In the end times, many children bring more blessings. I pick up a goddess every day.

Miss Su really didn't expect...

The 39 floors I painstakingly built couldn't even hold Liu Yang back...

Instead, even his own mist core was taken away by the other party...

This really made Miss Su very depressed...

"Next...

We can’t let that guy get away with it any longer...! ! !

if not......

He really has to fly to the sky...

This damn guy...

I'll make him pay...

I had a glimpse of the secrets of heaven that told me that I would encounter great opportunities within this tower of Babel...

Could this be...

All the treasures I lost were my opportunities... but screw you...!!!

These treasures are all mine over the past few thousand years...

I spent so much effort to collect it... Why was it taken away so easily by this guy...?

The 40th floor is where you will be buried..."

Miss Su shook her red lips... and made up her mind...

We must stop Liu Yang on the 40th floor...

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On the other side, after Liu Yang got the fog core...

Following the old man to the 40th floor...

The old man was speechless at this time...

Regarding Liu Yang's actions...

He could only describe it with the word "admiration"... No cultivator had ever made him feel this way before...

Those practitioners who came to the Tower of Babel to cultivate... were usually led by the various levels within the Tower of Babel... They had to put in a lot of effort... to be able to pass a level...

But Liu Yang... so relaxed...

He even offended Miss Su... He always had the upper hand in a head-on confrontation with her...

This is simply shocking...

Now, as Liu Yang prepares to clear the 40th round...

At this moment, the old man couldn't even say a word to remind him to be careful... Such a strong man no longer needed his reminder...

At the entrance to the fortieth floor of the Tower of Babel... the mist swirled like a living thing... a stark contrast to the brightness of the first thirty-nine floors...

As soon as Liu Yang stepped into the area... the stone door behind him slammed shut... the dust kicked up condensed into ancient runes in the air... and disappeared in an instant... He looked up... a huge ruin, half-hidden by wind and sand, stood in the center of the desert... dark green vines crawled over the broken walls...

The tips of the vines shimmered with a faint blue light of restriction—this was the checkpoint Su Qingyao had specially set for him... a maze of death that blended ancient restrictions and mechanical devices...

The main entrance to the ruins features two stone lions, each ten feet tall... Their eyes carved from obsidian... their pupils shimmering with a red light...

Liu Yang tried to release his spiritual sense to investigate... but when it reached within three feet of the stone lion, it was repelled by an invisible force... A stabbing pain like a needle pierced his sea of consciousness...

"What a strong restriction..." he whispered to himself... "It seems that the young lady is determined to make me fail here..."

The 40th floor designed by Su Qingyao consists of three tests...interlocking with each other...

The first level is the "Illusion Corridor"... The three hundred steps from the ruins entrance to the main hall are divided into countless intersecting corridors... The walls of each corridor are engraved with the same star map... but the path clues hidden in the star map change every moment...

The corridor floor was paved with bluestone slabs... 30% of these slabs had "Soul Devouring Talismans" embedded beneath them... If one stepped on the wrong one... they would instantly drain the cultivator's spiritual energy... transforming into new runes on the corridor walls...

After passing through the corridor, the second test is the "Forest of Stele Mechanisms"...

In the square before the main hall stood one hundred and eight stone tablets... Their tops were inlaid with crystals of various colors... The ground between them was engraved with a nine-square grid pattern...

Only by touching the crystals in a specific order... can the stone tablet rise to form a stone bridge leading to the main hall? If the order is wrong... the stone tablet will spew out hot molten lava or extremely cold ice spikes...

Bronze puppets will emerge from the sand at the edge of the square... The spears in their hands are coated with "Soul-Locking Poison"... If scratched... the flow of spiritual power will be hindered...

The final test is hidden inside the main hall - "Inheritance Illusion"...

A ball of light, condensed from the power of inheritance, hovered above the stone platform in the center of the main hall... Nine swirling rings of light surrounded it... Each ring was engraved with a different ancient rune...

