"What the hell was going on?"
"Who climbed a tower this slowly?"
"It had already been three months, and he still hadn't come out. Was that True Disciple from Great River Hall dead or alive?"
"How could there still be no result after this long?"
Outside the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda, discussions rose on every side.
Li Yun's tower climb had already gone on for a full three months this time, yet there still wasn't so much as a result. The people waiting to see the outcome had long since grown deeply impatient.
Generally speaking, climbing the tower was far too perilous. The closer one got to the limit of one's own combat strength, the more dangerous it became, so this meant the climbing speed was destined not to be too slow.
Once one passed one floor, it was on to the next. If one felt one could not climb any farther, one had to retreat immediately.
If one could not retreat in time, or overestimated oneself, then it meant death.
The rhythm of the entire process was basically extremely swift and fierce.
Taking Ye Tiangong, who held the top rank, as an example, he had climbed to the seventy-seventh floor, and the total time he had spent was only thirteen days.
Whether one could clear a floor, whether one could climb higher, had absolutely nothing to do with the speed of climbing the tower.
If someone thought that slowing down the speed of climbing the tower would allow them to climb higher, then that was the greatest misunderstanding of the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda.
"Could that True Disciple from Great River Hall really have had an accident?"
An Inner Sect Disciple standing beside Zhang Hun said in a low voice.
Zhang Hun's brows lifted, and he was just about to say that was