It had been one hundred thousand years.
What an endless, despair-inducing stretch of time that was.
Countless prodigies and outstanding figures, countless peerless monsters, had not even been qualified to step through this door.
Now, someone had entered. But what then? Would he succeed, or die?
"Look at the light screen!"
No one knew who let out that sharp shriek.
Everyone's gazes instantly shifted away from the tightly shut stone door.
They turned to the tower itself, to the light screen showing the scene inside the Tenth Floor of the Ascension Tower.
At that moment, the light screen was filled with chaos.
Just like the aura leaking from the Tenth Floor, it was vast and deathly silent, without the slightest trace of Life Force.
"Th-this is the Tenth Floor? I can't see anything!"
"What about the gatekeeper? Every floor of the Ascension Tower has a gatekeeper. Just what is the gatekeeper of the Tenth Floor?"
People began discussing it animatedly, craning their necks and staring fixedly at the light screen, afraid they would miss even the slightest change.
Even the Saint God Realm deacon, who had just lost control of his mind, forcibly steadied himself.
His gaze burned like a torch, and he did not blink.
More than anyone else, he wanted to know what terrifying secret this legendary forbidden floor concealed.
Inside the tower, in the space of the Tenth Floor.
Yang Lingtian's figure slowly emerged.
He glanced around, a trace of strange emotion flashing through his eyes.
There was no sky here, nor any earth.
As far as the eye could see, there was only an endless void.
Beneath his feet was gray mist that seemed almost solid, radiating the scent of decay and endings.
Above his head was darkness so deep it seemed capable of swallowing all