To obtain the power of inheritance... one must use one's own spiritual energy as a guide... decipher the meaning of the runes and infuse the aura with them in order...

But Su Qingyao had tampered with the meaning of the three runes. If they were interpreted conventionally and injected with spiritual energy, the ball of light would explode. The entire main hall would collapse into a quicksand trap.

And the Time and Space Stone... is hidden in the core of the light ball where the power of inheritance is most concentrated...

Liu Yang stood at the entrance of the corridor...looking at the ever-changing corridor before him...a sneer curled up at the corner of his mouth...

He didn't rush in... but instead took out a crystal-clear tortoise shell from his storage bag—this was the "Spirit-Testing Turtle Shell" he had obtained from the Central Academy's treasure house...

Although its rank was not high... it could sense the subtle fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual energy... He injected a trace of spiritual energy into the tortoise shell... and fine cracks immediately appeared on its surface... The cracks pointed towards the third corridor on the left...

"The essence of the illusion array is to disrupt the cultivator's perception..." Liu Yang stepped into the corridor... He deliberately slowed down the force of his foot as it landed on the bluestone slab... "But the restricted flow of spiritual energy can't fool Turtle Shell..."

He used his tortoise shell to detect the stone every three steps... Whenever the cracks on the shell flickered violently... he would step aside to avoid the stone slab under his feet...

Once, he just dodged a piece of bluestone... and it sank silently... revealing a bottomless black hole below... and from within the black hole came a teeth-grinding gnawing sound...

While walking through the corridors... Liu Yang had consumed less than 10% of his spiritual power... But when he stepped into the forest of mechanical stele... the situation suddenly became difficult...

The stone tablet in the square suddenly hummed... The moment the red crystal lit up... Three bronze puppets burst from the sand... Spears pierced his back with a piercing sound...

Liu Yang tapped his toes... his figure drifted to the right like willow catkins... and at the same time, he flicked his fingers and released three silver needles... The needles precisely pierced the grooves at the puppet's joints—those were the forbidden nodes he had discovered when probing with the tortoise shell...

The moment the puppet froze... Liu Yang had already landed in front of a blue crystal stone tablet...

He stared at the crystal atop the stone tablet... then looked at the nine-square grid pattern on the ground... and suddenly remembered the "Nine Stars in a Row" formation recorded in ancient books...

"The arrangement of the stone tablets corresponds to the nine stars of the Big Dipper... The color of the crystals represents the time..." He traced in the air with his fingertips... touching the stone tablets in the order of "Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji"...

As the crystal on the last stone tablet lit up... the ground in the center of the square slowly rose... forming a stone bridge only three feet wide... runes could be faintly seen flowing in the air currents on both sides of the bridge...

The inheritance illusion within the main hall was the most dangerous stage... Liu Yang stood before the ball of light... The nine rings of light suddenly accelerated... The runes on the rings twisted into hideous faces...

He didn't rush to inject spiritual energy... Instead, he closed his eyes... and recalled the ancient rune records he had seen in the ancient books of the immortal world...

"Which three runes did Su Qingyao change?" he muttered to himself... Suddenly, he noticed that the edges of the three runes on the outermost layer of the halo had a very faint trace of gold - that was the residual aura of the "Gilded Restriction" that the eldest lady often used...

He took a deep breath... and circulated the chaotic spiritual power within his body... This spiritual power didn't belong to any of the Five Elements... yet it could simulate the properties of all things... Liu Yang stretched out his right hand... and his fingertips pointed at the six untouched halos one by one... Whenever spiritual power was injected... the halos would emit a soft white light...

When the last tampered halo appeared before his eyes... he suddenly reversed the direction of his spiritual energy... compressed the chaotic spiritual energy into a needle... and fiercely stabbed it into the weak spot on the side of the halo - the flaw that was inevitably left when the rune was tampered with...

The halo trembled violently... The ball of light suddenly exploded... Transforming into points of light all over the sky...

