Chapter 183 – The Endless Mountain

Chapter 183 – The Endless Mountain
Kong Huan shrugged his shoulders and shook his head somewhat helplessly.

“This I do not know, once someone only stepped out two or three steps, was given a heavy treasure; there are also people once then stepped out nearly a hundred steps, but in the end, but nothing; there are even people traveling to the heights, inadvertently fell to death. Maybe …… it all depends on the mood of the soul of the holy mountain? But those who have been recognized in the past, there is no shortage of people with strong hearts who rose to the challenge.”

Hearing this, Xu Chuniang mused, according to what Kong Huan had said, there weren’t too many rules to speak of for this Sacred Mountain Spirit’s recognition.

If the only way to obtain treasures was to obtain the recognition of the Sacred Mountain’s Soul, then this climb could be viewed as an examination.

Those who did well in the climb would be able to obtain rewards, and those who did poorly would be directly pushed off the mountain.

So this holy mountain, what exactly was the test? Is it the power of resistance?

Xu Chuniang eyes show pondering color, in the holy mountain, the deepest feeling is that ever-present force of resistance.

But Kong Huan said that someone once stepped out nearly 100 steps returned empty-handed, indicating that the Holy Mountain assessment, the focus is not on adapting to the force of resistance above.

What is the real test in the Holy Mountain?

Xu Chuniang’s eyes revealed the color of enlightenment, wanting to get the recognition of the Holy Mountain’s soul, must figure out this Holy Mountain, in the end, what kind of existence.

“Daoist Kong, how much else do you know about the origins of the holy mountain?”

Kong Huan thought back for a moment, “I mostly learned about the Holy Mountain from the Pavilion of Collected Scriptures. Although there are canonical books in the hidden scriptures cabinet that have records of the holy mountain, there aren’t many relevant records, pretty much the ones I’ve told you about.”

Xu Chuniang’s face did not show disappointment when she heard this.

The Little Zephyr Realm was extremely unstable, and could only be opened once every five years, and could only last for a month each time, so it was normal that there weren’t many records.

“However, it seems that the Holy Mountain was named later, because after stepping onto the Holy Mountain, the meaning that this mountain is unclimbable would rise in one’s heart, hence the name.”

Kong Huan said, a look of emotion appeared on his face, he felt that he would be able to step on thirty to fifty steps at the end of the day, and he didn’t know if he would eventually be able to obtain the recognition of the Sacred Mountain’s Soul.

“A senior’s miscellany mentioned that the Sacred Mountain used to have another name, called the Endless Mountain, taking the meaning of endless and unending.”

Endless Mountain?

Xu Chuniang pondered, the name was apt, as she climbed the mountain just now, the more she stepped upwards, the more she felt that the road ahead was far away.

Kong Huan rested for a while, his physical strength recovered more or less, and once again began to climb the mountain.

Xu Chuniang got up and similarly stepped up towards the Endless Mountain.

The familiar force of resistance came from below her, and compared to the first time she climbed the mountain, this force of resistance was much weaker.

Perhaps the force hadn’t weakened, but rather the body had gradually adapted to its strength.

Xu Chuniang stood with her feet on top of the endless mountain, and as time passed, the force of resistance grew weaker and weaker, and at a certain point it finally grew so weak that it could be ignored.

She took two steps upwards once more, and with great difficulty, she stabilized her body.

Xu Chuniang had to control her body with all her might in order to ensure that she wasn’t pushed down the mountain, four steps was her current limit.

For this towering mountain in front of her, it was merely the starting point.

She gasped in small breaths, beads of sweat rolling down from the corners of her forehead. In her heart, however, she did not stop thinking: this Endless Mountain, what exactly did she want to test?

She recalled that Kong Huan had said that the Little Zephyr Realm was refined from world fragments, and that this Endless Mountain was the supreme treasure of a super power in that great world.

If the purpose of such a supreme treasure was to select disciples, what were the criteria for its selection?
For a super power, the last thing it needs is a disciple with spiritual root talent, which of the remaining heart, enlightenment, will, and fortune is most likely?
Or perhaps, a combination of all four?
At that thought, Xu Chuniang felt a sense of clarity. This endless mountain, just like the path of cultivation, could not be seen at a glance.

Every time she took a step upwards, the resisting force she felt was like the difficulty of wanting to go further after a breakthrough in cultivation.

As time passed and cultivation was accumulated, this hardship would also decrease, as if the body would gradually adapt to these resisting forces.

The more you climb up, the more resistance you will endure. And the road of cultivation, is not it so?

At the early stage of qi cultivation, those who were not poorly endowed and worked hard enough would be able to cultivate from qi induction to the third level of qi cultivation in just a year’s time. The further one went, the more difficult it became to improve, and the time required doubled several times.

At the late stage of qi cultivation, it was common to take ten or eight years of hard cultivation to break through a layer.

After Foundation Establishment, it was even more difficult to raise one’s cultivation level.

Every step on the road to cultivation was not easy.

However, stepping onto the Foundation Establishment was only the first step on the road of cultivation in the true sense of the word, and behind it, there were the profound realms of Jindan, Yuanyin, and Transformation of the Divine, and so on.

Xu Chuniang took a deep breath and looked up towards the top of the mountain.

No wonder this mountain was named Endless, the Great Dao was endless, this mountain was endless.

While these epiphanies were rising in her heart, the resisting force that had been exerted on her suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

Xu Chuniang’s body was as light as if she was walking on a flat surface.

She had a premonition that if she were to climb a mountain at this moment, she would be able to leap dozens of steps in a single leap.

Her body moved with her heart, and she stepped forward, as if she were walking idly, and she couldn’t perceive any resistance at all.

Until she took more than fifty or sixty steps, the force of resistance only reappeared.

As soon as the force of resistance appeared, Xu Chuniang stopped walking, no longer moving forward.

Although she could still continue to move forward for a few more steps against the pressure, that would take a lot of time.

Being in a higher place, the feeling didn’t seem too different from earlier.

Xu Chuniang looked down towards the bottom of the mountain, her current position was already some height away from the foot of the mountain, and if she were to fall down from this place, she would probably be injured.

Right now, she had only taken a few dozen steps, if she climbed higher and was pushed down the mountain by the force of resistance, she would be in danger of losing her life.

Since the Endless Mountain was some sort of test, its purpose would naturally not be to let disciples perish.

Xu Chuniang suddenly withdrew a step backward.

Since she couldn’t think of a reason, she might as well do it first.

The instant she retreated backward, a force of resistance that was dozens of times stronger than before exerted itself on her, directly pushing her away from the downhill.

Xu Chuniang hastily executed a Light Body Technique, stabilizing herself in mid-air. Even so, this fall was a dusty one.

She casually patted the dust off her body, pondering.

It seemed that in the Endless Mountain, one could only move forward, not backward.

The same was true for the path of cultivation, although every step forward was difficult, but once one’s cultivation regressed, the situation would only become more difficult.

A bright color appeared in Xu Chuniang’s eyes as she once again set foot on Endless Mountain.

This time, she only casually took two steps before sitting down on her knees and beginning to meditate.

Since being in the Endless Mountain made it difficult to go up and down, she simply didn’t move.

When Kong Huan once again fell down from the mountain, he saw this scene, Daoist Xu sitting cross-legged at the foot of the mountain, actually meditating and practicing directly.

His chubby face revealed a look of regret.

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