A Journey Against the World
Chapter 23

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Shua Xie was dumbfounded to see the surroundings, the place he was standing right now was absolutely stunning as well as terrifying. Shua Xie was standing on a giant silver pillar, on the land there was only one pillar, while around it was a ravine. Shua Xie looked down, as far as he could see he did not see the bottom of the abyss.

The world that Shua Xie came to was completely void, there was not the slightest life except the sound of thunder. In the sky thunder rumbled loudly, lightning struck there and here, but strangely the lightning did not strike Shua Xie. Shua Xie was standing on a pillar made of silver.

"This is the exam?" muttered Shua Xie quietly.

"Then what should I do?"

"Master only needs to survive a lightning strike ten times." Suddenly appeared a handsome man from the dimeni room, a man a little older by a few years than Shua Xie. Shua Xie looked at the man vigilantly, right now Shua Xie did not know which friend or foe, which Shua Xie knew now that he was running the test. According to what Lulu said she should be able to survive.

"Who are you? Why are you calling me Sir?"

The man looked at Shua Xie expressionlessly, not long before he saluted before Shua Xie.

"I am a divine book, my current form is only temporary. I will accompany you and give you direction" the man replied in a flat voice.

Shua Xie was a little relieved as well as shocked, he never thought of a form while the divine book was so handsome, Shua Xie admitted to being while this divine book was the most handsome man Shua Xie had first seen.

Shua Xie huddled slowly, "Ehem. Then what should I call you?"

"Master can give me a name" the man replied.

"Eh? Then I'll just call you Lie Li."

"Good name sir, I like Lie Li's name."

Shua Xie frowned, Shua Xie felt this Lie Li was a little strange, like it did not have any emotions. Talking and expressing are like robots, so rigid and formal.

"Lie Li it seems like you have no emotions?"

"Lord is right, Lie Li doesn't have any emotions."

"Ah, naturally you are a book, of course you have no emotions," said Shua Xie quietly.

Shua Xie looked towards the sky, a yellowish-coloured lightning bolt striking here and there. Recalling Lie Li said he only needed to survive the lightning strike 10 times gave Shua Xie goosebumps. Shua Xie never felt like what it was like to be struck by lightning, let alone lightning that one looked more terrifying than the usual lightning.

"You said I only need to survive a lightning strike ten times, well it seems easy."

"Master don't underestimate the lightning. That lightning was a golden lightning, its power a hundred thousand times that of ordinary lightning. Once exposed the whole body will be destroyed, twice exposed to the spirit will be destroyed and will never reincarnate again," explained Lie Li made Shua Xie shocked.

"It's dangerous! If that was how could I possibly pass the exam?! It's called a cruel murder!" shua Xie exclaimed loudly but Lie Li just drove it with an expressionless look made Shua Xie become annoyed.

'Ah come on, how could she care if I die. He has no sense of emotion whatsoever ...' Shua Xie said in his heart.

"The Golden Lightning won't kill the Master as long as the Master can last up to five strokes, but if the Master can't survive up to five strokes, the Master's soul will be absorbed by this giant pillar." Lie Li added a little more explanation after he heard Shua Xie's heart whisper.

"But for an ordinary soul it will kill him." Lie Li again.

Shua Xie slightly did not understand the meaning of Lie Li's last explanation, but Shua Xie decided not to ask anymore. The current Shua Xie thought was to quickly complete the test of the divine book.

In fact Shua Xie grumbled angrily as to why he could get a book that required him to take an exam like seeking death, Shua Xie felt that his life was always on the verge of death. But how else, destiny must be lived, that is the principle of Shua Xie.

Shua Xie sighed softly, "Alright, then how did that lightning make it come here? From earlier I noticed that the lightning did not strike us, but we were standing on a pillar made of silver" Shua Xie said.

"Since I made a transparent protector on this pillar, now please Lord sit down the cross, use spirit energy to protect Master so that Master does not suffer much damage. I will open her protector," Lie Li replied.

Shua Xie nodded slowly following as Lie Li said. When Shua Xie had already sat down and had already installed the protective spirit energy, suddenly one lightning bolt came gushing over him without any cue from Lie Li.

Shua Xie felt himself about to explode right then and there, the power from the Golden Lightning was indeed overwhelming. Shua Xie to the point of spewing so much blood from being shocked by the lightning strike.

"Uhuk! Uhuk! Should've given me a cue before you'd have drawn the lightning on me!" shua Xie exclaimed loudly while holding onto his aching chest.

