Chapter 334
"Did he really pass?"
The humanoid statue, Shen Ji, glanced from the starting point of the third level of the Black Tower to where Lin Yuan now stood at the 'end' point and finally realized what had happened.
"How did he do it so quickly?"
Shen Ji found it hard to believe. He had anticipated that Lin Yuan had made significant progress before daring to challenge the third level again.
Unlike the first two levels, which tested a challenger's ability to withstand omnipresent pressure and allowed them to use that pressure to temper themselves, the third level tested their ability to occupy space layers. It was a strict requirement—either you could do it, or you couldn't.
So, Shen Ji was confident that Lin Yuan had made an important breakthrough before attempting the third level again. If his strength had remained the same, there was no reason for him to try again. But this breakthrough was astonishing.
Even though Shen Ji had experienced the peak periods of the Devil Jade Tower, he was shocked by Lin Yuan's speed in passing the level. He could confirm that Lin Yuan's mental essence was still at the ninth rank.
Yet, to pass the third level, the standard left by the Devil Jade Tower's owner required an advanced ninth-rank lifeform who had developed eight to nine million layers of space, or even a tenth-rank lifeform.
Ninth-rank beings who had developed nearly a 100M space layers might carefully maneuver through the layers to avoid the pervasive pressure, but Lin Yuan?