Zhang Ruochen really didn’t know much about the Martial Tower, and as for being able to break through to the first few floors and levels, naturally, it was completely impossible to say.
Liu Xifeng, who was sitting next to him, however, looked very excited and said in a low voice, “Quietly telling you guys, before the Academy Palace Examination, I went to the Martial Tower to cultivate three times.”
“With my current martial realm, I have full certainty of breaking through the three levels of the first tier martial tower. As for the second tier martial tower, I should be able to break through one or two levels.”
“According to the results of the candidates in previous years, as long as they are able to break through the three levels of the first tier of the martial tower, they will pretty much be able to stand out and become an Outer Palace Cadet of the Western Academy.”
“As for those who have broken through the three levels of the second tier, they are few and far between, and only one or two are estimated to come out in a year. Sometimes, not even one.” Liu Xifeng laughed, “With my talent, plus my experience, I have a chance to fight for the top ten.”
Those martial artists from the Yunwu County Kingdom, moved and embraced envious gazes staring at Liu Xifeng.
“Sir Liu, tell us about the situation inside the Martial Tower! We can also prepare ourselves in our hearts, I have eight spirit crystals here, you can take them first.” A male martial artiste stuffed eight spirit crystals into Liu Xifeng’s arms.
“Mister Liu, we are all martial artists from the Yunwu County Kingdom, if we enter the Martial City Academy, we can take care of each other in the future, so just give us a word! This is five spirit crystals, keep it!” The other martial artist took out five spirit crystals with some heartache and handed them to Liu Xifeng’s hands.
The crowd took out their spirit crystals and stuffed them into Liu Xifeng, wanting to learn about the news about the Martial Pagoda in advance.
With every passing moment, Liu Xifeng received a small pile of spirit crystals, the smile on his face became even brighter as he coughed dryly and said, ”To tell you guys a little bit about the Martial Pagoda, it is actually not a big deal. Firstly, the Martial Tower has a total of seven levels, and each level has three levels.”
“When I entered the Martial Tower to cultivate, I was only at the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm. The first time, I didn’t even pass the first level of the first layer. The second time, I broke through the first level of the first tier and lost at the second level. The third time, I broke through the second level of the first tier and lost at the third level.”
A martial artist, asked, “The three levels of the first layer, what do they each test?”
Liu Xifeng snapped his fingers and said, “I can’t reveal too much, I can only tell you. The first level tests combat skills; the second level tests agility and speed; the third level tests mental strength and willpower.”
Liu Xifeng spoke vaguely, and the crowd still had a half-understanding of the Martial Pagoda, not knowing what they were about to face at all.
While the martial artists below were discussing the Martial Tower, the two stunningly beautiful women sitting on top of the stone platform were also in dialogue.
The woman surnamed Huang’s gaze swept around the bottom and coldly said, ”The cultivation of this year’s new students isn’t bad, there are fifteen martial artists who have reached the Xuanji realm’s small extreme position. There are a total of forty-seven martial artists in the late Xuan Polarity Realm. If there are no accidents, this year’s top ten freshmen will be born amongst the sixty-two of them.”
The girl surnamed Duanmu’s eyelashes were long and arched, her bright eyes and teeth smiled, “That’s not necessarily true, breaking through in the Martial Tower is more of a test of a martial artist’s talent, fighting skills, willpower, and mental strength. It’s not certain that a young genius at the early Xuanji realm, or the middle Xuanji realm will appear?”
The woman surnamed Huang said, “Although it is said that the Martial Tower tests a martial artist’s talent even more, but the higher the cultivation level, the more advantageous it should be after all. Let’s just see if we can produce a genius who can break through the three levels of the first floor of the Martial Tower this year!”
“A new student breaking through the second level three levels? The difficulty is too great!”
The girl surnamed Duanmu added, “But there are three people that do have a chance. The ‘Prince Huo Xing’ of the Four Directions County Kingdom, the ‘Red Minghai’ of the Fire Dragon County Kingdom, and the ‘Yao Yintong’ of the Jingyue County Kingdom. Originally, there was also a Qing Yu from the Four Directions County Kingdom that could have been tied with these three, but unfortunately, he was killed during the first round of the academy palace exams!”
The corner of the woman surnamed Huang’s mouth hooked as she said, “Wouldn’t that one freshman who killed Qing Yu be even more powerful?”
The eyes of the girl surnamed Duanmu lit up and said, “Right! Just who is it?”
The eyes of the maiden surnamed Duanmu searched among the more than four hundred young martial artists below. To be able to kill Qing Yu, amongst the new students, was definitely considered quite impressive.
The woman surnamed Huang reclosed her eyes and said, “Since you’re so curious, let’s go around the Martial Tower tomorrow and see what kind of geniuses are amongst this batch of new students.”
“Good! Good!”
The girl with the surname Duanmu became excited, full of anticipation for tomorrow’s Martial Tower breakthrough.
Early in the morning, when the first rays of sunlight shone into the West Courtyard of the Martial City Academy Palace, under the leadership of the nine elders, four hundred and sixty-eight young martial artists, arrived at the bottom of the Martial Tower.
The Martial Tower, as high as seven stories. The entire tower exuded a metallic lustre, not like a tower that was constructed to be a tower, but more like an all-in-one True Martial Treasure.
