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

Su Qingyao stood in the central chamber on the 68th floor of the Tower of Babel... The spiritual energy condensed from her fingertips entwined itself around the suspended star map like a spiderweb... This floor, once renowned for its illusionary trials... was now being forcibly rewritten by her—ten purple-black spatial rifts ripped open across the plain... like the gaping maw of a giant beast... and from the depths of each cavern emanated the teeth-grinding sound of bones grinding...

"Liu Yang... don't you always manage to break through?" She watched the figure in the water mirror slowly approaching the upper floor... a cold arc appeared on the corner of her lips... "These ten caves of the Dragon Trapping Formation... each cave is guarded by a thousand-year-old monster that I have nurtured with my own blood... Unless you can appear in ten places at the same time... otherwise, you will be trapped here to death today..."

In the water mirror... Liu Yang, dressed in dark formal attire, gazed up at the blood-red runes swirling in the sky... At his waist hung an ice-patterned jade pendant... a symbol of his eternal freezing power... which now emitted a faint chill with his breath... Hearing the roar from the depths of the cave... he simply raised his hand to straighten his sleeves... his eyes as calm as the surface of a lake frozen for a thousand years...

Su Qingyao transformed the 68th floor into a circular plain... Ten caves were evenly spaced like clockwork... Each cave entrance was engraved with a different rune:

Cave 1 "Lei Ze": The cave walls are inlaid with breathing thunder crystals... The air is filled with lavender plasma... Anyone who enters will be automatically marked as a conductor

Cave 2, "Poison Swamp": The ground is covered in bubbling dark green slime... emitting a miasma that corrodes spiritual energy... The shadow of a giant tentacle looms in the depths.

Cave 3, "Burning Heaven": Lava flows through the cracks of the rocks...hot enough to melt black iron...a flaming boulder hangs from the ceiling, threatening to fall at any moment.

Cave 4 "Wind Howl": A level gale continues day and night... The wind is interspersed with diamond-shaped wind blades... It can easily rip through space.

Cave 5, "Ten Thousand Corpses": Amidst the mountains of bones... countless withered claws are breaking through the earth... filled with a deathly aura that can pollute the soul.

Cave 6, "Mirror Abyss": The floor is paved with millions of mirrors... which replicate and distort the abilities of intruders.

- Cave No. 7 "Soul Devourer": A pitch-black space... Any spiritual energy fluctuations will be devoured and converted into nutrients for the monsters within the cave.

Cave 8: Time Lag: Time flows at one-tenth the speed of the outside world... yet it amplifies the perception of pain a hundredfold.

- Cave 9 "Gravity": With each step deeper... gravity doubles... The deepest point is enough to crush the body of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage.

Cave 10 "Nothingness": No physical entity... only a pure mental attack... Those with weak wills will be instantly shattered.

The exits of all ten caves connect to the central platform... but only when all caves are opened simultaneously... will the teleportation array at the top of the platform be activated... Even more insidious... Su Qingyao has placed spatial locks between the caves... Forced teleportation will trigger spatial turbulence... at best, serious injury... at worst, being torn apart in the dimensional rift...

"Interesting..." Liu Yang's fingertips brushed across his brow... his future predictions quietly activated... The next second... dozens of possible paths to clear the level appeared before his eyes... each path's endpoint indicated a different level of injury and time required... When the predictions froze on the optimal solution... a barely perceptible curve curved the corners of his lips... and he suddenly vanished from the spot...

Concerto of Thunder and Ice

Just as the plasma from Cave 1's "Thunder Lake" was about to touch Liu Yang's sleeves... it was frozen into suspended crystals by a layer of pale blue ice crystals... He raised his hand and grasped the lightning bolts that appeared out of thin air... The once violent lightning suddenly coiled around his fingers like docile snakes... From deep within the cave came the roar of a giant python... A giant python, its scales flashing with lightning, broke through the rock wall... and pounced at him, its forked tongue spitting out...

Liu Yang dodged the snake's mouth... The lightning flashes at his fingertips suddenly surged... He chose not to confront it head-on... Instead, he used his teleportation ability to shuttle back and forth at high speed between the cave walls... Each flash left a trail of ice crystals in the cracks of the giant python's armor... The thunder python's roar shook the rocks from the cave ceiling... But it still couldn't lock onto the elusive figure... When the seventh ice crystal landed seven inches away from it... Liu Yang's voice echoed throughout the cave: "Freeze..."

