Chapter 1: Wish of Life or Death
June and July are scorching seasons.Bright sunshine and hot weather make the whole earth look like a big oven.
Tie Niu Town.
It was noon, and the sun was shining at the top of the head.
“Hoo !!”
Qin Lu walked up step by step on a long stone stares. He was sweating and panting like a dog. The stone stares leads towards a huge palace.
There are about 999 steps in the stares. Every step was hot under the scorching sun.
As soon as the sweat dripped, it evaporated instantly. There was a loud noise. Qin Lu is only a 15-year-old boy, but he has the maturity and stability like a middle-aged man.
He is six feet tall, and his body is very thin. He is handsome, but his face looks pale and bloodless.
“I can’t stop!”
“Not like this”
He has already fallen ill. His life will end in five days.
He reached the nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.
It is much more difficult for an average person to reach 999 steps in this hot weather, but he completed this even though he was ill.
He knew that stepping on this stone stares is his only chance to survive, and even it can change the destiny of his life!
Five years ago, Qin Lu was the prince of the Great Qin Empire. He had a n.o.ble ident.i.ty and a unique talent.
He became a nine-star warrior at the age of ten. At that time, he was hailed as a monstrous genius comes in a thousand years.
It can be said that he was very famous since he was a child. He was the brightest star among all the princes.
At his glorious moment, several changes came suddenly.
He swallowed an ‘Eringdan pill’ under the plot of some people. After that, he was expelled from the Great Qin Empire and moved to Tie Niu Town.
Eringing pill is an extremely vicious panacea. After taking this pill, one can no longer cultivate in the future.
After five days he will be fifteen years old! Five years have pa.s.sed very quickly. The Great Qin Empire still stands as mighty as ever. But what about Qin Lu?
He was struggling to survive. He refused to live his life like this!
He promised himself that one day he will come back to the Great Qin Empire. The palace above the stone stares is his only hope.
Gradually his legs became soft and sore. Every time he took a step, it put tremendous pressure on his body! As the heat was very high, he became dehydrated. His lips were chapped.
Blood came out from his dry lips. He felt dizzy. He stopped on a step, panting heavily and recovering his lost energy.
At this time, he looked at the top of the stone stares, and his eyes glowed with firmness. There was a tower that stands magnificently at the end of the stone stares. The door of the temple was closed.
Next to the temple door, there was a black stone monument. The mountain was about ten meters high and one large striking character engraved on it.
——Palace!
It was revealing shocking pressure.
This was a place where countless people want to go.
This place was full of various immortals spirits.
In this place, some medicines could detoxify and eliminated all diseases, and one could get eternal life. Some drugs even could wash the body and help people to be reborn. Yet some people said that some legendary people could fly to the sky and turned over the river and the sea. One, who get this kind of ability, became the G.o.ds admired by the secular world.
That is why Dan Hall is a very sacred place!
Every disciple of the Dan Temple wanted to go there. Even the lowest level alchemist and other countless people tried their best to reach the end to get a pill.
Qin Lu’s goal was to get a medicine called- ‘Cleansing Pill’.
‘Cleansing Pill’ is the key to his rebirth! To reborn, he didn’t even know how many times he had come here.
However, every time he tried his best, but became ill in the middle of the stares and couldn’t reach the end of the stares. But this time, he would achieve his goal at any cost, because five days later, he will die. If he wants to survive, he must climb to the top!
He took a difficult step, gritted his teeth, and continued to climb.
Boom!
After that, the closed-door opened quickly.
A woman about thirty years old, wearing a red dress came out of the palace.
She stood at the edge of the door. She was looking at Qin Lu and said lightly: “Qin Lu, how many times you tried to climb up? Why don’t you give up?”
Qin Lu did not answer. After hearing these words, he buried his head and gritted his teeth. Every time he climbed, he met with her. She was Ma Hong. She was the deacon elder of Dan Hall. Of course, she is also an alchemist.
This woman was very arrogant. She tried to dominant everyone. She liked to humiliate everyone.
