Prologue Part 5

Yang Long Started walking toward the Third Trial Area for the Rest and the Starting Position.

The 11 colored stairs of Wisdom is a mysterious place, it has its own will and it was built with a strong Will in mind. It's above a Divine Item in terms of Ranking but it's older than the entire Nether Realm combined in terms of age-wise.

It has a body made up of almost every metal and element in the cosmos and well it's quite spacious with extremely rich Heaven and Immortal Energy it still keeps absorbing more Spirit Essence with every passing moment.

Those who could cultivate here might even be able to strengthen their ability to communicate and resonate with the multiple types of Qi of this Nether Realm between Heaven and Hell.

However, due to the limited size of steps in the 3rd trial, we were told to limit the number of people stepping on it at once, it's only 60 feet wide for both stairs. The Stairs on the right are for Men and the Stairs on the left is for Women to walk up Yang Mountain.

It was for told that many eons ago, a Minor God of the Fire Path was obsessed with Blacksmithing and Crafting in the way of building things herd about the Stairs and took it upon himself to improve it from 9 colors to 11 colors for the Stairs of Wisdom.

So in the beginning, only people who're called up by their name can go up to the stairs and start walking, this was to prevent people from going up the stairs in masses and causing damage to the steps.

As this is the only one we have, we have to help people reincarnate naturally without King Yama's help, the only other way is to go through self-punishment through the 10 levels of hell and to wait until there time is served and finished.

But there are only a few people who can still do that, but there are some who still get upset at the system we have in place, but since this mountain area is still the area of the Diyu empire in the Nether Realm.

They keep there complaints and opinions to themselves as they don't want to be stuck here, longer they have to be, or thrown in the 10 levels of hell in that canyon over there.

- Hell Vally covered in Purple flames Off in the distance

( was covered in Dark Red and Purple Flames, there were screams coming out of it )

Most people though are quite behaved, and respect the rules.

Most are looking forward to returning to any of the realms of the living.

As they would rather leave here than stay here with the possibility of never leave by upsetting a powerful entity and being thrown into one of the levels in hell Below.

Those who can rank at the top or even clear it these trials will be much luckier and better off in their next life when they finish.

The closer you get to the end of each trial puts you in a better position in your next life, if you do well you could become an immortal and live life practically forever, but if you do poorly in the trails you could end up on the streets homeless and crippled, but your luck could change no matter how well you do or what you do in your cultivation or happens in your life as your luck could change any second.

You could save someone and end up meeting Immortal Physician who heals your cripple body and end up on the path of cultivation for good changing your life overnight, or you could kill someone child and be, captured and tortured by that person's parents and live the rest of your life miserable and alone.

But as I said The better you do the better you'll life will be for in your upcoming life is the most enticing thing I could say though anyway let's go."

These two mountains were encircled and filled with billions of people.

There were two altars on each side of the pair of stairs at the beginning of this 3rd trial.

On the left side, there was a number on a huge board, when the number changed a person was seen going up the stairs.

On the right side had a leader board with names and ranking from 1st place to the bottom of the 10,000 positions on the leader board with names switching back and forth.

There were many attempts next to their name on the left and their total points on the right of their name, the further one looked up the mountain the less you'd see people in groups, the further you went up the harder it got with different levels of gravity and laws they faced.

[ EXAMPLE OF BOARD]

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Rank / Tries / Name of Contestant / Points

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1./ 1 / Sung Huo / 145,345,890

2./ 4 / Ash Fang / 117,789,765

3./ 13 / Qin Dao / 111, 345,555

4./ 2 / Ye Lingshang / 100,000,000

5./ 6 / Yang Huo / 98,876,888

6./ 23 / Wen Yangshuo / 78,458,678

7./ 9 / Shi Tang / 66,456,676

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So you were less likely to see people climbing in groups.

But no matter what, regardless of what level you were walking up the flight of steps people were sitting, cultivating, and resting from exhaustion and injuries.

Others we're chasing other people or fighting each other for a higher position on the stairs most would shove and push as they climbed higher against others, resulting in injuries or falling off the stairs, causing them to start over and climb again up again.

Yang Long walks up to the back of the large group of people, standing at the bottom of the stairs.

Suddenly, some people at the back of the group heard Yang Long walking up from behind them.

Turning around, one of the people that looked like a teenager, walked up to Long with excitement, like a kid seeing a puppy.

"Hi, my name is Lu Soul, well at least for now, who knows if it will be when I enter my next life, this will be my 4th try at it, I didn't do so well the last 3 times so I'm gonna try again."

"Are you going to go up the mountain too?

"Yes, I'm gonna go up to the top, my goal is to finish this trail near the top of the stairs."

A couple of the people and other species around them laughed and mocked in low voices nearby.

However, Yang Long paid no attention to these other people, even though he's never been mocked before, they didn't concern him as he wasn't going to see them again after this anyway when all this was said and done, he just ended up ignoring them, within the end, ended upsetting them even more.

So are you going to use a Soul Trace Stone so when you reincarnate your family will come and get you when you reborn or are you looking for a fresh do-over, I'm gonna do a fresh do-over as my whole clan was killed, then I got my revenge on that clan after that, I stared at the sunset until I died of blood loss after happily killing them all.

