Chương 253: Advancing through the tower

Several wolves growled and leapt at Long Feng at the same time, their claws glimmering with cold light.

"This place is called the Dao tempering tower. Could that be why I can't use my cultivation?" Long Feng paid no attention to the wolves and pondered with a frown. He tried to use his cultivation but realized that a powerful force seemed to have sealed off his spirit energy, leaving him completely incapable of using his cultivation. But his body strength and Dao concepts were left.

"I can use my Dao concepts fine. It seems only the Dao concept can be used in this place" He calmly gathered his sword energy to his hand and reached out to grab his sword hilt. He pulled out the sword at at very fast speed and unleashed several sword strikes around him in a single second. Even without his spirit energy to back it, Long Feng's sword energy was still very powerful on its own. His sword concept was at rank eight level, just a level away from rank nine.

In this entire hundred continent meeting, not many people could compare to him, and even those few would probably be from the overlord continents. The sword lights sliced through several wolves continuously. None of them could block it. As they all died, Long Feng was assured that this was an illusion when none of the wolves bled. Their corpses suddenly dispersed into bundles of energy that vanished into thin air.

The faint pressure Long Feng was feeling suddenly increased, as though the corpses of the wolf pack had stimulated it.

"Those wolves are actually energy and not true living beings, and their corpses will serve to increase the pressure. In short, the more you kill, the harder it becomes for you!" Long Feng was speechless by this tactic. This was just the first floor. The higher floors would certainly have stronger beasts or trials, and if clearing them would make the pressure increase and reaching a new floor would also do that, then it would become very hard to progress at the later floors.

As he was pondering, a pillar of light suddenly rose from the floor before him and shot into the sky. Looking up, he couldn't see where it led to. But he just had a feeling that this was the way to the second floor. Long Feng cautiously put his arm into the pillar of light first and after confirming that it was safe, he stepped into it. The pillar of light immediately expanded and covered the whole dark space, then completely shot into the sky.

Long Feng found himself in a similar dark space, but he could instantly tell that this was smaller than the first floor. The tower was very tall and each floor was smaller than the previous one. The highest floor would probably be akin to a tiny room from the structure of the tower. The second floor was indeed harder than the first floor. The beasts weren't all the same species but instead several different types. And a single rank five spirit realm beast led them all.

Long Feng didn't waste time and quickly made short work of them. A few minutes later, he moved to the third floor. Others weren't having as easy a time as Long Feng. The strongest ones were naturally outstanding, and clearing the first five levels would be a piece of cake. But the weaker ones, rank four, rank five and even rank six spirit realm warriors were definitely not enjoying it. The third floor had five rank five spirit realm beasts!

This was almost impossible for normal rank five spirit realm warriors to survive! Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. Many people were being eliminated and thrown out of the dark entrance at every minute. This was a complete elimination, sieving out the weaker geniuses and leaving the stronger ones. But for even rank six spirit realm warriors to fail… everyone had to admit that this was beyond ridiculous.

The hundred continent meeting this time was much harder than the last few decades. At some point, a few rank seven spirit realm warriors were actually eliminated at the fifth floor. This was extremely shocking. Of course, the Dao tempering tower sealed off the cultivation itself and only allowed the use of the Dao concept, and not everyone who had a high cultivation level also had a sufficiently high Dao concept.

And without a rank five Dao concept level, it would be hard to reach the fifth floor successfully even for rank seven spirit realm warriors. Normally, rank four spirit realm warriors would be able to pass the elimination round and rank six spirit realm warriors could reach the top three hundred, maybe even hundred if they were lucky. But now, they were being eliminated in rapid succession. Among the Yihua continent's geniuses, only Li Yue'er, Gongsun Hao and The Yihua clan's elder brother remained within the tower.

Everyone else had been eliminated. The Yihua clan's Great Elder sighed bitterly"This is ridiculous. I didn't expect they would use the Dao tempering tower this time." The Misty Mountain's Master narrowed his eyes"There must naturally be a reason we aren't aware of. But… we still have four geniuses in the tower. If we include those two youths your clan sent ahead of us, we have six" The Great Elder was instantly surprised.

"Four? Who are those?" He had thought that only Gongsun Hao and the other youth were left to represent them. They had some chance of passing this stage, but if they failed as well, then they would only have the two youths who came even earlier than them. But untill now, the Great Elder hadn't met them and the elder escorting them yet.

"It's your Clan's kid, hao'er, one lady with the ice Dao and that kid with… and unstable foundation" The Misty Mountain's Master listed, pausing when he mentioned Long Feng's name. Not even he had expected this. A rank one spirit realm warrior with an unstable foundation had passed not only the Dual Sky Mountain Path, but was still in the Dao tempering tower. Anyone that was still in the tower right now was at least in the third level.

