The Seventh Elder's entire body shook violently, his mouth forming an O.
Far away, atop the tower in the Ruined Capital, that elder desperately rubbed his eyes.
The disciple beside him opened his mouth wide. "Master, Master, the seventh level! The seventh level!"
"For three thousand years, a seventh-level prodigy has appeared for the second time... a seventh-level prodigy!" The elder tugged at his beard. "The Sect Master is still in seclusion. Will he emerge because of this child?"
As Lin Xiaosu set foot upon the seventh level, he was inwardly startled as well.
Once he stepped onto this terrace, his cultivation was firmly suppressed at Peering into Heaven.
But was his Peering into Heaven anything ordinary?
Back when he was in the Peering into Heaven Realm, he could already step into the domain of the Enlightened Realm, killing Enlightened Realm cultivators as easily as slaughtering chickens.
In other words, so long as his opponent's combat strength had not broken through to the Spirit Enlightenment Realm, they could not place him under any pressure.
Yet on this level of the terrace, he felt pressure.
Pressure even stronger than what the Enlightened Realm had given him back then.
Aside from freaks like him, who else in this world could forcibly withstand the pressure of the Enlightened Realm while in the Peering into Heaven Realm?
How many people could ascend these seven steps?
Lin Xiaosu saw one.
A man standing at the edge of the terrace.
The clothes on this man were tattered, yet clean.
The gale swept past, sending his hair flying.
A pair of eyes bright as sword light watched him quietly.
"Young brother, where do you come from?" The voice was gentle.
Lin Xiaosu's gaze fell upon the man's neck. Around it hung a strange necklace bearing nine tiny