Giving Pointers

"Why doesn't he proceed?

"He can't go further, perhaps?"

"Yes, we can't see beyond the hundred steps because the mist is thicker. I wonder, how does it look like beyond the one hundredth step?"

"How would we know? Didn't you notice that everyone who reached the one hundredth step of the Immortal Ladder fell down?"

"He probably doesn't have the courage to go up there! It's already incredible that he's brave enough to attempt to climb the Immortal Ascension Ladder at such a young age."

"Indeed, we are watching from down here, and we dare not even try."

The cultivators who looked up from below talked, wondering why the figure in dazzling red didn't go any further.

Feng Jiu stopped at this juncture because she noticed that Old Patriarch Xie did not slow his pace after he and his son had reached the one hundredth step. Xie Yan had only reached the second step when it became difficult for him to take another.