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

The sixty-first floor of the Tower of Babel was originally a phantasmal trial designed to test the strength of a cultivator's soul... Countless diamond-shaped crystals floated within the grayish-white space... Each crystal reflected the inner obsession of the challenger...

But when Su Qingyao's spiritual power invaded this space... the diamond-shaped crystals shattered... transforming into a dark energy as thick as ink... Now the sixty-first floor had completely become a "soul abyss"... The entire space was shrouded in a sticky dark purple mist... Visibility was less than three meters... The mist contained abyssal energy that could directly corrode the soul...

In the center of the space stood nine twisted obsidian pillars... their shafts engraved with writhing blood-red runes... and a pulsating scarlet crystal hovered atop each...

These crystals are the core mechanism that sustains the Soul Storm... When the crystals light up simultaneously... the entire space is engulfed in a turbulent flow of energy that rips apart the soul... The ground is covered with a dark green, viscous liquid...

Stepping on it makes a harsh sound like nails scraping against glass... From time to time, distorted human faces emerge from the liquid...trying to cling to the soul of the intruder...

Abyssal monsters are the primary guardians of this layer... Constructed from pure dark energy... They resemble a cross between a giant octopus and a mantis—ten spur-covered limbs support a mountain-like body... Their heads are fleshy balls covered in compound eyes... Their mouths split open to the torso... and are filled with spiral fangs...

The most dangerous thing is that they can spray dark purple soul acid... Once it touches the skin, it will flow through the meridians and directly into the sea of ​​consciousness... plunging the victim into an endless state of terror...

Su Qingyao laid three traps when designing the level: when the challenger destroys three or fewer stone pillars... the first wave of soul storm will be triggered; after destroying five stone pillars... the number of abyssal monsters will double;

If the traps weren't cracked within half an hour... the entire space would collapse into a dark singularity that swallowed everything... She had deliberately set the triggering conditions for these traps to be extremely subtle... calculating that Liu Yang wasn't familiar with the techniques of the immortal cultivation world...

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The moment Liu Yang stepped onto the 34st floor... dark purple mist surged in like a tide... He raised his brows slightly... flicked his right index finger... a wisp of silver-white cold air spread out from his fingertips... wherever it passed, the mist instantly condensed into ice crystals... and fell to the ground with a crackling sound... "Soul attack? Interesting..."

A faint smile played on his lips... The ability of eternal freezing could not only freeze physical existence... but also freeze energy flows - including the abyssal mist that was trying to corrode the soul...

Suddenly, heavy footsteps were heard from ten feet away... A monster from the abyss emerged from the fog... Its compound eyes flashed a bloodthirsty red light...

It suddenly arched its body... six forelimbs simultaneously ejected half-foot-long bone blades... with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it pounced on Liu Yang... just as the bone blades were about to reach his throat... Liu Yang's figure turned into a light blue lightning and disappeared on the spot... the next second, he appeared three feet behind the monster...

"Future deductions show... your weak point is at the junction of the third limb and the torso..." Liu Yang's voice was calm... He slowly raised his right hand... and a crackling ball of lightning condensed in his palm...

The monster sensed something was amiss... It spun abruptly and unleashed a spray of soul acid... The dark purple liquid arced through the air... Liu Yang pressed his left hand lightly... The space in front of the acid suddenly formed a thick wall of ice... The acid collided with the ice wall, making a corrosive sizzling sound... but it couldn't penetrate the ice...

"Boom!" The lightning ball, carrying a dragon-shaped shadow, struck the monster's weak spot... Deep blue lightning instantly covered its entire body... ripping its dark energy form into countless fragments...

Liu Yang didn't even glance at the scattered energy fragments... His gaze fell on the obsidian pillars in the distance: "Nine stone pillars... the energy fluctuations are consistent... they must be the core of the mechanism..."

He took a step forward... Each step was accompanied by a slight distortion of space... In an instant, he crossed a distance of dozens of feet... As if he had carved out a special shortcut in this space...

As they approached the first stone pillar... the surrounding fog suddenly swirled violently... three abyssal monsters attacked simultaneously from three directions... their limbs carved deep grooves in the ground... dark purple acid poured down like a torrential rain...

Light blue ice crystal lines appeared beneath Liu Yang's feet... The lines rapidly spread from him... The green liquid on the ground condensed into ice wherever they passed... The acid was frozen into purple ice beads before it even hit the ground...

"Teleportation - Triple Shadow..." His figure split into three... each appearing above the three-headed monster... Three lightning bolts simultaneously descended from the sky... striking precisely at the compound eyes on the monster's head...

With a piercing scream... the three-headed monster's body disintegrated piece by piece in the lightning... Liu Yang's three clones merged into one... and landed in front of the first obsidian pillar... Reaching out and pressing a hand on the blood-red rune on the pillar: "Eternal Freeze·Core Seal..." A silvery-white chill spread along the rune... Instantly freezing the entire stone pillar into an ice sculpture... The light of the scarlet crystal at the top dimmed...