"So what's your name?"

"Hi Lu Soul, my name is Yang Long I don't know what I'm gonna do?"

"What!!!!!"

A lot of the people that were looking at the people climbing the stairs, who were betting, talking,

or cheering other people on as they climbed up the stairs turned around in fright.

"Your Yang Long!"

"Yes, I am what's wrong?"

Are you from the Yang Clan in the immortal realm I've heard so much about you?."

- A man within the group shouted

Then even more people started to look over in confusion.

Yang Long grinned, at the man's question

"So it's true?" - Lu Soul

Yes, I'm from the Yang Clan, I'm here because of what my Uncle BanJiao and his sons did to me and caught me off guard, and that's how I ended up here.

I heard your father and uncle were fighting a couple of days or so ago and one of your clan's ancestors had to break up the fighting, now they're both in jail and your cousins on house arrest for suspicion.

(Awhh crap) - Yang Long

"Yang Long, how long have you been here, you looked surprised when I said that!"

"Yea I didn't know!"

"What... really ?"

"Yea why?"

"Well, time here in the Nether Realm is affected differently."

"What really !!!"

"Well Yea, if it's been just a day it been about 3 Days where you're from!"

"What!!!!!"

"Yang Long, here let me show you."

Lu Soul releases his Aura and creates a small dagger from his Soul Essence.

He then begins to draw into the dirt as he makes a diagram for Yang Long to read.

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1 Sec = 1 Min

1 Min = 1 Hour

1 Hour = 1 Day

1 Day = 1 Week

1 Week = 1 Month

1 Month = 1 Year

1 Year = 1 Decade

1 Decade = 1 Century

1 Century = 1 Mellennium

1 Mellennium = 1 Age

1 Age = 1 Epoch

1 Epoch = 1 Era

1 Era = 1 Eon

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"I can't wait any longer" - Yang Long

Hey, you have to wait for your turn or you'll be sent to the 1st level of hell! - Lu Soul

"No, I don't actually!" -Yang Long

Hey you...

Yang Long released his Cultivation aura, half of the surrounding people at the foot of the mountain

fell down under the pressure and flew back.

"Wow, Yang Long is really strong!" - Lu Soul

"Hahaha Lu Soul, till we meet again and if we don't see each other again, good luck"

Yang Long turned around stepped down hard on the ground causing the ground to crack and break in certain spots, then pushed off hard jumping towards the first step, feeling the strong pressure upon him, he looked up, with anger started running up the steps.

When the guards saw a man running up to the stairs they begun to run out and block his way, they heard a voice.

(He doesn't have to follow the normal rules!)

Yang Long gave off a Dragons Roar as he started his ascent up Yang Mountain.

The guards then moved out the way and bowed there heads to him.

A lot of people within the crowd got upset, that this person they saw acting arrogant as he didn't have to follow the rules like the rest of them and then they started to complain out loud.

"Must be nice to have a background"

"I wish I could do whatever I wanted"

Hey that's not fair, you stupid guards"

The guards grab that guy, ended up throwing him violently into a Soul cage.

"Look at him go."

He's already done with the first section and now he's half-way up the second section."

"That's a Proadgy right there for ya, he's like an unstoppable charging angry dragon that's being challenged, as he's running up the stairs."

As Yang Long was going up he was getting scorned and dirty looks from other people as he climbed.

The guards that were stationed along the way up the mountain saw him running up and a lot had their eyebrows raised.

Yang Long was within a minute out, the people at the bottom of the mountain was out of their sights when he reached the second section of the 3rd trial.

At the beginning of the 6th section of the 3rd trial was a group of teenagers from the divine realm causally chatting and look around as they claimed up the stairs.

"Xiao Dao, why do we have to crush these Soul Stone things again when we reach the top of Yang Mountain?" - Kai Tang

"Kai These things (Purple Crystal Stone) are Soul Trace Stones, not Soul Stones, Soul Stones are for helping us cultivate our souls by making them stronger.

The Soul Trace Stones mark our Soul and bodies so our families can feel our souls, it helps them find us, you dumbass! - Xiao Dao

" There's a reason why Immortal families last several eons there families and clans or Martial Sects have ways to recover their members when they die. Then they would go and pick them up after they're born, if someone kills one of their family members, they can find out who killed them after their family member is reborn. Hence the reason we have these Soul Trace Stones from our clans again Kai ." - Xiao Dao

"Hurry up you two, I don't want to stay here in this dreadful Nether Realm for a second longer it makes me get the chills Auughh" - Yu Yuyin

"Your such a Girly Girl, Yuyin" - Kai Tang

"I'm not a Girly Girl, Sensor Sister Sai, Kai is bullying me again." - Yu Yuyin

"Kai you better behave yourself!" - Su Sai

" Shush, Do you guys hear something" - Tang Fu

"What's that weird noise, it sounds like...!" - Xiao Dao

"I hear it too." - Hu Ling

"Where's it coming from?" - Su Sai

"Look it's below us!" - Yu Yuyin