However, to everyone else, it meant something entirely different.
When the light for Yang Chen's seventeenth level went out and the light for the Eighteenth Level came on, the entire audience fell into a brief silence. Then, discussion surged and ebbed like tidal waves once more. No one's eyes or mouths left Yang Chen and the Trial Tower.
Even Bai Hecheng and He Xiaofeng were utterly stunned. They had originally planned to settle their grudges and debts, old and new, but now all their attention had been stolen away.
Bai Hecheng in particular knew the records of most geniuses extremely well. That was why he had immediately come to challenge Lin Kuangfeng after Lin Kuangfeng had reached the Fourteenth Level.
Yet he had never felt this kind of suffocating pressure of being unable to surpass someone.
If that person had stopped at the Fifteenth Level, he would not have felt despair, because he believed he could surpass him in the future. But now, the height Yang Chen had reached was one he simply could not cross.
"Who exactly is this person?!" A tempest of shock raged in Bai Hecheng's heart.
He had rarely felt that kind of invincible despair from anyone else.
In his entire life, there had only been two such people.
One was the Imperial genius Wu Sheng.
The other was Bai Yunfei of the Bai Family's main family.
He could understand Wu Sheng's imperial background. As for Bai Yunfei, he had assumed that some branch of the Bai Family had secretly gained the protection of an Emperor-level expert, thus giving birth to such a monstrous genius. But now, another one had appeared.
Bai Hecheng was on the verge of collapse. Why had geniuses capable of crushing him been popping up one after another lately?
If he knew