novelraw Chapter 99
Chapter 99
Chapter 99
Everyone fixed their gaze on the miniature Trial Tower.
Only Gu Yang’s white dot remained on the tower; the other challengers had all been knocked out.
Gu Yang had already surged to the ninety‑sixth floor.
He was only three floors away from the ninety‑ninth!
His climbing speed had slowed considerably.
Where he had once needed only a few dozen seconds to clear a floor, now…
It took him a full minute to go from the ninety‑fifth to the ninety‑sixth floor.
Of course…
For anyone else, one minute per floor would still count as extremely fast.
But for Gu Yang, it was undeniably much slower.
Time ticked away.
Gu Yang’s white dot rose slowly.
Ninety‑seven…
Ninety‑eight!
Swish!
Everyone stared at the white dot with locked eyes.
Gu Yang had reached the ninety‑eighth floor.
He stood one step away from the legendary ninety‑ninth floor…the tower’s summit!
Could Gu Yang do it?
Hope lit every face.
Inside the palace, all the princes watched intently.
Even the Second Prince, who had favored Bai Tianhong, looked excited.
They all knew the Purple Moon Trial Tower had existed for over ten thousand years.
No one had ever reached the ninety‑ninth floor in all that time!
Even the most promising prodigies had stalled at the eighty‑first floor.
Gu Yang…
He was the first…and the only…person in ten thousand years about to challenge the ninety‑ninth floor!
Such talent…
Even Bai Tianhong could not compare.
The Second Prince was not a fool; he saw this clearly.
People naturally worshipped the strong.
He was no different…whoever was strongest, he admired.
“Father Emperor, I’m curious. If one reaches the summit through the ninety‑ninth floor, what exactly is up there?” the Crown Prince asked, bowing slightly to the Chu Emperor as he spoke.
The other princes turned to the emperor with the same curiosity, seeking an answer.
The Chu Emperor looked helpless.
He did not know either.
“Ahem, that question… you cannot ask me. If you want to know, you must ask the Life‑and‑Death Realm powerhouse who created the Purple Moon Trial Tower!” he said. “After all, in ten thousand years no one has reached that level. Of course… perhaps after Gu Yang breaks through to the ninety‑ninth floor, you can ask him.”
At the emperor’s words, the princes shrank back.
Ask the Life‑and‑Death Realm creator? How would one even ask that…with one’s life?
As for Gu Yang…
He had not yet stepped into the ninety‑ninth floor. Whether he could do it remained unknown.
They also understood their father’s ignorance; it made sense.
Elsewhere, Chu Ling’er stared at Gu Yang’s white dot with unwavering confidence.
He can do it!
She did not know why she trusted him so completely, but her intuition told her he would succeed.
All eyes focused on Gu Yang’s white dot.
Could he really do it?
Inside the Purple Moon Trial Tower, Gu Yang stood in a void, suspended in midair.
Before him, a figure in a black robe also stood on the void.
The figure’s aura had already exceeded the Holding Origin Realm.
Ripples of water spread around the black robe.
Within those ripples…
A terrifyingly dense true essence condensed.
That true essence felt like a concentrated form of true energy…its power far beyond ordinary true essence.
Liquidized true essence.
This was clearly beyond the Holding Origin Realm’s capability.
Gu Yang’s expression tightened.
Yuan‑Sea Realm!
The puppet before him had reached the Yuan‑Sea Realm.
He could feel the oppressive pressure that the puppet radiated.
If he had not perfected his body refinement and possessed such a powerful physique, that pressure would have forced him to his knees.
Strangely, though, the puppet did not attack while Gu Yang held back.
It stood in place, as if waiting for him to strike.
Gu Yang’s eyes narrowed.
He did not hold back.
He raised his mid‑grade spirit weapon and slashed with a sword!
The strike carried seventy percent of his sword intent.
Its momentum tore through the void and aimed straight at the puppet.
The puppet slowly lifted its head.
The condensed ring of liquid true essence around it suddenly erupted.
Boom! Sss!
Gu Yang’s sword was easily blocked.
That terrifying true essence proved no weaker than his strike.
Gu Yang’s brow lifted slightly.
As expected, trying to finish a Yuan‑Sea Realm opponent with seventy percent sword intent had been wishful thinking.
He struck again.
This time he unleashed eighty percent sword intent.
On top of that, he used a special sword technique…the Ancestral‑Tracing Sword Art.
This move had been Zheng Yuhe’s trump card, and Gu Yang had already mastered it to perfection.
He chose to use it because the Purple Moon Trial Tower had existed for ten thousand years.
If he traced back here, what kind of ancient power might he tap into?
As he thought, Gu Yang erupted with true qi.
True qi condensed around him in an instant.
Compared to Zheng Yuhe’s clumsy, inexperienced execution, Gu Yang formed an ancestral shadow behind him in a single breath.
The shadow looked slight, but the sword it held unleashed overwhelming killing intent.
Gu Yang’s pupils contracted.
He seemed to have traced back to a special existence.
This presence appeared to be a supreme swordsman from ten thousand years ago…at least a Yuan‑Sea Realm powerhouse.
Gu Yang felt surprised.
He had not expected that performing the Ancestral‑Tracing Sword Art here would yield such a result.
A Yuan‑Sea Realm supreme swordsman’s blessing!?
Thinking of that, Gu Yang felt a flicker of anticipation.
How terrifyingly powerful can this one strike of mine be?
He drew a deep breath, then without hesitation swung his sword.
Sss!
In an instant, the ancestral shadow behind Gu Yang merged into the mid‑grade spirit sword in his hand.
A towering sword aura surged into the air.
The blade qi spread a hundred meters wide.
With the slash, it seemed as if the very space would be torn apart.
Boom!
The sword aura detonated, aiming straight at the puppet.
Feeling that terrifying sword qi, the puppet…strangely humanlike…stepped back as if startled.
Then, in the next moment…
The overwhelming sword aura exploded.
A crushing sword pressure instantly obliterated everything nearby.
Rumble!
The puppet was shredded by that terrifying blade qi, reduced to fragments that drifted in the air.
The moment he slew the puppet, the scene before Gu Yang shifted.