Chapter 2412: The Fearsome Bridge
The crowd frowned.
To be honest, the result of this calculation isn’t looking good.
If it is true, then below the Heavenly Emperor Realm, one shouldn’t even think about it.
Even within the Heavenly Emperor Realm, reaching a thousand zhang seems difficult!
The only ones possibly able to surpass this might be Ling Xiao, Su Han, Destruction Empress, and Xiang’er.
However, the facts proved their thoughts were overly optimistic.
When they reached seven hundred and ten zhang, what was needed wasn’t the power of the Heavenly Emperor Realm, nor the Dao Sovereign Realm; it was merely the Fusion Realm.
Seventh Grade Fusion Realm was enough to reach seven hundred and ten zhang!
At seven hundred and fifty zhang, finally, the power of the Dao Sovereign Realm was needed.
By this time, nearly ninety-nine percent of the eighteen thousand Fusion Realm members of the Phoenix Sect were eliminated.
The remaining one percent had their own methods and continued to struggle.
However, at eight hundred zhang, even they could no longer persist.
Ultimately, all methods must rely on cultivation base.
After all, they were only at the Fusion Realm level.
"Damn it!"
"Just eight hundred zhang and we can’t go further?"
"To reach a thousand zhang is necessary to comprehend that Enlightenment Stele, not to mention the Imperial Secret Technique and the Eternal Dao Technique. Are we unable to obtain even one of them?"
The Light Barrier was soaring, and many Fusion Realm cultivators were still attacking.
Unfortunately, that Light Barrier would emit a power of rebound, making it lucky for them not to be injured by it, let alone shatter it.
At eight hundred and ten zhang, all members of the Fusion Realm from the Phoenix Sect were defeated!
Su Han looked back with some regret.
Although among those who traveled to the Three Emperor Mountain this time, their cultivation base was the lowest, cultivation base does not indicate aptitude.
Among the eighteen thousand people, there were some with strong aptitudes who, if they could comprehend the Enlightenment Stele, might gain some fortuitous opportunities.
However, at this moment, they were all eliminated.
The Enlightenment Stele is now out of reach.
"Just reaching here requires the power of the Dao Sovereign Realm. Why did that elder say that only I have a chance to surpass ten thousand zhang?" Su Han wondered in his heart.
"Could it be..."
He thought of the Supreme Crown and the Supreme Treasure Pearl.
If this bridge’s measurement truly layered on such a cultivation base, apart from the Supreme Crown, Su Han could think of nothing else to help him surpass ten thousand zhang.
After all, considering true battle power, even if he managed to break through to the Fourth Grade Dao Sovereign Realm, he could only compete with Ling Xiao, who was at the Sub-Immortal Level.
Xiang’er and Destruction Empress are both stronger than me.
Yet the elder ignored them.
"I’ll keep going and see..."
Su Han raised his gaze and continued forward.
...
As time passed, everyone’s pace was accelerating.
The strength required for a thousand zhang was nearly the pinnacle of the Dao Sovereign Realm, that is Seventh Grade!
Of the sixty thousand Dao Sovereigns of the Phoenix Sect, fewer than two hundred managed to surpass a thousand zhang.
The others, just like the Fusion Realm members, were all eliminated without even the qualification to comprehend the Enlightenment Stele.
"Damn it!"
"This is too difficult!"
"That elder was clearly making things hard for us!"
"The Sixth Grade Dao Sovereign Realm barely made it; how did those so-called Heavenly Talents participating in the Grand Competition manage to gain the qualification to comprehend the Enlightenment Stele? They weren’t even at the Fusion Realm!"
After being eliminated, many were discontent, standing behind, gritting their teeth.
On the bridge, the illusionary old man obviously had no intention of dealing with them.
At this moment, besides Su Han’s four people, only the thirty-two Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivators and the less than two hundred Dao Sovereign Realm cultivators remained!
Over ninety percent of these two hundred were Seventh Grade Dao Venerable Realm; the rest were relying on their own methods at the Sixth Grade.
On this bridge, they were almost at their limits.
Facts proved exactly this.
When they reached one thousand one hundred zhang, all those at Sixth Grade Dao Sovereign Realm were eliminated.
At one thousand three hundred zhang, even those at Seventh Grade Dao Venerable Realm could no longer hold on and began to retreat one by one.
At one thousand five hundred zhang, all Dao Sovereign Realm cultivators returned to the ground, leaving the bridge as an unattainable aspiration.
"Sigh..."
A chorus of sighs escaped from these people.
They thought, even if they couldn’t obtain the final Eternal Dao Technique, at least one Imperial Secret Technique would be nice!
Unfortunately, things didn’t go as hoped, and they couldn’t obtain it.
"No wonder that old thing said I couldn’t surpass a thousand zhang; it’s just too harsh!"
Ling Xiao thought to himself: "Merely one thousand five hundred zhang, and even Seventh Grade Dao Venerable Realm can’t endure it. Those Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivators probably can only hold out till two thousand zhang at most, but as for me..."
He looked up toward the location of three thousand zhang and couldn’t help but spit.
To be honest, even at the Sub-Immortal level, he didn’t feel confident.
"It’s really the Sect Master..."
Ling Xiao turned to Su Han: "A divine being is a divine being, not comparable to us mortals. With just a Fourth Grade Dao Sovereign Realm, that old thing said he was the most likely to surpass ten thousand zhang!"
...
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
And everyone had reached only one thousand eight hundred zhang in distance.
Su Han looked back to see among the thirty-two Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivators, more than twenty had flushed faces, clenching their teeth, as their power of cultivation surged, bombarding the Light Barrier before them.
They were all below Fourth Grade Heavenly Emperor Realm, also all newly promoted via the Spirit Liquid of the Divine Soul from the God Burying Mansion.
They lacked powerful methods and formidable cultivation base.
Thus, ultimately, they could only stop at one thousand eight hundred fifty zhang.
By this point, even Fifth Grade Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivators found it extremely difficult to progress.
The appearance of a Light Barrier usually required them to spend two hours, or even longer.
When they reached one thousand nine hundred zhang, all below Seventh Grade Heavenly Emperor Realm were eliminated!
Besides Su Han’s four people, only Ye Xiaofei and the former seven Great Divine Kings of the Battle Clan, including Xuanyuan Qiong, remained on the bridge!
"That’s simply terrifying!
Xuanyuan Qiong glanced at the people on the ground and frowned: "Over twenty thousand people, reaching only one thousand nine hundred zhang, and now just twelve of us remain. Who can surpass the next three thousand zhang, four thousand zhang, five thousand zhang, or even ten thousand zhang? That old... senior is clearly toying with us!"
Whenever they were about to call him ’old thing,’ an inexplicable chill would rise up their backs, compelling them to quickly change their address.
"Let’s do our best."
Su Han took a deep breath: "Being able to attempt the trial without crisis is already a favor; let’s not overdo it."
"You seven, along with Ye Xiaofei, try to hold on for a while longer. Not asking for you to reach three thousand zhang, but at least get hold of that Imperial Secret Technique."
"Yes!"
Xuanyuan Qiong and the others were invigorated.