My Crazy Upgrade System

Chapter 528: Chapter 527: Invalid?

"Trash! Hurry up and climb! You’re so slow, are your legs broken?"

"That’s right, you idiot! Get up here! If you don’t have the skill, then get the hell out!"

"He’s definitely stalling for time. He can’t go up, but he’s too scared to come down!"

The guards at the side glared at him, wanting Yi Tianyun to hurry up. But Yi Tianyun maintained a steady, unhurried pace, climbing step by step with unshakable stability.

He turned a deaf ear to the clamor around him, acting as if he couldn’t hear a thing.

"Is this kid stalling for time? Does he think he can’t make it, so he’s just decided to keep climbing slowly?" Ba Long’s expression was icy. He desperately wanted to wait for Yi Tianyun to reach the top and then give him a brutal beating, but who knew the brat would just crawl along instead of climbing properly.

They had already reached the six or seven-hundredth step, yet Yi Tianyun was still lingering around the two-hundredth. His speed was far too slow compared to theirs.

"That’s probably it. He thinks he’s perfectly safe staying down there. Once we rush to the top and meet the quota of thirty people, he’ll be kicked out!" Ming Chen sneered. "Then we can surround him and make sure he dies without a proper burial!"

When more than thirty people reached the very top, the Divine Ladder’s effect would cease, ejecting all the Cultivators who hadn’t made it.

"Exactly. We’ll be the ones to put an end to his stupidity and ignorance!" Ba Long let out a cold laugh.

They continued their ascent, but their pace was considerably slower than before. Even with their Spirit King Stage cultivation, climbing here wasn’t easy. The higher one’s cultivation, the greater the pressure.

Yi Tianyun paid their thoughts no mind, simply continuing his steady, unhurried climb. After a while, his pace quickened slightly, but each footfall remained firm on the steps as Spiritual Power continuously surged into him.

The information contained within the steps grew more and more abundant, and he gradually felt it coalescing into a Martial Arts manual. ’Of course, it only feels like the first page or two. After climbing so many steps, all this information has barely formed a single page or two.’

He felt that even if he climbed all nine hundred ninety-nine steps, he wouldn’t be able to assemble a complete Martial Arts manual. ’At this rate, I’ll probably only get three or four pages’ worth. Not much at all.’

As his speed began to increase, Ba Long and the others’ faces darkened. They had actually hoped Yi Tianyun wouldn’t come up at all and would just stay at the bottom. That way, once they met the condition, he would be automatically thrown out.

"Don’t worry about it. So what if he manages to get up here? We can still play him to death later!" Ming Chen sneered, his plan unchanged.

They just had different plans for different situations.

"But it looks like we’ll get to the top first. There are nearly fifty of us here, and we’re definitely faster than him," Niu Tuntian laughed heartily. There were indeed about fifty people around them.

Besides them, there were also many Void Spirit Stage and Core Formation Stage experts who were far ahead of Yi Tianyun. Who knew how it would turn out? It was entirely possible Yi Tianyun would never catch up.

As it turned out, their worries were for nothing. Yi Tianyun only sped up for a few steps before slowing down again. He even stood perfectly still on some steps for a short while, as if he were acclimatizing to the pressure.

"Looks like I was overthinking it. This kid’s cultivation is really weak. I doubt he’s even at the Core Formation Stage," Ming Chen said.

"Seems about right. He might even be weaker than the average Core Formation Stage Cultivator. But where are his companions? He can’t possibly be alone. Why is he the only one here?" Ba Long scanned the surroundings but couldn’t see anyone else.

"No matter what, we have to capture him and force him to reveal all the secret passages! Otherwise, how could he have slipped in so easily and even reached this place?" Ming Chen’s gaze was frigid. The secret of these passages absolutely could not fall into enemy hands. Even if an enemy already knew, they had to find out what he knew, or the consequences would be dire.

They nodded and continued climbing. No matter what Yi Tianyun did, their final goal was to capture him alive and interrogate him for everything he knew.

They didn’t know why Yi Tianyun was alone, but for now, capturing him was the only thing that mattered.

On Yi Tianyun’s end, nothing had changed. He wasn’t slowing down because of the pressure; the pressure here was completely meaningless to him. If it were a race, he could have absolutely crushed the other Cultivators, but he didn’t. He needed to take his time and comprehend the insights.

Some steps contained a greater amount of Martial Arts information, so he deliberately slowed his pace to carefully absorb their mysteries. He could sense that this was an incredibly astonishing Martial Arts, at least Heaven-rank or higher, and a very powerful one at that.

’It might even be a high-grade Heaven-rank Martial Arts. That wouldn’t be impossible, considering this Celestial Altar was built by a Divine King. If it didn’t even have a high-grade Heaven-rank Martial Arts, I’d actually be disappointed.’

In short, he continued at his own steady pace, completely unconcerned with his surroundings. It didn’t matter how fast the others ran; it had nothing to do with him.

Time passed quickly, and soon Ming Chen was the first to reach the top. After successfully making it, he looked down on Yi Tianyun from above and sneered, "That brat is still crawling up, completely clueless about what’s about to happen to him!"

Ba Long and the others also reached the top soon after. The gap between them wasn’t large, so they all arrived in quick succession.

As more time passed, a dozen or so people had successfully reached the summit. At this point, Yi Tianyun had only just reached the six or seven-hundredth step, with nearly three hundred still to go.

"Just two more! You lot, hurry up!" Ming Chen glanced around. They only needed two more people to reach the quota of thirty.

A few Core Formation Stage experts who were struggling to climb wiped the sweat from their brows and continued their arduous ascent. It was extremely difficult for them and served as a great trial for their Physiques. However, the overall difficulty wasn’t insurmountable, and they were still able to make it up.

At last, through sheer effort, two of them successfully scaled the Divine Ladder. The moment they stepped onto the top, the entire Divine Ladder began to flash with a brilliant light that instantly enveloped the entire room!

"Haha, you’re dead, kid!" Ming Chen laughed, his expression twisting into a savage grin as he looked down. "Everyone, block the top! We’ll grab this kid in a moment!"

In their eyes, Yi Tianyun’s cultivation was pathetic, so they didn’t think they’d even need to go down to capture him. After all, if his cultivation was low, the pressure on him would be minimal. He should have been able to climb up easily long ago, so why was he inching his way up like this?

The next moment, after the Divine Light flashed, every Cultivator still climbing—everyone except Yi Tianyun—was thrown off, leaving him all alone on the wide Divine Ladder!

"What’s going on? He’s fine?!" They were stunned, having absolutely no idea what had just happened.

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