At this moment, Ye Chen glanced at the youth before him, and with a "whoosh" of his Wind-Thunder Wings, he shot back into the Twentieth Floating Peak from which he had entered.
A life-threatening crisis had vanished without a trace under Ye Chen's intervention.
But all the young contestants would remember this brush with death. They finally understood that Fairy Jia Luo's words weren't meant to scare them.
The practical assessment truly posed a threat to their lives. If not for Ye Chen's timely rescue, one of them might have already died!
The young contestants certainly couldn't hope to be saved after an accident, so everyone became even more careful, climbing upwards with great caution.
Meanwhile, Ye Chen landed on the Twentieth Floating Peak and once more retracted his Wind-Thunder Wings, continuing his climb upwards at an unhurried pace.
However, this time, not a single person among the spectators underestimated Ye Chen.
Everyone knew that Ye Chen still possessed the strength to come out on top in the third and fourth rounds of the practical assessments!
The youth's fall was a minor incident within the assessment.
After everything went back to normal, the examination continued.
The young contestants on the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks climbed higher and higher until gradually, all reached the highest point they could climb.
Quite a few contestants stopped at the thirty-third Floating Peaks in the middle to seek the flying demon beasts they needed to capture.
There were even some youngsters who had successfully subdued a flying demon beast on the cliffs of a Floating Peak and were now flying down on them.
Although this contestant had only climbed to the Fifty-Fifth Floating Peak and captured a Rank Ten flying demon beast, he had successfully completed the last two rounds of the practical assessments!
Following him, more and more contestants captured flying demon beasts and flew down from the Floating Peaks.
The previous fall made everyone much more conservative, and fortunately, no further accidents occurred.
At most, some were injured while trying to capture their flying demon beasts and eventually gave up on their original targets, opting to catch easier ones instead.
As the number of people who successfully captured flying demon beasts grew, the third round of climbing the "Sky-Scaling Vine" and the fourth round of "capturing flying demon beasts" finally entered the stage of checking results.
While many were flying down to the base of the First Floating Peak on their captured beasts, fewer and fewer contestants remained atop the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks.
And as Yu Luoxuan, who had been leading the climb and had already ventured deep into the uppermost thirty-three Floating Peaks, soared down on a gigantic white eagle over a hundred and twenty meters long, all the other flying demon beasts that had landed at the base of the First Floating Peak scattered in terror, the entire assessment area, including the spectating zone, was in an uproar!
Yu Luoxuan had actually done as she said earlier, capturing a great demon beast!
This massive white eagle, over a hundred and twenty meters in length, was much larger and more formidable than any other flying demon beast captured by other contestants. Its cold, gleaming claws and feathers as white and lustrous as gemstones shocked all who saw it.
"Yu Luoxuan climbed to the Seventy-Second Floating Peak and captured a low-tier Great Demon— the Snow Sculpture Beast!"
When Fairy Jia Luo announced Yu Luoxuan's assessment results, on the huge screen displaying the scores of all contestants, Yu Luoxuan's points had shot up to three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven!
Yu Luoxuan was far ahead of all the other contestants who had completed four rounds of assessment!
Even compared to Mu Yunlei, who also completed all the assessments, had climbed to the Sixty-Sixth Floating Peak, and captured a powerful Rank Twelve demon beast, her score exceeded his by over a thousand points.
Of all those who had completed the assessment, Yu Luoxuan was now ranked first!
But nobody was ready to declare her the certain winner, for there was one extremely powerful contestant who had not yet finished: Ye Chen.
As long as Ye Chen had not concluded his assessment, no one dared to assert that Yu Luoxuan would take first place.
Even Yu Luoxuan, who had captured a low-tier Great Demon, did not dare make such a claim. She too raised her head, looking towards the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks.
At this time, only about fifty or sixty people had yet to complete their assessments.
Almost the entirety of these fifty to sixty participants were concentrated in the middle region of the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks, with only one figure having already stepped into the upper thirty-three peaks.
This figure was none other than Ye Chen, who had been steadily climbing upwards; by now, Ye Chen had reached the Sixty-Eighth Floating Peak!
"Ye Chen has stepped onto the Sixty-Eighth Floating Peak!"
When Fairy Jia Luo's indifferent voice spread, all of the young examinees became both excited and anxious.
"Ye Chen, indeed, just like Yu Luoxuan, is aiming for the great demon at the very top!"
"Among all of us, only the two of them dare to step foot on the top thirty-three peaks; even Mu Yunlei does not dare to enter the upper thirty-three peaks!"
"The Sixty-Eighth Peak, ah, there lives a great demon equivalent to a Spirit Sea Realm powerhouse. Yu Luoxuan has already successfully captured such a demon. Can Ye Chen succeed as well?"
All of them were craning their necks, looking upwards.
Riding on giant flying beasts in the void, they could faintly make out that figure still climbing upwards; the Sixty-Eighth Floating Peak hadn't made Ye Chen stop his ascent!
"The Seventy-Second Floating Peak!"
"Yu Luoxuan previously captured her great demon on the Seventy-Second Floating Peak, and now Ye Chen has entered the Seventy-Second Floating Peak too!"
At the sect's mountain gate square, through the giant light screen, the disciples could clearly see the entire Sky Extreme Cliff's Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks; when they saw that Ye Chen, just like Yu Luoxuan, had entered the upper Seventy-Second Floating Peak, everyone began shouting excitedly.
This signified that, at the very least in terms of climbing height, Ye Chen had not lost to Yu Luoxuan!
Just when people thought Ye Chen would also capture a great demon in this peak, they realized that after roaming about for a short time within the Seventy-Second Floating Peak and startling several great demons into flight, he continued to climb even higher.
Ye Chen had actually entered the Seventy-Third Floating Peak!
The climb hadn't stopped.
Ye Chen, just as before, surveyed each peak, observing the flying demon beasts and great demons living on different peaks, and then climbed upward again.
By the time the remaining fifty or sixty examinees had completed their assessments and descended on their captured flying beasts, Ye Chen had already reached the Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak!
The Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak, thirteen peaks higher than the one Yu Luoxuan climbed!
"The Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak is home to all mid-level great demons!"
"Ye Chen has entered the region of mid-level great demons, equivalent to a mid-stage Spirit Sea Realm powerhouse!"
At this moment, Fairy Jia Luo's expression also became tense.
She even unconsciously rose tens of meters higher, watching Ye Chen's movements above with great concern.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Not only Fairy Jia Luo, but also Jiang Yao, Daoist Wine Sword, and the other Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses, Spirit Sea Realm disciples, and even those true Qi Realm disciples like Yu Luoxuan riding flying demon beasts, all rose dozens of meters higher, looking towards the very top.
Ye Chen's entrance into the region of mid-level great demons was indeed a most dangerous area!
Everyone began to feel both nervous and worried for Ye Chen.
At this time, Ye Chen, amidst the Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak, saw that the edge of the entire peak had already gathered no less than a hundred extraordinary great demons, whose roaring howls were like thunderous explosions.
The higher he went, the stronger the demon beasts Ye Chen found, and the more they gathered; the Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak had virtually become a Demon Beast Mountain!