Ximen Lang was at the late Void Refinement stage, Qin Yao, Wang Yidao, Thousand Ghosts True Man, and Lin Lian Yue were all at the middle Void Refinement stage, while Wang Yibing was at the early Void Refinement stage.
They entered the Pure Yang Pagoda in order to challenge its trials, but entering the Pure Yang Pagoda first did not necessarily mean ranking higher.
The cultivators were amazed because Ximen Lang had made it through the Fifty-Fourth Layer, defeating three Top-Grade Sixth-Order Demon Beasts.
Ximen Lang arrived at the Fifty-Fifth Layer with a pale face and almost no magic power left. Song Huiming stood not far away.
"Fellow Daoist Ximen, rest well. Making it through the Fifty-Fourth Layer is enough. If someone else also makes it through the Fifty-Fourth Layer, they'll be tied with you for first place and can challenge our Song Family disciples."
Song Huiming explained this, his eyes filled with admiration.
The Song Family now had more than thirty Void Refinement Cultivators, but only a handful of its clansmen could make it through the Fifty-Fourth Layer.
The Song Family had been established even earlier than the Wang Family, but it had relatively few talent-based professions and developed rather slowly. The Wang Family had more Sixth Order Artifact Refiners, who refined high-grade Puppet Beasts and exchanged them for Cultivation Resources, allowing the Wang Family to obtain ample funds to nurture its younger generation.
Song Yunlong knew neither Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Talisman Making, nor array formation. Normally, he mainly relied on his clansmen to support him, though he hunted high-grade Demon Beasts to lessen their burden.
Wang Changsheng was different. He could refine Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasures and Sixth Order Puppet Beasts. His clansmen helped him search for materials, and he refined them into treasures to sell.
For that reason,