The captain's sudden outburst caused Red Girl Qing Qiu's expression to change, and she revealed a look of unwillingness.
The blood light around her body became even stronger and spread out in all directions. It was as if the area around her had turned into a sea of blood.
With the support of the sea of blood, Red Girl Qing Qiu's speed also increased a bit. She reached a height of 22,000 feet, but there was still a gap between her and the captain, so she couldn't catch up in a short period of time.
Just as the red light in her eyes became more and more intense, an even more astonishing aura suddenly appeared behind her.
Red Girl suddenly turned around, and an intense pain appeared in her eyes. It was as if she was facing the sun.
The one who was like the sun was Xu Qing.
At this moment, the Golden Crow around him had completely appeared. It had turned into a 1,000-foot-tall body and spread its wings in the sky. At the same time, it gave off a powerful aura and a dazzling light.
19 seven-colored phoenix tails set off a sea of fire with the Absolute Beginning Void Pillar as the center. The sea of fire spread out in all directions with a shocking aura.
Inside the sea of fire and the Golden Crow, Xu Qing's speed increased greatly. With one step, he reached a height of 22,000 feet.
As for the resentment coming from the Absolute Beginning Void Pillar and the vengeful spirits in his sea of consciousness, Xu Qing completely ignored them.
He waved his right hand and two canopies appeared above his head. One formed a black umbrella with black flames flowing around it. It gave Xu Qing a mysterious feeling and blocked off the resentment!
The incoming resentment was greatly weakened.
The other canopy was like a treasure lotus that gave off a seven-colored light. The sound of the wind echoed and purified Xu Qing's body. The resentment that had entered his body instantly disintegrated.
The third Heavenly Palace inside his body trembled. Every time it trembled, a vengeful spirit would be destroyed.
With their support, Xu Qing's aura was unparalleled. It shook the heavens and caused the clouds to change colors. At this moment, he took a second step.
He reached 22,000 feet, the same height as Red Girl Qing Qiu.
However, all of this wasn't over. Xu Qing's eyes shined brightly. There was no Red Girl in his eyes, only the captain.
They were brothers and fellow cultivators. At the same time, they were peers who could accompany each other on their respective paths of cultivation.
It was no longer important whether they were first or not. What was important was that each of them had their own pursuits, their own dreams, and their own paths.
They could travel together and risk their lives for each other, but they couldn't intentionally give in to each other.
Since they were going to compete, they might as well compete properly.
This was what Xu Qing thought.
That was what the captain thought.
At that moment, Xu Qing moved again. His Golden Crow let out a cry that echoed through the clouds, then fused into Xu Qing's body. It was as if Xu Qing was wearing a yellow robe, and the power of his fleshly body was fully activated.
It was as if there was an endless amount of power surging into his body, causing the Qi and blood in Xu Qing's body to surge. Although his body was not muscular, anyone who saw him at this moment would instinctively feel as if there was a world burning within his body.
With this terrifying physical strength, Xu Qing took a third step forward.
When this step landed, the Absolute Beginning Pillar rumbled. Xu Qing's figure soared into the sky, surpassing Red Girl Qing Qiu. He appeared at a height of twenty-three hundred feet, next to the captain.
The captain looked at Xu Qing with a strange light in his eyes, but there was sweat on his forehead. It was clear that the burst of power from before was not that easy for him, but he would not admit it, so he laughed loudly.
"Not bad, Junior Brother, but this is just a warm-up."
With that, the captain rushed up to twenty-three hundred feet, surpassing Xu Qing.
Xu Qing circulated all the power in his body and also jumped up, surpassing the captain to twenty-three hundred and seventy feet. Although he was not sweating, he was panting slightly. He raised his eyebrows and spoke calmly.
"Me too, Eldest Senior Brother."
As the two of them spoke, a low roar came from behind them, and a bloody light exploded in the sky. From a distance, it seemed that the bloody light had risen up to 1,000 feet.
Within the bloody light was Red Girl's unique laughter, and a dangerous aura emanated from her body.
"Hehe … you guys are so interesting."
As she spoke, her speed also increased, and she chased after Xu Qing and the captain.
Xu Qing did not look back. He took a step forward, and the captain did the same. The three of them were astonishingly fast, and they kept charging upwards.
Two hundred and fifty feet. Twenty-five hundred feet. Twenty-six hundred feet!
After reaching this position, Red Girl Qing Qiu's cultivation base was limited, and she had unleashed her full power many times. She could not help but slow down, but Xu Qing and the captain continued to charge forward.
The two of them leaped more than twenty-six hundred feet, and as they sped along, they would occasionally exchange glances. One was panting, the other was covered in sweat.
They would even talk to each other.
"You can't do it, Junior Brother. Your panting is a bit exaggerated. I bet the people on the ground can hear you. Ai, I'm not trying to criticize you, but your body is too weak at such a young age."
"Eldest Senior Brother, wherever you go, the Absolute Beginning Exodus Pillar is covered in your sweat. If you don't take a break, I'm worried that you'll collapse."
