I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Zhehao nodded to Yun Gu, then glanced at the little guy beside him after hearing his mutterings, and said calmly, "I lost to Yun Gu."

“It wasn’t him.” Yun Gu nodded as well. After Zhehao left, he looked at the two people behind Zhehao. “It was him.”

Jingyang walked over, puzzled, and asked, "What do you mean, 'he' and 'not his'?"

Is there a little Nezha here? Jing Yang looked down and saw a dumbfounded boy in martial arts clothes standing beside Yun Gu's legs. He looked to be just over 10 years old and was about two heads shorter than Jing Yang. Judging from the boy's aura, he had clearly opened all the pores in his body and could use and train his qi. Jing Yang nodded in a friendly manner, but the boy was so surprised that he took two steps back.

A question mark simultaneously appeared above Jingyang's and Xiaodi's heads.

Yun Gu laughed and said, "He was a little scared when he heard that I lost to you."

Hart's mind conjured up a relational equation: the burly man just now lost to Senior Brother Yun Gu, Senior Brother Yun Gu lost to the person in front of him... just how powerful must this person in front of him be?

Jingyang feigned surprise and said, "What's so surprising about this? Yun Gu, you're not that amazing, are you?"

Hart grinned at Jingyang, clearly displeased with his behavior of belittling his senior brother.

Yun Gu and Jing Yang looked at each other and smiled.

A long laugh came from the side. The middle-aged man with white hair and a youthful face looked at Jing Yang and his group with satisfaction, then called out to everyone, "Gentlemen, please ascend the Ascension Steps. I will be waiting for you at the summit..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Yang felt a blur before his eyes, and the man vanished right before his eyes.

A chorus of gasps filled the air. Jingyang turned to Yun Gu and asked, "Who's that?"

“This is Master Sky…” Yun Gu explained.

Jing Yang was shocked. How could this person look like someone from the same era as Netero? Netero was an ancient monster who was probably over a hundred years old! This Sky Master must be over a hundred years old to be considered from the same era, right?

"The Nen ability of teleportation?" Jingyang guessed.

"Perhaps..." Yun Gu didn't know much about it either.

Whoosh!

Over there, Zhehao took the lead, leaping up the first stone step, which was about half a person's height. He moved as nimbly as a monkey, climbing upwards quickly without stopping.

A murmur rippled through the crowd, with whispers mingling among them. This person from the Sky Arena was indeed a rare master.

I was so stuck on writing that I couldn't even get 4 words out. Consider this chapter a leave request from a few minutes ago... I'm such a useless person, I kowtow to you all. *knock knock knock*

Chapter 117 Wild Bunny Girl

With Zhehao leading the way, the others followed one after another, like locusts, leaping up the long steps to immortality one after another, and climbing up the steps with great enthusiasm.

"Senior Brother Yun Gu, let's hurry up and go too!" Hart excitedly grabbed Yun Gu, pulling the latter's shirt hem open. "We can't lose to the others, especially the Iron Flow Dojo! And the Rock Flow, Volcano Flow, Dragon Tiger Flow..."

Are there really that many schools of thought?

Jing Yang followed them over and looked at the group of martial artists who had already climbed ten or twenty meters. He asked, "Yun Gu, did you have to climb mountains when you participated before?"

They came by airship, but insisted on boarding at the foot of the mountain and then slowly climbing to the top...

Yun Gu lightly leaped up to the first step, which was about half a person's height, and pondered, "Now that you mention it, it seems so."

"Jiji!"

Just then, the zipper of Jingyang's backpack was ripped open, and a gray shadow flew out—a rock sparrow chirped and fluttered out, startling Hart.

Little Drop's expression remained unchanged as she reached out to catch the rock sparrow that had accidentally flown out.

The rock sparrow's feathers visibly bristled, and Jing Yang casually waved his hand, saying, "Fly if you want, but don't fly too fast."

"Chiji..."

