Outside the Heavenly Tower.
The group of Heavenly Tower disciples and guest elders, including Zhu Fenghua, were all intently watching the Heavenly Tower ahead.
Through the window, they could faintly see the white light within.
They knew that this light was due to the murals inside being concealed.
Although they couldn't enter to see how Li Fei and Ning Qingman were 'breaking through', by observing when the light of the murals extinguished, they could judge how the two were progressing in climbing the tower.
As soon as the two entered, the glow of the first floor extinguished.
How long did it take? Was it even ten seconds?
"So fast?"
"Was it the Sword Immortal who made a move?"
Most people believed it was Ning Qingman who acted to 'break through', allowing such rapid success.
Zhu Fenghua watched the tightly closed door in silence.
He had heard from his senior brother that the 'Sword Immortal' Ning Qingman had quietly co to Heavenly Tower over thirty years ago, climbing all nine floors in one go and had a sword discussion with their master.
This matter had always been kept secret, so the outside world was unaware.
In the entire Heavenly Tower, only a few of their direct disciples knew of this.
Since Ning Qingman had already climbed the ninth floor many years ago, this ti, their master must have let her directly go to the ninth floor.
Thus, the person 'breaking through' inside should be Li Fei.
"How long did it take to defeat the clone on the first floor back then?"
Zhu Fenghua recalled his own experience of climbing the tower.
After becoming a Body Breaking Stage Martial Artist, he began attempting to climb the tower and took more than three months to successfully defeat the clone on the first floor.
Of course, he was nothing like he is now.
If today's Zhu Fenghua entered, he was confident in defeating the clone within three moves.
But it certainly wouldn't be as fast as Li Fei at this mont.
"So, he only used one move?"
Zhu Fenghua pursed his lips.
He had never had much thought of comparing himself to others.
Until that day, his master suddenly ordered him to visit Tianshui Tomb.
At first, he thought his master wanted him to have a bout with Li Fei.
Later, he realized his master wanted him to seek defeat...
Although he ultimately was not defeated by Li Fei, but was forced to break through by the Martial Arts Master You Ming.
Yet the sa opponent, whom he couldn't match, was slain by Li Fei crossing boundaries at Tianshui Tomb!
The two didn't need to face off; the outco was obvious.
Since that day, Zhu Fenghua quietly set up a competitor in his heart.
He wanted to face Li Fei once he broke through.
But...
Li Fei broke through once, blocking Qi Ming's strike in front of the world!
In the Northern Barbarian battle, he slew several Northern Barbarian Martial Arts Masters.
The battle of Bai Feng Plain saw him reverse-slay a Grandmaster with the Martial Arts Master Realm!
Just by looking at this series of achievents, Zhu Fenghua knew he no longer needed to face Li Fei.
To this day, he was only fifth on the Earth List, while Li Fei had already reached the Peak List.
In his heart, Li Fei had transford from a competitor he wanted to defeat, to a goal difficult to catch up with.
Since he had been far left behind in strength, Zhu Fenghua thought not to fall too short in technique and the mastery of the integration of magic and martial arts.
He stood outside the Heavenly Tower, wanting to compare himself against the speed of Li Fei's tower climbing breakthrough, to see how much of a gap there was between them now in terms of technique?
Inside the Heavenly Tower.
The clone vanished into light, and the glow of the murals around also faded, allowing Li Fei to peruse the contents of these murals.
This was his main objective on this trip.
He casually looked at one of the murals, which had both text and illustrations.
Upon first sight, his heart and spirit stirred, with a sense of dreamlike steel horses and icy rivers.
The words and images seed to transform into swords and fists, techniques pouring vividly into his consciousness.
Li Fei finally understood why, over the years, despite many from the world attempting to climb the Heavenly Tower, these cultivation thods carved by Lin Tian within the tower had not spread widely.
The fear of Lin Tian was part of it.
More importantly, the essence and key parts of these cultivation thods were elents that could only be comprehended, not communicated.
Even if soone dared to secretly teach these thods, the written content given to others would yield no results, possibly even causing problems!
Li Fei swiftly scanned one mural after another.
The fifty murals on the left side all related to Martial Arts.
The fifty murals on the right side all related to Magic.
The cultivation thod on the first floor did not directly ntion anything about the integration of magic and martial arts.
However, if soone could understand all one hundred murals, they would find the cultivation thods on both sides like two interlocking gears, and if they could get them to 'turn', magic and martial arts would naturally integrate!
Li Fei stood in place, eyes closed in thought.
Ning Qingman patiently waited on the spot.
She had already seen all fifty murals on the left side of the first floor and didn't need to look again.
So she watched Li Fei.
Perhaps only at this mont could she unabashedly stare at him.
"We are still young... You are under thirty, I'm nearly a hundred; does that count as young?"
Ning Qingman thought with a trace of lancholy.
"You live while I am not born; I live while you are not old."
This poem was what Li Fei had recited to her on their journey.
To a Martial Saint with a three-hundred-year lifespan, being under a hundred indeed doesn't count as old.
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