The strong man from the Black Demon family's face darkened.
He had only walked one-tenth of the distance, but as he tried to take a step, a strange force arose from nowhere, preventing him from taking this step.
Not only that, he could feel that the soul power that had been improving just now suddenly stopped growing and never changed at all!
"It loses its effect so quickly?"
His face couldn't help but darken.
Although with just that moment of effort, his soul power had already improved compared to hundreds of years of normal practice, speaking of it, the benefits gained were not small.
But he had just experienced such an astonishing speed, and was suddenly knocked back to his original shape. This huge contrast was obviously difficult for him to accept!
"There will be ten stages in the first path. Each stage must reach a certain strength of soul will before it can continue to move forward."
"During the stay, the soul power will not continue to grow. If you stay for more than a hundred years, you will be eliminated!"
At the same time, an indifferent voice sounded, causing the expressions of everyone on the first road to change slightly.
Although they had psychological expectations when they chose this path, when they really knew the news, it still made it difficult for them to feel better.
Once the ten stages of the test are not met, the soul power cannot be improved, which means that the benefits they receive will be greatly reduced!
Sure enough, after that, many people stopped one after another. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't move forward at all.
There are nearly a hundred strong men in total, but more than 60 people are stuck in the first stage, and more than half of them are strong men from the Black Demon family.
This is not surprising. The Black Devil family was originally a robber and bandit. Even if it became a family, it could not change its evil methods. The soul and will naturally cannot be much stronger.
"hateful!"
Trapped in place, their expressions were extremely ugly, but after experiencing the benefits just now, they were obviously not willing to leave just like this.
Immediately, a group of people sat down on the same spot, hoping to cram in and increase their soul strength before the battle.
The rest of the people who were not stuck continued to move forward, but when they reached one-fifth of the distance, their footsteps almost stopped.
Except for a few two or three people, everyone else is trapped in the first two stages!
On the other side, among the people who chose the second path, one of them has already reached one-tenth of the distance.
When he took another step, while the pain and torture increased further, the speed of his soul power increased suddenly, which was already comparable to the third stage of the first path!
"This speed of improvement...had we known it, we should have chosen the second path!"
"Although it's a little more painful, as long as you persevere, the benefits of the second path will definitely be much greater!"
This scene made many strong men who chose the first path begin to regret it.
It's just that they regret it now, it's already too late, and it's impossible to change their choice now.
As for the third way...
Lin Yu was the only one on this empty road, and so far, he had only advanced a hundred feet, hundreds of feet behind Xu Zhilan, who was the slowest on the second road.
Although the surrounding karma fire could not cause substantial damage to Lin Yu's soul power, the pain and torture it caused was more than ten times stronger than the second path at the same stage!
Moreover, at every moment, Lin Yu had to use all his soul power to resist the erosion of karma in the karma fire, which made it even more difficult for him to move forward.
In this case, his forward speed is simply incomparable to the others!
Not only that, during this process, his soul power was not improved at all, not even a little bit!
"This third road is indeed a dead end!"
"This kid chose this path because he was smart, but he didn't know that he was smart and was mistaken for it. Hum, it seems that he is going to bury his life here in vain!"
"It's just a pity that his set of high-level supreme magic weapons is fine. It doesn't matter if he dies, but it's a pity that the treasure is lost!"
Upon seeing this, the strong men on the other roads sneered, their eyes full of mockery.
Of course, Lin Yu didn't care what these people thought and just continued to move forward.
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Several months passed in the blink of an eye.
As time goes by, the number of strong men entering the Desolate Ash Mountains continues to increase. Although several major families have left a small number of strong men to block it, they are ultimately unable to stop the swarming practitioners.
Not only from Xiling Prefecture, but also from other surrounding prefectures, many strong men came here!
A large number of strong people came one after another. As before, most people chose the first path, and less than half of the strong people chose the second path.
As for the third way... there are still very few!
After a few months, except for Lin Yu, only one person chose the third path. After he was burned to death by the fire of karma after advancing less than a hundred feet, no one made the same choice again.
Ten years later, the number of powerful people gathered here had exceeded tens of thousands. There were more than 9,000 people on the first path, and more than 300 people on the second path. Only Lin Yu was still alone on the third path.
one person.
During this period, on the first path, some people have already passed the sixth stage, and their soul power has been directly upgraded from the fifth-level supreme level to the sixth-level supreme level!
As for the second path, although the best person could only cover one-third of the distance, the benefits he gained were even greater than the former, reaching the soul level of the sixth-order supreme!
Even Xu Zhilan has reached 30% of the distance, and her soul power has been promoted to the fifth supreme level.
Only Lin Yu has only covered one-fifth of the distance, and so far, he still has not received any benefits.
This contrast obviously made Lin Yu a laughing stock in everyone's eyes, and also strengthened the determination of the others not to choose the third path.
Time flies so fast that a hundred years have passed in a blink of an eye.
The number of practitioners who have come here has reached hundreds of thousands, and the earliest batch of practitioners, such as the powerful men from the four major families, have been forcibly teleported out.
On the first path, the strongest person made it to the seventh stage, but this seemed to have become a bottleneck. For a hundred years, no one could go further.
On the second path, the strongest man reached half the distance, but he also stopped there. Even if he took a step further, the pain would be unbearable for him.