Time passed, drop by drop.
Outside the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower, everyone stared at the light on the ninety-eighth floor. Many disciples had grown visibly tense.
Once someone reached the ninetieth floor, choosing to challenge the next floor left no road back.
Either they cleared it.
Or they died in the trial.
"Half a day has passed since Lu Ren entered the ninety-eighth floor!"
Daoist Guanlan gazed at the tower wall, worry surfacing in her Yin-Yang Twin Eyes.
Lu Ren still had not cleared it.
That meant he had very likely fallen into a desperate situation.
"Maybe Lu Ren really has died in the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower!"
A disciple could not help sneering.
"Even if Lu Ren clears the ninety-eighth floor, the ninety-ninth still awaits!"
The Myriad Swords Daoist shook his head.
Just then, a startled cry rose from the crowd.
"Look!"
"The ninety-ninth floor has lit up!"
"Cang Xuanming has officially begun his challenge of the ninety-ninth floor!"
At those words, shock surged through everyone present.
The ninety-ninth floor!
Cang Xuanming had actually stepped onto a floor that even the Annihilation Daoist had not dared challenge lightly.
After all, the highest floor reached by anyone of the Great Dao Sect's younger generation was the ninety-eighth.
And once someone entered the Dao-Proving Realm, they could no longer challenge the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower.
If Cang Xuanming cleared the ninety-ninth floor, he would break the younger generation's record.
"Cang Xuanming really is aiming for the summit!"
"He wants the Ten Thousand Daos Return-to-Void Canon at the top of the tower!"
"If he gets the Ten Thousand Daos Return-to-Void Canon, Lu Ren will probably die a hundred years from now!"
Voices of discussion rang out one after another.
In the blink of an eye, another three hours passed.
Everyone had begun