"Sorry Master, his Golden Lightning came alone without me pointing. As his lightning likes Master, try Master consider this is the immune test of the Golden Lightning," Lie Li replied.

Shua Xie looked at Lie Li dumbfounded, "Did his lightning like me? How bi-" had not finished talking the second lightning struck Shua Xie again.

This time Shua Xie felt his lightning power was greater than before. It felt like Shua Xie was about to die right then and there. In his heart he grumbled in annoyance because again the Golden lightning struck him without waiting for any preparations from him.

Shua Xie bit his subordinate's lips in annoyance, this time he wouldn't talk much anymore. Shua Xie would sit quietly facing the lightning strike and take it as an immune test.

The third lightning came so quickly and instantly grabbed Shua Xie as hard as possible. Shua Xie shouted very loudly feeling that his entire bones had already been smashed into pieces. The fourth lightning came again with more power than the previous lightning, this time Shua Xie clenched his hands as much as possible to endure the pain he felt. This fourth lightning made Shua Xie's bone marrow shatter.

The fifth lightning came again, just as before the lightning to the five of greater power. This time Shua Xie felt he was already unable to feel himself. Shua Xie's soul body emitted a golden-colored flow of electricity. That electricity is electricity from the Golden Lightning.

The golden lightning strike continued until the ninth Lightning. This time Shua Xie was already not feeling any pain anymore. Instead he felt otherwise, like something great power was flowing in his mediation. The bones, and the person's body seemed to be re-formed.

Shua Xie opened his eyes then looked at his entire body, smoke coming out from his skin, the smoke giving off a poisonous air. From Shua Xie's understanding, the tenth lightning bolt made his soul even stronger, even able to remove the toxins from his body whereas the current Shua Xie was in the form of a disembodied soul.

The image of the rhyme attached to Shua Xie's back also underwent a change, the shape of the rhyme being a tattoo engraving forming Pheonix wings filled Shua Xie's back. The wing-carved tattoo exudes a Pheonix wing-shaped aura. Instantly Shua Xie felt the power of the rhyme attached to his body become five times stronger than before.

Lie Li approached Shua Xie, "Happy Master successfully passed the first stage examination. The second stage exam will be carried out if Master is ready," Lie Li said, making Shua Xie look at him with a difficult to interpret gaze.

"How many more stages?"

"There are still two more stages, the second stage Master will climb the stairs. The exam will be carried out if you are ready, "Lie Li replied formally like a robot human.

"It seems easier than ever, I'll just go through with the exam." Shua Xie stood up and approached Lie Li.

"Well, the second exam is continued."

Not long after a single staircase appeared before Shua Xie and Lie Li, the stairs were far towered into the sky, Shua Xie did not know where the end of the stairs was, either, but Shua Xie admitted it was the longest staircase that Shua Xie had seen.

On Lie Li's side releasing true spirit element energy from his palm stunned Shua Xie at once by surprise, this was the first time Shua Xie had seen true spirit element energy. Within the elemental level of spirit energy, the true spirit energy element was the purest and most powerful spirit energy. A bit of true spirit elemental energy could melt a single mountain, even pure flames would melt from it.

However spirit energy is not easily purified into true spirit elemental energy, it takes hard work and great effort to be able to possess true spirit energy. Even the Nirvana stage could not necessarily form true spirit energy.

Lie Li used his true spirit element energy to burn the stairs, instantly the stairs were filled with the flames of true spirit flames. Shua Xie was so shocked that it was hard to say, once in a while he saw Lie Li filled with fearful gazes.

"Lie Li, don't tell me that ladder I'm going up?" knock Shua Xie.

"True Master will climb the Illusionary Pressure Ladder. One rung of stairs will give a strong pressure that makes the body of the Master becomes heavier, the more stairs that you pass, the pressure of the stairs will be greater. You must not give up halfway, if you give up the Illusory Pressure ladder will absorb your soul and make you his nutrition. If Master succeeds, it will also be a benefit to Mr ...."

"Actually the first test helped Master reshape the body and soul of Master. Then helping Master build the strongest defensive foundation, Master will no longer be easily injured. Then the second test is to train the speed of the feet and the determination of the Lord. The big press of each rung will help the speed training of your feet, Master will feel it when you return to your body. Then the flames you see today are not real fire but an illusion. Earlier Master saw me burning the stairs with my true spirit element energy, and Master thought that it was a very hot fire. The stairs will automatically give off the illusion that Master thought, I just activated the stairs with the power of true spirit energy. As long as you can think calmly, those illusions will not trouble you. The illusion that the stairs cast is the illusion that you fear the most or hate, even Master likes, so beware Sir. This second exam is not an easy one, but you can take this as your Master's training method" Lie Li explained at length.

