How could Duan Donghe not be happy?
Only a few years had passed since Hu Yanbo entered the Life-and-Death Corridor!
Solving three thousand games in a few years-such talent, such comprehension, such an inconceivable rate of improvement! Even if the Third Generation Ancestor, the most brilliant genius in the history of the Duan Donghe Lineage, came back to life, he would probably have been dumbfounded and left far behind at the same stage!
Duan Donghe did not let that deathly stillness last too long.
Instead, he slowly raised his arm and pointed toward Hu Yanbo.
"Rise!"
Boom!
Beside Hu Yanbo, another crystal-clear pillar, this one coursing with scorching, blood-red secret patterns, burst out of the ground and stood towering!
The light emitted by this red crystal pillar added another layer of red radiance outside the original golden barrier surrounding Hu Yanbo!
"From this moment onward," Duan Donghe swept his gaze over all the pale-faced, vacant-eyed candidates in the corridor.
"I will divide everyone who enters the Tomb Ship to take part in the inheritance trial of my Duan Donghe Lineage into four tiers."
"From lowest to highest, they are-"
"Outer Candidates who have broken through the first bottleneck!"
"Elite Candidates who have broken through the second bottleneck!"
"Core Candidates at the third bottleneck, and the inheritor!"
"Of everyone here, aside from Wanxiang, not a single person has become an Outer Candidate yet. I hope you all conduct yourselves accordingly."
Duan Donghe had practically decided that Hu Yanbo was the inheritor of his Duan Donghe Lineage.
Yet Hu Yanbo himself, at the center of the golden-red barrier and regarded by Duan Donghe as his ultimate hope, seemed completely unaware of Duan Donghe's almost fanatical gaze.
He remained seated calmly with his eyes closed. This so-called "breaking through the second bottleneck in