Feng Quanan cleared the trials swiftly, soon reaching the thirteenth floor.
Once he reached the thirteenth floor, however, his pace immediately slowed. It took him a full quarter of an hour to clear it and reach the fourteenth floor.
On the fourteenth floor, he took a full hour to reach the fifteenth, then another two hours to reach the sixteenth. After holding out there for an hour, Feng Quanan, wounded in several places and completely drained of magic power, was teleported out of the Azure Cloud Tower.
Although Feng Quanan had suffered several wounds, he still seemed to be in good spirits. After all, he had performed well, exceeding the standard for becoming a true disciple and already receiving his true disciple token.
When Feng Quanan returned to his group, the elder who had brought him, a middle-aged cultivator at the nascent soul early stage, greeted him with a warm smile.
With his elder's approval, he was naturally pleased. He returned to his original place with a smug expression, while the fellow disciples who had come with him also smiled at him.
While Feng Quanan was still facing his trials, Vice Sect Master Li had selected two more disciples to enter the tower to speed things along. The entire tower trial proceeded in an orderly fashion.
Liu Changxu watched his fellow disciples enter the tower one after another, standing calmly as he patiently waited for Vice Sect Master Li to call him.
From the expressions of the disciples taking the trials and the attitudes of the nascent soul elders, he could tell that the Azure Cloud Sect valued its true disciples even more highly than he had expected. A little careful thought made the reason clear: only by becoming a true disciple would one receive the sect's full support in