Conquer the game world

Chapter 99, Level 10 Difficulty
"Senior Sister Wu Lan, congratulations! It seems your cultivation has improved again. It's not impossible for you to surpass Yan Feng and break through to the Spirit God Realm." Upon seeing the woman emerge, the disciple in charge stepped forward to flatter her.

The position of steward disciple is just an ordinary one, and the resources they can manage each month are not much. However, it is still quite good for those disciples who are ranked very low and have little strength. These disciples will probably never make a big breakthrough in their strength in their entire lives.

Therefore, these people would all choose to curry favor with these geniuses. For them, a few words of flattery would not cause any loss. If they could build a good relationship, and if one of them successfully became an inner disciple one day, and occasionally thought of them and promoted their position within the sect, then it would be worth it.

In fact, everyone who comes to the Illusion Killing Array for training has made a breakthrough before they arrive. What this deacon disciple said is completely nonsense. However, it must be admitted that these words are still very useful, depending on who they are used on.

Wu Lan frowned slightly, clearly not liking such flattery. What annoyed her even more was that Ye Feng was looking at her with a lecherous expression.

Within the Yanluo Sect, Wu Lan is known as the most stunning flower. Of course, this flower is also aloof, because Wu Lan usually doesn't have a very nice expression towards male disciples, and she always seems to want to keep strangers away. Moreover, because of Wu Lan's strength, which ranks second on the leaderboard, many male disciples can only think about it in secret, and no one dares to provoke this Senior Sister Wu Lan.

But now Ye Feng was looking at her with a lecherous gaze, something Wu Lan had never encountered before, which made Wu Lan feel slightly dissatisfied with Ye Feng.

In reality, Ye Feng was simply looking at Wu Lan with the eyes of someone appreciating a beautiful woman. This was a very normal thing in the world Ye Feng had lived in before, and Ye Feng didn't have any messy thoughts in his mind. Unexpectedly, in Wu Lan's eyes, Ye Feng's gaze was seen as a lecherous one, and Ye Feng was probably already seen as a lecherous person.

"Senior Sister Wu Lan, this is Junior Brother Ye Feng. You might not know him yet, but he's the genius disciple who ranked ninth in the new disciple assessment." Seeing Wu Lan looking at Ye Feng, the steward disciple quickly introduced him, and at the same time introduced Ye Feng to the person next to him, "Junior Brother Ye Feng, this Senior Sister Wu Lan is a master ranked second on the leaderboard. Her strength is not inferior to Yan Feng's. This time she has made another breakthrough, and it is not impossible for her to surpass Yan Feng and become number one."

"Hello, Senior Sister Wu Lan," Ye Feng said. Through the initial conversation between this disciple and Wu Lan, Ye Feng remembered that he had seen Wu Lan's name on the ranking stone. However, Ye Feng had been paying more attention to the name of Yan Feng, who was ranked first, and had not paid much attention to the name of the second-ranked person, so he did not remember her for the time being.

"You're Ye Feng? Your strength isn't that great, is it?" Wu Lan said, looking at Ye Feng. Although both of them were Spirit Form Realm martial artists, Wu Lan had already stepped into the Spirit God Realm with one foot in it, so his strength was naturally much stronger than Ye Feng's. At this moment, feeling Ye Feng's aura, Wu Lan felt that Ye Feng's strength was not as powerful as the legends said, and was even weaker than some disciples ranked dozens of places on the leaderboard.

How did this guy manage to climb to ninth place on the leaderboard? Is he hiding something? Wu Lan wondered, while also becoming slightly curious about Ye Feng.

"Senior sister's strength is outstanding. I am just a newly initiated junior brother, so naturally I cannot compare to senior sister." Sensing that this senior sister had seen through some clues, Ye Feng said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

At the same time, he secretly thought that being ranked too high was not necessarily a good thing. If people saw that he was relatively weak, it would be a tragedy if he were challenged. Fortunately, although his senior sister seemed to have seen through something, she did not intend to fight Ye Feng.

Actually, Ye Feng doesn't need to worry too much. After all, outward appearances don't reflect true strength. Experts know how to hide their aura, which is normal. Ordinary people can't tell the depth of Ye Feng's strength.

However, Wu Lan is quite special. Wu Lan is born with the ability to sense the strength of other people's soul power. By measuring the strength of soul power, Wu Lan can roughly judge the strength of the other party. Even if the opponent hides their aura, Wu Lan can still sense it.

Ye Feng's soul power was not strong to begin with, which made Wu Lan think that Ye Feng was weak. However, although Wu Lan was curious that Ye Feng's strength did not match his ranking, he did not care too much. After all, Ye Feng was only ranked ninth. Even if Ye Feng was hiding something, he would not be her opponent.

"New disciples should focus on their cultivation and avoid trying to take shortcuts. There are no shortcuts in cultivation." With these words, Wu Lan drifted away.

