Chapter 44: Survive

Lu Xie kept going up the stairs with ease, she wanted to catch the attention of the female leads, so she can execute her next step. She covered half of her face to become a little mysterious.

Upon reaching the 500 steps she looked down and saw a lot of people struggling in the 100 and 200 steps only a few were on the 500 steps and some are still going up. She pretended to rest for a while then stood up again.

'System, are the female leads watching' she thought

[Yes, host]

Lu Xie then start running up again, and the pressure increased as she go forward but her body was tempered by lava and her excellent control over mana and Qi helped her absorb the mana that is on the stairs cultivating her core.

The four female leads become very interested in this girl and was watching her for a while. They didn't even speak with the man beside them.

Reaching the 800 steps, Lu Xie wiped the sweat on her forehead.

All the watchers were all dumbfounded, this timid girl has reached the 800 steps and didn't even get tired.

"F*ck is she serious"

"I can't believe my eyes, am I dreaming"

"Aahhh, I wish I was her"

"This girl actually reach 800 steps such a record breaker"

The people all exclaimed from below.

Lu Xie felt a little tired but she wanted to break the record of the male lead who reached 850 steps. She pretended to lift her foot with difficulty and keep taking a step every 10 seconds.

"Hmmm, quite a courageous girl," a woman in the private room said lightly

"She's the first-ever woman who reached the 800 steps in less than an hour" one of the women also said a little cold

"I'm looking forward to her spiritual root," a woman in red said

While the last woman nodded lightly.

Lou Zhen who was sitting with the four beauties had a frown on his face, he watched as the girl walked passed his level. He had a good impression of this girl when he saw her her eyes were innocent and clean but what caught him was her beautiful night sky eyes that seem to twinkle like the stars. He caught a glimpse of her eyes when she was moving forward.

Seeing that she was persisting in going up even though she had passed his record, he admired her for her determination to reach the top.

Lu Xie felt the pressure kept getting heavier, her legs were weak and they were trembling which can be seen by the naked eye. Of course, she's pretending.

The eyes of the elders were all shining they wanted to recruit this girl, being able to reach 900 steps and surpassing the current record holder was impressive enough but she still wants to go up.

"Hurry, I want this girl to come to my sect," the Zhou sect said to his disciple hurriedly

"Yes master" the disciple nodded

The 3 sects also did the same and waited for the second trail to finish while watching the girl almost kneeling on the steps but kept moving forward.

Lu Xie had sweats running down her forehead to her neck, she was becoming tired, she's only in the Stage 4 Qi foundation even though her control is good her Qi can't hold that much on her and would eventually be emptied.

She knew if she emptied her Qi she would receive backlash from using too much Qi that would overload her body and kill her.

She look up and saw that there were only a few more steps before she could reach the 1000 steps.

The elders watched her persistent determination to reach the very top and could only shake their heads that the last step is not a joke. A lot of elders tried it before but none of them reach this kind of level and yet a new cultivator can do it.

The moment Lu Xie stepped on the 1000 steps it felt like she was carrying 10,000 tons of concrete on her back. Her right knee kneels and bowed her head as if greeting some kind of royalty.

Everyone single person in the arena was dumbfounded a girl with only a stage 4 Qi foundation was able to reach the top with sheer will and persistent determination.

"EVERYONE SHOULD STAND UP PROPERLY FOR 10 SECONDS IN YOUR PLACES"

Hearing what the mc said Lu Xie stood up with her first clenched and her body shaking. Her looked hazy

"10...9...8...7...6...5...4..3..2...1"

"CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO PASS"

Hearing that she passed, the stairs slowly disappear under her feet, and the pressure was removed. Her body falls from the sky going down to the ground.

But before she hit the ground a soft fire bed appeared and caught her softly letting her rest on a bed of fire.

Some cultivators were ready to catch her but look like it was unnecessary, and went back to their sits.

"CONGRATULATIONS FOR PASSING THE SECOND TRAIL. NOW LET'S HAVE OUR LAST TRAIL"

This time only around 86 participants were left, are all gathered down the podium elders were sitting on the other side and at the center was a tall statue with engravings.

This statue is to determine what spiritual roots you have and their rank.

In the ranking there is...

Ordinary

High

Rare

Superior

Grand

??? (Legendary)

"LET'S START WITH MISS ..."

The Mc called their names and ranked their spiritual roots then if elders are interested they raise their signs.

"NOW LET'S CALL MISS LU XIE"

Lu Xie walked to the small podium and walked toward the statue while fidgetting her fingers.

"Put your hand on this stone and release some of your Qi to activate it" the mc softly explained

Lu Xie nodded obediently and put her hand on the round stone then release her Qi.

"FIRE SPIRITUAL ROOT"

"Please put your hand on this place to know your ranking"

Lu Xie did and put her hand on the next round stone, the statue shone and glowed the glow going upward.

"Rank..."

"Wait it's still going up" watchers yelled

The mc and the elders saw the ranking is still going up it pass rare and superior ranking.

"Waah, one grand ranking"

"This girl is invincible"

"This is the first time I saw someone reach the grand ranking in their spiritual roots.

But then noticed that the glow didn't stop at the Grand ranking and went up again.

"This girl join my sect," all the elders said at the same time

A person with an unknown spiritual ranking only happened once every million years and this time they want to accept her immediately.

Lu Xie put on an uneasy face and her lips quivered a little.

Lou Zhen was stunned that not only surpass him in the second trail but also on the third trail but he didn't feel angry instead he was excited.

Seeing the girl was shaking, the elders might have scared the little girl.

"*Cough* please forgive us we didn't mean to scare you" The Gu elder first said

Lu Xie shook her head and her lips showed a smile.

"little girl all the leaders want you to join their sect which one would you as" Tian elder asked softly

"I..." Lu Xie was cut off

"Girl, join my sect I can give you anything you want" The Zhou elder interfered he felt the Tian elder is planning to snatch the little girl

"Little girl, join mine instead I can give you a lot of treasure" the Mu elder also said

"You old geezers you have no moral, girl join mine I can give you all the treasures," the Gu elder said with a thick face

Lu Xie put on a worried face while she was laughing inwardly about how this elder fought over her.

"Stop, I know all elders want this girl then how about we took her in like how we did with the other one" Tian elder suggests

"Ahem... Your right let's do that" The elders pretend to calm down

The watchers all had a deadpan face, this is the second time they saw the elders lose their cool into taking in people who have a high ranking.

"So little girl, we will be your masters from now on" Gu elder said

Lu Xie eyes beamed in happiness then knowhow to her masters.

"I greet the masters " her voice was sweet and enchanting

In the original plot, Lou Zhen was able to be a disciple by the four sects was because of his rare fire spiritual roots, all the female leads have been cultivating one common spiritual roots that is.

All the female leads cultivate a superior Ice spiritual roots, they needed someone with a powerful fire spiritual for them to ease the pain of the froze bite that occur every month.

An ice spiritual root is like winter but colder and the user can experience frost attack, which is why this need to balance it. Since ice is Yin and fire is Yang both parties can balance each other.

When the elders knew that Lou Zhen had a rare fire spirirual roots, they took him in to be a cultivation partner for their daughter.

Going to the arena, the leders were very curious why she was covering het face.

"This girl, you can remove your mask now" Zhou elder said softly his impression on this girl increase

Seeing her nervous he become curiuos why is she coverimg her face.

Lu Xie stood straight and was nervous she look back and forth to the elders and her hands clenched intofistst. Took a deep breath she slowly held the mask on each sidand e then removed it.

"...." Watchers

"...." Elders

"...." Female leads

"....." male lead

"???" Lu Xie