Invincible Little School Doctor

Chapter 1230: Chapter 1229: What the heck, this is too torturous! (2nd update)

Looking at the steps behind him, Ye Haochuan slowly turned around and lifted his leg to step down slowly.

Just as his toe was about to return to the fourth step, he suddenly froze.

”What’s wrong with me? These are all illusions! If I go back, all my previous efforts will be wasted!”

He clenched his fists tightly, reluctantly withdrawing the foot that was about to step down.

”Are you really so heartless that you can abandon everything for power?” the woman questioned.

”For the sake of my women, I can indeed give up everything. But mere illusions won’t make me obedient!” Ye Haochuan gritted his teeth and said.

The woman let out a cold laugh and said, ”In fact, you’re not as rational as you claim to be!”

As she spoke, she grabbed Yang Hong’s figure and crushed it as Ye Haochuan stepped onto the sixth step.

Ye Haochuan let tears stream down his face, gritting his teeth as he moved step by step upward.

The eighth step, the woman held Zhu Qingshuang in her hand. The moment Zhu Qingshuang appeared, the always cold woman suddenly raised her eyebrows but hesitated to crush her.

Ye Haochuan seemed unaware of the ”long-awaited” feeling resurfacing, focusing solely on moving forward. In this environment, he didn’t want to linger any longer.

To his surprise, the woman did not crush Zhu Qingshuang’s figure even when he reached the tenth step. And at the moment he stepped onto the tenth step, all the previously disappeared figures appeared in his mind.

Even though he always knew this would be the outcome, Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but shed tears of happiness.

This path is hellishly difficult to walk!

The woman put Zhu Qingshuang’s figure back into the void and sighed to Ye Haochuan, ”You’re very clever, but also quite foolish!”

”You clearly guessed that these are illusions, so why are you still so pained? Just keep your original heart and rush through, wouldn’t that be enough?”

From the woman’s words, Ye Haochuan sensed the feeling of ’hating iron for not becoming steel,’ and with a bitter smile, he said, ”Some things are harder to give up than dying!”

”Cultivators should always remain rational and not let anything disturb their original heart. Only then can they display their full combat potential at any time. Think about your state just now, how much combat power could you exert?”

Jeez, isn’t this woman an illusion? How come she’s lecturing me?

Ye Haochuan was filled with black lines and sighed, ”Everyone has things they care about; this is human nature. If you forcibly eliminate these things, can you still be called human?”

The woman was suddenly taken aback by his words, and after a long pause, she gave a bitter smile, ”There’s no definite conclusion on whether cultivation or human nature is more important. The previous youth only paused briefly on the third step, while you spent ten times longer.

He had no distractions, whereas you have too many obsessions. If your combat power is equal, you absolutely couldn’t beat him.”

”Who says having obsessions means I can’t quickly improve my cultivation? I want both cultivation and human nature!” Ye Haochuan declared firmly.

Ji Tianyu could quickly pass the third step, and Ye Haochuan could understand that. A person who could easily abandon a guard who had protected him for over a decade, what else could he not let go of.

”Alright, I’ll be watching!” the woman chuckled lightly, ”Speaking of which, we do have some affinity, maybe we’ll meet again someday.”

”Affinity? Aren’t you an illusion? Could it be you’re my lover from a past life, always hidden in my mind, just waiting for me to remember?”

Ye Haochuan chuckled, looking at the woman with eyes full of greed.

Even though this woman had ”tormented” him in every way possible just now, Ye Haochuan had wanted to bite her on the steps. But after going through it all, in retrospect, he didn’t feel any animosity towards her.

To be precise, this was just her ”job.” From what she said last, it seemed she was reluctant to let Ye Haochuan suffer before.

Letting go of the recent unpleasantness, Ye Haochuan was once again captivated by the woman’s beauty, and his words carried more flirtation.

The woman’s face turned dark, and she snorted coldly, ”Smooth-talking! I’m a gatekeeper here, how did I become your past life’s lover?”

”Since you’re not my past life’s lover, why did you say we have an affinity?” Ye Haochuan said with a strange expression, as if saying, don’t be stubborn, just admit it.

The woman shot him an annoyed glance and said coldly, ”For the sake of an old friend of mine, I’ll give you a kind reminder. That young man was already halfway through the fourth step; if you want to surpass him, you’d better not waste time here!”

Damn it, how did I forget that? This bad habit of getting distracted by beautiful women really needs to change.

Ye Haochuan was in a hurry, quickly heading towards the next stage.

”Beautiful lady, after I finish my business, I’ll come back to continue our fate!”

”You brat, how dare you call me a beautiful lady?” The woman scolded playfully, her body gradually turning transparent until it disappeared.

Upon stepping into the fourth stage of Vermilion Bird Peak, Ye Haochuan felt his body slowing infinitely.

It felt like it took him an entire month just to take one step.

”Is this... Time Forest?” Ye Haochuan’s eyes widened. He had experienced this feeling before at the Holy Medical Alliance, but back then, he was just meditating and couldn’t feel how much his body had slowed down.

”It shouldn’t be so simple, right?” Ye Haochuan wondered.

If it was just about infinitely slowing time, it would only test one’s patience. Compared to the previous stages, that would be too juvenile, right?

Sure enough, the next moment, an anomaly occurred.

Numerous black needles, as thick as chopsticks, suddenly appeared in the void, slowly shooting towards him.

But this slowness was only an illusion. His body was moving at a pace dozens of times slower than these needles. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t avoid the needles’ attacks.

Ye Haochuan now felt like a prisoner sentenced to death, yet the execution was perpetually delayed.

Death wasn’t scary; what’s frightening was the helplessness and despair while waiting for it.

And Ye Haochuan was experiencing it all right now.

Amidst overwhelming fear, Ye Haochuan felt like he had endured for a month, at long last the black needle pierced into his body. Yet the sensation of the needle pressing into flesh made Ye Haochuan grit his teeth in hatred even more.

Luckily, Ye Haochuan had a stable mind. If it were an average person, being pierced slowly over a month with multiple needles while staying conscious, they would surely go mad.

What the hell? This level of torment is inhumane!

Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but curse.

No wonder Long Xiaotian said the inheritance of the Holy Peak isn’t easy to obtain. Just the trials of the first three stages were enough to drive one crazy. This fourth stage was designed to torment someone until they wished for life or death.