The overlord continents' groups had reached the sixth floor, surpassing the requirement for clearing this round but none of them chose to stop.

"That rank one spirit realm kid? He's still there?" The Great Elder was shocked. How was the weakest person in there group still in there?

"What's his background? Could he have been hiding his cultivation?" The Great Elder immediately asked with a grin expression.

"I'm not sure if he was hiding his cultivation, but I am sure that he is a person of our continent. Born and raised there. He isn't from another continent" The Misty Mountain's Master calmly replied, understanding the Great Elder's worry. If it turned out that Long Feng was a genius from another continent who sent him to steal a spot from the Yihua continent, then they would really lose all face. And that has happened several times before.

"That's good then. But if that is so, then we have underestimated a talented person." The Great Elder nodded and sighed. By now, the number of youths still in the tower had fallen to just above five hundred. And more people were still being eliminated. But many had also reached the fifth floor and decided to continue ahead. Even if they failed, they wouldn't be eliminated. Long Feng had also reached the fifth floor.

Here, there were five rank six spirit realm beasts leading almost a hundred other beasts of varying cultivation levels. And the pressure was extremely strong as well. Long Feng was finding it harder to control his sword energy as easily as before under the pressure. This pressure seemed to target the Dao energy specifically, as well as his body, making him slower when he fought.

"If this continues, then I'm afraid I'll it be hard for me to move at the seventh floor" Long Feng predicted with a frown. This pressure was actually quite helpful. It had the same effect on his sword energy as the waterfall he stood under to train when he lived with old man Solitude. But this pressure was more effective. His sword energy was rapidly getting more compact as he progressed. Long Feng began to release his demon energy, and he would sometimes withdraw it as use his light energy.

Unfortunately, due to the opposing energies of the two Daos, he could not release them at the same time at all.

"It will be great if I can reach the tenth floor. My three Daos would all make huge progress and the demon and light Daos could even reach level eight." And if he could somehow make it to the final twelfth floor, the pressure there could be the final push required for his sword concept to reach rank nine. But… he wouldn't do that even if he could. One thing he had learned was that revealing his secrets without a strong backing or strength would be absolutely reckless.

Liu Shan was tempted when he used his Firmament Sword Art. That was the true cause of everything that happened next. And here, there were people even stronger than Old Gan, who was a peak deity realm master. Long Feng's cultivation was visibly only at rank one spirit realm, and it was very unstable. If he suddenly revealed his ridiculous combat power in spite of his weak cultivation and foundation, he was bound to draw attention to himself.

If someone like old Gan or even stronger thought he had some secret and got greedy for it, then he would probably lose his life for real this time. Similarly, he couldn't use his light Dao at all during this hundred continent meeting. The Yihua continent already knew him as a demon Dao cultivator.

He didn't know who else was aware of that, and even if they weren't, if he drew any attention and they searched about his background and history, they would definitely learn that he used the demon Dao in the Yihua continent. Is he suddenly revealed the light Dao, a dao that was polar opposites with the demon Dao, he didn't even know how he would start explaining himself. Come to think of it, not even he knew how exactly he was able to have the two Daos in his body, and in a single spirit core nonetheless.

It was simply a great mystery that eluded him. In fact, even his Firmament Sword Art wasn't much compared to both secrets. He couldn't show his full strength and risk his life, and he absolutely couldn't reveal his light Dao.

"If I limit my strength, then the top twenty would be possible for me to achieve. It might still be possible to enter the top ten, but I don't have the strength to fight for the top five. And even if I do, I can't risk revealing my full strength. Even now, I'm already getting unnecessary attention to myself for all I know" Long Feng sighed. Long Feng merely needed to use the hundred continent meeting as a springboard to get to the Mainland as well as gain a strong backing.

As long as he did well enough, he could achieve his purpose without even needing to enter the top five or ten. That would be taking unnecessary risks. And almost every hundred continent meeting, the top ten and even twenty places were always taken only by the overlord continent's geniuses. The others were left to fight for spaces within the top fifty. So if he could break this unwritten rule this time, he was very likely to gain the approval of a strong Mainland's force.

He sighed again and moved to the sixth floor.

"I'll stop at the seventh floor, no more. Otherwise I'll be revealing too much." Long Feng truthfully wasn't a conservative person who would hide his strength. He was proud, perhaps more than any other genius here. He was also very reckless. But this wouldn't merely affect him if he drew any evil intent to himself here. The Yihua continent would be implicated, Li Yue'er would be implicated, the Long clan would also be implicated. It would probably be the same as Liu Shan.

He wanted everyone related to Long Feng to be killed. The same thing could happen if he recklessly revealed his strength. As such, he had to hide his pride in his heart and suppress his reckless urge to fight for the first place. Just the rewards of the first place was extremely tempting. But he wouldn't have any fate with it this time.