The bell's toll was vast and weighty, carrying a force that pierced straight into the heart amid the utterly silent night.
"Someone actually broke through the Qingya Twelve Floors today?"
An elder of Qingya Academy could not help asking.
Many others were equally puzzled.
"It's fellow cultivator Su!"
Meng Xin Guan suddenly came to his senses and said excitedly, "Seniors, it must be Su Yi—fellow cultivator Su—who broke through the Qingya Twelve Floors."
Su Yi?
At once, the prominent figures of Qingya Academy remembered that a few days ago, Tang Lingqi, an elder of the Ancient Tang Clan, and Tang Bao Er, the clan leader's daughter, had personally come to visit. They had mentioned that a young man named Su Yi would come to challenge the Qingya Twelve Floors.
"It's just that I never expected that in barely more than an hour, fellow cultivator Su would already clear it..."
Meng Xin Guan murmured.
He was utterly stunned.
The prominent figures of Qingya Academy were all shaken as well.
He had broken through the Qingya Twelve Floors in just over an hour?
This was simply a miracle!
Throughout the long years of the past, among the sixty-three peerless figures who had passed the Qingya Twelve Floors, even the fastest had taken three days!
The longest had taken as many as ten days!
Clang—clang—!
The bell tolled again and again, reverberating through the night sky.
"Twelve bell tolls—this truly is the phenomenon that occurs only when someone clears the Qingya Twelve Floors!"
Someone exclaimed in shock.
But that was not the end of it.
In the time that followed, the bell actually rang another twelve times!
In an instant, Qingya Academy's prominent figures were dumbfounded, their faces filled with disbelief.
"Twenty-four bell tolls?"
"Has anything like this ever happened before?"
"Not once!"