He soared straight up; within merely a hundred breaths of time, he had surpassed the vast majority and reached the ninth step of the Seventh Layer, closing in on Gu He and Shangguan Yu.
However, when he stepped onto the Eighth Layer, even someone as strong as Xuanming couldn't help but show a slight change in facial expression, a look of solemnity flashing in his eyes.
The pressure now was far more than ten times what it had been before!
It was as if it had surged suddenly, a spike that ordinary people would truly find hard to adapt to.
At the Eighth Layer, a few people's pace began to slow, but compared to other Martial Artists, theirs was still very quick. Gu He on the Ninth Layer's Eighth step looked back.
When he saw Chen Yuan, Zuo Chengzong, and Wei Wuya, still standing in their original spot, a cold smirk couldn't help but flicker at the corner of his mouth, his arrogance fueling his belief that he would be the first to reach the summit.
