Ascending Heights

Inside Gazing Sky Tower.

"Interesting."

With his hands behind his back, Li Rui casually walked up the stairs leading to the second floor.

A strange violet flash flickered around him and vanished.

He barely paused at all, far more relaxed than the others on the first floor.

Looking back at the first floor.

Gloomy expressions had appeared on many cultivators' faces.

Some were even in the Spirit Severing Realm.

It showed that ascending Gazing Sky Tower was far from as easy as imagined.

Indeed.

What Gazing Sky Tower examined was not merely combat strength, but a multidimensional test.

Simply put, it tested one's talent, as well as how much of that talent one had realized.

Heavenly Secret Dao Lord had established Gazing Sky Tower precisely to select promising juniors.

Talent was naturally of paramount importance.

Heavenly Secret Dao Lord naturally had no use for those old monsters who had spent their years grinding their way into the Spirit Severing Realm.

But beyond that, realizing one's talent was also an extremely important part.

More specifically.

It was one's combat strength at the same age.

Otherwise, it would be like that Innate Dao Embryo of the Ji Clan. Her talent was high, but her temperament was lacking, and she could not turn that talent into actual strength. Such a person would likewise be unfit for great use and unable to reach great heights.

That violet flash just now had actually drawn the cultivators' divine souls into a certain special space. There was a demon beast's divine soul within, used to test their strength.

Only by slaying the demon beast's divine soul could one ascend to the next floor.

Celestial Realm against Celestial Realm.

Spirit Severing Realm against Spirit Severing Realm.

It was exceedingly fair.

Of course.

Though their realms had been balanced,