The rock sparrow became happy and circled around Little Drop before chirping and flying up the mountainside. Soon, the voices of the other pioneers could be heard overhead.

Xiao Di didn't react at all. Together with Jing Yang, she climbed up the rock that was half a person high, reached out and grabbed the second step that was a meter and a half high, and climbed over it as lightly as a feather.

"By the way, what does 'it seems to be' mean?"

As Jingyang and Xiaodi climbed upwards at breakneck speed, Jingyang turned to Yun Gu, who was equally agile and nimble, and asked, "If you've climbed it, you've climbed it; if you haven't, you haven't..."

Yun Gu said, "What I can say for sure is that when I came here with my master last time, I definitely did not see Master Tiankong waiting for us at the foot of the mountain."

Biskey?

Jingyang used the momentum of the ascent to grab a two-meter-high stone step and easily jumped up. He thought to himself, how difficult it must be for Bi Siji, with her short arms and legs like an eight-year-old girl, to climb such a huge mountain path.

Unless the older woman is willing to reveal her true form in front of everyone, restoring her tall, upright, and athletic figure like in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with her long arms, wasp waist, and perfect proportions...

Jingyang shook his head. He was still thinking about asking Auntie Bi for some guidance if he had the chance in the future. There was really no reason for him to keep criticizing her.

"Yun Gu, you're too slow. We'll be going now."

Jing Yang chuckled casually, "Little Di, can you go any faster?"

"Hmm." Xiao Di responded, and with a slight push of her foot, fine cracks appeared on the slightly slippery stone steps in the mist.

boom!boom!

Jingyang and Xiaodi leaped up at the same time, soaring ten meters into the air. They leaped over several stone steps and caught up with the group that had fallen to the bottom in just a few bounds.

Soon, Jingyang and Xiaodi, under the astonished gazes of these people, flashed past without stopping, their ascent as if they were falling off a cliff.

Hart was speechless and almost dropped his hand.

Yun Gu grabbed his junior brother and pulled him up, saying, "Don't get distracted. Pay attention to your surroundings, adjust your breathing, concentrate your qi throughout your body, and coordinate the movement of your qi with the rhythm of your muscles and bones..."

Hart did as he was told, and sure enough, the climb became easier and more rhythmic.

He knew that Senior Brother Yun Gu was only able to maintain this speed to take care of him, and he couldn't help but feel touched.

Moved, Hart said, "Those two people didn't seem to be adjusting their breathing or paying much attention to their surroundings; they were climbing very casually..."

Those who know understand that they are climbing this giant mountain path, so difficult that it is even called the "steps to immortality," but those who don't know might think that the two people are taking a walk in the suburbs!

Yun Gu said, "They are strong enough that they can appear so casual. And the reason they are so strong is because they have put in a lot of effort and hard work. Hart, don't let them distract you."

“Yes,” Hart said obediently.

"Also, Hart, those aren't 'those two people,' they're called Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Shi."

"Yes……"

……

The physical constitution of humans in the Hunter world is not the same as that of Jingyang's previous life on Earth.

After all, in this world, even if one hasn't awakened the "thought" by opening all the pores in their body, "qi" is something that everyone is born with.

As long as this fundamental power exists within the body, people in this world, with enough perseverance, can develop physiques that far surpass those of professional athletes in Jingyang's previous life...

In the first test of the Hunter Exam at the beginning of the manga, the vast majority of candidates were ordinary people who couldn't read, but there were also many who could easily run a marathon of tens of kilometers.

Moreover, all the martial artists who came to Immortal Water Mountain this time, even the youngest junior brother Hart from Yun Gu, had mastered Qi. Their athletic skills and physical abilities were unmatched by ordinary people. Since the Ascension Staircase was used in ancient times as a trial for awakening Qi, there was no reason why these martial artists who had already awakened Qi shouldn't be unable to ascend it…

"It's so cold! The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and I can hardly see the road anymore."

"Just how tall is it?"