The disciples were completely bewildered by what Wu Lan was trying to say. However, Ye Feng's eyes flickered. Ye Feng knew that these words were meant for him. It seemed that Wu Lan had indeed seen through his abilities. As for how much she had seen through, Ye Feng was not sure.

Wu Lan left these words to remind Ye Feng to cultivate diligently and not to take shortcuts. Although Wu Lan misunderstood and thought that Ye Feng had used some unorthodox methods to cultivate and unleash powerful strength, she was right. Ye Feng did indeed get ninth place by cheating.

"Looks like I need to improve my strength quickly, otherwise I really won't get any advantage against these guys," Ye Feng thought to himself. Besides, Ye Feng had also declared that he would challenge Yan Feng, but with his current strength, he probably wouldn't be able to handle Yan Feng.

"Senior brother, can we activate the Illusion Killing Array now?" Ye Feng asked his junior brother, the steward, after Wu Lan left.

"Oh, right, it's ready to start." The disciple only realized what was happening after Ye Feng spoke. He was probably still wondering what Wu Lan meant when she left—was she reminding him to focus on his cultivation and not do such a boring job as a disciple? The disciple's mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts. "Junior Brother Ye Feng, which difficulty level would you like to start?" the disciple asked.

"This Illusion Killing Array has a difficulty level?" Ye Feng asked in confusion, as he hadn't heard of being able to choose the difficulty level during the previous assessment.

"Junior brother probably doesn't know this, but the difficulty of this Illusion Killing Array is divided into ten levels." The disciple in charge explained when he saw Ye Feng's confusion. "It's no wonder you don't know. You can't choose the difficulty during the assessment, but it's different when it's open to the public. You can choose the difficulty that suits you based on your own strength."

The disciple continued, "After all, each disciple has a different strength. It is very important to choose a difficulty level that suits them during daily training. For example, strong disciples cannot always waste time killing low-level magical beasts every time they enter, just like during the assessment. On the other hand, weak disciples will be killed and eliminated quickly every time they enter, as they will not achieve the desired training effect."

"Oh, I see." Ye Feng thought about it and realized it made sense. Then, thinking about Wu Lan from earlier, Ye Feng suddenly asked, "Senior brother, what difficulty level did that Senior Sister Wu Lan choose? What difficulty level did we use during our assessment?"

“Senior Sister Wu Lan always activates the highest difficulty level, level ten, while the Yanluo Sect typically uses level six difficulty during regular assessments,” the disciple in charge replied.

"Alright, then turn on the level 10 difficulty for me." Ye Feng thought for a moment and said. He was going to try the level 10 difficulty to see how big the gap was between himself and the top figures on the leaderboard, such as Wu Lan and Yan Feng.

“Junior Brother Ye Feng, the level 10 difficulty is terrifying. Although each person has one hour a day to use the Illusion Killing Array, each person only has one chance to enter. That is to say, once you enter, no matter whether the time is used up or not, you cannot enter a second time. You should think it over.” The deacon reminded him, after all, in the entire Yanluo Sect, only Yan Feng and Wu Lan could train for an hour at the level 10 difficulty.

"Okay, let's go with level 10 difficulty. I just want to see what it's like," Ye Feng said.

“Alright,” the disciple replied. Since Ye Feng wanted to go and see for himself, he had nothing more to say.

With the level 10 difficulty unlocked, Ye Feng entered the Illusion Killing Array.

This time, it was completely different from the one Ye Feng encountered during his assessment. Ye Feng entered a world surrounded by blackness. It seemed that there was nothing else in this space except blackness, but this space did not affect people's vision.

A man wielding a curved blade appeared opposite Ye Feng. This man was also a Spirit Form martial artist, and his aura seemed to be even stronger than Ye Feng's.

"As expected, it's level ten difficulty. I'm already facing opponents at the Spirit Form Realm right from the start," Ye Feng thought to himself. Level ten difficulty is indeed different. When Ye Feng was taking the test, he initially only encountered some magical beasts at the Spirit Movement Realm.

While Ye Feng was pondering, the man opposite him transformed into a phantom, approaching him with ghostly speed. In the blink of an eye, the man was already wielding a curved blade and attacking Ye Feng, the sharp edge of which was aimed directly at Ye Feng's weak point.

Ye Feng reacted very quickly, instantly casting a Righteous Holy Shield on himself before the man's attack arrived.

"clang"

The man's curved blade struck Ye Feng's defensive shield heavily, shattering it instantly. At the same time, a tremendous impact slammed into Ye Feng, sending him flying back several dozen feet.

"Hmm?" A look of doubt flashed in the man's eyes. He was obviously surprised that Ye Feng was able to block the attack. Although he was in a sorry state, he did not suffer any real damage at the time.

Although the man's blade was incredibly sharp and contained immense power, it was still blocked by Ye Feng's defensive shield.

(End of this chapter)