Number One Under Heaven

Chapter 10 - Dark Horse

On top of the 7th Level, two shadows can be seen crawling on the stairs.

The one in the lead was Mei Mingzhu, and only two steps behind her were Wang Shui.

"Junior Sister Mingzhu, you're almost there! Just five more steps!"

Wang Shui had his whole body drenched in sweat; his face was pale.

"Yes!"

Mei Mingzhu was not any better; her drenched clothing revealed her excellent body shape.

Although it was only five steps until the 8th Level, each step was like crossing the sea by swimming, while the next one was an even bigger sea.

Everybody was paying attention to these two and ignored the lower Levels.

"They're almost there! There are only five steps left for Fairy Mingzhu!"

"What do you even know? These five steps are even harder to reach than the past Levels added together..."

"There are only a few hours left, do you think they'll make it?"

"What are you thinking, of course, they will."

"I'm not so sure about Wang Shui, but Fairy Mingzhu will be able to."

All the people watching were chitchatting nonstop about these two on the top until...

Someone screamed with a shocked voice, "Hey! Look at that!" He pointed to a shadow that was currently flying towards the 5th Level.

"What! Who's that?!"

"What's with that speed?!"

"He's... Every step he takes, he goes up by 100 steps..."

"Ahhhh! He just leaped 500 steps! Is he even human?!"

"Oi! How can you even call this climbing? He's fucking flying already!"

"Who the hell is this dark horse?!"

The spectators were shocked silly. What does it mean to skip steps?

Each step will increase the pressure on you. If you skip one step, that means you'll have to endure both step's pressure at once. Geniuses only did this at the lower Levels where the pressure was nothing to them, but who the hell is willing to do it after the 2nd Level? That's just wasting their strength, which means they'll have less chance reaching the higher floors. Even Mei Mingzhu and Wang Shui could only skip steps until the 3rd Level.

But that's not even what scares them. The scary part is the fact that even if geniuses skip steps, they can only skip around 5 to 10 steps. But this ghost over here was jumping well over 100 and at the 4th Level too!

"My Heavens! He's still skipping steps on the 5th Level! And it's increasing not decreasing!"

"Can someone slap my face to see if I'm dreaming or not?!" Someone asked.

*Slap!*

"Fuck! That freaking hurts! I said slap but not that hard!" He regretted it.

"Ahhhh, he's already on the 6th Level!"

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In the sky, the three Sect Master were sitting down and drinking tea, ignoring what was happening at the Stairway to Heaven already.

"Old Jian, when are you going to breakthrough to the Sovereign Realm? You have been a Peak Ancient Immortal for ages already." Zou Guo made fun of him.