Chapter 8 Ascending the Ladder
"Something special?" He Le blinked, remembering the newly heard sentence, which seemed to be a huge system that could be condensed throughout the whole. That Zheng Tianshi has already achieved a small success, but he will be defeated in the next blow of that might, and you can imagine how powerful it should be when it is fully displayed. It's just a pity that he can only happen occasionally, and he doesn't understand the principle at all, and he may not be able to do it next time when he is forced to a life-and-death situation.
"This time is very special, whether you remember it or not, it's good to forget it for a while. Elder Wang said seriously.
"I really don't remember, I was almost scared to death, my mind was full of chaos. ”
"Well, then let me do it. Elder Wang saw that he would not go wrong, so he took him to the Qianshi Palace. There are very few people in the Yuntan Sect who can enter the Qianshi Palace, and those heavenly descendants do not need to be said, in fact, it is impossible for disciples to enter the Qianshi Hall without decades of accumulation or great achievements. This time, Sect Master Li had a plan, so he took the initiative to ask Elder Wang to bring He Le to pay homage to the Qianshi plaque.
"You can pay homage to the Qianshi Hall first! Really! Great!" He Le is a child after all, and he was so excited that he danced when he heard that he visited the Qianshi Hall first.
Elder Wang looked dumb and smiled, after all, he was a child, although he sometimes behaved like a city, but he still couldn't hide the side of a child.
The back mountain was much higher than the front mountain, and there were hundreds of elite guards hidden in it, so the road up the mountain was made winding, and the two walked up the canyon for an hour to reach the ladder to the top of the Great Highness. Because He Le is visiting the Qianshi Hall for the first time, he must go up from the ladder to the sky, and no one can help him in the middle. If you don't achieve it once, wait another three years. Elder Wang had already informed He Le of the details beforehand, so He Le was mentally prepared. But when he really saw the stone steps, he realized that he still wanted to be simple.
There are a total of 216 steps of the ladder under His Royal Highness, each step is about 80 centimeters high, and the steps are inclined downward. The higher you go, the greater the slope, and at the top five stone steps, there is a slope that is almost continuous from below, and even if you climb on top of it, you risk sliding down. In previous years, it was not without precedents for those who tried to fall and die, but to die in the Yuntan Sect was to die. Just like that Zheng Tianshi, if he is injured and becomes an idiot, he is an idiot, and no one will care.
He Le gasped, and wanted to say if he could go back and prepare to come back. There are certainly regrets, but the thought of a new warning for this makes me feel reluctant. Since he can remember, he has known what a cruel world this is, if he doesn't try his best to accumulate strength, there will be Zhang Tianshi and Li Tianshi to sneak attack, and it is difficult to say whether there will be good luck next time.
In the words of his father: It's better to grasp life in your own hands, not relying on the sky or the earth......
Elder Wang didn't say anything behind him, knowing that for a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child who had not been able to practice Qi Liu, this ladder to heaven was really difficult to climb to the sky. But everyone should be responsible for their own choices, and since he chose to walk the ladder at this time, he should be responsible for the possible failure, and no one should be blamed. Only by letting him know the importance of choice from an early age, will he not make blind decisions and suffer such losses as himself in the future.
"Sir, I'm ready. He Le whispered and saluted, and without waiting for a response, he rolled up his sleeves and strode up the ladder.
The world really responded to the proverb that a good man will be struck by lightning, and he almost slipped down the steps as soon as he walked the third step. The ladder to the sky is not ordinary slippery, but particularly slippery, because few people walk, and it is wet all year round, and the steps are covered with moss. It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and this slip almost broke his idea of climbing the ladder. Elder Wang watched from below, ready to save people at any time.
"It's okay, it's okay. He Le muttered, and he didn't know whether to say it to Elder Wang or to cheer himself up. After noticing that the steps were slippery, he no longer dared to be careless, and with each step he would twist, crushing the moss on the soles of his feet. Although it is much slower, every step is steady, and it is safer than rushing in and falling halfway.
Elder Wang nodded straight at the bottom, it was really a potential child, even if he didn't go up this time, he would be able to go up one day.
The first dozens of levels are okay, although he changed to a climbing position, but he also let him climb up. But as soon as the 100 steps passed, the slope obviously increased, and He Le could only barely stick his body to the stone steps to prevent him from at least falling. At this time, he inevitably cursed the person who designed the stone steps in the first place, but when he thought of Elder Wang's explanation, he couldn't scold. Since ancient times, ascending to heaven is still the ultimate goal of cultivators, and even the emperor, although he is called the Son of Heaven, also hopes to one day ascend to the Lingxiao Taixu. Therefore, the ladder builder is to inform everyone that the difficulty of ascending to heaven can be achieved without persistence.
"Is the sky high? maybe!" He Le struggled to raise his head and look at the eternal firmament.
Lying on the stone steps, he took off his sweat-soaked coat, revealing a small set of tendon muscles, as well as two shocking sharp wounds on his back. One of the scars was slashed from the left shoulder to the right buttocks, and a slight red mark can still be seen, showing how deep the wound was in the first place. The other wound was cut from the right side of the back of the neck to the left side of the ribs, and the scar should have been deeper in the first place.
