Not until the second day, did Xiao Naihe wake up and fully restored his spiritual power.
"I've been through the total eighteen-hundred steps already, and it's the time for me to go back to the Qiankun Ding to see how high the Moon and Sun Sword has evolved now."
He received the Void Mirror and the God of the war that had helped him a lot yesterday.
"Uh?"
Just as he was about to turn around, a strange light emerged on the Ladder and twinkled faintly.
A suppose struck Xiao Naihe that the eighteen-hundredth step was not the terminal of the Ladder!?
He closed his eyes, and mobilized his spiritual power to explore the eighteen-hundredth step, then opened his eyes with weirdness in them.
A smile began to hang on his face after several seconds.
Sure enough as he guessed, the Ladder possessed more than eighteen-hundred steps.
The red dot representing him on the monument started to move. A disciple pointed at the monument, shouting, "Look! This person is still moving forward! He has already come to the end of the Ladder, hasn't he?"
"Is it that the eighteen-hundredth step is not the end?"
Li Jiaolong got confused too. He as well as the other Rosy Clouds disciples posed their sight on Guo Ruochen, Xue Lie and Li Tianxuan, the three of who could answer the others' questions.
Guo Ruochen answered softly and slowly with a sigh, "The Mountain Rosy Clouds has been established for more than a thousand years, so has the Ladder for the inner door entrance examination. In those days, there were numerous geniuses who strived for joining our sect!"
He suspended for a while, then continued, "Among them, there were not only Full-Immortal-Realm candidates, but also Ghost-Immortal-Realm ones!"
"Ghost Immortal Realm!?" Shocks prevailed everyone.
"Yes! In fact, the Ladder owned twenty-eight hundred steps! But during the eight hundred years, no one has passed the fifteen-hundredth step, thus the enrollment require has lowered to the eighteen-hundredth step gradually."
Everyone was deprived with their ability to express their astonishment.
Guo Ruochen was in silence as well, full of expectation to see how far could this disciple get to.
For a time, the other five predestined disciples had been forgotten.
Xiao Naihe seemed to be strolling in the clouds, and everyone was quietly looking at the movement of the red dot on the monument.
"I have already passed another three hundred steps, but why the martial art didn't appear?"
When Xiao Naihe reached the twenty-one-hundredth step, the absence of the seventh martial art made him feel strange. He could only choose to continue moving forward, and his spiritual power was still in consumption.
"It seems that the following steps are not easy, for there is no martial art to supplement spiritual power."
He kept on walking ahead with his eyes closed.
It took his one day long to put feet on the twenty-four-hundredth step.
At the end of the next day, he reached the twenty-six-hundredth step
He finally passed all the twenty-eight-hundred steps on the third day, accomplishing a miracle of eight hundred years.
"Oh my god! I must get this disciple! I will fight against whoever wants to grab him with me!" Xue Lie's eyes burst into red, staring at Li Tianxuan and Guo Ruochen coldly. At this time, he was like a fierce lion.
Regrets filled with Li Tianxuan who wanted to slap himself.
Guo Ruochen sighed without any words.
It was only on twenty-sixth day now. Xiao Naihe stood on the top of the Ladder, looking down at all the scenes below. The clouds seemed to be the border of two worlds.
"It's lonely to be in the high position!"
He turned around and flew to the bottom all of a sudden, refusing to stay on the twenty-eight-hundredth step.
Xue Lie's face changed dramatically, crying out, "Why he acts like that?!"
"He wants to hide his identity?"
"Yes, maybe! He is probably the one who concealed the immortal sword! Since he refuses to let others know that he has received the sword, he is reluctant to reveal his identity too."
"Damn it!" Xue Lie shouted, intending to rush into the Ladder, but was stopped by Guo Ruochen.
"Sect Leader, why?"
"Except for the candidates, no one is allowed to enter the Ladder when in examination!"
"Even me?" Xue Lie looked coldly at Guo Ruochen.
Guo Ruochen replied seriously, "Yes!"
"Humph!"