C189 Tower of trials

The tower of trials was the most eye-catching building in the Azure Dragon School. It was thousands of meters tall, and when it reached the clouds, one could not see the top. The black tower of trials was completely integrated, and there were no traces of connections.

When Ye Feng arrived outside of the tower, he could feel the faint fluctuations of spiritual energy coming from the tower from very far away.

Before Ye Feng could approach the tower of trials, there was a flash of white light and a cultivator appeared in front of Ye Feng.

"Halt!"

Ye Feng stopped and looked at the cultivator that appeared.

"You can have the keepsake, or else quickly return. You are not allowed to approach the tower of trials as you wish, or else you will be killed without question." The cultivator standing in front of Ye Feng was five meters tall, and from the spiritual energy he emitted, he was at least at the level of Infant stage.

Even the gatekeeper in charge of the tower had Infant stage. If this was placed in the outside world, his Infant stage would have made him an Elder in the super power, but here, he was just a gatekeeper.

Ye Feng respectfully handed over a jade token. On the jade token, there were fifteen small red dots. Each dot signified the number of days a cultivator with a jade token could cultivate in the tower of trials.

The rules of the Azure Dragon School was that every cultivator could cultivate in the tower for fifteen days of the month. These fifteen days were the benefits the Azure Dragon School gave to its students, and were a free gift. If the students wanted to continue to stay in the tower, they could use contribution points to exchange; each contribution point could be exchanged for a day's worth of time.

The same applied to the Compendium Pavilion. The only difference was that the Compendium Pavilion allowed students to browse through books for three days every month. Five contribution points could be exchanged for one day to enter the Compendium Pavilion.

In other words, outside of the benefits gifted to him by the Azure Dragon School, if he wanted to obtain the opportunity to enter the tower of trials to cultivate, he had to complete a certain number of missions in exchange for contribution points.

Although Ye Feng didn't ask what price he had to pay for these contribution points, he knew that these contribution points were definitely going to be difficult.

The gatekeeper took the jade token from Ye Feng. With just a glance, he knew that this was a new student and it should be his first time entering the tower.

He placed the jade token in a groove at the entrance of the tower, then said to Ye Feng: "Go to floor 531." The gatekeeper then hid himself in the darkness once again.

531 floors!

Ye Feng entered the tower of trials. On the first floor was a wide hall with many passages leading to which stage the students were to enter.

Upon closer inspection, Ye Feng discovered that every 100 levels was marked with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The 500th level was marked with a fiery red color, just like the red dot on his jade token.

However, the trial tower was not one of the five hundred floors. From the first to the hundred floors, it was not one of the five elements. It was a picture of the starry sky and there seemed to be many floors below, but there were no signs.

Arriving at a private passageway that connected directly to more than 500 floors, Ye Feng strode in.

The moment Ye Feng entered the tunnel, a ray of light enveloped him, and then his vision blurred. After the light passed, Ye Feng found himself in another space.

Looking around, he saw that he was at the end of a long corridor, facing a corridor that was a few hundred meters long. On his side was a spiral staircase, spiraling upwards, but there was no entrance at the bottom, meaning that this staircase could only go up but not down.

This floor is marked with five hundred words.

Ye Feng understood that the tunnel they just entered on the first floor should be some sort of transportation formation that could send the cultivators directly to the floor they wanted to go to, but they couldn't directly reach it. Instead, they used the 100 floors as a unit.

He followed the stairs up to the 531st floor.

There were two separate rooms on both sides of the long corridor. Each room was tightly closed. Ye Feng looked towards the door, but there was a sign indicating that there was someone inside.

As long as there were people inside, it was impossible for students to enter. The door was extremely sturdy, made of a black unknown material, copper or iron. It had a very good soundproofing effect and could not be heard from inside.

This design was also responsible for the students training inside.

Not only were they unable to hear or be affected by each other, they were also unable to enter even if they wanted to. Even if they used all their strength to hit the door, they would not make any noise.

He knew that the Azure Dragon School's tower of trials was a total of 600 floors above the ground. It was divided into six sections, and each section was composed of 100 floors.

As for the newest cultivators that entered the Azure Dragon School, they could only go to the 500th floor or above to cultivate, which was the highest part of the tower. The ones that came to the highest area were some of the aboriginals of the Azure Dragon School.

