The Ascending Peak rises from the ground and soars into the sky, just like a giant standing in the midst of thousands of mountains looking down on the earth affectionately. The peaks are full of clouds and mist, the mountain trails are meandering, and the steps on the mountain trails are like white jade winding up, like a giant dragon hovering on the mountain peaks, and the assestakers are like small black dots, scattered scattered on the dragon's body, slowly moving upward.

Bai Ye looked at these assessors with a hint of an intriguing smile on his face, and then his right hand sword finger slashed into the air, the sword behind his back was sonorously unsheathed, he stepped on the flying sword, and then he pointed again towards the Ascending Peak, and the flying sword carried him quickly towards the top of the mountain.

"It's weird!" Gu Sanqian muttered.

Others may not have seen Bai Ye's smile, but Gu Sanqian happened to see it.

"What's weird?" asked Yuan Wenjin.

Gu Sanqian shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, these three thousand steps must be weird, and it will definitely not be as simple as going upstairs normally." ”

Yuan Wenjin smiled slightly: "Could it be that you are too nervous, you see that they are running happily one by one, let's hurry up and go up, the longer the delay, the worse it will be for us!"

Gu Sanqian nodded, this assessment was very important to him, so he didn't want to waste time.

Just as Gu Sanqian was about to step onto the steps to ascend to the sky, his eyes were drawn to a position on the left.

It was a stone stele, a stone stele with a relatively severe weathering, probably because of its age, the color of the stele was similar to that of the mountain, and the moss cover was already unrecognizable, and it would not have been possible to find it if it were not for chance.

"Wait a minute!" Gu Sanqian stopped Yuan Wenjin.

Yuan Wenjin paused and asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Sanqian walked to the stone tablet, and picked off the moss on the stone tablet with his hands, only to see four lines of small characters written on it: Ascending the sky peak is surrounded by clouds and mist, and the characters under the climbing peak are small, and if you want to climb the heavenly peak, the sun will wind the road.

Yuan Wenjin also saw the words on it, and couldn't help asking: "What does this mean? Is it possible that you have to see the sun to climb the heavenly peak?"

Gu Sanqian was silent, these four lines of small words appeared next to this heavenly staircase without any meaning, so what is its purpose? Literally, it seems to be a description of one thing, but there seems to be some information hidden in it.

After thinking for a while, Gu Sanqian didn't think of an explanation, he asked, "When you inquired about the three thousand steps before, did anyone describe the three thousand steps?"

Yuan Wenjin said: "Basically, as Bai Ye said, if you want to say something weird, it is estimated that those who are eliminated complain that the steps are too long and the time is too short." ”

Gu Sanqian nodded and said, "Could it be that the three thousand steps themselves are weird?"

Yuan Wenjin frowned and said, "It makes sense, but do you know how to solve it?"

Gu Sanqian shook his head helplessly: "I don't know, but these four lines of small characters are probably the key, and it's useless for us to stay here now, we will only know after we go in." ”

Yuan Wenjin nodded, and then he and Gu Sanqian stepped on the steps to the heavens.

Of course, when they stepped on the steps to the sky, the two looked around, the sky was still the same, the steps were still the same, the mountain walls on both sides were still the same, and the people in front of them were still climbing up step by step.

Nothing has changed!

There's nothing weird about it!

The stairs are still the same stairs, and there is nothing abnormal about it!

Gu Sanqian walked up a few steps, stepped a few steps, and there was no change around him, he couldn't help but hesitate a little: "Could it be that I am thinking too much?"

Yuan Wenjin also took a few steps upward, his speed was obviously twice as fast as Gu Sanqian, and he stopped at a distance of more than ten steps from Gu Sanqian, and turned to look at Gu Sanqian who was slowly climbing.

Gu Sanqian saw Yuan Wenjin waiting for him, and he hurriedly said, "You don't have to wait for me, go up first, we'll see you at the top of the mountain." ”

Although Yuan Wenjin had the intention to climb with Gu Sanqian, he was inevitably a little anxious when he saw that the candidates in front of him were getting farther and farther away from him.

"Okay! See you at the top of the mountain!"

Yuan Wenjin answered and was about to leave, but Gu Sanqian stopped him at this time, "Yuan Wenjin, although I don't know why these steps haven't changed, I'm sure these steps are weird, so you should be more careful on the road." ”

"See you at the top of the mountain!"

"See you at the top of the mountain!"

The two said goodbye, Yuan Wenjin's body fell down the stone steps like a feather, and he went up another layer with a light tap, and disappeared in front of Gu Sanqian in a blink of an eye.