"I heard it's the same height as the Sky Arena."

"So how high is it?"

"Over nine hundred meters! Ah, so slippery—phew, that was close..."

"We're halfway up the mountain. Huff... huff... this 400-meter elevation gain is more tiring than running 40 kilometers!"

"Strictly speaking, this ascent to immortality is not a straight path; the way here is winding and circuitous. Although we've only reached the halfway point, the journey has definitely exceeded 2 kilometers..."

"No wonder you're so tired! Can you take a break...?"

Halfway up the mountain, amidst the rolling clouds and mist, martial artists could be faintly seen climbing the undulating stone steps. Several of them had already sat down, gazing at the churning sea of ​​clouds and the hundreds-of-meters-high cliff below. Soon, the clouds parted, revealing Yun Gu and Hart, who had leaped up and were now gripping the stone steps. Yun Gu looked at the group sitting on the steps with a puzzled expression. "What happened? Why did you stop?"

"Watch out!" Someone grabbed Hart's wrist and pulled him up. "It's even more humid here, and the stone steps are covered in moss. Everyone's been slowing down..."

"Thank you." Hart wiped his sweat.

"Nothing went wrong, it's just that there's someone too powerful, which is a bit discouraging." Someone complained to Yun Gu, "If I had known that the Sky Arena would send someone, and someone this powerful, I wouldn't have come..." As they spoke, they pointed upwards.

Hart reached out and looked up. On the winding ascent path etched into the misty mountainside, twenty or thirty martial artists from different schools displayed their skills, chasing and competing with each other as they climbed upwards. At the very top, one person was far ahead, and his speed did not decrease, as nimbly leaping upwards like a nimble ape.

“Hey, Senior Brother, that’s not Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di,” Hart exclaimed in surprise, “that’s another person who lost to you, Senior Brother Yun Gu…”

The others who were resting were speechless.

Zhehao, who had been leading the charge, was also speechless at this moment...

He thought he was already quite skilled and was climbing with all his might, but no matter how hard he tried, he still had to pay attention to the condition of the handholds and the rocks he was stepping on each time he climbed. Losing his footing would be no joke.

But Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di didn't stop at all. They soared and leaped upwards, almost without hesitation overtaking him ten minutes earlier. They should be hundreds of meters ahead by now. Through the rolling clouds, Zhehao couldn't even see where they were climbing. A sense of defeat and fighting spirit mingled in his heart.

The way Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di were climbing made it seem as if they had walked this long stairway to immortality many times and were very familiar with the path...

In fact, this is indeed the case.

The reason why Jingyang and Xiaodi were able to fly up as if taking a stroll without any worries was, of course, because Jingyang had another pair of eyes that had already scouted out the situation ahead.

"Chiji..."

A small, gray bird shadow clung to the mountain wall and flew along the long steps leading to the immortals.

The star mark on Taliyah is active.

Jingyang used the first-person perspective control method and the eyes of the rock sparrow to see the winding and complicated mountain road conditions in advance, making the climb naturally easier.

Xiao Di has developed a good understanding with him and is keeping pace with him as they climb upwards.

"The fog is getting thicker."

As Jingyang spoke, his aura dissipated like a gentle breeze, passing over Xiaodi. Xiaodi looked surprised, leaped up and grabbed the edge of the next step, looking at Jingyang.

Round? Little Drop blinked.

Click, Jingyang also hung on the edge of the stone steps with one hand.

The condition of the stone steps at this moment, the patterns on the stone surface after being slightly crushed by his and Xiao Di's fingers, the distribution of the surrounding moss, and even the speed of the airflow when the mist swept by, all came to mind.

"Circle?" Jingyang blinked. "It seems that this so-called Ascension Staircase, with its heavy fog, also serves to train observation skills and even practice 'circle'."

"interesting!"

Jingyang laughed, "Come on, let's climb to the top first, then we can discuss it. Once I understand it, I'll teach you what this 'circle' is all about..."