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Chapter 11

'Sweet God… this thing is enormous! It's a freaking skyscraper!' Xiao Tian Long said to himself as he looked at the seven-floor building.

It's only a seven-floor building, but it isn't that simple.

The so-called Killer Arrays make the biggest part of it. And truthfully he would want to check this thing in closer proximity.

However, he doesn't have that much time to do that in this specific trial.

"There is no time limit for this trial, all you need to do to qualify is to pass the first floor. If you pass the second then it's great, if you pass the third then it's outstanding, if you pass the fourth one then you are a genius, and if you can pass the fifth one… heh…heh, it's impossible." The Houtian elder explained to everyone.

"And the Sixth and Seventh?" Xiao Tian Long asked curiously.

"..."

Everyone looked dumbly at the teen. Who simply shrugged off all those stares.

"You shouldn't worry about that. First, reach the fourth-floor youngster." The elder didn't explain, instead he told him to try harder to reach that fourth floor.

It appears the old man doesn't believe Tian Long can reach the fifth floor.

Considering his Martial Grade being at Grade Three, this was already impressive that he believes he will pass this far!

All thanks to Qin Xingxuan's words that is.

To the elder's words, Xiao Tian Long slowly nodded and looked at Exquisite Pagoda.

Without wasting much time the group walked into the building, while the trial takers were going in, other elders appeared to observe the last and most important trial.

Among the elders was Qin Xingxuan who looked very closely at what was about to happen!

"Which floor do you think is his limit Xingxuan?" Miyu asked his disciple. There was a small smile on his lips, he wanted to hear this from the girl.

"He will easily reach the Fourth floor." The black-haired girl simply said as she waited.

"...this… I don't believe it. The fourth floor has two Iron Armoured Bears who have the crushing force of 5000 Jin!" One of the Martial House elders shook his head in denial. This girl is too much.

"While the Iron Armour Bears crushing force is impressive it doesn't matter if they can't approach Tian Long." Qin Xingxuan said with a knowing look, she saw his ranged attacks before.

Before the elder can comment, the Killer Arrays lit up on the second floor.

"Someone is already on the second floor!"

"It appears Tian Long didn't waste his time," Miyu said with a knowing look.

