There wasn't really a change in the pressure when Lin Fan and Angela came to the third floor, but after taking a few steps, Lin Fan could tell that the pressure was increasing slowly.
This time it wasn't just a tiny amount of pressure that came over him, rather it was enough that it was starting to affect his movements. He felt a bit sluggish when he moved his limbs, but it wasn't to the point where it was affecting his movement yet.
But as Lin Fan approached the stairs in the center of the room, it felt like there was more and more pressure falling down onto him.
He looked over at Angela and asked, "What level is this pressure at right now?"
Angela said, "This isn't a normal kind of pressure, this is Dragon Might. There should be the soul of a powerful dragon on the top of this tower and that's what's creating the pressure that flows down. This isn't like the normal pressure of an expert, rather it's a bloodline suppression."
Lin Fan looked at her with a confused gaze and said, "Then why aren't you affected?"
Angela just raised a brow and asked back, "You know my bloodline, so do you really need to ask this?"
Lin Fan revealed a look of understanding. According to the system, Angela's bloodline was the Spirit Overlord bloodline that ruled over final bosses like the Spirit Kings. There was no way this Spirit Overlord bloodline was inferior to a dragon bloodline, so she probably felt no pressure at all. Maybe she might even be placing a bit of pressure on the dragon soul up top.
Angela fell into thought for a bit before saying to Lin Fan, "Actually, your bloodline shouldn't be that much weaker compared to this dragon's, but you haven't awakened it, so that's why you're still feeling pressure here."
Lin Fan was confused again, "My bloodline? You mean the suction power that I used against the King Beast earlier?"
Angela nodded before saying, "If I'm not mistaken, that should be the physique that came with your bloodline. The power of that physique proves that it isn't normal, especially how you can suck in the laws of other people."
Lin Fan asked, "Then can I use this power to suck in this Dragon Might?"
Angela thought for a bit before saying, "Well, you should be able to if you can even suck in laws, this little bit of Dragon Might is nothing."
With this confirmation, Lin Fan began cultivating and releasing the suction power.
Once this suction came from his dantian, the surrounding pressure seemed to have relieved itself while large amounts of life energy seemed to gather in the space around him.
Slowly, Lin Fan could feel a strange kind of energy that started taking form inside his dantian.
As he continued to draw in more and more of the Dragon Might, there was a golden energy that appeared in his dantian that took the shape of a dragon.
Once he finished a cycle of his cultivation technique and opened his eyes again, he found that there was now a golden dragon inside his dantian.
When he tried to touch this golden dragon with his spiritual senses, it was like he had connected to that golden dragon as the power of that golden dragon began pouring into his body.
He could feel the prestige of a dragon filling him and being released around him, pushing back against the Dragon Might that was coming from above.
As for the participants down below, they were quite unlucky since first they felt all the life energy around them being sucked away before the pressure on them being doubled. It was like there was something else up top that was releasing pressure that was falling down on them.
As for Angela, she stood on the side watching Lin Fan.
She had deliberately told Lin Fan everything because she was curious about his physique and his bloodline. If it was really the same physique that she had heard about before, then this meant that there was something different about Lin Fan. This would also give her idea what Lin Fan's real identity was.
Lin Fan felt the power coursing in him and before he knew it, he was suddenly punching out with the power of the dragon. As his fist came out, there was a golden energy that wrapped around it in the form of a dragon, giving a loud roar that reverberated around the room.
The sound insulation of the tower was quite good, so the people down a floor couldn't hear the sound of the roar at all.
But good sound insulation meant that the sound was kept in the room, which made it quite loud, echoing throughout the room.
It was so loud that even Angela couldn't help covering her ears.
Once the roar slowly faded away, Angela glared at Lin Fan before coming over to slap him on the back of the head.
All Lin Fan could do was give an apologetic smile since he couldn't beat her.
When he released his suction power once again, Lin Fan felt that there wasn't any pressure on him at all anymore, he could freely move on this floor.
As the suction power continued, the gold dragon inside his dantian continued to grow in size until it reached a certain point where it didn't grow any bigger. No matter how much more of the Dragon Might he sucked in, it didn't get any bigger at all.
Seeing this, Lin Fan knew that he had reached the limit of cultivation on this floor, so there was no point staying here any longer.
He took one look back and saw that there was no one behind them at all.
This surprised Lin Fan since he had taken half an hour to finish cultivating here, but during that time, no one had climbed up from the second floor yet.
Since there was no one coming, Lin Fan couldn't do a thing but move up to the fourth floor.
The moment the two of them went up the stairs, there was someone who came up to the third floor.
This person was completely wrapped up in a gray cloak and there was only a pair of sharp yellow eyes that were staring out of the slit on the hood. As that person looked at Lin Fan and Angela leaving, those sharp yellow eyes became even more narrow.
"Ho, so it seems like other clans are also making their moves. I should just wait and watch to see what happens for now."
After saying that, that gray cloaked person sat down cross legged on the third floor, even though it was clear that he had no problem with the pressure here.
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When Lin Fan reached the fourth floor, he immediately felt the pressure increase once again.
Even with the power of the dragon surrounding him, he found that he still couldn't resist the pressure here.
If he had to measure it, the pressure on this fourth floor was more than five times stronger than what he felt on the third floor.
But still, that didn't mean that he didn't have a way to resist it at all.
Rather what he felt right by the staircase was the same feeling he had felt when he had just entered the third floor. It was like his arms and legs were a bit sluggish, but he still had no problem moving them.
Since this was the case, Lin Fan released his suction power again, but this time he felt that it was much harder to draw in the Dragon Might.
The Dragon Might on the fourth floor was much more concentrated compared to the Dragon Might on the third floor, so it was much harder for the suction force to do anything to the Dragon Might. Still, Lin Fan was able to suck it in, even if it was a bit slower compared to the third floor.
As Lin Fan drew the power of the Dragon Might in, the gold dragon inside his dantian continued to grow.
At first it had been a small speck, but now it was slowly growing in size until it had doubled in size.
Once he was finished his first cycle, Lin Fan released this new energy and the sluggish feeling disappeared. But once he took a few steps forward, it had appeared again.
So just like this, it was a cycle of drawing in the Dragon Might before taking a few steps forward. Lin Fan continued on as he slowly moved towards the stairs to the fifth floor.
Angela was on the side silently watching as she tried to see through Lin Fan's bloodline, but she couldn't see a single thing.
But what they didn't know was that they were causing quite the stir outside the tower where everyone was gathered, where the ranking board was placed...