Lu Yuan stood atop the Tower of Erudition, cold wind and rain lashing against his face.
At the instant of his advancement, the fused taboo pressure came crashing down like the sky itself.
That pressure was incomparably heavy, several times greater than when he had faced the Crown of Ten Thousand Kings in the Sea of Knowledge Rift. It made the entire structure atop the Tower of Erudition creak and crack, even splitting several new fissures beneath his feet.
Yet Lu Yuan's body merely swayed slightly.
Deep within him, all three Sanity Barriers lit up at once. The pressure fell upon their outer layer and was forcibly diverted by an invisible force.
Clearly, as Lu Yuan's sanity increased, the protection provided by the Sanity Barrier had also improved considerably.
The Sanity Barrier, which had remained shattered all this time, finally recovered along with his sanity when it returned to full capacity.
The increasingly intense taboo oppression radiating from the Crown of Ten Thousand Kings would previously have been enough to make Lu Yuan dizzy. Now, after a brief tightness in his chest, he felt nothing more.
Lu Yuan lowered his head and looked at his hands. A faint sense of weakness still lingered in them, an aftereffect of having his sanity drained dry when he pushed open the doors to the Hall of Knowledge.
Yet he could clearly feel all one hundred and forty points of sanity resting deep within his body, not a single point missing.
His condition had reached an unprecedented peak with this advancement. Even his five senses had become sharper by more than one level.
He could clearly hear the fine splashes of distant rain striking Flesh and the low hum of inscriptions breaking within the stone wall of the tower.
He could even sense the