Not only the nine elders, but also quite a few outer palace disciples of the Martial City Academy Palace came outside the martial tower to watch the action, wanting to see what kind of geniuses would come out of this year’s freshmen?
The Martial City School Palace only recruited students once a year, so it was naturally considered an event.
Three days ago, the vast majority of the Outer Palace trainees who had transported Zhang Ruochen and the others to the Heavenly Demon Ridge to take the first round of the Academy Palace Examination were all male trainees.
However, today was different, more than 70%, surprisingly, were female trainees, with male trainees only accounting for 30% of the total.
Those female trainees were all wearing white robes, and several of them were beautiful, just like beauties walking out of a scroll.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the bottom of the Martial Tower and enquired to Liu Chengfeng, saying, “Why did so many female Outer Palace trainees appear today?”
Liu Chengfeng said, “The Western Academy of the Martial City Palace has a strong yin and a weak yang. The discourse of female cadets is far greater than that of male cadets. For example, transporting us to the Heavenly Demon Ridge, inspecting the Heavenly Demon Ridge, all of these hard and tiring jobs are done by male martial artists.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “This is too unfair!”
“Right! But who dares to resist? Who dares to call their bluff? If you go against them, you will definitely die a miserable death. Especially the three female devils of the Western Academy, each one is more ruthless than the other, if咋们 become the Western Academy’s Outer Palace Cadets, in the future, when you see them, you must avoid them.” Liu Xifeng kept shaking his head and sighing.
Zhang Ruochen just smiled faintly and did not take Liu Xifeng’s words to heart. As long as he was strong enough, how would he be bullied by women?
At this moment, the “Martial Tower Trespassing” had already begun, with ten people entering the Martial Tower at once.
Elder Situ stood outside the gate of the Tower and read out the list of the first ten people to enter the Tower, then the crowd continued to wait.
About three minutes later, the first martial artist who had failed to break through the barrier walked out of the martial tower. There was a bloody hole in the location of his chest that was bleeding continuously, he had suffered a considerable amount of injuries.
The crowd was shocked and said, “That person is at the early Xuanji realm cultivation, he actually failed to break through the barrier in just three minutes.”
That one martial artist who failed to break through the barrier had a dejected expression on his face as he said, “I lost at the second level of the ground floor, and with a single oversight, I was defeated by a ……”
He was about to speak about his experience in the martial tower, when an elder standing in the distance coldly snorted and spat out an invisible sound wave from his mouth, shocking that one young martial artist’s face and immediately swallowing back the words he was about to say.
In just a quarter of an hour, the first batch of martial artists who had entered the martial tower exited from the tower one after another.
Among them, three of them had broken through the third level of the ground floor, five of them had broken through the second level of the ground floor, and two of them had only broken through the first level of the ground floor.
Of the first batch of ten people, none of them had broken through the first level of the second tier.
Those three martial artists who had broken through the third level of the first tier had a great chance of passing the exam and becoming the outer palace students of the Martial City Academy. Of course, the final ranking would depend on their specific performance in the Martial Tower.
Next was the second batch of ten people entering the Martial Tower.
This time, among the ten people, a genius appeared who had actually broken through the second level of the second tier and almost broke through the third level of the second tier.
Some people recognised that one genius as Chi Minghai from the Fire Dragon County Kingdom, who had reached the Xuanji Realm’s Small Extreme Position at only twenty-two years of age.
An elder with an emerald gourd hanging from his waist sighed softly and said, “What a pity, just a little bit short of breaking through the third level of the second tier.”
Elder Xie said, “Being a new student is already quite remarkable, with his performance in the Martial Tower, he is definitely able to enter the top five, and possibly even the top three.”
Another elder laughed, “If no one breaks through the third level of the second tier this year, wouldn’t he be the number one freshman this year?”
Elder Situ stared at Prince Huo Xing standing in the crowd, smiled faintly and said, “This year, there will definitely be someone who will break through the second tier and third level, just wait and see!”
Elder Situ was quite optimistic about Prince Huo Xing, with Prince Huo Xing’s current cultivation at the Xuanji realm’s small extreme position, breaking through the second tier’s third level wasn’t difficult, and it was even possible that he could break through the third tier’s first level.
The Martial Tower breakthrough, continued, and soon it was Prince Huo Xing’s turn.
In just ten minutes’ time, the tower lights on the second level of the Martial Tower lit up, indicating that Prince Huo Xing had broken through to the second level of the Martial Tower.
“Breaking through to the second level of the Martial Tower in ten minutes, Prince Huo Xing really isn’t simple, worthy of being a young genius of the Four Directions County Kingdom. It’s said that he’s also a genius beast master, with his natural talent, he’ll definitely be able to break through the third level of the first floor. This year’s freshman number one is probably him!” A rather beautiful female cadet from the Outer Palace revealed a look of admiration in her beautiful eyes.
“Huo Xiu Xiu, you don’t want to become a prince consort, do you?” Another female cadet laughed.
That one Outer Palace cadet called Huo Xiu Xiu, said, “So what if I am? Prince Huo Xing is not only a prince, but he is also extremely gifted, so as long as you are a woman, who wouldn’t want to marry him?”
“Wow!”
Half an hour passed and the tower light on the third floor of the Martial Tower lit up.
This indicated that Prince Huo Xing had broken through to the third floor of the Martial Tower!
Below the Martial Tower, all the martial artists were shocked.
