"Break through to the Dao-Shedding Stage first?"
Lu Ren frowned slightly.
"Exactly!"
Elder Huntian nodded. "That would be safer. At least you'd have a chance of clearing the fiftieth floor. By then, you could choose something else as your reward for the fortieth floor!"
Lu Ren fell silent for a moment, then said slowly, "I understand your good intentions, Elder, but I still intend to challenge the tower!"
"Then I wish you luck clearing the fiftieth floor!"
Elder Huntian said.
That was what he said aloud, but he did not believe Lu Ren could clear the fiftieth floor.
Lu Ren had defeated Ba Cangshan.
But clearing the fiftieth floor would still be extremely difficult.
Lu Ren said nothing more and flew straight toward the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower.
Great Dao Sect.
On a vast plaza.
This was one of the liveliest places in the Great Dao Sect.
At the center of the plaza stood an ancient pagoda.
It towered into the clouds and had a hundred floors.
Dense Great Dao patterns were inscribed across every floor.
From afar, countless currents of Great Dao energy seemed to flow through the tower.
This pagoda was the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower!
The plaza was usually deserted, but whenever a disciple cleared a floor beyond their own limits, a phenomenon would appear.
That would draw large numbers of disciples here.
Beside the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower stood an enormous stone stele.
Light flowed across its surface, revealing name after name.
This was the Hundred Refinement Ranking!
It recorded the results of every disciple who had challenged the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower.
Lu Ren arrived before the ranking and scanned it.
The higher the floor, the fewer names there were.
At the forty-ninth floor, Lu Ren spotted a familiar name.
Ba Cangshan!
But Ba