"Brother Han, you don't need to worry about me. I have no grudges with these people. I'm just an insignificant character. Even if they catch up with me, they probably won't do anything to me. You should go quickly," Lu Yuqing said again.

Han Li frowned, then suddenly stepped to Lu Yuqing's side, reached out and put his arm around her slender waist, and picked her up in one swoop.

Lu Yuqing was stunned and was picked up before she could react.

Han Li held Lu Yuqing in his arms, and the gravity originally imposed on her was immediately transferred to himself.

However, he could naturally withstand this bit of gravity. His feet tapped repeatedly, and he quickly climbed up the stairs.

"Brother Han..." Lu Yuqing opened her mouth and murmured.

"Since I promised to take you with me, I will protect you as much as I can," Han Li said faintly, looking ahead.

Lu Yuqing looked at Han Li's calm face, her beautiful eyes flashed with a strange light, and she lowered her head.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor and Xiong Shan in front noticed the situation here with Han Li, and a trace of surprise flashed on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Leng Yan, your helper is quite the sentimentalist, daring to carry a burden on this silver staircase. Admirable, admirable," Xiong Shan said with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor frowned. The gravity restriction on this silver staircase was extremely powerful. Even with his physical strength and years of preparation, he did not dare to be careless.

Han Li carrying a person like this, the two combined, was more than just doubling the difficulty.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor was silent and looked at Han Li with a colder expression.

Han Li slowly activated the power of his physical body, and his speed suddenly increased, nearly doubling in the blink of an eye, almost the same as the pockmarked-face old man. The distance between the two immediately stopped closing.

The pockmarked-face old man's expression darkened when he saw this.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor and Xiong Shan in front also changed their expressions.

They never expected that Han Li, carrying a person, would actually increase his climbing speed instead of decreasing it, even faster than them, and slowly catch up.

Surprise flashed in their eyes. They took a deep breath, and the starlight and golden light on their bodies suddenly brightened, and they immediately accelerated their speed.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, more than half an hour had passed.

They had all passed half of the silver staircase.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor and Xiong Shan were still in the lead, but Han Li had almost caught up with them, only twenty or so steps away.

The pockmarked-face old man followed closely behind Han Li, about a hundred steps apart.

As for the others from the Ghost Crying Sect, they were far behind at the moment, their figures turned into small black dots, no longer visible.

Having reached this point, the gravity on the silver staircase had reached a very terrifying level.

They were no longer able to climb as fast as before and slowed down one after another.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor was covered in bright starlight, as if wearing a layer of bright gauze, looking mysterious and powerful.

He was walking at the very front, step by step, at a relatively constant speed.

Xiong Shan at the moment exuded dazzling golden light, his skin also turned golden, and patterns appeared, making him look like a golden statue, exuding an incomparably huge physical aura.

He was slightly behind Leng Yan Old Ancestor by a few steps, but he was also steadily moving forward.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor showed a hint of surprise on his face when he saw Xiong Shan's current form. This was a rather powerful body refining secret technique.

The last time the two of them came to this Youhan Palace and climbed this staircase, Xiong Shan did not have this body refining supernatural power. He must have practiced it specially in recent years.

But that was nothing, he had also made many preparations in recent years.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor looked further back.

Han Li at the moment also exuded a layer of starlight, holding Lu Yuqing and constantly moving forward. There was no sign of difficulty on his face, and he steadily followed behind the two of them, not being left behind at all, looking relaxed.

Lu Yuqing at the moment had her eyes tightly closed, motionless, as if she had fallen asleep.

This scene shocked Leng Yan Old Ancestor.

Han Li's physical body was far stronger than he had imagined.

The Han Li below seemed to sense Leng Yan Old Ancestor's gaze, looked up, and the two's gazes collided.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor's heart suddenly thumped. He forced a smile at Han Li and hurriedly turned his head.

Han Li's expression was faint. He moved his gaze away from Leng Yan Old Ancestor and looked towards the top of the silver staircase.

According to his estimate, this silver staircase had about ten thousand steps. At the moment, there were still about three thousand steps to the top.

He had only used a portion of his physical strength at the moment. If the increase in gravity restriction on the remaining steps was the same as before, he should be able to pass.

Only...

Han Li looked behind him.

The pockmarked-face old man was closely following behind, black light flickering on his body, not falling behind at all.

Han Li's eyes flashed. The pockmarked-face old man's physical strength was average. Climbing this staircase did not give him any advantage, but he was after all a Golden Immortal existence. If he continued to climb at this speed, the pockmarked-face old man might not be able to catch up with them, but he could probably follow to the end.

Once they left the special environment of this silver staircase, the pockmarked-face old man would definitely attack them immediately.

This person's aura was obscure, and his strength was unknown. Although Han Li was not afraid, he was still a trouble.

His mind raced, and the starlight on his body suddenly intensified, and his pace increased by 50%.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor and Xiong Shan were stunned when they felt Han Li's speed increase again, but at this time, they couldn't think too much and had to continue to climb up with all their might.

