C368 Climbing the Tower

It turned out that Ning Xun was actually a resident of the ancient city that hid the other half of the Phoenix Seal, as well as a descendant of the Phoenix Clan.

Due to the natural and man-made disasters, the Phoenix Clan moved to the southern part of the continent, which was also known as the Southern Cloud Empire of the Strange Beast Kingdom.

As for why Ning Xun had come to the East Moon Empire, it was because her grandfather was pretending to be sick. He needed some kind of special natural treasure in the Coldwinter Snow Mountain Range to cure him.

The reason why he had helped Ye Heng earlier was because he had sensed the Phoenix Seal on Ye Heng's left hand.

However, she knew very little about the secrets of the Phoenix Seal, and she had no idea about the other two marks.

However, according to what Ning Xun said, her grandfather knew about the secrets of the marks, which gave Ye Heng the idea of going to the Southern Cloud Empire to find out more about it.

Apart from this, Ye Heng was shocked when he found out that Ning Xun was actually a woman.

After returning to the Hao Yuan Sect, Ye Heng immediately went into the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower.

After meeting Ye Xue, Ye Heng became more and more eager for strength.

Looking at the eighteen floors of the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower that towered into the clouds, Ye Heng stepped into it without hesitation.

Following Ye Heng's step, the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower woke up from its deep slumber, and the examination began.

Ye Heng felt the world spinning around him. What he saw next was an empty room. At the end of the room, there was a stone staircase made of green granite that extended to the top floor.

Looking at the empty place in the room, Ye Heng had a feeling that there was a trap hidden there.

However, it was not a problem to stay here. Ye Heng held his breath and strode into the room.

"Buzz. . . "

After Ye Heng took the first step, the air was filled with killing intent.

"Sou. . . "

The sound of air being torn apart was heard, and several cold lights flashed across the air.

In the next moment, Ye Heng felt a cold wind blowing around his neck.

Ye Heng instinctively stretched out his hand, and then something hard hit it.

But because Ye Heng's physical strength was comparable to a spirit weapon, he was not injured at all. Instead, the thing that hit his neck shattered.

Ye Heng focused his eyes and saw that it was a light blade condensed from Yuan energy.

If the first level's test was limited to this, then it could not even be considered a threat.

Ye Heng's gaze turned cold. He did not stop and walked straight towards the stone steps at the end of the room.

In a short distance of fifteen zhang, there were at least 45 light blades of origin energy attacking Ye Heng, but they were all blocked by Ye Heng.

As expected, Ye Heng had passed the first level of the test.

When he stepped onto the last step, Ye Heng felt a weak Yuan energy flow into his body and into his dantian.

This must be the reward.

Ye Heng clenched his fist and strode into the second step.

The difficulty of the second level was twice as high as the first level. Ye Heng still needed to dodge the attacks from the second level occasionally.

Without much effort, Ye Heng also passed the second level's test and received another round of elemental energy infusion.

"Eh?"

When Ye Heng entered the third level, he noticed something different.

It was actually gravity, and it was ten times gravity.

Of course, with the current strength of Ye Heng's body, not to mention ten times or a hundred times gravity, he could still move. Of course, he could not move as freely as he usually did.

However, according to this situation, if the gravity kept increasing, Ye Heng could at most reach the eleventh or second layer.

After all, apart from the gravity, there were other things in each layer.

The first and second layers were Yuan Power blades of light, but the third layer was changed to a faceless martial artist condensed from Yuan Power.

Ye Heng could feel the Ninth Layer of Essence Vortex Essence Strength Undulation from this Faceless martial artist.

Of course, with Ye Heng's strength, he could defeat this Faceless martial artist with ease under ten times the gravity.

As time passed, Ye Heng gradually climbed to the higher levels, and the difficulty of the exam increased as well.

Half a month passed unknowingly, and Ye Heng arrived at the tenth floor of Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower.

And outside of Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower, a large group of people gathered to watch.

Among the inner circle disciples, there were only a handful of people who had reached the tenth floor of the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower, and now there was another disciple who had reached the tenth floor. How could the crowd not be shocked?

However, what shocked them even more was that the tenth floor of the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower dimmed, and then the eleventh floor lit up.

"My god! He actually climbed to the eleventh floor!"

"Oh my god! Another peerless genius!"

"Is the number one position in the inner sect going to be changed today?"

. . .

The disciples were discussing amongst themselves. Their eyes were staring at the stone monument in front of the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower without blinking. At this moment, the scale that represented the eleventh floor was shining brightly. This meant that someone had entered the eleventh floor.

However, before the crowd could cry out in shock, another round of exclamation was heard.

The scale on the stone tablet had unknowingly jumped to the twelfth floor.

In less than ten breaths of time, everyone's eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets.

Because the scale representing the thirteenth floor on the stone tablet had already lit up.

This series of changes really came too quickly. Everyone already did not know what to say.

Just as they were slightly distracted for a moment, the scale of the thirteenth level shook and finally jumped to the fourteenth level.

"Hiss. . . "

In the originally noisy open space, the only sound that could be heard at this moment was the sound of everyone inhaling a breath of cold air.

"Fourteenth level. . . I remember that none of the core disciples did it, right?"

It was unknown who said this, but the shock on everyone's faces turned into fear.

One had to know that the talent of a true disciple could be said to be a genius amongst geniuses, and could be considered a monstrous genius.

And what even a monstrous true disciple could not do, was now done by an ordinary inner disciple.

The news spread across the entire Hao Yuan Sect at an incredible speed, as if it had grown wings.

Not long after, a large group of people gathered below the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower. Some disciples and elders were staring at the scale on the monument.

However, to everyone's disappointment, the scale of the monument was fixed on the fourteenth floor. It had been three days, but nothing had changed.

Three days' time also wasted the patience of those anxious disciples. More than half of the disciples who were waiting immediately left.

Another three days had passed, and even more disciples had left.

Another three days had passed, and there were only less than a dozen people left in the huge army. Among them were a few inner sect elders.

Time flew by like an arrow. The few people who still had some hope had their patience completely worn out. They shook their heads and left.

In an instant, no one from the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower stayed any longer. Everyone was certain that the disciple who climbed to the 14th level of the Essence Strength Heaven Piercing Tower must have been sent out or was seriously injured. There was no possibility of him reaching the 15th level.