Volume 5: Seven Dao Sects Chapter 27: First appearance
In front of the Spirit Sealing Tower, another cultivator's figure was ejected from the illusion space.
"Brother Lin, I knew that you would definitely be among the top ten thousand, but I didn't expect that you could make it to the twenty-second level. You are truly extraordinary." A young monk who seemed to be familiar with the monk who had just been eliminated immediately came up to him and exclaimed.
"This Sealed Spirit Tower is indeed difficult to enter," Lin Kui glanced at the monks who came to meet him and asked with a smile: "What about you, how are you doing?"
While asking the questions, Lin Kui also took a look at his own ranking.
Lin Kui (Southern Region)
Number of floors: 22
Overall ranking: 4631
Domain ranking: 441
——Although I’m not particularly satisfied, at least I passed the re-examination.
“I knew it in my mind, but I never thought that I could pass the retest and get into the top 10,000.” The young cultivator who was familiar with Lin Kui shook his head helplessly and said, “So after I entered the Soul Sealing Tower, I started to burst out with all my strength, and I didn’t even recover my spiritual power. I did my best to sprint in one breath.
While everyone is still working hard, I want to temporarily achieve a relatively high ranking, which may even attract the attention of one or two top sects.
The result was just as I expected. There were very few people who would go all out from the beginning like I did, using all their trump cards and even ignoring the loss of spiritual power. So my ranking rose very quickly, reaching as high as over 2,000.
But the Spirit Sealing Tower became more and more difficult as I advanced, and my speed became slower and slower, and my ranking dropped rapidly.
In addition, in order to improve the ranking, he did not use the one day given on each level to restore his spiritual power. Later on, the loss of spiritual power was too great, and one day was not enough, so his ranking suddenly dropped to 310,000.
In the end, I was eliminated at the eleventh level. I don’t know if my performance in the early stage attracted the attention of one or two sects. If not, I can only accept my fate.”
Strong monks have their own ways of playing, and weaker monks also have their own ways of playing.
The strategy of this young monk, at least in Lin Kui's opinion, was not a problem.
Because with the strength of the young monk, even if he proceeded step by step, he could only advance one or two levels at most.
There is no essential difference between 40 points and 50 points. In the eyes of others, both are failing.
But if this 50 points was the first one to hand in the paper, perhaps it could leave some impression on others.
"Forget it, let's not talk about me for now. Anyway, I just came here with the attitude of seeing the world. If there is really a top sect that is interested in me, then my ancestors will be very happy. If not, that is also natural. But Brother Lin, you have performed so well this time, which really brings honor to us Qingzhou cultivators." The young cultivator was very open-minded.
"Bring glory to the monks of Qingzhou..." Lin Kui murmured, and a name suddenly emerged in his mind.
Lu Qingshan!
Yes, that young monk who had defeated me in the first test, how did he perform in this re-test?
Thinking of this, driven by his irrepressible curiosity, Lin Kui quickly checked the rankings.
Lu Qingshan (Southern Region)
Number of floors: 21st
Overall ranking: 7835
Domain ranking: 729
…
The young monk noticed that Lin Kui's face suddenly became serious, so he turned his gaze and smiled, "Lu Qingshan is still too young after all. Although he slightly beat you, Brother Lin, in the first test, his performance in the second test is still a little worse than yours."
"Look at his name." Lin Kui did not respond, but shook his head and said in a deep voice.
The young monk was surprised when he heard this, and then he looked at the ranking. The next moment, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "He...he is still in the Soul Sealing Tower!"
The names of the monks who were eliminated in the Spirit Sealing Tower would turn into a dull gray.
But Lu Qingshan's name is still shining in clear gold.
This means that he has not been eliminated yet, and it also means that Lu Qingshan still has a chance to improve his ranking!
"He... no way..." The young monk stuttered involuntarily.
"Let's take a look at the situation." A gleam of light flashed in Lin Kui's eyes, and he called up the footage of Lu Qingshan in the Spirit Sealing Tower. As the first and only person among all the cultivators present who had paid attention to Lu Qingshan so far, he watched Lu Qingshan's battle situation carefully.
The young monk thought about it and couldn't help but come over.
An hour later.
Looking at Lu Qingshan who had slaughtered all the phantoms guarding the Spirit Sealing Tower and broke into the 22nd floor, Lin Kui and the young monk looked at each other in surprise.
"What is he doing?" The young monk asked in confusion, "Could it be that Lu Qingshan didn't hear the rules clearly and thought that he had to kill all the gate-guarding phantoms before he could enter the next level?"
Lin Kui's burning gaze was fixed on Lu Qingshan who was recovering in the picture. With the naked eye, it was visible that a layer of blood-red evil spirit was lingering around Lu Qingshan.
“Perhaps…” Lin Kui paused and made the most reasonable guess, “It’s not that he doesn’t know the rules, but he did it deliberately!”
"Deliberately? Who would do such a thankless task..." The young monk subconsciously wanted to deny it, but in a flash, he suddenly realized something terrible.
"If he had entered the Spirit Sealing Tower in this way before, wouldn't that mean..."
“Yes, the 22nd floor is definitely not his limit,” Lin Kui nodded heavily and said with great certainty: “I have a feeling that in this re-examination of the Sealing Spirit Tower, Lu Qingshan… is likely to become famous in one battle!”
…
Lu Qingshan continued to kill the guarding phantoms one by one in a very stable manner. Each level took a long time and he slowly advanced layer by layer.
The 22nd floor, took three hours to pass!
On the twenty-third floor, the number of illusionary beasts guarding the gate has grown to one hundred early-stage third-grade and fifteen middle-stage third-grade monsters. Even if they are just ordinary illusions of monsters without special talents or means, such a number is still extremely terrifying.
Lu Qingshan glanced at the gatekeeper illusion that was ready to explode at any time, and with the murderous aura that had almost condensed into substance, he slowly sat down, practiced his skills, and recovered his condition.
Time is still passing, and the faster it gets, the faster the remaining monks will be eliminated.
Four thousand people... three thousand people... two thousand people... one thousand people... five hundred people...
When Lu Qingshan recovered, he stood up and left the safe zone, and rushed towards the illusion guarding the 23rd floor with a sword.
There are only eighty-nine monks left in the Spirit Sealing Tower!
At this point, except for Lu Qingshan, all the cultivators who were still staying in the Soul Sealing Tower had already reached at least the 30th floor.
A twenty-third-level cultivator like him was like a chicken standing out among a group of cranes, and with an extremely strange posture, he also attracted the attention of a large number of cultivators.
