Outside Chronospace Island, higher cultivation naturally meant greater strength. Inside the Everlasting Pagoda, things were more complicated, because the higher a person's realm was, the harder the matching trial became.
For Dao Resonance Realm cultivators, passing the first floor was extraordinarily difficult, while those in the Spirit Manifestation Realm had comparatively better chances.
Of the thirty-six people who had cleared the first floor, twenty-six had done so while still in the Spirit Manifestation Realm.
The other ten were Dao Resonance Realm cultivators, but eight of those ten had originally cleared the first floor in the Spirit Manifestation Realm and had only advanced later, once they decided they had no hope of clearing the second.
