Duan Jingtao slowly opened his eyes.
A trace of bewilderment lingered in them!
He had experienced far, far too much within the illusion.
So much that he could not even count it!
He had gone through the partings of life and death in the mortal world tens of thousands of times, for all he knew.
The crucial part was that the sensation of personally living through it had not been fake. It had been immensely real, as though he himself had truly experienced it all.
Countless scenes from the illusion flashed past, and in the end, Duan Jingtao could no longer hold on.
His body had trembled earlier because he had been resisting with all his strength, trying to endure a little longer.
Yet after resisting for some time, he realized that he could not accept it.
In the end, his body calmed, and he opened his eyes as well.
That meant he had been eliminated!
However.
Duan Jingtao felt that since he had held on for so long, he was surely still in first place.
People like Mo Chen and Yuan Mo naturally could not threaten his position.
"My Dao Heart still needs to be tempered further."
Duan Jingtao thought to himself, I am still first among the Inner Disciples, but among the core disciples, I might not necessarily be first. As for comparing myself with the Ten Great Sequences, I probably fall even shorter!
His gaze was exceptionally resolute. After all, his goal had been the sequences since long ago!
Yet right at that moment.
Duan Jingtao sensed countless gazes upon him. Raising his head, he found that they came from Mo Chen, Yuan Mo, and several other disciples on the Prodigy Ranking.
Their eyes were filled with disbelief.
Duan Jingtao froze slightly. Had he held on for