As the two of them spoke, they were secretly competing against each other. One chased the other, and the other chased the other. They kept going back and forth on the Absolute Beginning's Abyss Pillar. As for Red Autumn Maiden, she looked at the two people in front of her and gritted her teeth.
"Why do I always run into these two damned bastards!?"
In particular, when she heard the conversation between the two of them, she was unable to calm down. This was because the impact of the resentment at this height was too terrifying. It was much more difficult for the vengeful spirits to disperse or suppress in the sea of consciousness than before.
She no longer had the energy to speak, but the two people in front of her …
Unexpectedly, they still had the energy to talk and mock each other.
"I'm afraid there's something seriously wrong with their heads!" Red Girl gritted her teeth, and the evil spirit quickly tried to persuade her.
"Let's go all out! We'll take them down with us!"
As the evil spirit continued to urge them on, Xu Qing and the captain passed twenty-seven hundred feet, one after another, and reached twenty-eight hundred feet.
When they looked down from this position, the ground had shrunk, and the crowd could no longer be seen.
Even the Absolute Beginning City, which covered a large area, seemed to be within his grasp.
Their surroundings were filled with flowing fog and howling winds.
However, they were still very far away from the end.
At the same time, at this height, the impact of the resentment was extremely powerful. It was not only gathered in their sea of consciousness, but also integrated into Xu Qing and the captain's bodies.
Resentment was condensed in every inch of their flesh and blood. Even though Xu Qing's third palace was dispelling it, there was too much resentment here, and the speed of dispelling it could not catch up with the integration.
Even the life lamp was somewhat unstable under such consumption. It was not that the life lamp's power was not enough, but that Xu Qing's current cultivation level could not fully unleash it.
The Golden Crow Refines All Spirits was the same, showing signs of fatigue.
After all, this height had already surpassed the record of all the cultivators who had participated in the Sword Wielding Court's trial.
Although there had been many people who had climbed higher than this since ancient times, those were people with higher cultivation levels, and they usually did not meet the conditions of the Sword Wielding Court's trial.
Here, Xu Qing and the captain spoke less to each other, but they still spoke.
"Little Ah Qing, you can't do it!" The captain was covered in sweat, and he began to pant. He leaped five feet higher than Xu Qing.
"Captain, I haven't released the poison yet."
Xu Qing stomped his feet and surpassed the captain. He raised his right hand and grabbed the edge of the totem above, and with a forceful leap, he leaped over fifty feet.
"I also have a trump card that I haven't used yet!"
When the captain heard the word poison, his expression changed. Seeing that Xu Qing had surpassed him again, his eyes filled with madness. He opened his mouth and bit down on the protruding rune.
With a cracking sound, the rune was not bitten off, but faint teeth marks appeared on it. If one looked closely, they could see that the rune was filled with endless resentment. It was as if the captain had not bitten it, but spat it out.
He swallowed all the resentment that had accumulated in his body into the rune.
After his body relaxed, his speed instantly increased, reaching twenty-eight thousand feet, twenty-nine thousand feet, and then toward thirty thousand feet.
This scene caused Xu Qing's eyes to shrink. Behind him, Red Maiden was also shocked. The evil spirit on her body also cried out in shock in her mind.
"He really is a mad dog!"
Seeing that the captain was about to reach thirty thousand feet, Xu Qing's eyes also filled with madness. The poison pill in his third Heavenly Palace suddenly erupted, and endless poison surged out. In an instant, it flowed through Xu Qing's body.
It did not spread out of his body, but filled every inch of his flesh and blood.
The forbidden poison pill could poison all living things, and resentment was one of them.
This was something that Xu Qing had tested out years ago when he encountered the head of the huge monk in the Forbidden City of the Phoenix.
As the poison surged out, the accumulated resentment in his flesh and blood and sea of consciousness transformed into miserable wails that were completely exterminated by Xu Qing.
The captain spat it out, and Xu Qing exterminated it.
They were different methods, but the result was the same. They both purified the body.
A moment later, Xu Qing's speed exploded, and he reached twenty-nine thousand feet. At the same time that the captain reached thirty thousand feet, Xu Qing also leaped up to reach that point!
There was a special totem there.
It was a humanoid creature sitting on the moon, covering its face with its hands.
Almost at the instant the two of them reached the 90,000-foot mark, the totem suddenly flashed and turned into two balls of fluctuations that were different from ordinary resentment. They actually contained a hint of divinity as they charged toward Xu Qing and the captain, surging into their bodies at the same time.
However, Xu Qing's body trembled.
The captain did the same.
In an instant, the two of them stopped at the thirty thousand feet mark. In each of their seas of consciousness, a figure that seemed impossible to look directly at appeared.
At the same time, in the Sword-Bearing Hall above the clouds, the Sword-Bearing Elders who were watching all of this revealed a strange light in their eyes.
"Finally … a trial taker can reach thirty thousand feet."
"According to our research, the rune there describes one of the thirty-seven moons of the Ancient Gaze Continent. It's still there today."