"What? Big brother, you're going to attempt a challenge too?" Chen Jingjing's eyes immediately lit up with anticipation.
Zhang Rumeng also looked toward Chen Fan. Both of them were greatly interested in seeing him set a new challenge record!
"Mm. I'll try to get some decent rewards." Chen Fan nodded slightly. This trip really was for the sake of obtaining another Avatar Dao Talisman.
"Rewards? But after we cleared the challenge just now, we received a Grade B rating, and all we got were some ordinary cultivation arts. They weren't very good!" Zhang Rumeng said doubtfully.
What she meant was that Grade B rewards were nothing special. Grade A rewards might be better, but they should not be enough to draw Chen Fan's attention—unless...
"Crossing stages!" Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng came to the realization and cried out in unison. They knew that in the later Heavenly Court challenges, only the rewards for crossing stages were enticing enough to move people.
But crossing stages was easier said than done. As far as they knew, only Xiao Munan and Chen Fan had ever done so. Although Chen Fan had even broken Xiao Munan's record from back then, in the nearly two hundred years since, no one besides those two had attempted it again.
Qin Xian'er also showed a trace of surprise. Though she had never participated in these challenges and thus could not enter the Heavenly Soldier Ranking, she still knew something about their details.
Clearing a challenge was already no easy matter, but crossing stages raised the difficulty to another level entirely—almost to an impossible degree. Moreover, the Immortal Qi required was an enormous gamble. If one lost, all of one's Immortal Qi might be depleted outright.
Back when Chen Fan was at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, he had