Amidst the light… a crystal the size of a pigeon egg slowly fell… It felt as if countless stars were being born and dying within the crystal… sometimes shrinking to the size of a grain of rice… sometimes expanding so much that it seemed to swallow up the world…

The Time Stone: The Holder of the Years...

The moment Liu Yang caught the Time and Space Stone... an indescribable power surged into his body... He lowered his head to take a closer look... the crystal was completely transparent...

Yet, it displays strange colors from different angles: a deep starry blue from the front... a warm amber from the side... and flowing golden lines appear when backlit... as if the entire universe's time is compressed within it...

The most amazing thing was its ability... When Liu Yang's fingertips brushed across the crystal's surface... the surrounding scenery suddenly became blurry... He could clearly see the dust on the stone platform flowing back... the light ball that had just exploded was condensing in the opposite direction... He could even see his own back as he entered the main hall three minutes ago...

"Is this... time reversal?" He was startled... He tried to concentrate... The crystal suddenly emitted a soft light... Within the range... the bronze puppet's attack speed suddenly slowed...

It's like being stuck in sticky mud - this is a local time deceleration...

Even more astounding was its command of space... Liu Yang, holding the crystal, walked towards the broken wall of the main hall... The moment it touched the wall... the crystal emitted a silver light pattern... A vortex-shaped portal, as tall as a person, suddenly appeared on the wall... On the other side of the portal were the stone lions at the entrance to the corridor...

He stepped through the portal... and instantly returned to the entrance of the ruins... The time it took to cross the corridor was more than a hundred times shorter than before...

As he injected a trace of spiritual power into the crystal's core... the crystal suddenly projected a curtain of light... within which emerged countless fragmented images: scenes of ancient cultivators carving runes here... Su Qingyao's sneer as she placed restrictions atop the tower... even the illusion of the Tower of Babel collapsing a century later...

"It can see fragments of the past and future? It can also speed up the flow of time..." Liu Yang became interested... He could feel...

The power contained in this stone is enough to allow a cultivator to temporarily stop in the river of time... to freely travel through the cracks in space...

Speeding up the flow of time...isn't that Xu Changqing's ability?

But Xu Changqing can only reach 4x speed...

This piece of time and space stone can reach a flow rate hundreds of times faster...

And it can not only speed up its own time... it can also choose to speed up the time of others or other objects...

In other words, if used on an enemy... it can reduce the enemy's lifespan by 100 times...!

If anyone offends Liu Yang... Liu Yang will directly cast this power over him... After one year, this person will die...

After all, not many ordinary people can live to be 100 years old...

Ordinary people have no chance of offending Liu Yang... Anyone who can come into contact with Liu Yang... is not an unrivaled powerhouse now...?

Each of them is an old monster with a lifespan of thousands of years...

At this moment... Su Qingyao, atop the tower, was watching this scene through the water mirror... His entire body was shaking with anger... She had originally thought... even Liu Yang would need at least three days to crack the triple test... and he couldn't afford any mistakes during that time...

If you're not careful, you might die...

But he hadn't expected that he would not only clear the level within half an hour...but also take away the most important treasure in the ruins...

In the water mirror... Liu Yang was playing with the Time and Space Stone... The crystal's light flowed in his palm... as if it resonated with his chaotic spiritual power...

"Liu Yang..." Su Qingyao bit her lip... a hint of unwillingness flashed in her eyes... but also hidden an imperceptible curiosity... "How many secrets are you hiding?"

And in the ruins on the 40th floor... Liu Yang put the Time and Space Stone into his storage bag... and looked up at the stairs leading to the 41st floor...

He could feel... this strange stone was quietly changing his perception... as if the flow of time throughout the Tower of Babel had become clearer to him...

The flow of time is like the flow of water... In Liu Yang's eyes, it has become a kind of embodiment...

At this moment, Liu Yang could either go downstream... or upstream...

There is a feeling of being in the water...

His mastery of time was further strengthened...