Dual Cultivation: Ying Yang is way to Chaos Chapter 479: Physique?

"I was just thinking about something, Feng’er isn’t interested in joining any alchemy-related faction anyway, so why not just pull him into the Sword Pavilion?" Cui Shuyin’s eyes glinted with mischief, "After all, I cannot watch you two be separated even if it is inside the sect, what if you begin hating me more..."

"Shut up..." If not for seniority, Sun Xiurong might have pinched Cui Shuyin right now.

"Hehehehe..." Cui Shuyin laughed. She really felt like she had gotten a good excuse to tease Xiu’er forever, "Anyway, what do you think? Given his strength, I don’t doubt that he is suitable for our pavilion. Also, I have a feeling that you know something about him which I am still clueless about..."

Sun Xiurong sighed. Of course she knew that. She herself was in a dilemma about how a single person could be this talented, "You can invite him, Elder Cui, although I don’t even know if he uses a sword or not..."

Cui Shuyin looked towards Lin Feng who had already reached the tenth step, "Well, as long as he can swing it, I don’t think it will be an issue..."

She was the Pavilion Master of the Sword Pavilion, and as long as she approved, even the Sect Master could not intervene in her decision.

"He already reached the eleventh step and hasn’t stopped even once, is he being brave or does he really not feel the pain till now?"

Cui Shuyin tried to look at Lin Feng’s expression to find any discomfort, but there was none. His expression was so nonchalant that she even felt that the array might not have activated.

It wasn’t the truth though, she could feel that the array was active and working perfectly fine.

...

Inside the illusion, Lin Feng felt that walking continuously made the effect of the pain even more prominent.

There was no visible wound on his skin, those flames were only meant to induce the hellish pain of burning, and he had to say that it was quite effective at testing the will of a cultivator.

Maybe it really was a test meant for testing one’s will.

The flames had already crossed his ankles, and it was only the fifteenth step.

He looked back towards the vanishing ground and saw that the whole barren world had vanished by now, and the first step was already half consumed.

That meant one couldn’t stay on one stair for very long either.

He took his next step and continued without stopping.

...

Inside one of the pavilions of the sect.

"Master, I got information from one of our disciples that someone is taking the Test of Will, he was brought here by Elder Cui..."

A woman bowed towards a man who was looking at a saber in his lap while sitting in a shallow pond.

The man turned his gaze towards his disciple, "Well, that definitely sounds like quite rare news given Elder Cui’s personality, but what’s the point of mentioning it to me?"

The woman nodded, "I wouldn’t have, but... This disciple mentioned that Elder Cui compared that person to Sister Sun Xiurong..."

The man’s eyes widened slightly, "Ohh..."

He immediately stood up and chuckled, "It’s hard to believe that someone comparable to that lass has appeared, but it wouldn’t hurt to check it out, let’s go..."

...

At the entrance, Cui Shuyin looked at Lin Feng with visible shock as he climbed the twenty-fifth step without faltering or stopping even once, "Is he really not feeling any pain?"

No one in the history of Mysterious Heaven Sect had climbed these stairs without stopping or showing hesitation to take a step due to the burst of pain that followed because of the increase in the intensity of the flames with each step, specifically after twenty steps.

She herself had stopped at the twenty-fourth step, and as far as she remembered, less than ten people had ever reached the twenty-fifth step without stopping, one of them was Xiu’er. Although, she doubted their expressions were as calm as Lin Feng’s right now because even Xiu’er, who was known for her expressionless face, showed an expression of pain at this point.

She considered herself one of the cultivators with the strongest willpower currently present in this sect. It wasn’t baseless confidence, after all, it was the reason she had reached this point in her cultivation realm. She didn’t have any special talent, all she had was one fortunate chance and her sheer will to become strong enough to see the absolute of this Heavenly Realm.

"Let’s move to the top, Xiu’er, I think we are going to witness history if Feng’er doesn’t decide to just give up on a whim..."

The pain from the stairs increases exponentially, so it might be considered the real factor for cultivators to accept defeat, but there were cases when cultivators just decided to give up on a whim.

Just as Cui Shuyin and Sun Xiurong arrived at the top platform above the hundred stairs, three new people joined them.

They all looked at Lin Feng, and seeing him step onto the twenty-seventh step without any change in expression made their eyes widen. They all immediately checked the array instinctively, and seeing that it was working perfectly fine made them look towards each other before looking at Cui Shuyin.

"Is he just faking it, or is he really immune to pain due to some kind of physique?"

The one who asked was the young woman accompanying her master.

Her master shook his head, "That’s not how it works, your qi is totally restricted in this test, so even if he has any physique, it wouldn’t matter since you are just a crippled mortal on those stairs..."

Hearing that answer shocked the woman because she herself had gone through the test and knew how painful it was at the twenty-seventh step.

"Just where did you find him, Elder Cui?" One of the elder with a burly appearance asked. His eyes had a hidden glint in them as he looked towards Lin Feng.

"It’s Xiu’er who met him first. Since he wanted to join the sect, I brought him here. Also, don’t even think about it, he is joining the Sword Pavilion..."