No one was surprised that Li Xiao had cleared the stage. After all, he had already passed the first three, so clearing the fourth was hardly strange.
But this time, Li Xiao had taken far too little time. How long had it even been? He had finished much faster than in any of the previous stages. Surely the fourth stage couldn't be easier than the first three?
After their initial astonishment, everyone exchanged bewildered looks, utterly unable to understand how Li Xiao had done it.
The fifth level.
Li Xiao stood at the entrance and looked down at the ring in his hand. Sure enough, it had gained another function: Flash of Insight.
This was a passive ability.
When Li Xiao thought seriously about something, there was a chance of triggering the ring's "Flash of Insight" state.
For instance, if there was something he couldn't figure out, but he had gathered plenty of clues, a flash of insight might let him unravel everything that had baffled him. The more clues he had, and the more complete his information, the greater the chance of triggering Flash of Insight.
"The new function isn't bad. So how does the fifth level differ from the fourth?"
Li Xiao looked up at the passages around him. They didn't seem much different from those on the fourth level, but since each level was harder than the last, there had to be something different here.
"The feeling of danger has changed!"
Suddenly, he looked down at the Myriad-Mile Guiding Light Ring and realized that the Vengeful Ghosts in the maze fell into two types: those that moved and those that stayed still.
The moving Vengeful Ghosts were little different from those on the fourth level. They still kept their distance from one another and almost never crossed