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Shān Mén Pass: ten thousand steps of stone stairs. The higher you go, the more terrifying the pressure becomes.

However!

This doesn't mean that the first step is completely harmless.

On the contrary, from a certain perspective, the first step is the most dangerous.

Some geniuses with perfect Inner Refinement, unstable foundations, and weak strength, hold a contemptuous attitude towards the first step.

They think, "It's just the first step, how could it possibly threaten me?" Then, they see the Innate geniuses in front of them "whoosh" and rush up, thinking they can do the same. The result is—coughing blood! Kneeling on the ground!

The hundreds of steps starting from the second step are much safer.

Because the difficulty of the steps at this stage hasn't increased much compared to the first step; and at this time, the geniuses have abandoned their contemptuous attitude and treat it cautiously, so naturally, there are no major problems.

However, for Innate geniuses, the first thousand steps are no different from walking on flat ground.

While some Inner Refinement martial artists are still coughing blood on the first step, the Innate geniuses have already rushed up a thousand steps like the wind. Only then do they begin to feel a slight pressure.

Just a slight pressure.

"Wow! Innate geniuses are indeed Innate geniuses, they really can't be compared to those Inner Refinement and half-Innate geniuses!" The martial artists watching from the sidelines exclaimed.

"Isn't that obvious?" A martial artist immediately laughed and scolded.

"Who said that? Who said that Inner Refinement and half-Innate geniuses can't compare to Innate geniuses?" A young man with a bare upper body said.

"Oh? What's your opinion, brother?"

"Look—there's a martial artist there, with no Innate aura fluctuation, but he's catching up to the Innate geniuses in front!" The bare-chested youth pointed with his finger and said.

Everyone looked over.

"Damn, it's true!"

"Is that young man Inner Refinement or half-Innate? How is he so monstrous?"

"He's really monstrous! He's about to catch up with the Innate geniuses in front!"

At this time, a swordsman wearing a bamboo hat said with contempt: "A bunch of people with no discernment! That person is Xu Ming!"

"Xu Ming?"

"Oh! So it's Xu Ming!" Many people suddenly understood.

Some uninformed onlookers asked: "Who is Xu Ming?"

Immediately, the legend of "Palm God" Xu Ming angrily slapping the inner sect disciples of the Savage Wasteland Sect was brought up again.

…

At the end of Shān Mén Pass, many inner sect disciples stood here, looking down at the excitement.

"I wonder if there will be a few truly outstanding new disciples this year!" A blue-robed inner sect disciple said.

Those outstanding new disciples can easily become the targets of the old disciples.

After all, peerless geniuses are equivalent to peerless experts in the future. The old disciples naturally have to seize the opportunity to build a good relationship while the peerless geniuses are still weak.

"Definitely!" Another inner sect disciple immediately said, "As far as I know, there are three in the Martial God Kingdom! Chen Wansong, Song Jiahan, and Luo Feng have all reached the mid-Innate stage!"

"Luo Feng is definitely a peerless genius, no doubt about it. Although Song Jiahan is slightly inferior to Luo Feng, he can also be called a peerless genius!" Song Jiahan is already sixteen years old, while Luo Feng is only fifteen. "As for Chen Wansong… I think his talent is on the same level as us, right? After all, Chen Wansong is already twenty years old!"

"It's not very surprising that he's only in the mid-Innate stage at twenty!"

"It's strange to say, Chen Wansong entered the Innate stage a long time ago, so why did he only come to challenge Shān Mén Pass this year? If he had become an inner sect disciple a few years earlier, his strength would definitely be more than just the mid-Innate stage now!"

"Who knows! Maybe he just likes to waste his talent?" There was a gloating voice.

"Apart from these few people from the Martial God Kingdom, the other geniuses don't seem to be considered outstanding, right?"

"They can't be considered!"

"Hehe, have you forgotten someone?" A strange, yin-yang voice sounded.

The speaker was a white-clothed youth who was as delicate as a woman.

"Who?"

"Who?"

"Shut up, Wu Jun!" No. 2 shouted angrily.

The white-clothed youth Wu Jun was still speaking in a strange, yin-yang tone: "Hey? Am I saying anything untrue?—To be honest, you guys are really useless; you actually lost all the face of our Savage Wasteland Sect in a small, rural country!"

"Shut up!!!" No. 2 had already clenched his iron fist.

"What? Want to fight?" Wu Jun was not afraid at all. "I advise you to save your strength and see how I help you regain the face of the Savage Wasteland Sect."

Help me regain the face of the Savage Wasteland Sect?

No. 2 laughed dumbfounded: "You want to challenge Xu Ming?"

"Challenge? A martial artist from a small, rural country is worthy of me challenging him?" Wu Jun smiled disdainfully, "Please pay attention to the wording, I just want to teach him an idiom—to not know the immensity of Heaven and Earth!"

"Haha! Just you?" No. 2 laughed, "I might as well put my words here! If you can beat Xu Ming, I'll immediately kneel down and kowtow three times to you, and from now on, I'll walk around you whenever I see you in the Savage Wasteland Sect!"

"Ha…" Wu Jun also laughed, "I'm not as useless as you! If I can't even beat a country bumpkin, I'll immediately kneel down and kowtow three times to you, and from now on, I'll also walk around you whenever I see you!"

…

Xu Ming was completely unaware that he was being targeted again just by honestly challenging Shān Mén Pass.

It's true that people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being fat. Ever since Xu Ming became famous, there have been many ignorant guys who thought they were talented and wanted to become famous by stepping on Xu Ming—such as Wu Jun, who was watching the battle at the end of Shān Mén Pass.

But, is Xu Ming so easy to step on?

The first three thousand steps of Shān Mén Pass didn't put much pressure on the Innate geniuses; for Xu Ming, there was even less pressure.

Xu Ming slowly and steadily shortened the distance with the Innate geniuses. When he crossed the watershed of three thousand steps, Xu Ming finally ran together with the other Innate geniuses.

"Finally caught up!" Luo Feng, who was leading the way at the front, glanced back, "I don't know if this kid is really not interested in the ranking of Shān Mén Pass, or if he's deliberately avoiding me, afraid to compete with me!"

"Hmph! Coward!" Luo Feng hated this feeling of having a challenge rejected.

"Want to avoid me? You can't avoid it! Even if you avoid Shān Mén Pass, we're in the same sect, so I'll have plenty of opportunities to challenge you in the future!"

Brothers, I've been squeezed off the weekly recommendation list. Can you guys tolerate this?

Please recommend my friend Chili's masterpiece: "Evil Emperor's Firmament".