Dual Sword God

Chapter 47 - The Ascension Phase

The towering construct stood firmly within the square as all spectators and major influences observed their geniuses that went towards the Ascending Dragon Platform's stairway. Soon, the area around the new central platform was filled with over a thousand youths all below the age of 23. They stood at the center of the square waiting for instructions from the woman dressed in white.

Seeing that all the participants have gathered the woman smiled as she spoke to the audience and competitors once more.

"Now that everyone is ready, I have one more news I'd like to share, ascending the Ascending Dragon Platform is not an easy task as it is a test of your will. While mounting its steps, you will be unable to utilize any benefits that would have been brought about by your cultivation and would be forced to utilize the only your mortal body, and movement skills. Your task is to reach the summit of the stairway if you can and stand there for an incense stick of time."

Upon completing her words, she looked towards the competitors with a deep gaze. Hearing her words each of the geniuses looked on quietly as they pondered about the challenge.

Feng Yu looked at the stairs in front of him as he thought to himself, "How strange? The fluctuations I feel from this stairway reminds me of the fluctuations I felt from Path of Swords, even those runes carry a similar style to those of that Trial."

The mysterious spear youth looked on the platform with interest as did the young talent from the Southern Wasteland.

As Tang Wu and Xin Qing scanned it with their soul strength, they looked at each other and discussed amongst themselves.

"Brother Tang, it feels as if this won't be an easy challenge," Xin Qing said while looking at the stairs with a hint of apprehension on her face.

"Em. However, it would do us no good to lose our fate so early," Tang Wu said as he looked at the stairs challengingly.

Ji Weng and Xuan Bei looked on with sparks shining in their eyes as a few other mysterious geniuses looked on solemnly.

Seeing that they had all prepared themselves for the challenge the woman smiled with vague appreciation showing in her eyes as she spoke once more.

"Let the Ascension Phase will begin!" The white woman clothing declared as her voice reverberated throughout the entire square.

Soon, a few of talents feeling excited rushed forwards and mounted the stairway.

"Haha! I'll be the first one to make it to the top!" A slim and speedy looking guy said as he transformed into a stream of blurs climbing towards the limits of the stairway.

"Not before me!" A female yelled as she happened to be right on his tail, moving no slower than the speedy guy. Very soon, she overtook his figure and transformed into a streak of light that tried to pierce the heavens.

Buzz! Instantly, a loud sound resounded as an invisible pressure filled the region around the stairway. A few of the geniuses who were now already twenty or more steps on the stairway soon succumbed to an unknown force.

"Argh!" One genius cried in immense pain as his body was flung from the stairway collapsing onto the hard floor.

Bang! Looking at his body that was now covered in blood, one would see that there were multiple ruptures on the surface of his skin. It was as if his body had tried to withstand the world's strongest pressure, forcing it to be torn from the inside to the outside.

As a few individuals saw this scene, they soon felt a broad sense of crisis, quickly they halted their rush towards the stairway. The guy and the girl that were now a few hundred steps ahead of the masses were falling at a rate faster than their previous ascension.

Swish! Swish! Thud! Thud!

Quickly, they fell to the ground while skilfully maneuvering themselves when in mid-air to avoid a fatal crash.

"Cough! This... how could this pressure be so strong?!" The skinny guy said in a tone of dismay, he tried to call upon his 8 Tier essence-energies to mend his injuries only to find that unknown force blocked his essence-energies.

"......." The girl looked on in silence as she realized she couldn't recover her injuries.

The woman in white seeing this scene smiled as she spoke once again, "I may have forgotten to mention this previously, so I will do so now. The gravity of this stairway will only increase as you travel further along its course, do be careful now."

She explained with a tone filled with politeness.

"Chet! This damn woman!" An angry practitioner from the spectator's area yelled as he was related to the guy that fell.

"The Fallen can only blame themselves for their lack of vigilance, true experts keep their guard up regardless of the situation they face," An old voice murmured beside him.

"Mother F---ker! Who the hell do you th---?" The man angrily roared, but before he could finish his statement, he finally saw the man who sat beside him with a leisure mood.

It was an old man that gave a strange aura appearing as if he was there but not there at the same time. He looked at the man and smiled vaguely before vanishing once more.

The man looked on in shock but seeing that no one else showed any strange expression he frowned as he thought, "Was I seeing things?"

As the crowd and talents were in a commotion regarding the pressure and words of the woman in white, a few of the geniuses started to move once more.

Xuan Bei and Ji Weng turned into two blurs respectively, as Xuan Bei's form shuttled forward in a unique style moving like a serpent with his body swaying as he mounted the stairs. Ji Weng, on the other hand, had a flexible method of moving up the stairway with his arms grasping the railings utilizing his entire body to climb the stairs almost as if a monkey climbing a tree.

The significant figures seeing this scene commented in praise.....

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