"Wasn't Gui Shaoyin still on the ninety-ninth floor? How did he suddenly come out?"
"Did he give up on the trial at the top?"
The disciples turned to look at the newcomer.
He was none other than the foremost prodigy of this generation of the Ghost Yin Baleful Heaven Clan.
Gui Shaoyin!
Gui Shaoyin ignored the gazes around him and walked straight into the Great Dao Hall.
He stopped beside Lu Ren and cupped his hands slightly toward Sect Master Xuan Yin and the elders on either side.
"Sect Master Xuan Yin, elders!"
Gui Shaoyin spoke slowly. "This disciple has just reached the summit of the Great Dao Hundred-Refinements Tower and passed the trial on the hundredth floor!"
His words sent the crowd into an uproar. Even the elders seated along both sides of the hall looked shaken.
"What did you say?"
Disbelief crossed Sect Master Xuan Yin's face. "You passed the hundredth-floor trial?"
Gui Shaoyin said nothing. He formed a seal with his hands, and a wisp of gray-black aura seeped from his body.
Within that faint aura stirred a ripple that seemed to return all things to the void.
"It's Return-to-Void Power!"
"It's the Ten Thousand Daos Return-to-Void Canon!"
One of the elders jolted.
Every elder present stared hard at Gui Shaoyin, as if they could deny the truth before their eyes.
How is that possible?
Lu Ren stared at Gui Shaoyin too, disbelief written across his face.
Set aside all the earlier floors.
The Ten Thousand Daos Return-to-Void Stele on the hundredth floor alone was not something anyone could comprehend in a short time.
Lu Ren had spent nearly ten years on it and had been trapped by his Heart Demon for a long while before he had barely managed to comprehend the Ten Thousand Daos Return-to-Void