Upon entering the tenth level, everyone present had their pupils contract, their hearts shaken as they drew in sharp breaths.
After Wan Huaruo had been the first to enter the tenth level and ultimately failed,
another man had now successfully set foot in this domain.
The Wind Emperor sighed with emotion and shook his head. "Tianqu Mountain and Taiyuan Palace truly live up to their reputations as humanity's peak powers. For so many years, only Wan Huaruo of our Snake People Clan entered the Heavenly Crystal Snake Spirit Pagoda. Yet humanity has come only once, and already someone has entered the tenth level."
Many Snake People Clan members were likewise filled with boundless emotion. Only the First Prince, Mo Dao, wore a gloomy expression, lost in unknown thoughts.
Now that he had arrived at the tenth level, Yang Chen saw an ancient, unadorned palace.
The palace was steeped in the dust of ages, as though dust-laden winds had lingered here for countless years.
Golden light flashed within the palace, where treasures seemed faintly concealed. Yet before the palace, a massive stone snake suddenly emerged from the soil.
There was only one stone snake, but it was several times larger than those on the previous nine levels. Its forked tongue hissed as if it were real.
Upon seeing Yang Chen, the stone snake immediately launched a fierce attack. Its body swept toward him, intending to coil around him and suppress him.
How could Yang Chen let it have its way so easily? With a flash, he deployed the Laws of Time and Space and evaded the stone snake's strike on the spot.
Then Yang Chen struck almost like lightning. A Five Elements Overturning Heaven Palm descended from the heavens and slammed viciously onto the massive stone snake's body.
The palm strike