Across from the Ninth Floor of the High Tower, the plaza was filled with temporary stands. The seats rose in tiers from the ground into the air, with room for a full ten thousand spectators.
Directly above the High Tower's entrance hung a gigantic Virtual Screen. When Xuan Haoran entered the tower, cameras would broadcast his progress live.
Taihua Tianji sat in the best seats with Long Bai and his own daughter, waiting for the tower challenge to begin.
Unlike the two little girls, who were brimming with excitement and anticipation, Taihua Tianji's eyes held a hint of worry.
He wasn't the only one. Many people had sensed that something must have changed inside the tower.
The problem was glaring. In fifteen days, out of a full two hundred School Team members, only seventeen had been eliminated!
That was nowhere near the expected outcome of 191 people being eliminated, leaving just nine to guard the checkpoints!
No matter how you looked at it, the number of eliminated contestants was wrong.
Especially on the Ninth Floor and the Eighth Floor—not a single School Team member had been eliminated there.
It couldn't be that all 183 people still inside had each thrown in their lot with the strongest person on their floor and willingly submitted to their control.
The truth would only be revealed once the High Tower opened.
In principle, no matter what had happened inside the High Tower, it wasn't something Taihua Tianji, a teacher of first-year students, needed to worry about.
Could a mere first-year like Su Yuan really turn the world upside down right under the noses of twenty-two prodigies who had mastered the complete Spirit Transmutation Inheritance?
But he couldn't shake his unease.
And it was all because of Su Yuan's reputation.
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