CHAPTER 1261: CHAPTER 1261: CRAWLING FORWARD AT A SNAIL’S PACE

As soon as Xu Nian’s Immortal Consciousness entered the portal, he felt a darkness before him.

When he reappeared, he found himself inside a closed building.

The building’s area was extremely vast, spreading over several hundred thousand square meters.

The walls around him, made of unknown material, were incredibly hard.

Xu Nian could feel that he simply could not break these walls with his strength.

"Is this the body used in the second round competition?" Xu Nian shifted his gaze to his own body.

He found that he now possessed a tangible physical form, but it was of very poor quality.

Compared to his Divine Demon Refining Body, it was worlds apart.

And the cultivation within the body was no longer Divine Demon Gang Qi, but Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

The cultivation was only at the Early Stage Earth Immortal Realm.

In Xu Nian’s eyes, such a physical body was rubbish.

"Well, since everyone’s body is like this, it doesn’t really matter," Xu Nian murmured to himself.

With everyone’s body and cultivation being the same, there naturally wouldn’t be any disparity.

The next step is simply to compete on who can wield more powerful Profound Argumentation attacks.

"I wonder what the test of the Sky-reaching Tower is?" Xu Nian pondered curiously.

The first tower is a First Level Profound Argumentation, which to him was a breeze.

"Buzz!"

At this moment, a strong wave surged within the hall.

Then a thousand powerful Demon Beasts appeared in the hall.

"Early Stage Earth Immortal Realm-ranked Horned Furious Bulls?" Xu Nian recognized these Demon Beasts at a glance.

This was a type of Demon Beast skilled in defense, each one at the Early Stage Earth Immortal Realm.

"Is this the first level of the first tower? Damn, this is insane!"

"Yeah, even if it’s just a First Level Profound Argumentation, a thousand Early Stage Earth Immortal Realm Horned Furious Bulls is way too much."

"I’ve long heard that this Sky-reaching Tower is extremely difficult, today I’ve witnessed it."

...

The crowd on the square buzzed with discussions.

The first challenge of the Sky-reaching Tower amazed them.

"Look over there, damn, that’s too strong, one sword kills!" someone suddenly exclaimed.

Everyone raised their heads to look up at the water curtains in the sky.

When they saw the scene on the water curtain, they were instantly stunned.

A graceful figure wielded a sword, and with just one slash, all one thousand Horned Furious Bulls were slain.

The crowd was speechless with shock upon witnessing this scene.

It was overwhelmingly powerful!

These Horned Furious Bulls were like paper in front of her.

Indeed, this figure was Hong Xi from Chaos Sky Sect.

Slaying all the Horned Furious Bulls with one sword, Hong Xi was directly elevated to the second level of the tower.

The second level hosted a thousand Early Stage Earth Immortal Realm Bloodthirsty Cloud Cats, incredibly fast, adept at Wind Attribute Wind Extreme Speed Profound Argumentation.

Once again, Hong Xi demonstrated extraordinary prowess, weaving through the Bloodthirsty Cloud Cats, who were savagely shredded in a moment, leaving none alive.

Hong Xi appeared unfatigued and ascended swiftly to the third level.

Thus, she charged through nine levels in one breath, before resting slightly to adjust, and entering the second tower.

Not only her, Jiang Shengtian, Lu Chen, Jiang Sing, Shen Tu, Qing Feng also showcased remarkable speed.

This first tower was merely a breeze for them.

Practically none of them spent more than 15 minutes to break through the first tower.

"Wow, look at that guy, is he defying destiny?"

After watching those geniuses, they turned their gaze to the dark horse of the first round competition ’Wang Long.’

Upon witnessing Wang Long’s battle scene, they were all stunned.

This guy was directly sitting cross-legged in the void.

And around him, a thin flying knife was wildly shredding the surrounding Netherworld Ghost Wolves.

Yes, the third level featured ten thousand Netherworld Ghost Wolves.

Their movements were extremely mysterious and elusive, even Hong Xi and others could only kill them one by one.

Yet Wang Long was astonishing, relying solely on a flying knife to wildly shred the surrounding attacking Netherworld Ghost Wolves.

The flying knife reached the pinnacle of speed, far outpacing the ghost wolves, shredding them cleanly without letting them approach Wang Long’s body.

Soon, Xu Nian’s surroundings were piled high with corpses.

Ten thousand Netherworld Ghost Wolves were cleanly wiped out by Xu Nian.

"Such a stylish fighting style, not needing to move at all, yet able to slay so many ghost wolves."

"Yes, incredibly stylish. I recall his weapon isn’t limited to just the flying knife; I wonder what horrific scene it would be if all the flying knives were unleashed."

...

The crowd buzzed with discussions around.

"Hey, why doesn’t this guy directly go to the fourth level?"

But soon, they realized, this guy wasn’t rushing to the fourth level after finishing off the ghost wolves.

Instead, he continued to sit cross-legged, contemplating the Profound Argumentation further.

There was a time limit on each level; one could stay for up to two hours.

As long as one didn’t control it themselves, they could safely remain on the third level within twelve hours.

"My goodness, is this guy planning to stay on each level till the time limit? What could he possibly comprehend in that time?" someone said with contempt.

One level allows a stay of two hours, thus a tower could permit eighteen hours.

Based on this guy’s previous strength, he could at least break through six towers, meaning he would take at least one hundred and eight hours, equivalent to nine days.

With this thought, the audience shook their heads speechless.

Then they discovered, not only Wang Long, but Xu Nian and even the Undying Devouring Sky Beast were progressing at this tortoise pace.

On the fourth level, Divine Demon Avatar Xu Nian wielded a battle axe, skimming furiously at the Red Blood Zhu Yan.

A hundred Divine Beast Zhu Yan, instantaneously turned into souls under Xu Nian’s battle axe.

After slaughtering the Zhu Yans, Xu Nian began contemplating the Earth Attribute Profound Argumentation.

Two hours later, he proceeded to the fifth level.

Undying Devouring Sky Beast maintained the same pace with its true body and Divine Demon Avatar.

Holding a battle saber, each slash tears a space rift.

Innumerable Purple Lightning Cracked Leopards continuously died under his battle saber.

The hall surged with rivers of blood.

While Xu Nian’s three avatars slowly ascended the tower, yet hadn’t even completed a single tower.

Hong Xi, Jiang Shengtian and others have directly stormed to the fifth tower.

"Watching Hong Xi and their battles is thrilling, watching those three fight is infuriating."

"Yes, those three are simply crawling at a snail’s pace, don’t know if it’s premeditated, driving people crazy, insisting on spending the full time on every level before advancing."

...

The audience was exasperated to the point of wanting to take action against the antics of Xu Nian, Wang Long, and Undying Devouring Sky Beast.

These three clearly possess the strength but choose to advance at a snail’s pace.

Of course, as time passed, many were eliminated.

Once eliminated, their Immortal Consciousness returns to their bodies, and the Defensive Light Shield disappears.

Rankings are based on the number of levels and towers passed, with a thousand points per level.

Within the same level of the same tower, rankings are determined by Demon Beasts slain.

Most of those eliminated were in the third and fourth tower.

Conversely, Xu Nian and his two avatars had the lowest score in rankings.