As a result, in a few breaths, Han Li had caught up with the two of them and was about to overtake them.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor frowned. Although he had agreed to join forces with Han Li, the Youhan Palace was in front of him. He had prepared so hard for so many years for today, how could he let Han Li take the lead?

He let out a low roar, pinched his fingers with both hands, and the starlight on his body shone brightly again. A layer of crystalline membrane appeared on the surface of his body, which was the True Extremity Membrane.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor's body became larger, and his hands and feet also became thicker. He strode forward, and his speed increased once again.

Seeing this, Xiong Shan chanted words in his mouth.

Another layer of golden light emerged on the surface of his body, the color of his skin deepened again, and a layer of metallic luster appeared, turning him completely into a golden statue.

Not only that, Xiong Shan's originally short body quickly grew taller, turning into a tall and strong golden man with long arms and legs.

Thump thump thump!

The golden man strode forward, and his speed also increased greatly.

Han Li and the other two accelerated at the same time, immediately leaving the pockmarked-face old man behind.

The pockmarked-face old man was stunned, then shocked and angry.

Although his cultivation was far superior to the three in front of him, his physical strength was average after all, and he had not made any preparations for this place beforehand. Maintaining this speed was almost his best effort.

Watching the three of them quickly go up, the pockmarked-face old man's eyes were anxious.

He waved his hand, and a white light appeared in his hand. It was a white talisman.

The talisman was painted with a giant spirit god-like human figure, exuding a powerful vitality fluctuation.

Poof!

The pockmarked-face old man slapped the white talisman on his body, and the talisman flashed and disappeared into his body.

A dazzling white spiritual light erupted from his body, rippling open.

The pockmarked-face old man's body shook, and white spiritual patterns appeared on the surface of his body, quickly spreading across his body, and his physical aura increased greatly.

The old man took a deep breath and strode towards the three of them.

"Giant Spirit Strength Talisman!" Han Li raised an eyebrow, recognizing the white talisman. It was a powerful immortal-grade talisman that could bless physical strength.

However, he didn't care. His feet didn't stop at all. After all, the talisman was just an external force and couldn't last.

In the blink of an eye, another meal's time had passed.

The few of them chased after each other and advanced a lot again. At the moment, they were not far from the end of the stairs, about a thousand steps away.

The situation of the crowd had changed again.

Although Leng Yan Old Ancestor and Xiong Shan accelerated their speed, they were still caught up by Han Li, but then Han Li did not surpass them.

The three of them were now advancing side by side, almost indistinguishable.

The pockmarked-face old man looked a little bad. The white spiritual patterns on his body were flickering, as if they might collapse at any time. A layer of sweat appeared on his face, and his chest rose and fell slightly as he gasped.

He was originally only a hundred steps behind, but now he was two or three hundred steps behind.

The pockmarked-face old man's steps gradually became a little slow, but the three of them in front walked as usual, climbing up quickly, and the distance between them was getting farther and farther.

The power of the talisman was ultimately inferior to the strong physical bodies that Han Li and the others had worked hard to cultivate.

The pockmarked-face old man looked at the three in front of him, his expression uncertain.

Seeing the three of them getting farther and farther away, only two or three hundred steps away from the end, and their figures did not slow down at all, his face was faintly iron-blue.

The pockmarked-face old man struggled in his eyes, then suddenly flipped his hand and took out a palm-sized black jade box. A warm aura emanated from the jade box, obviously the material of this jade box was extremely precious.

One talisman after another was pasted on the jade box, each talisman flashing with spiritual light, extremely extraordinary, wrapping the jade box layer by layer, looking extremely solemn.

The pockmarked-face old man opened his mouth and spat out a black light, enveloping the jade box.

Those talismans flickered with spiritual light for a while, and they flew away from the jade box one after another, and the spiritual light they emitted also completely dissipated. They turned out to be one-time talismans.

The pockmarked-face old man ignored those waste talismans and carefully opened the jade box.

Inside was a pigeon egg-sized black pill, emitting bursts of black light.

In the black light, a miniature demon beast phantom could be vaguely seen.

This beast was similar to a dragon but not a dragon. It had a single horn on its head and a pair of wings on its back, looking extremely divine.

An incomparably powerful essence fluctuation emanated from the black pill, mixed with strands of power of laws.

A trace of reluctance flashed in the pockmarked-face old man's eyes, but he still opened his mouth and sucked the black pill into his mouth, swallowing it.

The three in front of Han Li were climbing quickly, but the black pill's aura fluctuated greatly. The three of them immediately noticed it and turned their heads to look over.

"This is... the Beast Embryo Profound Origin Pill!" Xiong Shan's pupils shrank and he exclaimed.

"Beast Embryo Profound Origin Pill... Fellow Daoist Xiong, what kind of pill is this?" Leng Yan Old Ancestor asked immediately.