Jun instantly activated the Boundless Dragon eyes. Everything came into focus. The movement of qi and almost all the invisible forces.His eyes can"t see gravity but he can see subtle movements. He could see the gra.s.ses, rocks and every other people"s body motion slow drifts lower. As his eyes shifts around he tried to find the source of this anomaly. Since this was a special circ.u.mstance Jun decided to deactivate his BEWFG body refinement method and reduce his weight back to 160. He instantly felt much more relieved as he sat down on the stairway. Using his consciousness he spread it out to try and find the source.
His eyes reached the elderly man below but he was basically taking a nap without anyones notice. Jun"s boundless dragon eyes kept scan and searching.
Inside Jun"s mind Jun could feel that his sword Blacky was trembling with excitement. After a whole minute Jun finally found the source of the problem. Inside the center of the mountain was a huge vein of a special black stone. Directly in the center is a black spherical stone that looks to have a 100 meter diameter. While the sphere was in the center there were black ores stretching out like spider webs.
Just as Jun locked onto it Blacky also locked onto it. The issue right now was 100 steps is not a lot.
Jun instantly sent a telepathic message Xintong and the group.
"Help me make a big commotion. Please," Jun asks.
"No problem I got you bro," San Ti messaged back. "They call me the king of commotion!"
"We got your back," Xintong also answered back.
Ziyu nods his head.
Xiao Hui was supporting his sister so he only sent back, "I"ll do what I can!"
"I"m too tired," =_= Xiao Mei answered.
They all glance at each other and it was like they already knew what to do. San Ti slid a couple feet back and elbows the biggest dude he saw there in the nuts.
Jun whence when he saw that and couldn"t help but feel but pray for the innocent guy.
The guy fell face first onto the floor as his face turns bright purple. His friend who saw it happen came rushing over.
"You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" He shouted and tried to hit San Ti.
Ziyu flicks a rock that hit the person"s punch which redirected it at the back of someone"s head.
"Which f*cking c*nt hit me!" the teenager yelled in rage as he releases his seventh stage master realm aura.
"He did," Xintong pointed at the one that did it.
At that time Xiao Hui finished setting up a mini illusion formation.
Jun did not waste any time as he whips out Blacky and super charge Blacky with the oblivion sword essence and Star freezing flame before thrusting it into the mountain.
Zoom! Blacky drilled into the mountain like it was made out of tofu. Furthermore with the pull of the gravity from the black stone Blacky was drilling in at a rate faster than anyone can imagine.
The commotion below became bigger and bigger while the Pill Shop group distant themselves from it like they didn"t have anything to do with it.
Black lines appeared on Jun"s forehead, as he thought this is definitely not the first time they did this.
As the commotion got bigger it also got louder. It finally reach the point where it was disturbing the elder"s sleep.
The elder"s eyes snap open as he was oozing with murderous intent.
"What the h.e.l.l are you guys doing!" He roars.
Instantly everyone froze.
"Blacky come back!" Jun commanded.
During that time Blacky reached the core in 20 seconds and like a hungry sponge he began sucking up everything. In a span of another 40 seconds Blacky absorbed almost 30 percent of the the black stone or better yet known as gravity stone.
Blacky was still not satisfied but he had to listen to Jun so Blacky reluctantly came flying back.
"We"ll have plenty of chance to get the rest. I promise."
Hearing Jun telling him that Blacky became extremely excited and dashes back.
When Jun touch Blacky"s hand he felt a slight shock ran through his system before tossing Blacky back into the inter s.p.a.cial ring. Then he used his palm to hit the dirt by the stairs. By using his mastery of the Earth Dao it was simplicity in itself to cover up the hold blacky made.
During that time the commotion died down and it might be due to blacky but the pulsing stopped too. Jun increased his weight back to 1000. He also noticed if he wanted to he could increase his weight to 1500 now too. He kept it have 1000. Strangely enough he felt that the gravity right now was significantly less than before. If before he had 35,000 pounds off force pressing down on him he was only feeling 25,000 now.
He was the only one on this mountain right now since the other people couldn"t handle the additional pressure due to the increasing pressure going way pa.s.s their limits when they already reached their limit. If not for the fact that Jun could freely manipulate his weight he be in the same boat.
Due to this incident only a mere 23 people pa.s.sed. No one pa.s.sed the 150 mark. When Jun looked at his token he notice that it turn up green on the top half of the Z. This probable means I pa.s.sed the first test.
