Chapter 203: The Immortal Ladder
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Lu Yuan had never expected this.
It was only his first time setting up a trap, but he had already obtained such a huge harvest.
The cultivators of Xueyang Sect were replaced by a group of unknown Upper Realm cultivators.
This was undoubtedly a very useful piece of information because after knowing this, Lu Yuan could make targeted arrangements.
The options were to either stay away from them or find a way to get rid of them.
If there were only those Core Formation Stage cultivators, Lu Yuan might find an opportunity to kill the group of unexpected people in advance in order to eliminate the crisis.
However, after learning that there were three mysterious Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, he was shocked, Lu Yuan naturally wouldn’t take such a rash action.
After all, if he was not careful, he might not only fail to gain anything but also make a huge loss.
Therefore, the most important thing now was to figure out what those guys wanted to do.
Only by knowing that could Lu Yuan make targeted actions.
In order not to alert the enemy, Lu Yuan finally chose to let the little Paper Men continue to observe the Upper Realm cultivators who suddenly appeared.
He had made up his mind to hide in the city safely and not participate in the so-called Path for Immortal Ascension.
Then, when the restrictions in this place were lifted, he would leave this place as soon as possible and return to the Qingyun Sect to continue cultivating
Moreover, Lu Yuan had already made up his mind this time. No matter what others said or what reason they gave, he would hide in the Qingyun Sect stronghold and refuse to leave.
No matter who came, it wouldn’t work!
If Lu Yuan didn’t reach the Nascent Soul Stage, he would never come out again.
It had only been one trip down the mountain, but he had already been involved in so many things.
Lu Yuan felt that he might be a legendary bad luck ghoul that always attracted troublesome matters.
The Qingyun Sect’s yard was filled.
It had been three days since Lu Yuan arrived.
There was still about a month before the official start of the Path for Immortality Ascension.
After that, the Path for Immortality Ascension would last for ten years before closing.
If someone did not get out in time, they would have to wait for the next passage to open, which was another 300 years.
Since there was still some time before the Path for Immortality Ascension opened, the Imperial capital was very quiet at this stage.
However, Lu Yuan was very clear about the current calm in the Imperial capital. It was just the calm before the storm.
After the Path for Immortality Ascension opened, the interior of the Imperial capital might still remain quiet.
However, the internal struggles on the Path for Immortality Ascension would become very intense.
From his master, Han Yuanshan, Lu Yuan roughly understood the essence of the Path for Immortality Ascension.
The so-called Path for Immortality Ascension was actually a test of a cultivator’s cultivation, talent, and comprehension.
Among them, the cultivation assessment was the simplest.
The talent assessment was secondary.
The test of comprehension is the most difficult.
The first section of the Path for Immortality Ascension was the so-called Immortal Ladder.
Cultivators at this stage would suffer pressure that matched their cultivation levels.
Generally speaking, very few cultivators were able to pass through this place the first time they stepped on the Immortal Ladder.
The fastest person to pass the Immortal Ladder section in history was an evildoer cultivator from the five righteous sects who seemed to have condensed four Foundation Establishment through the way of heavens spiritual roots.
After spending ten days, they finished ascending the Immortal Ladder.
The reason why ascending the immortal ladder was so difficult was because the difficulty of this test varied according to the cultivator’s cultivation level. There was a threshold for every ten steps.
Take a Core Formation Stage First Level cultivator as an example.
If they were to participate in the Immortal Ladder ascension task, the spiritual pressure they would encounter on the first 10 steps would be equivalent to the pressure of their entire cultivation.
After that, every 10 levels of step increase would increase the level of cultivation pressure by one.
After reaching the 50th level, the difficulty would increase by leaps and bounds, reaching twice the spiritual pressure of one’s cultivation.
After reaching the 60th level checkpoint, the pressure would increase by 2.1 times.
After reaching the 90th level, the spiritual pressure would eventually become three times that of one’s own cultivation.
Therefore, at this stage, the difference in cultivation level did not give you an advantage.
Only those heavenly prides who were far superior to those of the same level could pass the Immortal Level section.
Nevertheless, in history, there were still many exceptions of cultivators who passed the Immortal Ladder section with ordinary talent.
That was the unique principle of the Immortal Ladder.
The initial difficulty of ascending the long Immortal Ladder was determined by the cultivator’s cultivation level when they first logged in.
Therefore, if one wanted to pass the Immortal Ladder section, there was a more sneaky method.
That was to deliberately suppress their cultivation before climbing and wait until the level was registered before climbing.
For example, one could pretend to only be at maximum the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage before climbing, then break through to the Core Formation Stage upon climbing.
Then, the difficulty of the assessment would undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
Such a method was something that almost all sects knew.
That was also the reason why some sect elites would deliberately suppress their cultivation and never break through.
But even so, there were still more than 80% of people who could not pass each time.
After all, not everyone who suppressed their cultivation could choose when they wanted to break through to the next stage.
Therefore, for many people who used this method, the ten years testing period would decide their fates.
Whether they could complete the breakthrough within ten years was the key to passing the Immortal Ladder section..