Kabanata 75: Lightning Element [PART 2]

Heaven-testing pagoda 95th floor

Li Yao cuts down another huge monster. The monster disintegrates into nothingness as she sheaths her sword. She then lets out an exhale, her shoulders dropping slightly from the constant tension of battle.

"There is no end to them. How long has it been?" she asked.

[It's been four days] the empress replied.

Li Yao nodded as she heard this, she thought to herself that it was really taking long, and the upper floors were getting harder and harder to clear. 

Her combat power was almost at the golden core stage yet it was taking her so long. Considering that the pagoda doesn't accept people over fifty years of age, just how strong does it expect someone under fifty to be?