Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 133: Li Mei ’s Desire

The trial of time looked easy; however, it was not, since each step added one day to it. This meant everyone had to cultivate for 1371 years if they wanted to clear this trial and this was without any increase in their strength or realm.

Although their mental state did increase, this was still not enough to stop them from going crazy after cultivating for that long without any improvement.

Even the old ones might go crazy, not to mention the young disciples who had just started cultivating. So, the time of trial was ridiculously hard even for Ye Chen, who had achieved a peaceful mind and let the time pass in the blink of an eye.

Nonetheless, all he or anyone needed was a strong will, extreme patience, and inner peace to clear this trial.

"This would be hard or even impossible for Li Mei and them," Ye Chen sighed with disappointment, as there was no way he could help them with this.

Not only the trial of time but he also couldn't help them in the trial of desire.

Everyone had different desires, after all. For example, the fatty Li Zhenyuan was offered food and money, unlike Ye Chen, who was offered lust and money.

Then there was little girl Wang Yiyi, who was offered strength so she could take her revenge.

Of course, the trial displayed all of the desires but the ones they really focused on were in great numbers so Ye Chen's help was almost useless here unless he experienced the trial with them but that would mean putting most of his attention on them which was no different than giving up on ascending further.

Although he could do this later, he didn't think helping them always would be good, not to mention they could still take the trial once again, so he didn't care to help them and continued ascending.

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"Look, once again someone failed!"

"Yeah, the trial of desire seems to be too strong for them."

The disciples below couldn't help but comment and shook their heads as they witnessed the failure of many disciples.

The number was really large, as only less than three hundred disciples remained from the four hundred. Furthermore, the number was still dropping at a steady rate. If this continued, maybe only a hundred or less could make it into further trials.

"They had not even climbed half of the staircase yet so many are getting eliminated! I wonder if anyone can even reach the top."

"Yeah, I don't think even Ye Chen can reach the end."

Suddenly all of them started speculating.

If Ye Chen heard them, he would sneer in disdain for comparing him with someone who had sold their soul to their desires. He even looked down on such people because they were nothing but cannon fodder in war.

In the previous life he had fought in many different countries and even seen many of them getting crumbled into the dust. Although the war was the reason, the main fault lay in the people who only cared about lust and money. Clearly selling their soul and body for their desires.

The result? Such people would escape as soon as the danger came, even leaving behind their families, not to mention the country. Sometimes there was not even a need for war; just split such people into two opposing sides, make them sell their souls to desires and watch their future crumble along with their country.

As long as there was a majority of such people, it was always an easy win for any opposing country.

So, there was no need to think highly of the people who were controlled by their desires. Even in the cultivation world the same could be said and the cultivators who understood this looked down on the disciples who couldn't clear the trial of desire no matter how hard they tried.

A failure or two might not be a problem since they were all young; some were even in their teens, but to fail again and again without learning anything was a big problem.

Although no one would encounter the same trial of desire if they failed. The motive behind it remained unchanged, so failing was much worse the second time and more.

However, no one bothered to explain this to disciples who were being ignorant.

"Look, Ye Chen is about to finish the current trial!"

Suddenly someone pointed at the five thousandth step, where Ye Chen stood with a calm look.

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"It was a really long time," Ye Chen sighed with relief as he finally completed the trial of time.

There were times when he almost wanted to give up because this trial was too boring; nevertheless, he managed to stay until the end with his willpower and patience.

Because of this, his mental state was now on another level. Of course, this didn't mean he could be like the old fogies cultivating for hundreds of years. The trial of time, after all, was just an extremely easy level of retreat, unlike the real ones where he would face exhaustion, hunger, and worry about the well-being of his loved ones.

Nonetheless, this level of mental state can at least help him in keeping calm and easily getting used to the real retreat.

"The old man is really cooking something big; maybe it's not just the inheritance trial." Ye Chen couldn't help but mutter to himself, thinking why the old man would make such a difficult trial for disciples at the realm of Qi-refining.

If this was for the foundation establishment, it could at least make sense, as they needed to overcome all of the previous trials for a good foundation.

"Well, let's find out what the old man wants," Ye Chen muttered once again and climbed the five thousand and first step.

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There was no surprise here, as once again Thousand Steps lit up and he arrived inside the illusion.

However, this illusion was different from anything else. In simple words, it could even be considered a movie, as he saw a seed getting planted and then growing up into a few blades of grass.

After which the grass was eaten by rabbits and other herbivorous animals before, once again, the same cycle repeated.

Ye Chen couldn't even understand what was going on when the illusion came to an end and surprisingly, he could climb the next step.

He didn't hesitate and ascended. Then once again an illusion appeared but this time it was a seed of a flower plant, and the same thing repeated once again.

After this there was the illusion of a fruit plant, then a stone that rolled and helped in the house buildings before getting chiseled into a small figurine, then slowly eroding into the dust, then once again birthing from the dust by a pool of lava. After which the illusion of soil came, which brought the minerals for good plantation, turned into clay, used in many different scenarios before turning into dust and then once again turning into soil by river and rain.

Watching such illusions Ye Chen was still confused as hell, wondering how the hell even he cleared these trials. But no matter how much he thought he could only climb further and watch the life of the tree, river, and different known animals.

The only thing he could understand was that everything had a cycle and purpose, which the trial was displaying to him.

He had a slight idea of what the test was; however, it was still just guess so he didn't think too much and continued to climb, even watching the lives of other-worldly creatures and treasures.

Some of them were even something he could recognize as they were written in the myriad book because of some disease and poisons.

Such illusions continued and he climbed every next step without any effort or thinking.

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Just as he was doing this, Li Mei cursed him thousands of times inside her head as she saw the illusion of Ye Chen appearing in front of her and trying to bully her just as he liked to do.

'Humph! If I failed this trial, then it would be senior brother's fault,' she thought with a pout as she tried her best not to respond to the illusion.

It was fortunate that the illusion only provoked her by words; if not, she really would've sent the fake Ye Chen flying just as she desired.

Yes, it was her desire to beat up the bully, her senior brother; however, she could only achieve it in dreams.

'Hmm, if I have such a desire, then what about senior brother?' she suddenly thought with a red face.

Ye Chen did have illusions of her and others, but there were only one or two just like them and although he would like to bully them, they were just illusions, not perfectly matching the real ones.

The old man, after all, did not want to break anyones relationships so he made sure that no one failed too many times when they were facing their liked or loved person. Furthermore, he also made sure not to make a perfect illusion so they could tell the difference.

Hence, no matter how much he liked bullying, Ye Chen ended up doing nothing, as they weren't the real ones.