Disciple Acceptance Ceremony(Final)

Two days later, all the selected eighty-nine disciples who passed the test arrived at the foot of the mountain after saying goodbye to their families.

But when they all arrived and looked at the stairs, they felt their minds calm down, and a golden energy seemed to improve their foundation in martial arts.

Elder Xiao Yi was here, and he also looked at the stairs with burning eyes" What a great treasure," as he and all the disciples and elders had all tried to climb the stairs a day ago, which helped everyone improve their strength, understanding, and foundation of martial arts.

Even now, all of them are still in closed-door training, as they are trying to fully understand what they felt when they climbed the heaven stairways. He also wanted to quickly finish this apprenticeship final trial and go to close-door training.

"You all now are the disciples of the 'Divine Sword Sect' but only the best three of you will receive the special reward from the sect master himself, so this 'Heaven Stairway is the test and at the same time an opportunity for all of you."

"The more stairs you climb, the greater the benefit you all will get, and don't be sloppy; take every step with a firm mind and slowly feel the changes in you."

"Okay, now go," he immediately signaled to all the new disciples to climb the 'Stairs of Heavens'.

The voice of Elder Xiao Yo echoed in the whole mountain, and with that, all the new disciples slowly started to climb the 'Stairs of Heavens'.

The moment they stepped on the stairs, suddenly they felt the world change and an invisible pressure was acting on them. Whether they used their qi or physical strength, the coercion did not decrease at all as it was not simply acting on them; it even affected the soul itself.

On the first step, many felt the difficulty of these stairs, but they all quickly noticed that the invisible pressure and golden energy seemed to sublimate their blood, qi, and even their soul.

They even felt many things, whether it was martial arts, technique, or any bottlenecks in their martial arts, all seem to slowly become more clear.

This caused all of the new disciples' eyes to light up, and they instantly resumed climbing to the second stair.

When everyone took a step and reached the second, the pressure they felt intensified, causing many to lose balance for a second and be about to fall, but they immediately controlled themselves and regained their balance.

They did not slow down and continued to climb upwards, but when this time they entered, the expression of the two people changed instantly, as they felt the pressure was so great that it made it difficult even for them to stand straight.

They were the weakest in this batch of disciples except Ji Ning, with only the fifth layer of the body refining realm, and it seems their foundation was not good, as just reaching the third stair has caused them such difficulties; they might not even be able to reach the fourth stair, so they stopped at this stair first and slowly tempered their mind and body, and after fully adjusting, they could try to go upwards.

But other new disciples did not stop there, as they went on with determination, and slowly, like before, at every step, someone would stop as they could not handle the pressure.

Slowly, after some time, the strongest of the new disciples climbed the seventh stair, and without much surprise, with Ji Ning as one of them. Now, there are only eight disciples on the seventh stair, and the weakest of them have reached the peal eight-layer body-refining realm, naturally with the anomaly of Ji Ning.

All of them looked surprised when they saw Ji Ning continue to climb with them, as many seventh- or even eighth-layer body-refining realm disciples had stopped ascending, but the weakest among the new disciples could still go on. This also finally made them understand that this talented disciple is really something.

But they all have a fighting spirit, and they will not give up easily. All eight of them slowly climbed to the eighth stair, and the moment their feet touched the eighth stair, a huge force came, knocking four of them. Only the remaining four climbed the eighth stair, and Ji Ning was still among them.

All the disciples below and Elder Xiao Yi were not shocked that the other three managed to climb the eight stairs, but Ji Ning's ability to climb was beyond their understanding. "How capable is this little monster?" Elder Xiao Yi wanted to know as he looked at the kid, who was still slowly climbing with a little pale face.

After making it to the eighth stairs, even the other three felt immense pressure, making their faces white, sweating heavily, and finding it even difficult to breathe.

Whereas Ji Ning was also taking a heavy breath with beads of sweat on his face, but it still seemed that he had some strength to go on.

They continued to move on and climb the ninth stair, and just like before, the force on these stairs increased tremendously, knowing two other disciples were leaving only two. One was Ji Ning, and the other was the only innate realm disciple who joined the sect.

They both looked at each other. Even though they were both feeling awful, they still had fighting spirit as they did not stop climbing but slowly moved small steps, gathering all of their remaining strengths, took the next steps, and climbed the tenth stair.

But every nine stairs is similar to a realm, and the tenth stair has reached the next level, and the moment they step foot on the tenth stair, the force is so much more; they feel their blood boiling, their bones seem to be crushed, and their internal order seemed to be in disorder, and finally, after a few seconds, both of them seemed to be unable to hold and reached their limits and were finally forced out.