A hundred steps? Just now, our best genius only made it to over thirty steps," Sea Star Douluo couldn't help but say.

"Don't underestimate the successor of the Sea God so much. A hundred is doable, two hundred is hopeful, any more than that is unrealistic," said the Sea Horse Douluo with an air of mystery.

Poseissi was actually listening to them speak, but within, she silently offered a different answer.

Five hundred steps, this man should be able to climb five hundred.

But even if he was extraordinary, that was as far as he could go.

"Tiny Droplets, Tiny Droplets, Tiny Droplets!"

An astonishing scene unfolded.

After pausing for a long time on the first step, Luo Yu suddenly bounded up energetically.

As if he were walking on ordinary stairs, or as though he were running on land,

he crossed thirty steps in the blink of an eye. Before the crowd could even process their shock, Luo Yu had already crossed a hundred steps and continued to ascend.

"Holy shit, he's that fast??"

"What's happening?"

"What exactly is going on?"

"How did he do that, completely ignoring the pressure of Sea God's Light?"

The young geniuses who had just been squeezed down by Sea God's Light were completely dumbfounded. Having just experienced it firsthand, they knew better than anyone else how difficult it was to traverse each step.

Yet the guy above, who they didn't think was much older than them, was almost flying up the stairs?

Could it be that there was something wrong with Sea God's Light?

A young man murmured to himself and leaped up, attempting to imitate Luo Yu and cross dozens of steps at once.

"Pfft!"

His eyes bulged as if he was instantly subjected to a massive and terrifying pressure. He spat blood violently, catapulted far away, and crashed into the ground.

"It hasn't... broken?"

When the crowd noticed this scene, they were thoroughly startled.

If the Sea God's Light wasn't broken, then there was something different about Luo Yu!

When they looked towards Luo Yu again, he had already crossed five hundred steps and reached the seven-hundredth, still soaring effortlessly, climbing higher and higher.

The Seven Pillar Guardians of the Sea Horse looked at each other, their faces slapped figuratively.

Poseissi was also open-mouthed in astonishment, her mind swaying with shock.

"This... This is impossible."

"How did this man do it?"