Cultivating to Become a Great Celestial

ready been made while I was editing.
But this is the first one that I’m officially making and declaring as a translator.
Spiritual Master Ling Wu is changed to Enlightened Spiritual Master as Ling Wu is not a name and according to baidu it originally meant something along the lines of attaining wisdom/enlightenment.

“Oh, then you’ll have to climb by yourself.
This mountain isn’t one that old bones can climb.
If something happens don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

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“Carrying someone will be even more exhausting, you must think carefully……” Perhaps it was because he saw that such an old person still dared to climb the mountain so the disciple gave a good-intended reminder.
 
But how could she not carry her.
She doesn’t even know how long Li Xinmei can hold on, whether or not she might just die in the next second.
Leave her here and climb the mountain herself? Not to mention she doesn’t know how long she’ll be climbing, if in this time Li Xinmei wasn’t able to endure anymore, while carrying her, at least she could stay at her side……
 
Su Tingyun didn’t say anymore and reached back to softly push Li Xinmei a bit, then stepped forward to the stone steps without any second thoughts.
 
This mountain, she’s definitely climbing.
 
The stone steps ahead were still quite effortless.
The soles of Su Tingyun’s feet generated wind, after climbing a total of one thousand steps she seemed to have entered an entirely different world.
 
All around were clouds and mist as if she was walking in the immortal palace in the heavens, but her body suddenly became much heavier, as if the force of gravity suddenly increased multiple times, making each step extremely difficult.
 
The road of the strongest is long.
Not to mention Su Tingyun was very anxious, worried that this sudden increase in gravity would crush Li Xinmei.
 
She stuffed the last Regeneration Pill into Li Xinmei’s mouth then braced herself and continued climbing.
At the start she could still count the number of stone steps, but later she completely could not think anymore.
Her legs felt weighted with lead and could only be lifted with every ounce of her strength.
Each step was torture, her body was pressed down on by an enormous force, her heard spun.
Every step she took she would cough, but later, she actually started coughing up blood.
 
She had gotten old.
 
Or to put it more accurately, this body, after all, belonged to an old lady over seventy years old.
 
Even if she had taken the White Jade Dew and cleansed her bones and marrows, she was still an old lady.
In this type of high intensity pressure, Su Tingyun’s entire body was trembling.
She already could not even lift her feet.
She held her breath as she mechanically continued to climb, her legs became heavier and heavier.
In a slip of concentration she fell to the floor.
With this fall, she struggled hard, but couldn’t get back up from the floor.
 
“An old person fell next to the road, will you help them up or not?” In all honesty, Su Tingyun didn’t think of this question on purpose.
Merely that as she laid at the side of the stairs, though she was obviously breathing heavily like an ox, she still pulled the corners of her mouth into a brief smile.
 

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The Heavens Ascending Stairs tested people’s strength and perseverance, but more than that it tested people’s resolution.
 
The path of searching for the truth was full of untold dangers and difficulties, the path of immortality was long without end.
Unless it was a person with a firm resolution, it would be easy to walk towards the wrong road during the path of cultivation.
 
Walking on this Heavens Ascending Stairs is like walking on the path of cultivation.
If your will was not strong you would see all sorts of illusions, for example there’d be someone calling out to you rest and offering you a cup of tea to drink, or say you would see a fork in the road that seemed to be a shortcut to the mountain, and so on.
And there may not truly be ninety thousand nine steps, without outside factors these steps still naturally increase with desire for less.
 
Of course, since the Heavens Ascending Stairs were designed to test newcomers, the illusions were not especially dangerous.
Most of the people that came to become disciples all know, and in addition they had been warned before by seniors no matter what they see to pretend that they didn’t see it and continue climbing single-mindedly, so in actuality, the number of potential cultivators that were dropped here were very little.
 
No one told Su Tingyun what she would encounter on the Heavens Ascending Stairs, and her goal was only to climb up to find someone and save Li Xinmei.
 
If she gives up, Li Xinmei will definitely die.
Continuing to climb up, there’ll still be a chance of survival.
Nothing could hinder her upwards climb, because the burden her body bears is not her own life, but someone else’s life.
 
Su Tingyun could not stand up, but she didn’t stop and used her hands to crawl and continue climbing up the stairs.
Between the curling clouds and mist, past those dense purple clouds, she saw the end of the white marble steps.
There was a round arched door, behind the door was three stories of mountains that floated in the sky.
 
The three mountains seemed to form a Chinese character, the center mountain was the most majestic.
A waterfall dropped down from high above the clouds, similar to the Milky Way, and sprinkled, filling the entire sky with starry splendor.
Yet at the summit it unexpectedly restrained its majestic imposing manner and became gentle and affectionate, becoming a silver ribbon that coiled around the mountain.
 
“We’re close, close……”
 
The bandaged wounds on her hands had split open and blood seeped out from the white cloths, but she still climbed upwards against the friction of the stone steps rubbing against her body, leaving a winding blood trail along the white marble steps.
It was an extremely ghastly sight.
At this time Su Tingyun was climbing mechanically, she didn’t feel pain, nor did she feel fatigue, it was like her consciousness had floated free from her body and her body was simply moving forward due to inertia.
Until she finally climbed to the summit of the stone steps, only then did Su Tingyun’s consciousness return.
 
“I’ve made it here, I want to see the Enlightened Spiritual Master!”
 
She wanted to shout loudly but her throat had already turned hoarse.
The moment she opened her mouth she coughed out quite a bit of blood.
And it was at this moment Su Tingyun heard a voice say with amazement: “I never thought that you would really make it here.”
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira, Edited by Sonia