In the space outside.
Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue had long since completed their assessments.
Xie Xie had only passed the first round, while Tang Wulin had barely made it through the second.
Gu Yue, who had performed the best of the three, had made it all the way to the final stage of the high-level difficulty before regrettably stopping at the ultimate assessment.
With his bruised and swollen face, Xie Xie sidled up to the solemn-looking Tang Wulin and asked, "Hey, why isn't Yuhao out yet? Do you think he... can pass that ultimate assessment or whatever?"
Tang Wulin shook his head without answering.
He had not even passed the high-level assessment, so he could not imagine what the ultimate assessment was like.
The two of them turned their gazes toward Gu Yue at the same time. She was the only one who had experienced the ultimate assessment, so perhaps her judgment would be more accurate.
Yet Gu Yue seemed to be lost in thought.
She stood there quietly, her black eyes unfocused and somewhat hollow. Clearly, she had not heard Xie Xie's question.
In her mind, the figure from the ultimate assessment kept flashing back before her...
That person... looked seventy or eighty percent like Huo Yuhao!
Just then.
A slightly staggering figure appeared out of thin air. It was Huo Yuhao.
Unlike Xie Xie and Tang Wulin, whose faces were bruised and swollen, Huo Yuhao appeared to have no obvious external injuries.
However, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed. His eyes, usually clear and calm, were now clouded by an inescapable sorrow and confusion, as if he had just personally experienced a heart-wrenching parting of life and death.
Wu Changkong flashed forward and arrived at Huo Yuhao's side.
After examining him, the tension between his brows