Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
In these ten days, the suffering of humiliation from the three great Loose Cultivators who killed members of the Ye, Bai, and Qian families and stole their treasures, began to subside somewhat outside the secret realm of the ancestral land.
However, no member of the families smiled as before, and everyone's heart was oppressed.
They faced the challenges of Zhou Yuntian coming to the family to capture people and then the Wan Ya Mountain's three great Loose Cultivators committing murder and robbery, leaving everyone in the three major families feeling an indescribable sense of humiliation!
All the warriors of the three clans were desperately cultivating. Although the chances of defeating the three great Loose Cultivators were almost zero, no one was giving up. Everyone was trying to increase their strength, to contribute a bit more power to their own family.
Adding to the gloom that still hung over the three families was the fact that Patriarch Bai, who had been injured by Sikong Miao, had not yet woken up, and his life force was growing weaker.
Patriarch Bai was already the oldest of the three patriarchs. His injury and coma caused immense worry among the members of the families.
The only good news was that Qian Ming's parents had finally awoken from their coma, but the grief of losing their son made them unwilling to leave the house, drowning in sorrow all day long.
As the three families were shrouded in this desolate atmosphere, inside the secret realm, in the seventh floor of the Ancient God Tower where Ye Chen had been cultivating for thirty days, he was finally awakened by the activation sound of the teleportation array once more.
"The trial on the eighth floor is about to begin!"
"Bai Xiaodie and the others should all have left the secret realm by now. Now, it's just me still venturing through this realm."
Ye Chen looked up toward the outside of the Ancient God Tower. Although he couldn't see anything, he knew from the time spent tackling the tower that the other youths had already left the ancestral secret realm.
"I'll continue to the eighth floor!"
"The great opportunity with the time flow in the Ancient God Tower is rare and should not be wasted; I must seize it firmly!"
"Striving to cultivate all the way through this Ancient God Tower! To raise my strength to an even stronger state!"
With a thought as swift as lightning, Ye Chen was transported to the eighth floor of the Ancient God Tower.
"The trial on the eighth floor has begun!"
Outside the Ancient God Tower, when Ye Chen broke into the eighth floor, the tower's section marking the eighth floor immediately lit up.
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact, looking through the Ancient God Tower at Ye Chen tackling the trials, renewed its spirited anticipation.
With the other youths having left the secret realm, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact's full attention was completely focused on Ye Chen.
It was looking forward to Ye Chen creating new miracles in the Ancient God Tower!
And Ye Chen certainly did not disappoint it.
In the time that followed, for every three days that passed outside, the next layer of the Ancient God Tower would light up.
This indicated that Ye Chen was continuously advancing upward through the Ancient God Tower, successfully defeating the guardians of each floor and obtaining the tokens for the next floor, utilizing the different time flows to complete thirty days of cultivation on each floor!
When Ye Chen successfully battled his way to the tenth floor of the Ancient God Tower, joy was evident in the eyes of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact.
It had previously guessed that Ye Chen would easily break through to around the ninth floor, but unexpectedly, Ye Chen really made it past the ninth floor and entered the tenth.
Moreover, according to the observations of the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact, Ye Chen clearly still had spare strength; upon just entering the ninth floor, he did not cultivate but directly slew the guardian!
Clearly, Ye Chen had the strength to continue challenging even higher levels of the Ancient God Tower!
When Ye Chen triumphantly entered the twelfth floor of the Ancient God Tower, the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact was no longer just overjoyed; ecstasy was apparent in its gaze!
"The speed of cultivation is too rapid!"
"Since Ye Chen entered the Ancient God Tower, only thirty-three days have passed outside, and that makes three hundred thirty days inside the tower. Ye Chen's combat strength has increased by more than seven or eight times compared to before!"
"He is actually able to utilize the time inside the tower to constantly improve his strength, having so many methods to advance his power!"
"Even if others cultivated the same length of time here, they wouldn't be able to improve so quickly!"
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact looked at Ye Chen stepping into the twelfth floor of the Ancient God Tower, and then at the flowing golden waves in the sky above, where a golden monkey was frolicking in the waves.
"Could it be... Could it be that Ye Chen really can break into the fifteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower, or even higher levels?"
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact felt like it was struggling to breathe.
Its former master, Heavenly Saint Di Kong, had instructed it that only those who could break into the fifteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower could receive Di Kong's legacy, and earn the highest reward linked to the golden monkey!
The fifteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower was the highest record in the tower established by the geniuses of the Jindi Ancient Clan sent out by Di Kong back in the day. Di Kong used this record as the highest standard to test the clans' members.
One could receive Di Kong's highest reward by reaching the fifteenth floor!
As for the sixteenth, seventeenth, and the highest eighteenth floors, no one had ever stepped into them, not even the geniuses of the Jindi Ancient Clan!
The Ancient God Tower was a relic that Di Kong had stumbled upon. Even the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact and Di Kong who left behind the Ancient God Tower didn't know what awaited in the last three layers!
Now, Ye Chen was getting closer and closer to the fifteenth floor of the Ancient God Tower!
He was getting closer to the last three floors — the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth — which no one had ever ventured through!
Charge! Charge! Charge!
As the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact watched with immense anticipation, forty-two days had passed outside, and Ye Chen, who had cultivated for four hundred twenty days within the Ancient God Tower, finally succeeded in entering the fifteenth floor!