After freezing the first stone pillar... the space began to tremble slightly... and more roars came from the fog...

Liu Yang remained unmoved... He closed his eyes... His ability to predict the future was fully operational... Countless possible futures flashed through his mind—the order in which the stone pillars would be destroyed, the direction from which the monsters would appear, the intensity of the soul storm, even the pattern of rune changes... all were clearly presented in his consciousness...

"Optimal solution: Destroy the stone pillars in the order of east, south, west and north...avoiding the time when the energy nodes overlap..."

He opened his eyes... a flash of lightning flashed in them... and his figure disappeared again...

The next second, he appeared in front of the obsidian pillar in the southeast corner... The ground here suddenly cracked... Countless black vines sprang out like venomous snakes... trying to wrap around him... Deep blue lightning rose around Liu Yang... The vines quickly charred and withered as soon as they touched the lightning...

His fingertips condensed into an icicle... and precisely pierced the rune grooves on the stone pillar... The ice crystals spread along the grooves... and completely froze the second stone pillar...

At this moment... the mist in the space suddenly turned into a swirling vortex... the dark purple energy stream cut through the air like a blade - the first wave of the soul storm was triggered prematurely...

"Ten breaths earlier than predicted... It seems someone is adjusting the mechanism in real time..." Far from panicking, Liu Yang revealed a knowing smile. He crossed his arms... and his abilities of eternal freezing and lightning control erupted simultaneously... Silvery-white ice and deep blue lightning intertwined to form a spherical protective shield around him... The soul storm collided with the shield... making a crisp sound like shattering glass... but it was unable to penetrate even a little bit...

In the storm... seven abyssal monsters emerged from the black mist... their bodies nearly twice as large as their predecessors... the bony spikes on their limbs shimmered with a faint light...

Liu Yang's figure flashed... shuttling through the horde of monsters... each teleportation was accompanied by a bolt of lightning or a shard of ice: the monster on his left was frozen in place... the monster on his right was torn apart by lightning... the monster in front was shattered by the sudden appearance of the ice wall... his movements were fluid... it was not a life-or-death struggle... but rather an elegant performance...

"The third... the fourth..." Liu Yang methodically froze the obsidian pillars according to the deduced order...

Every time he froze a stone pillar... the surrounding dark energy would become more agitated... but he could always predict the energy's trajectory in advance... and easily avoid the most dangerous areas...

When the sixth stone pillar froze... the space suddenly fell into a brief silence... followed by a deafening roar—all the remaining abyssal monsters appeared simultaneously... nearly thirty in number...

"Oh? The number has doubled... Did the hidden condition trigger?" Liu Yang hovered in the air... overlooking the dense swarm of monsters below... with a calm smile still on his face...

He took a deep breath... and slowly opened his hands... The power of eternal freezing spread along his arms to the entire space: "Eternal Realm·Absolute Zero..."

A silvery-white chill swept across like a tsunami... Wherever it passed... the dark purple mist froze into crystals... The roaring monster froze in the moment of its attack... Even the flying soul fragments were frozen in place...

The entire space transformed into a crystal-clear ice sculpture world... Only seven unfrozen obsidian pillars still emitted a faint red light...

Liu Yang landed in front of the seventh stone pillar... and tapped the shaft lightly with his fingers: "Miss Su Qingyao... this level of obstruction... is really too much of a disdain for me..." The ice crystals on his fingertips spread again... freezing the seventh stone pillar...

At this moment... the last two stone pillars suddenly burst into a dazzling red light... the blood-red runes on the pillars began to rotate in the opposite direction... the entire space shook violently...

"Is it going to collapse? It's much faster than predicted..." Liu Yang looked up at the last two stone pillars... The space between them had begun to distort... forming a black vortex...

His figure flashed... appearing simultaneously in front of two stone pillars... His left and right hands pressed down on the pillars... The power of eternal freezing and lightning control erupted simultaneously... Silvery-white ice and deep blue lightning intertwined along the runes... Like two giant dragons, they devoured the red light on the stone pillars...

"Crack!" Two crisp sounds... The last two stone pillars froze simultaneously... The shaking of space came to an abrupt halt... The black vortex slowly dissipated...

All the abyssal monsters transformed into tiny specks of starlight... The dark purple mist gradually faded... revealing the original grayish-white color of the space... Liu Yang stood in the center of the field... brushed the nonexistent dust off his sleeves... His expression was as calm as if he had just accomplished a trivial task...

Just as Liu Yang was about to leave... the ground suddenly made a slight cracking sound... Among the ice sculptures he had left behind when he froze the monster... one of them had a soft blue light emanating from its chest...

Liu Yang walked over... waved his hand to disperse the ice... and discovered that the blue light came from a fist-sized crystal...

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