After Yuan Wenjin left, Gu Sanqian still slowly advanced according to his unique rhythm, not that he didn't want to be fast, but that speeding up would consume physical strength. He had to maintain his physical strength, after all, three thousand steps was not a small number, even if an innate martial artist wanted to climb it in a day, it would not be easy, not to mention that he also needed to pay attention to the surrounding environment.

When Gu Sanqian climbed the hundredth step, his forehead was already slightly sweaty, and when he climbed the third hundredth step, his breathing became slightly short. By the time he had climbed the six-hundredth step, his body was already sweating, his breathing was short, and his legs were a little weak.

"Six hundred steps is my limit, it seems that this kind of activity is still a bit reluctant!" Gu Sanqian smiled bitterly, walked to the left mountain wall and sat down, leaned against the mountain wall, stretched his feet and trembled, and relaxed.

Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter in front of him, and someone could be faintly heard talking about him.

"Just this body is still coming to the assessment?"

"I bet he didn't get to seven hundred steps before he burped. ”

"Where to go up to seven hundred steps, I think he's going to die now. ”

"Hahaha!"

......

"Hmph!" Gu Sanqian snorted coldly, ignoring them, he looked up at the sky, the sun was about to rise above his head at this moment, and it was almost noon.

He had climbed only 600 steps in one morning, and he hadn't noticed anything unusual during that time, and if anything, there would be slight vibrations on the steps every once in a while.

Gu Sanqian couldn't help frowning, "Is it really necessary to use the power of the Origin?"

Even if he didn't want to use the Origin Power again, if he continued at this pace, he would definitely still use it.

Suddenly, he felt a downward sliding force from his back. This force is very heavy, it seems to be moving, and it feels very strange to Gu Sanqian, if you have to use words to describe this feeling, it is like being teleported for a distance on the side of the escalator.

It feels like it comes and goes quickly, almost instantaneously.

"Strange, really strange!" Gu Sanqian's eyes lit up, and he took out a few silver needles about a foot long from his waist, and then he inserted these silver needles into the mountain wall and stone steps in different directions. At last he returned to his place and sat down, still leaning against the mountain wall, waiting for the strange feeling to come.

The sun shone on the silver needle, causing the silver needle to drag out a long shadow. Over time, the shadow of the silver needle on the steps began to shift and contract. When he felt the strange power coming from the mountain wall again, Gu Sanqian began to record the position of the silver needle on the steps, as well as the shift and contraction of the shadow.

The shadow of the silver needle can be calibrated to accurately calculate the time, and the position of the silver needle can calculate the range of the influence of the change, as well as the law of change.

After several times in a row, Gu Sanqian found that every ten minutes, a wide range of upward and downward movements would occur, and because the range of movement was too large and the speed was fast, it was difficult for the naked eye to detect, and at most he felt a slight tremor.

What surprised Gu Sanqian even more was that this jade step was not a single piece as he imagined, but a patchwork of three square steps. And every time the steps move up and down in a large area, these small steps will also move according to a special pattern.

The movement of these small steps follows the large steps, and the scope of the large steps is too large to be noticed.

With this discovery, Gu Sanqian immediately figured out why Bai Ye said that he had stepped on three thousand steps.

It turns out that these steps will change, originally only a whole step, the steps move, if the candidate is lucky to not move, then he seems to take the escalator, moving up and down will not miss the number of steps, but at this moment a whole step is composed of three small steps, when the big steps move, the small steps are also moving, which has too many changes, can basically remove the element of luck, but also greatly increases the difficulty of stepping on the three thousand steps.

It is precisely because the small steps have to move and prevent being discovered, so it is necessary to move with the big steps, so take the big steps as a reference point, skip the small steps that move in the opposite direction, and step on the small steps that move with the big steps, it is naturally like taking an escalator, no matter how you move, you will not miss a step.

Gu Sanqian showed a confident smile: "I didn't expect that there was such a law in it, interesting, interesting!"

Gu Sanqian breathed in place for a while, and after recovering, he stood up: "It's going to start!"

As he spoke, there was a slight vibration under his feet, and it was at this moment that his body stepped up the right step in front of him at great speed, and then stepped towards the lower step on the left with lightning speed, and then jumped up the second step in front of him across one step.

A series of movements, although it looked very awkward, was surprisingly fast, and this speed was beyond Gu Sanqian's expectations.

"It's ......"

Gu Sanqian's eyes lit up suddenly, and his body didn't advance but retreated, running downward.

If anyone sees him running down the mountain instead of climbing up, they will either think he is crazy or they will think he has given up.