For example, the servants in the Azure Dragon School. These servants weren't students; they were mostly descendants that had accidentally entered the Azure Dragon School or lived there for generations.

These people could all enter the tower of trials to train, but the difference from the students was that these servants had all entered the tower of trials since young. The starting point for the students was the peak of the Building Foundation Stage, and the oldest among the students was only twenty-five years old, while the youngest was a little over ten. Ye Feng was basically the youngest among this group of students.

The tower of trials was an excellent place to train. When one cultivated in it, they would feel different spiritual energy from the outside. The spiritual energy inside the tower was more abundant.

One could imagine that if the spiritual energy in the world was ten times denser than that of the outside world, then the speed of cultivation would also increase.

And after reaching a certain level of achievement on the 500th step, once one's cultivation and contribution points reached a certain level, they would be able to enter the 400th step on the next level.

For every 100 levels that were lowered, the density of spiritual energy would increase by 10 times. In other words, every 400 levels was 100 times richer than the spiritual energy in the outside world.

If this went on, not losing a single portion would result in an increase by ten times.

When Ye Feng found out about this situation in the tower of trials, he could not believe it. If he entered below ground level, the dense spiritual energy would not even dare to imagine.

However, even if the Azure Dragon School allowed Ye Feng to advance, he still wouldn't dare.

He had heard that the tower of trials had another unique characteristic. That was, how much more spiritual energy was in every part of it than in the outside world, and how much more pressure it placed on the students.

If one did not reach the cultivation required for this part and forcefully entered it, they would definitely be oppressed to death by the extremely strong pressure.

This was also the reason why the Azure Dragon School allowed students to enter only after their cultivation had reached the required level.

As he continued walking forward, he noticed that all the rooms were tightly shut, indicating that someone was already cultivating inside.

Ye Feng frowned. If one didn't find an empty room at the end, then entering the tower of trials would be a huge loss. The rules of the tower of trials was that as long as one entered the tower of trials, as long as one entered, one's contribution points would be deducted and a red dot on the jade token would be lost.

At the end of the hall, there was only one room that seemed slightly different. From the outside, he could see that it was empty.

Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief. Finally, he did not waste this contribution point and found a room with no one around.

After entering the room, Ye Feng closed the door.

"Hu!" After a ray of light, the door and the wall became one and became extremely sturdy. Ye Feng estimated that even if he used his strongest attack, it wouldn't cause any damage to the wall or the door.

The tower of trials was extremely sturdy, otherwise, it would not be able to withstand the attacks from the cultivators. Especially when advancing, it would cause an extremely strong change to the cultivators' body, and even the ordinary rooms would be destroyed when the cultivators advance. With so many cultivators cultivating in the tower, even if everyone was to change a little, the tower of trials would still have a drastic change.

Only this level of a tower of trials could withstand it.

If this tower of trials was a magic treasure, then its grade would be quite high. It would probably be considered an immortal's treasure.

The room was very simple, one bed was for cultivators to take a short rest, unlike the outside world. If Ye Feng cultivated in the outside world, even if he did not sleep for more than ten days, he would not feel tired, instead, he would feel extremely relaxed.

And the sections of the tower of trials that were more than five hundred levels would withstand ten times the pressure. If one did not rest and train for fifteen days straight, it would be a severe test for anyone's body and they would not be able to bear it.

A round prayer mat was placed in the center of the room.

As Ye Feng sat on it, he felt the spirit energy seeping into his body from the praying mat, flowing through his skin and into his meridians before returning to his dantian.

This spiritual energy was definitely ten times more powerful than the spiritual energy in the outside world!

It was no wonder that all the cultivators who met the criteria wanted to enter the Azure Dragon School, not to mention anything else, just the tower alone was worth it. The spiritual energy here was ten times denser than the spiritual energy of the outside world, and it could at least increase one's cultivation speed.

He closed his eyes and started to adjust his breathing and rhythm. Soon, he entered a meditative state to absorb rich and pure spiritual energy.

Ye Feng's body and mind were enjoying this comfortable feeling. The spiritual energy absorbed in the tower of trials was extremely pure and could be directly turned into his own without any impurities.

This was unimaginable in the outside world.

Just when Ye Feng was engrossed in meditation and did not know that there was another cultivator outside the room, he stared at the closed door with a helpless look on his face.