In the plaza, when everyone saw the window on the twentieth floor open, they understood that Lin Bai had already reached the twentieth floor. He might even have clashed with the guardian!
"I wonder who today's guardian of the twentieth floor is. To be able to place the Dragon Bone Pill on the twentieth floor, the guardian there probably isn't anything simple." Everyone looked up at the tower on the twentieth floor, their hearts pounding as they secretly speculated about who exactly was guarding the Dragon Bone Pill there.
That guardian was definitely no simple opponent.
The several elders standing atop Cloudsoar Tower exchanged glances and chuckled. "The person guarding the twentieth floor today is Situ Qingmu!"
"That makes things troublesome." One elder chuckled. "I estimate that not only will the martial artists currently inside Cloudsoar Tower be unable to defeat Situ Qingmu, even if Zhu Jing went up there, he would probably have to battle Situ Qingmu for quite some time. Whether he could win would still be hard to say!"
"Situ Qingmu—the swordplay prodigy who once reached the seventy-eighth floor of Cloudsoar Tower? The young master of the Situ family personally invited by the Dragon Slaying Bureau?" one elder asked with a laugh.
"That's right. Situ Qingmu now holds an official position in the Divine Capital. According to the rules, he can also be considered a member of the Dragon Slaying Bureau." The elders stood together, chatting and laughing. Whenever they spoke of Situ Qingmu, their words carried a trace of admiration.
Situ Qingmu had been born into the household of a minor Prefectural Assistant in the Divine Capital. Before the age of fifty, he had already reached the Apex Realm. After arriving at the Sun Palace, he displayed astonishing talent in swordsmanship. Later, in Cloudsoar Tower, his