Outside the Ascension Tower, the plaza was abuzz.
Everyone's gaze was fixed on the bronze ancient lamp on the tower, the one representing the fourth floor.
They were waiting, and they were tense.
"How long do you think he'll need to clear the fourth floor?"
"The fourth floor is the Four Symbols Sky Locking Array. It's more than ten times harder than the third floor.
"Back then, even the Holy Son of Heavenly Fire took a full incense stick's time to clear it."
"Exactly. Though this person is monstrously gifted, he'll probably be held back there. He'll need at least an incense stick's time, perhaps even longer."
"Being able to clear it already puts him among Central Continent's top prodigies."
The crowd buzzed with discussion. Almost everyone believed that the mysterious challenger's speed would slow down here.
Yet just as their discussion reached its most heated point,
just as the third-floor lamp had stabilized for less than a few breaths,
an unprecedentedly violent roar rang throughout the entire Ascension Tower.
The Ascension Tower itself seemed to tremble lightly at that moment.
Everyone's vision blurred.
The bronze ancient lamp representing the fourth floor suddenly burst into light brighter and more dazzling than the scorching sun.
Its radiance was so intense that it even overwhelmed the combined glow of the three lamps below.
The entire plaza once again fell into deathly silence.
If the moment the third-floor lamp lit up had shocked them,
then at this moment, their hearts held nothing but endless horror and upheaval.
"It... it's lit..."
A young cultivator stared blankly at the lamp and muttered to himself, as if his soul had left his body.
"He broke through that quickly?"
Another old man's voice was hoarse, filled with disbelief.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
The young man in splendid clothes