Seeing that You Hui was still walking toward her, the woman in black robes chuckled.
"You know I'm an eighth-tier, yet you aren't running away. You're challenging me instead?"
"Heh."
You Hui snorted.
"How would I know without trying?"
He had been stuck at the seventh tier for a long time, but he was only one step away from the eighth.
At present, only the top ten Sequences could naturally break through to the eighth tier.
But the rules of this world were fair.
If the Calamity side could lift their limits through the Apexes, then the human side could do the same.
To them, the human Apexes were like the stele back then, heralding the breaking of some kind of shackle.
In theory, the farther time went on, the greater the chance of breaking through to the eighth tier.
But this only applied to the top twenty Sequences.
Those ranked lower still had a chance, but they needed some external help.
After more than a century of development and research, humanity's understanding of Sequence Abilities had become relatively mature.
The Research Institute No. 1 had tailored different plans for the abilities of each Sequence from eleven to twenty.
But they were still in the experimental stage when the special period of the second generation of Apex Awakened arrived.
During the train incident, Xiang Long had tried to force a breakthrough, but he hadn't accumulated enough and failed.
In the end, though, he had still reached the level of a half-step eighth-tier, and even gravely wounded that [Fierce God], before ultimately falling in battle.
The method corresponding to [Light of the Firmament] was to fuse the seven swords into one.
Just like [Formless]'s "Unification," it used a quantitative change to trigger a qualitative one.
You Hui had been ready for