Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times-Chapter 251 - 133: Chao Tian Sect Master Chen Qiu, Taking a Single Breath of Time.

Heavenly Pride’s Initial Trial in the Secret Realm.

The first round, unable to use one’s own Spiritual Energy or any external objects?

Chen Qiu didn’t get up right away but stood at the beginning of the stairs leading to the misty clouds, looking up at the Sky-reaching Stairs.

The stairs were tall and wide.

With each step, one had to lift their leg as high as possible. Some petite female Heavenly Prides who came here would probably have to use their hands and feet to climb up.

Chen Qiu surveyed his surroundings without lingering for too long and stepped onto the stairs, walking forward. After crossing seventy or eighty steps, he arrived at the junction of the stairs and the surrounding mist wall of the square.

The square was enveloped in countless clouds and mist.

The Sky-reaching Stairs extended through the clouds and continued upwards into the sky.

Stepping into the mist-covered Sky-reaching Stairs, about ten breaths later, he finally emerged from the clouds, and everything before him suddenly became clear.

As if he were in the sky.

In the vast clear sky, a Sky-reaching Stairs stretched endlessly upwards into the high skies, and even with Divine Sense, Chen Qiu could not see the end at the limit of his Divine Sense’s range.

Below, surrounding the stairs, was a sea of fire with no visible end.

Without thinking, he knew that, without the ability to use Spiritual Energy, falling in would certainly mean death or crippling injury.

This then is the first round, the Sky-reaching Stairs.

"..."

Chen Qiu stood silently on the spot without continuing to climb, his expression unreadable. If even the extreme reach of his Divine Sense couldn’t see the end of the stairs, it meant no one could climb the entire way in thirty minutes.

His spell "Shrinking Earth into Inches" and entry "Slippery."

Both were short-distance Teleportation methods that did not consume Spiritual Energy; he had planned to use these two skills to reach the end within the allotted time, but it seemed now that plan had to be scrapped.

First, the end was too far away. His Divine Sense couldn’t perceive it at all.

Second, the sea of fire below clearly belonged to a type of map restriction. Randomly ending up inside the sea of fire would mean certain death or injury.

He didn’t know how to use physical strength alone to pass the first round within thirty minutes.

Chen Qiu looked around frowning and pondering.

He knew that the Heavenly Prides participating in this "Heavenly Pride’s Initial Trial" Secret Realm should not be solely from Da Xia Country, but also Heavenly Prides from worlds he had never stepped foot in outside Da Xia Country, like that Heavenly Pride from the Evil Clan. The strength of those outside Heavenly Prides, unbound as they were, could be stronger than those from Da Xia.

This possibility was quite high.

But even if your strength is immense, at least it should be within a certain range of comprehension, right?

Without relying on external objects or one’s own Spiritual Energy, he did not know what method he could use to traverse the Sky-reaching Stairs, spanning at least a hundred miles, within thirty minutes. It was an impossible task.

If...

If he were the one who set up this Secret Realm, if he put himself in the perspective of the Heavenly Dao,

He had created a realm that was nearly impossible for anyone to complete. So excluding the possibility that he didn’t want anyone to succeed at all, there was only one last reason left: there was a different way to complete the round.

"First round."

"In this round, all competing Heavenly Prides cannot use external objects or their own Spiritual Energy but must rely on physical strength and willpower to reach the summit of the staircase within thirty minutes."

"Those who fail will be eliminated and removed from the Secret Realm."

He recalled the first-round panel he had seen and stood at the edge of the staircase, looking down at the sea of fire below. Perhaps... the real end of this Sky-reaching Stairs was inside the sea of fire below?

To jump into the sea of fire was the way to clear the round?

"..."

After standing in thought for a moment, Chen Qiu suddenly turned around and walked into the mist behind him, then made his way back along the same stairs he came by until he returned to the Green Stone Square.

Standing once again in the center.

That is, the place where he was originally brought into this realm.

Standing in the very center of the Green Stone Square, looking at the Sky-reaching Stairs in front of him, he turned and walked decisively into the mist behind him, without any hesitation.

One breath, two breaths.

After ten breaths had passed.

The clouds dispersed and his vision cleared, revealing a new Green Stone Square, not the same one as his, and at the very center of the square stood a stone stele.

"Second round."

At the same time—

A panel appeared before him, wrapped in clouds and mist.

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"Congratulations on successfully completing the round, please wait patiently for the second round to begin."

This place still only had him, with no sign of others. However, engraved on the stone stele was a leaderboard that displayed the names of the Heavenly Prides with the fastest completion times for the first round, and he found his own name listed as number one.

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"First Round Fastest Completion Leaderboard."

"Rank One": Sect Master Chen Qiu of the Chao Tian Sect, time consumed forty-eight breaths.

"Rank Two":...

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So far, the leaderboard only showed him, meaning that only he had passed the first round; all other competing Heavenly Prides were still struggling with it.

And at that moment,

Dozens of screens appeared in the air, showing parts of the ongoing trials of some Heavenly Prides.

In the screens, the features of many Heavenly Prides as they tackled the challenge were blurred, twisted by the power of heaven and earth, hiding their actual faces. It was evident that on the dozens of Sky-reaching Stairs, every Heavenly Pride was using their means to complete the challenge.

That Sky-reaching Stairs, which Divine Sense couldn’t see to the end of, was actually an illusion. Only a small part of the Sky-reaching Stairs truly existed; the rest were just illusions. The real end of the Sky-reaching Stairs was actually reachable by an average Golden Core cultivator using their physical state, easily within thirty minutes.

And he witnessed—