For this reason, Qin Lu decided not to open his mouth in front of her, so as not to insult himself. However, his att.i.tude made Ma Hong even more annoyed.
She said sarcastically: “no matter how many times you come, the result is the same. Go back as soon as possible, don’t be an eye-sore here.”
“Elder Ma Hong, you can close your eyes and stop watching me.” Qin, Lu replied lightly.
Qin Lu stopped and looked up at her. She was boiling in anger. Ma Hong smiled angrily and said, “I just want to tell you that, if you climb to the top, I will not give you the pill.”
Qin Lu clenched his hand, and in the end, he continued to climb. He knew that there was lots of alchemist in the Dan Hall. He could go to other alchemists rather than Elder Ma Hong.
Time was pa.s.sing slowly.
After that, he didn’t stop for a while, and gradually approached the summit step by step. Two hours later, he was almost at the end of the stares. He was only fifty steps away from the top.
Although at this moment, he was physically and mentally very weak, he didn’t want to give up. His head was dull. Every step he took, he felt a terrible pain in his legs.
There are only fifty steps left, and he could reach the top! Arriving at the top means a lot to him.
After reaching the top and consuming a pill, he could reborn and could practice martial art in the future. After seeing the endpoint of the stares, he became high spirited.
This time we will succeed!
Forty steps!
Thirty steps!
Twenty steps!
Ten steps!
He took a deep breath. Now only ten steps left. He lost all his strength, so he decided to take rest for a while.
“Yo, what a miracle day. You actually climb up 999 steps.”
Ma Hong did not leave. She was there to see how Qin Lu climbs to the top.
When Qin Lu was lying on the ground, Ma Hong kicked him.
Qin Lu exclaimed: “Elder Ma, what are you doing?”
“Of course, I will send you down.”
Ma Hong smiled and kicked on Qin Lu’s chest.
Bang Bang Bang!
Immediately Qin Lu rolled down from the stares. He was screaming in pain.
” Ma Hong, I curse you to die!”
It was tough for him to reach at the end of the stares, but he didn’t expect that Ma Hong will kick him and resist him to enter the Dan Palace.
“How dare you curse me, You really do not know about life and death, but now I will kill you!”
Ma Hong’s murderous eyes flashed.
“What happened?”
At this moment, a sound came from the palace.
The sound came from a middle-aged man.
He was seven feet tall, wearing a purple dress. He walked in with dragons and tigers step. His eyes were bright.
Seeing the middle-aged man Ma Hong frowned. She bowed her head and said: “I haven’t seen you, masters.”
The three hall masters nodded and looked at Qin Lu, who was rolling down below. They frowned: “Why is he coming again?”
Ma Hong smiled and said: “He has come here to get the wash pill.” The three hall masters wondered: “So how did he get down?”
Ma Hong said: “It’s all because of his fault. Just now, I persuaded him to stop him from climbing again, but he disn’t listen to me. As a result, he rolls down. His energy was exhausted, and his legs become weak, and he lost his balance.”
After hearing all these words, Qin Lu became so angry.
Seeing this Ma Hong sneered.
The stone stares had 999 steps. If someone rolls down from the stares, there is no chance to live. But Qin Lu was still alive.
Qin Lu knew that he hadn’t died.
But, as he reached almost at the end of the stares, he was very weak. He was unable to move his body.
Now, he rolled down all the way. His head hit with a stone. Blood came out from his head. His limbs were broken down, and the blood did not stop.
“Do I die like this today?”
“No i can not!”
“I must survive …”
“I have to go back to the Great Qin Empire alive …”
“Those who let me suffer, I want to let them repay a thousand times, ten thousand times …”
Qin Lu roared crazily in his heart. His eyes became red. He was suffocation. But he didn’t give up, even though his limbs were broken.
The unwillingness and anger in his heart turned into a source of strength. He turned his face and leaning against the stone stairs to reduce the speed of decline!
After some time, he finally stopped and lay down on the stone stairs.
There were various fractures in his back and feet. The pain was tearing his heart like a tidal wave, impacting every nerve in his body, he did not want to live!