Chu Yun arrived at the Third Stage.
The venue for the Third Stage was a plaza. At its center stood an enormous Heavenly Stele a thousand meters tall. Within the stele lay the key to the Fourth Stage's entrance; only by comprehending it could one proceed through the Third Stage.
This stage had a time limit of one hundred days.
If one still failed to comprehend it after a hundred days, they would be directly deemed to have failed.
Back then, Tong Qing had needed seventy-nine days to clear this stage.
Luo Ziming and the others were already comprehending the Third Stage. No one knew whether they would ultimately clear this stage and enter the Fourth Stage, or be forced to withdraw from the Heavenly Punishment Assembly after a hundred days with failure as their ending.
Chu Yun stood before the Heavenly Stele, placed his palm against it, closed his eyes, and sensed it carefully for a while.
Then, as though he had noticed something, several strands of power spread from his palm into the Heavenly Stele, sensing it from within outward.
Less than half an hour later, Chu Yun's eyes snapped open. The Heavenly Stele suddenly blazed with brilliant light, its radiance condensing into the void entrance to the Fourth Stage. This signified Chu Yun's success.
"How... how did he do that?"
"He comprehended it in half an hour?"
"What kind of comprehension ability does this Chu Yun have?"
"The several city lords have yet to make any progress, yet he directly cleared the stage?!"
"Huh?"
"This man is terrifying indeed!"
"In such a short time, he cleared two stages in succession! Back then, City Lord Tong Qing needed more than two months to pass the Third Stage, yet Chu Yun did not even need half a day. This