"Thank you for the reminder."
"But I think I'm okay, I was just careless before."
Wang Zhong used his soul power to dry the seawater on his body and said to Xiaobai with a smile.
"As you wish."
"I've reminded you anyway."
Xiaobai shook her head, walked to the side, and jumped into the sea, but did not leave.
In her opinion, Wang Zhong's words were just him being stubborn. She wanted to stay and watch how Wang Zhong would embarrass himself.
But the development of events was completely different from what she had expected.
Just like before, Wang Zhong easily stepped onto the first step without any difficulty.
Then the second, the third, and one after another, Wang Zhong quickly reached fifty steps.
The look of schadenfreude on Xiaobai's face receded and turned into solemnity.
The Sea God's Light became harder and harder. Wang Zhong, a mere Soul Emperor in his sixties, could walk so easily to the fiftieth step. This kind of strength was unimaginable.
Measured by the Soul Emperors of Sea God Island, a Soul Emperor who could reach the fortieth step was already extremely remarkable, and this was the result of their all-out effort.
But Wang Zhong in front of her, his steps were too easy, and it was clear that he was not using his full strength!
This fact made Xiaobai clench her fists subconsciously.
Wang Zhong was unaware of Xiaobai's thoughts. He continued to climb upwards steadily and firmly, as if walking on a path full of joy and pleasure.
"He's enjoying it!"
"He's enjoying the pressure brought by the Sea God's Light!"
Xiaobai watched Wang Zhong's smiling lips and murmured softly.
"Why? Why is that?"
"Such pressure, even just enduring it is a step of pain and fatigue, yet he feels happy!"
With her delicate eyebrows furrowed, Xiaobai watched Wang Zhong move forward in the Sea God's Light, her gaze lost.
As Wang Zhong climbed more and more steps, this dazed look gradually turned into shock and astonishment.
In just a few dozen breaths, Wang Zhong had reached two hundred steps, a number only twenty-eight steps away from the Grand Priest Poseidon's highest record of two hundred and twenty-eight steps.
Even more terrifying was that Wang Zhong showed no signs of fatigue or even strain at this point.
Taking a deep breath of the cool air, Xiaobai stared at Wang Zhong without blinking. She was starting to believe the words she had heard from the Sea Maiden Douluo.
As Wang Zhong's footsteps continued forward, her slight belief grew.
She was even silently counting the number of steps Wang Zhong climbed.
"Two hundred, two hundred and one, two hundred and two... two hundred and twenty-eight!"
"Two hundred and twenty-nine! Two hundred and thirty! Two hundred and thirty-one!..."
This number had surpassed Grand Priest Poseidon's and set a new record for Sea God Island!
It was from this number onwards that Xiaobai's heart trembled violently with every step Wang Zhong took.
"Two hundred and thirty-two... two hundred and eighty-four... three hundred and ninety-nine!..."
"Five hundred! ... Six hundred! ... Eight hundred!"
When Wang Zhong's climbing reached eight hundred, Xiaobai's body trembled, and her beautiful eyes were filled with horror.
A person who had just encountered the Sea God's Light for the first time, no! Recalling Wang Zhong's embarrassed state when he fell from the sky into the sea, this was his second climb.
And in only his second climb, he had achieved an unprecedented feat!
Standing on the eight hundredth step, Wang Zhong panted heavily. Walking up step by step from the bottom to here, the increasing pressure of the Sea God's Light combined with the weight of the load-bearing soul tools put immense strain and consumption on his physical strength.
He took a deep breath, feeling the muscles and blood in his body gradually warming up. Wang Zhong grinned. This feeling was truly wonderful.
Eight hundred and one!
As Wang Zhong stepped onto this step, the overwhelming pressure caused his body to sink again. To reach this state before, he would have needed to reach at least nine hundred steps.
But now, at eight hundred steps, it was undoubtedly the best proof that the load-bearing training was effective.
A light flickered in his eyes. Wang Zhong felt a surge of exhilaration and joy emanating from the bottom of his heart. As this emotion rose, under Xiaobai's astonished gaze, his steps actually began to accelerate!
Although his speed increased, Wang Zhong's steps remained terrifyingly steady, each one seeming to land on her heart, making it tremble uncontrollably.
Time flowed by, and Xiaobai's shock gradually turned into numbness. The undeniable shock in her eyes turned into dullness.
Nine hundred and twenty-eight steps!
Surpassing Bo Hanxi by a full seven hundred steps.
This was where Wang Zhong was now. Sweat soaked his clothes and long hair, and drop by drop, it flowed down his body or hair onto the stone steps, leaving a trail of sweat.
His body slightly bent, Wang Zhong leaned on his knees and panted heavily. Without using soul power, and relying solely on his physical strength to support himself, reaching this point was almost the limit of his body.
For an ordinary person, it might be acceptable to give up here, but for Wang Zhong, this was far from enough.
Eight Extremes Heaven, Eight Inner Gates. These two cultivation methods that pushed the body to its limits pursued obsession and transcendence!
Transcending the limits of the body, transcending the limits of the will. Where others reached their limit, for Wang Zhong, it was merely the beginning!
Nine hundred and twenty-nine steps. Wang Zhong stepped onto it, and the pressure, like a collapsing mountain peak, crashed down on his body, causing his already at-limit body to tremble violently.
All his muscles tensed, veins bulged beneath his skin, and the immense force made Wang Zhong grit his teeth tightly.
His body was crying out in pain!
But this was exactly what Wang Zhong wanted. Each subsequent step would be beyond what his physical strength could bear. He needed an incomparably strong and determined will and perseverance.
Nine hundred and thirty steps! Nine hundred and thirty-one steps! ... Nine hundred and fifty-two steps! ... Nine hundred and eighty-four steps!
Nine hundred and ninety-eight steps!
With his right hand propped on the stone step, forcibly supporting his swaying body, streams of sweat flowed down his cheeks like a small stream, then flowed down the steps.
Every muscle in his body was almost torn and damaged. His bones and meridians were no better; the former trembled, and the latter moaned.
"Is this the end?"
Wang Zhong let out a self-mocking laugh. After a long period of comfort and leisure, his body seemed to have become 'lazy' under these conditions. He had only climbed this far and was already on the verge of 'shattering.'
"This is truly pathetic!"
Gritting his teeth tightly, Wang Zhong used the strength from propping himself up with his right hand and took another step forward.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine steps!
The pressure from this step finally overwhelmed Wang Zhong's body, almost flinging him away like the first time.
But Wang Zhong clung to the steps with both hands, forcing himself to stay there.
Traces of blood trickled from the corners of his mouth. The sweat that overflowed from his body turned light pink; it was blood squeezed from beneath his skin by the immense pressure.
"Wang Zhong, that's enough, stop!"
"If you go further, you'll die!"
From the bottom of the steps, Xiaobai shouted anxiously. Wang Zhong's obsession terrified her. The ruthlessness he showed himself, as if he didn't care about his life, made her fear him from the bottom of her heart.
"Just a little more!"
Wiping the blood from his mouth, which was overflowing due to the immense pressure, Wang Zhong stared at the thousandth step, his eyes burning with fire.
The limit reached by each moment of perseverance, and then the breakthrough beyond that limit, held immense appeal for Wang Zhong.
Unless he could no longer move, he would not stop!
Don't forget, how fragile you were in front of the demon!
A different kind of power surged within his body, spreading like an electric current throughout his body, allowing Wang Zhong to step onto the final step again.
One thousand steps!