When Jun returned back to the group everyone asked him what happened.
"My sword got excited and wanted to enter directly into the mountain," Jun explains. "Do you guys do that often?"
"Hehehe," they chuckled awkwardly and looks away.
"Oh look you better rest up Lin the next test is even harder than this one," San Ti said. "When me and Ziyu."
"Its Ziyu and I," corrected Xiao Mei on the side weakly.
"Shut up and rest," San Ti mocked rolling his eyes. "When Ziyu and I took the first test we pa.s.sed through it with a breeze.
"You barely made it to the 100th step," Ziyu chuckles softly.
San Ti looked shocked! "Brother Ziyu how can you throw me under the demonic hordes like that! Anyway I liked to be low profile unlike this show off who went directly to the 211th step. If I remember correctly the second test is a test of inner demons. Its call the 100 Samara cycle bridge. Each step along the way you will encounter an inner trauma, or inner demon. From there it be a test of battle technique comprehension. The last test is combat. Combat will be on the third day and tomorrow is comprehension of battle techniques."
"Do you have to clear all 100 steps to pa.s.s?" Jun asks.
"No you don"t requirement is only 10 steps. It tests the Dao heart. Those who pa.s.ses through all 100 steps is said to have a chance at ascending into the Empyrean realm or better yet known as the immortal realm. At that realm the person is free from the lightning tribulation."
"How many people has pa.s.sed through all 100 steps?" Jun asks.
"In history the number of people can be counted on one hand," San Ti declared as he held up his hand. "But I think this one is a copy. The real one is inside the College."
"How many of those ascend to the Empyrean realm?"
"No one really knows but they all stood at the peak of this world."
Time slowly pa.s.sed as eventually all the students were tested and out of the three hundred thousand of students that attended only 74,000 were left. These 74,000 could be considered the cream of the crop with firm physical and mental will foundation.
"How far did my brother go on this test?" Xintong asks Ziyu with hopeful yes.
"On the actual bridge inside the college your brother was the one only one to have made it to the 99th step but he couldn"t make that one final step. At the 99th step he fell into the illusion. I"m guessing the trauma was too strong at that point. I only managed up to the 32 step."
Xintong was still incomparable happy at how far her brother managed to go.
There were multiple bridges and each one of these bridges were 20 feet wide with a 100 steps across.
Xiao Mei managed to walk up to the 22nd step before she fell into the illusion. Half of the 74,000 students fell here. 1 person walked to the 64th step. 2 at the 57th step.15 in the 40s. 45 in the 30s. 131 in the 20s. Then 902 between 11 and 20. The rest all managed to the 10th step before falling into the illusion.
When Jun stepped into the illusion the surroundings disappeared and what reappeared was the 6 year old him, when he first started as a cultivator. He could smell the sweet lilac on the ground. The wet mountain dew in the air and the vibrate voice of his father.
"Jun when you grow older you will learn that life isn"t always fair. It is hardly ever fair. What people respect the most is power. Only when you have strength can you learn to be benevolent. Otherwise you are just being cruel to yourself."
"Yes dad," the young Jun answered.
"Starting today you will learn your mother"s family Cultivator method. The Heaven and Earth manual."
Jun took a step forward and that illusion disappeared.
"Dad look I broke through to the qi refinement realm!" little Jun shouted excited to his father.
"You"re a whole month late compared with your mother," berated Xing Tian.
"I"ll train harder dad!" The six year old Jun shouted back and ran off to practice again.
Jun took another step forward. This time he was a 7 years old and practicing sword art. Xing Tian stood behind Jun who was practicing stabbing 7 dots on a dummy. Every time Jun made a mistake in posture Xing Tian would fix it by whack of the stick.
This is a lot easier than I thought Jun thought to himself as he walked further and further.
Every step he took was an image of his father either neglecting, berating, or teaching some sort of lesson.
In the illusion Jun believed that he took over 100 steps already and should be at the end but somehow in really he only took 8 steps and was on his 9th.
The last scene show was a when they fought in the office for the ring. Maybe it was because Jun was lost in the illusion but the scene being played out in front of him was a lot crueler than before. It showed his father mercilessly beating him to the ground without any remorse.
Xing Tian was holding Jun up by the neck when an eery voice asks, "do you want the power to return all the beating I gave you?"