154: Fifty thousand steps to the Heavenly Ladder, half of the Chaos Immortal Scripture!

After Chu Changge ascended the ten thousand steps of the Heavenly Ladder.

The Heavenly Ladder seemed to realize that the illusion it created had no effect on him.

The trial targeting him suddenly changed drastically.

A massive pressure suddenly fell upon him, as if he were bearing the weight of a gigantic abyssal city, making every step incredibly difficult.

"Hmm? What's going on? The trial suddenly changed?"

Chu Changge said, frowning.

This trial was originally about creating illusions to trap people.

But now, the method of the trial had changed.

Did it know the illusion was useless against him and target him specifically?

Or does the trial method change automatically once one reaches this point?

Chu Changge began to walk slowly, no longer rushing forward as he had before.

After all, there was a significant difference between his two hypotheses.

If it was the former, it meant the Taiyi Palace had its own consciousness and was targeting him, so he needed to be careful.

If it was the latter, then it was fine; everyone else would suffer this hardship too!

Soon, the people behind caught up.

The first person to reach Chu Changge was Chu Yang.

He saw that Chu Changge looked troubled and wanted to help, but was stopped.

"Junior Brother, do you feel anything strange happening to your body?"

Chu Changge asked impatiently.

Chu Yang shook his head and replied, "No, Senior Brother!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Changge's face darkened.

It seemed he was being targeted!

Was he being targeted because he activated the Great Awakening Divine Art to prevent himself from being misled by the illusions?

Chu Changge frowned.

Although the gravity exerted on him was immense, his speed hadn't slowed down significantly; compared to the others, he was still among the faster group.

Soon, Yun Ruowei, Su Ningxue, Xiao Linger, and others also caught up.

Seeing Chu Changge's heavy footsteps, they all inquired with worried expressions.

However, he refused the help of these women.

As more and more people passed him, observing their light footsteps and how they occasionally paused on a step to overcome an illusion,

Chu Changge understood.

He was truly being targeted by this Taiyi Palace.

"Damn it, this cursed Taiyi Palace! I used my own ability to avoid the suffering of the illusion, so why are you targeting me?!"

Chu Changge was grinding his teeth in anger.

He wished he could drag out the person controlling this Palace Secret Realm and bite him severely a few times.

This is outright bullying.

This is discrimination!

This is differential treatment!

Chu Changge looked at the tens of thousands of Heavenly Ladder steps remaining and sighed deeply.

If this continued, he would definitely be left behind.

After pondering, Chu Changge stopped activating the Great Awakening Divine Art.

Without the interference of this Divine Art, a force instantly swept toward him.

His eyes glazed over for a moment, and when he woke up,

he had already arrived in a different place.

He was no longer undergoing the trial in the Taiyi Palace; he had reached the deepest part of the Taiyi Palace and obtained its final reward, a portion of Immortal Source.

"Is this the illusion? Such trashy illusion dares to mislead me?"

Chu Changge looked at everything before him expressionlessly.

As he held the Immortal Source, a group of people were fawning over him with flattery.

"Divine Son Chu is truly amazing! I knew you would pass the final trial of Taiyi Immortal Venerable and obtain the Immortal Source he left behind. You are fantastic!"

"Brother Changge, you're wonderful! Ling'er wants to marry you!"

"..."

Chu Changge drew his ancient sword and fiercely slashed at the group of people flattering him.

"Crack!!!"

The illusion shattered, and he returned to the Heavenly Ladder.

After he participated in one illusion, the massive force that had been on him disappeared.

Immediately afterward, he looked back and saw that only Yang Dingtian and Chen Qi remained behind him.

Now, there were only about three thousand people left on the entire Heavenly Ladder. Since they had only climbed twenty thousand steps, more than six thousand people had already been eliminated, showing how difficult the Heavenly Ladder was.

After glancing at Yang Dingtian and the others, Chu Changge increased his speed again, leaving the group far behind.

Seeing Chu Changge recover his original speed for climbing the Heavenly Ladder, Yang Dingtian and the others were stunned.

"How can this be? His speed has recovered again!"

"What happened? His speed had clearly slowed down just now, and the way he stood motionless looked like he had entered an illusion. How could he overcome the illusion so quickly? It seems this person's Dao Heart is incredibly firm!"

"..."

Chu Changge once again took the lead, walking at the very front.

When he reached the fifty thousandth step of the Heavenly Ladder,

the treasure chests appearing at this point had changed.

The previous chests were dull and made of iron.

But the chests appearing now emitted a brilliant golden light, dazzling in all directions.

Chu Changge opened the treasure chest.

Inside was an ancient book.

Chu Changge's eyes lit up as he flipped it open. This was exactly the Opportunity that should have belonged to Yang Dingtian: half of the Chaos Immortal Scripture, a supreme Immortal Rank technique capable of Cultivating the Yin and Yang Divine Body into the Chaos Divine Body.

The crowd below looked on, their eyes burning with desire, seeing that Chu Changge had actually obtained an Immortal Scripture from this chest.

"Look quickly! After reaching the fifty thousandth step of the Heavenly Ladder, the rewards have changed! Divine Son Chu obtained an Immortal Scripture! Everyone, stop holding back your methods! Now that only half of the rewards remain, whoever snatches them gets them!"

Someone shouted, then brought out his trump card, a Magic Treasure imbued with spatial power. He fully activated this Magic Treasure, instantly crossing several hundred steps of the Heavenly Ladder, surpassing Chu Changge, and obtaining a brilliant golden chest.

He opened it and saw that inside was a mature Undying Divine Medicine.

Seeing the rewards become so generous—no longer just those Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Medicines, but items that even Great Emperors would covet—they immediately made their move.

The identities of the people remaining on the Heavenly Ladder were not simple; every one of them was an heir of a great Family or a Divine Son figure.

Previously, they had been holding back, but now that Immortal Rank quality items had appeared, they stopped reserving their strength, brought out their own methods, and began seizing treasures.

In just a few breaths of time, someone used a treasure they brought to instantly reach the sixty thousandth step of the Heavenly Ladder, far ahead of everyone else!

Chu Changge looked at the methods of this group and laughed, "It seems I underestimated the people of the world. I didn't expect these people to have some tricks up their sleeves!"

"But it doesn't matter how powerful their methods are; the one who reaches the summit first will still be me!"

Chu Changge said lightly, feeling the movement coming from his Void Immortal Bone.

His Void Immortal Bone told him that he could directly open a spatial tunnel leading straight to the top of the Heavenly Ladder.

However, he also had a feeling that if he reached the top of the Heavenly Ladder directly, he would no longer be able to obtain the remaining Heavenly Ladder rewards.

He certainly didn't want to waste these good things!

Thinking of this, Chu Changge did not directly open a passage leading to the top of the Heavenly Ladder. Instead, he opened a passage reaching the seventy thousandth step, and then stepped inside.

Seeing Chu Changge instantly cross twenty thousand steps of the Heavenly Ladder and once again become the leader far ahead of everyone else, Yang Dingtian and the others' expressions turned gloomy.

"Cheating! This is cheating! Isn't anyone going to stop him?"