While the elders could only frown, is he truly this good!?

~~~~~~With Xiao Tian Long, Several Seconds Earlier~~~~~~

The Array lit up and in front of Tian Long, a man manifested with cultivation level at Late Stage Two of Body Transformation.

He was holding a polearm in his hands.

"It appears I am already above the common cultivators, even when I am not rushing and trying to enjoy this place."

*Sigh*

The outworlder sighed to himself, even when he was mostly having fun with Qin Xingxuan… with his resources he was still at the front compared to the other 15 years old.

Comparing age to his cultivation the enemy in front of him was the early Muscle Training stage while he was already late Muscle Training stage, and soon his organs will be protected by his true Essence which is an indication of Stage Three of Body Transformation.

"Well, let's get this over with." As he said that his hand went to the simple sword he was holding, and the teen started to walk forward, towards the shadowy figure, the figure in question did the same, it rushed forward.

Then with a simple act of pulling the sword out of his sheath, Tian Long used his Sword Intent to lower the resistance of the weapon moving through the air.

Since he was removing the resistance the sheer force of a simple sword swing was enough to cut through the staff and the shadowy opponent who collapsed to the ground while being cut in two halves from his left hip to the right shoulder.

The next moment blood exploded from the corpse before disappearing.

"Dang… even the blood looks real, not bad graphics of this stuff… guys back on Earth should learn a thing or two." The teen nodded to himself as he was transported to the second floor second later after killing his first opponent.

On the second floor, his next opponent was a stage one Vicious beast. This makes it equivalent to a human at Stage Three of Body Transformation.

It was a single horn Rhinoceros, it started to rush towards Tian Long, the teen in question took a deep breath before doing another swing… this time it was a sharp wind coloured in dull gold. Meaning that it was wind infused with Sword Intent.

The collision with the beast was a quick one which caused the beast to get cut perfectly in a vertical way. Blood once again exploded from the beast's corpse which was severed in two.

Once again he was transported, this time to the third floor. What was waiting for him were three human enemies at Stage Three of Body Transformation.

This time Tian Long is planning to do a horizontal Slash to kill these guys he needs more power, so he didn't waste time and channel his essence into the sword, flooding the blade.

The moment the three enemies were close he did his swing and cut all three at the same time. It was a perfect kill.

'I might have overpowered my cultivation method…'

Internally Xiao Tian Long realised that making him more talented with a sword while increasing his cultivation made him more broken than initially the technique was.

Even the initial technique which his cultivation method was created off was broken… so it's double the broke?

Well, it doesn't matter, he was transported to the fourth floor which created a pair of Iron Armoured Bears, beats equivalent to late Stage Three of Body Transformation.

This was where Xiao Tian Long got quite serious and started to rotate his true essence, his body releasing a sharp golden energy glow.

Moments later he did a swing and released an arc of Golden sword intent, slamming into the bear. The beast roared in pain as there was a deep cut on its head. It trashed for a bit before collapsing on the group.

'This thing is durable. I used a huge amount of my energy in that swing!'

While he dealt with one another, one was rushing towards him!

The teen had to dodge before sharpening his blade and then stabbing his sword at the beast's back leg! Crippling its mobility.

Once the joint was cut he took some distance as the beast entered into a frenzy.

Seeing that he made it rush at him without care the teen started systematically disabling its mobility.

A few minutes later the beast's all four limbs were bleeding and Xiao Tian Long chopped its head off and proceeded to the Fifth Floor.

'Fuck… two Vicious Beasts of second rank, accompanied by a bunch of minions…' The teen thought with a frown he forgot the bit where the amount of enemies jumped up considerably after dealing with the fourth floor!

Such small details easily slipped from his mind!

Quite the level up isn't it? Two tigers at rank two… which makes them at the Bone Forging stage, also known as Stage Fourth of Body Transformation, and 8 wind wolves at rank one as support!

'Fine… let's go out with a bang. For this, I will be copying that orange head's beam move!'

As he thought about that both of his hands grabbed the long sword as he started to pump true essence into the blade. The steel turned into gold as the weapon started to vibrate

The moment the wolves got close he released the accumulated energy with a swing. This has cost him almost all of his true essence.

The blast of sharp winds slammed into the wolves which were instantly erased followed by the tigers which roared with pain.

After the blast settled down he saw one tiger still standing but it was struggling for a few moments before it collapsed on the ground.

*Relieved Sigh*

"I guess—" Once again he got transported to the sixth floor but the moment he appeared there he got ejected!

"...Out of True Essence…"

He realised that he was eliminated by the sixth-floor rules as he was out of juice…

Each floor has unique rules and the higher the floor the more strict it was. The fifth floor was already a challenge as he had to have some True Essence remaining and not receive any injuries, which he achieved both, thus passing the trial!

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"By the Heaven! What's with that speed? Less than ten minutes! Ten minutes! And he went all the way to Floor six!" As the elders exclaimed they saw a person getting ejected at the sixth floor.

The Houtian elders swiftly rushed to catch the falling teen from the sixth floor.

And it was Xiao Tian Long just like Qin Xingxuan expected. Her judgement was spot on, the elder felt ashamed now for questioning the teen's potential! Sixth floor at Second stage of Body Transformation! It's even better than her record which was done half a year ago when she tried out the exquisite Pagoda!

"Truly genius like no other," Miyu said with a bright smile. While one specific elder looked like he swallowed a lemon because he was thinking of pushing Wang Yanfeng to get the number one prize. As if he was a Grade Four talent, the rest were majority at Grade Three, but with Xiao Tian Long utterly crushing performance…

He won't be able to do it…

'Sadly… Wang Yanfeng will need to be satisfied with second place.'

As the elder was thinking, Qin Xingxuan rushed to Tian Long location. The moment she was in front of him she hugged him tightly right in front of everyone.

While some people were sour when they saw this… such a Goddess taken by someone, they didn't have the will to say anything after seeing what this teen just did!

"It was incredible! You were able to fight someone at Stage Four of Body Transformation!" The raven haired beauty said with a gushing tone.

"...Yeah… that last move took all of my strength… I think I had a breakthrough as well…" the teen said with a smile as he wrapped his hands around the beauty.

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"..."

"..."

Is this kid for real!?

"You did? What kind of move was this?"

"I put all my available true essence in the sword and then just swing it." He explained simply as it was simple… well one needs a great understanding of the Sword Intent, the way energy resonates with the blade…

"...Just swing it…" One of the elders repeated with a twitching eyebrow. Yeah! Right! If it's easy then everyone would be on floor Six! This kid is messing with people's heads!

"I see. So you put all the energy in a single swing. It's dangerous to do that!" Qin Xingxuan realised how this works and she instantly started to reprimand him for being this reckless!

"True, but I needed to finish the floor." He didn't mind her reaction, instead he popped a pill and started to recover.

Seeing that he started his recovery made the beauty release him from her hug and take a few steps away from him.

Moments later Qin Xingxuan confirmed that he indeed had a breakthrough into Viscera Training. Not only that but he indeed achieved twin snakes from the very beginning. She could see that from his breathing!

This was major! Everyone looked at this with wide eyes! Breakthrough at such a time!

'This is just crazy! There is no way he is just Grade Three Talent! There is no way! This doesn't make any sort of sense!' The Seven Profound Martial House Elders were confused by this out-of-the-norm teenager!

"As Xingxuan has said to the esteemed seniors before, Little Brother Tian Long is special because of how he can advance his cultivation with his inborn talent for Alchemy and Inscriptions." The old man Miyu was basking in the limelight, his little brother has achieved Stage Three of Body Transformation!