Shua Xie was finally able to grasp a bit of the second test. Although it does not sound difficult, but Shua Xie does not know what will happen later, considering Lie Li said the second exam is more difficult, meaning Shua Xie must be careful.

Shua Xie looked at the length of the Illusory Pressure ladder, not one of the names of the stairs is called the Illusion Pressure ladder because it dissipates great pressure and strong illusions. Shua Xie was fooled by his illusion, if Lie Li had not explained it earlier, Shua Xie would have been afraid to climb the stairs.

"Lie Li why did this exam seem more helpful than difficult? Shouldn't the exam be difficult for the participants?" shua Xie asked, his gaze still focused on staring at the Illusionary Pressure stairs.

"Because the divine book was created to help not complicate. Master Shu Qiu Bing created the divine book for the next generation, but by the time Lord Shu Qiu Bing passed on the divine book, many of his grandchildren were scrambling to learn the divine book. Being too ambitious to want to be strong like Lord Shu Qiu Bing, they did not hesitate to kill children, brothers and even their own parents. As a result many generations of the Sky clan fought each other for the sake of the divine book, Lord Shu Qiu Bing was so disappointed with his generation. Finally Master sealed the divine book and only inherited it to the person whom You deem fit. Lord Shua Xie was a descendant of the pure Sky clan, possessing the same Phoenix destiny as Lord Shu Qiu Bing. Master Shu Qiu Bing chose Master as the second successor after Lord Shu Qiu Bing was an extraordinary gift. If only everyone had known, perhaps Master would have been the number one fugitive in the world, since the existence of the divine book was long gone from the world," lie Li replied without any tones of emotion in the slightest really did not have any feelings.

"And the strong will always be annihilated if it cannot be utilized, that is the absolute law of the Cultivator world." Shua Xie related Lie Li's words.

"But I am still confused about one thing, I am not a person of this world. But why did ancestor Shu Qiu Bing choose me to pass on the divine book, even bringing me to this world. Even though I like this kind of world, I need a reason to accept this fate." Continue Shua Xie again with a resigned tone.

"Didn't Lord Shu Qiu Bing ever say, if you're curious then live out your destiny, and you'll get the answer," lie Li's voice made Shua Xie recall the mysterious master's words which were none other than the first ancestor of the Sky clan.

"Right, I promised him I would restore the glory of the Sky clan." Shua Xie smiled slightly as he looked up at the sky. The previously overcast sky full of lightning flashes everywhere had now become bright. No more black clouds and Golden lightning.

"Yes, just live this fate, dead life is in your own hands!" Continue Shua Xie again with a firm tone. Shua Xie stepped closer to the stairs full of flames, before he stepped he looked first at Lie Li.

"I will wait for the Master at the end of the stairs, may the Master succeed!" lie Li said after that he disappeared without a trace, completely dazzling Shua Xie. Shua Xie became even more eager to become strong, then killed Lou Zo as quickly as possible.

Before Shua Xie climbed up the stairs, he first tried to sense the illusory flames, whether the illusory flames were hot or not. And true Lie Li said, the fire was just an illusion, Shua Xie himself did not feel the heat.

Shua Xie also climbed the first stairs, as he stood up suddenly something so great pressure weighed on his back. Shua Xie had almost fallen because of the pressure, the pressure so great that it made it difficult for Shua Xie to breathe. Shua Xie quickly responded right then and there, with the power of spirit energy, Shua Xie reduced his burden. The previously heavy load becomes slightly lighter.

Shua Xie stepped onto the second rung of the stairs, this time the pressure was even greater, requiring Shua Xie to dissipate even more spirit energy. Shua Xie stepped up the stairs one by one.

"It's not too difficult, but using continuous spirit energy is also not the right choice. If I run out of spirit energy, I will definitely become the nutrition of this ladder" Shua Xie muttered softly with breath that began to pant. Shua Xie had been walking for a long time, and he was on the 100th step. So far there has been no major pressure or illusion that disturbs its concentration.

"True, this is not the right choice. But do you have a way?" The voice of a man greeted Shua Xie from the side, and Shua Xie glanced beside him as he heard a familiar voice in his ear.

"Lou, Lou Yue!?" Surprise Shua Xie with eyes that are starting to widen.

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