"This..."
Beneath the Glazed Pagoda, the hundreds of young men and women who had been mocking him moments ago were all struck dumb. Their faces burned as though they had been slapped hard, their eyes wide as they stared at the dazzling light before them, their jaws nearly hitting the ground.
They had never dreamed that the fellow they had mocked like an idiot would not only enter the tower gate smoothly, but do so at such speed!
"Look! He's already reached the third floor. As soon as the fourth floor lights up, it means he's passed..."
"The fourth floor lit up too! He's actually climbed as high as Young Master Chongyao..."
"Could his behavior earlier have been an act? Otherwise, how could he have passed the third floor so quickly? When Young Master Chongyao reached this point, it took him a whole hour! How long has it been now? Ten breaths? Fifteen?"
"Are you sure the Glazed Pagoda hasn't made a mistake...?"
No one outside could see how many floors someone had climbed in the Glazed Pagoda, but they could infer it from the light that illuminated each floor.
Every floor that was passed would release a firework-like radiance, lighting up the surroundings.
From the moment this youth entered the tower gate to when the third floor lit up, it had taken at most ten-odd breaths. How... had he done it?
"This... this... impossible! No one can be that fast!" When he saw the fourth floor of the Glazed Pagoda blaze to life, Young Master Chongyao began trembling all over. He refused to believe what he saw was real and roared madly, "The first floor is about completing a zither melody, striking broken stones to fill in the missing notes. The first time I came here, I listened to