It was also the first time for Elder Wang to see the scar on his back, and he couldn't imagine that he had suffered such a serious fatal injury at such a young age, and he was also very touched for a while.
After taking off his coat, He Le wrapped his coat around his arm, and then continued to climb up. After holding on for dozens of steps, the stone steps became dry, and there was no more annoying moss. I think it's more sunlight up there, and there's often wind blowing on it.
Elder Wang hung ten meters behind him along the normal mountain path next to him, and there were more complicated emotions in his eyes. On the one hand, He Le is a person who hides a great secret, on the other hand, he is an innocent teenager, and now there is a tenacious, stubborn, and hateful teenager. If he can't be leashed well, it will be difficult to say what He Le will develop into in the future.
He Le's height is only average among thirteen or fourteen-year-olds, so it is difficult to climb every step, plus the slope. When he climbed to level 181, he had already exceeded Elder Wang's expectations, and he thought that it would be very good if he could climb level 100, but who knew that he was close to the top of the mountain. Although he definitely couldn't climb it, he also set a record for climbing the ladder without cultivating Qi Liu since the beginning of the sect. It should be a hundred years ago that a prince climbed on the rise, but the prince was already an adult at that time, and he made an exception to be protected by guards. Even so, the prince only climbed to level 112 and gave up automatically.
And He Le is a child, even if he has a secret, he can't make up for it from physical strength and Qi Liu. Therefore, the more Elder Wang looked at him, the more he admired him, don't look at He Le's young age, he didn't say any bold words, but he was practicing his inner perseverance with practical actions.
"He Le, it's already good to be here, rest, I'll take you up the mountain." "Elder Wang didn't want to hold him back, but he was afraid that he would fall and destroy that insistent Dao heart. Giving up temporarily and being frustrated are two completely different situations, and giving up temporarily is a strategic adjustment, and there is still a determination to challenge in my heart. And frustration is the despair closest to hope, which will leave a wound in the heart, and if you don't recover well, you will lose your Dao heart. How many amazing talents in ancient and modern times have fallen in the frustration closest to success. Elder Wang didn't want He Le to be the same, he wanted He Le to go further and stand taller.
"It's nothing~nothing~" He Le couldn't answer at all, and his heart was like a rainstorm hitting a lotus leaf, beating wildly. His hands and feet were shaking uncontrollably, and he could slip to the ground at any moment, shattering his bones. But in the bottom of his heart, he always thinks of Daddy and Duan Yifeng, Daddy has been in Daddy for a lifetime, but he desperately split that golden soldier in half. Holding the injured He Erdan, they ran all night, and only caught up with Zhang Zhichun and their team in the morning. Then he lied to them and said that it was the six-year-old He Le who killed Jin Bing with his bare hands. At that time, my father was close to running out of oil, but he told the story so real that he deceived Duan Yifeng into tears. An old man didn't believe it and went back to check, but the old man certainly didn't think that the seemingly wretched dad had arranged everything in order.
Before he died, his father just seriously said to He Le that he was alive, which was very simple, but it was more important than Qianjun in troubled times.
Later, Duan Yifeng didn't have time to say anything before he died, he just looked at him firmly, and his eyes were serious and terrifying. For a long time later, he would still dream of those eyes, the kind of determination that remained firm and persistent until death.
There are still a lot of things he doesn't understand when he is a teenager, but gradually he will be infected, and he has to have a goal. Daddy's goal is to survive for his son, so he will gather a lifetime of character and finally fight hard. And Duan Yifeng's goal is to find the heavenly son who can really help the sect for the sect, so he firmly believes that He Le, who is also from a poor family, believes that he is the heavenly descendant that the sect needs, even if he fights for his life.
Everyone survives with faith, but He Le's faith is higher, so he has to pay more, so God will treat him more harshly.
He Le pulled his fingers into the crack in the stone so that he could pull his body up. Because he was too hard, his ten fingers had already been broken, and the stone steps after a hundred steps were stained with blood. It's just that He Le has forgotten the pain, and his mind is full of the figures of his father and Duan Yifeng, who is not climbing the stone ladder alone, but carrying their hopes. What is a little blood, what is it if the skin is broken, they fought for their lives, and in the end they died laughing.
It's another order, but this level is so perfectly cultivated that there is not even a gap for him to pick his hands. He Le trembled and fumbled, slowly panning, and finally there was a small hole that his little finger could stick into. So he put his little finger in, tightened it, and pulled his body up. The heart-rending little finger that was about to break off halfway through the way almost slipped out of the small hole. But He Le completely ignored the pain, and finally climbed up the stairs again, but the little finger could not be taken out yet, because he would slide down, and it turned out that he had climbed to the 212th level. Finally, there are five levels, and the most difficult ones, there is no way to rest, and you have to fasten the stone steps at all times, otherwise you will slide.
Elder Wang was almost on the verge of standing behind him, but in the end, he held back not to break the rules. It's just that he is ready to rush over at any time to pick up He Le, who has slipped down.
He Le couldn't think about anything else, the little finger of his right hand was still buckled in the small hole, and his whole body was stuck on the little finger. At this point, the little finger was completely numb. However, his left hand could not reach the stone steps above, so he could only grope in vain on the stone wall, even if there was something he could grasp!
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