The moment the Eternal Freeze ability was fully activated... time seemed to have been paused... the Thunder Python, still pouncing, was frozen into a crystal-clear ice sculpture... the lightning crystals embedded in the cave wall also extinguished... only within the ice sculpture could a faint flash of lightning be seen, slowly flowing through the ice... Liu Yang reached out and tapped the ice sculpture's forehead... a diamond-shaped lightning core broke through the ice... which he casually tucked into his storage bag...

"The first one..." He glanced at the pulsating lightning core in his palm... His figure had already appeared at the entrance of Cave No. 2... Just as the dark green miasma was about to penetrate his mouth and nose... it was blocked by a layer of ice barrier... The huge tentacle in the poisonous swamp slapped forward... but was frozen the moment it touched the barrier... and shattered into countless ice cubes with a crackling sound...

Liu Yang stepped on the frozen surface, heading deeper into the cave... Future predictions had already predicted the tentacles' every attack trajectory... He danced on the edge of a knife... Each step landed precisely within a safe zone... Simultaneously, ice crystal spears continuously ejected from his fingertips... When the tenth spear pierced the demon core at the bottom of the poisonous swamp... The miasma of the entire cave receded like a tide... revealing a secret door leading to the central platform below...

Liu Yang used ice to freeze the magma in Cave 3 into black rock... The fiery breath of the Burning Sky Beast transformed into icy rime before him; the strong winds from Cave 4 were channeled into a specially crafted rune bag... The wounds cut by the wind blades were frozen and stopped bleeding at the same time as he teleported; the countless corpses in Cave 5 turned to ash the moment they came into contact with the lightning on his body... The death energy was purified by the lightning into pure spiritual energy...

In Cave No. 6, "Mirror Abyss," countless phantoms of Liu Yang emerged from the mirrors. Each possessed a different ability. But the original Liu Yang simply stood quietly in the center, allowing the phantoms to attack. When the mirrors teleported to surround him, he took the initiative and stepped into the mirrors. Eternal Freeze and Lightning Control erupted simultaneously—all the mirrors collapsed from the energy clash the moment they came into contact with the original Liu Yang's lightning. The mirrored world collapsed like shattered glass.

In the soul-devouring darkness of Cave 7... Liu Yang proactively dispersed his protective spiritual energy... When the spiritual-feeding Void Monster pounced... he suddenly activated his future predictions... predicting the location of the opponent's energy core... teleporting over and simultaneously injecting his icy spiritual energy, compressed to the extreme, into the void... After a shrill scream, the darkness receded like a tide... revealing a dark blue crystal embedded in the stone wall...

The speed of time in Cave 8 was such that a single moment outside was equivalent to ten breaths inside... But Liu Yang took this opportunity to quietly deduce a way to break through the barriers in the subsequent caves... When he sensed the pain-amplifying restriction... he simply froze his own pain nerves with ice... and leisurely strolled through the time-delayed field, dismantling the attacks of the monsters guarding the cave...

In the gravity field of Cave 9... he concentrated the power of lightning at his feet... each step caused subtle spatial oscillations... to offset the increasing gravity... When the gravity at the deepest point reached a hundred times that outside... he used this pressure to strengthen his body... as he shattered the gravity demon's core... his muscles became even more solid...

The mental attack from Cave 10 was the most treacherous... Countless illusions attempted to shake Liu Yang's Daoist resolve... But his will, tempered by the eternal frost, had long since become as firm as steel... Just as those illusions of temptation and fear began to take shape... they were crushed directly in his sea of ​​consciousness by lightning... When the Void Demon's spiritual core exploded... he didn't even open his eyes... he simply relied on his perception to catch the last demon core that floated towards him...

When the secret door to the tenth cave opened... golden runes suddenly lit up on the ground of the central platform... ten demon cores of different attributes flew out of Liu Yang's storage bag... and embedded themselves into the grooves of the ground in some mysterious order... Su Qingyao suddenly stood up in the hub chamber... The figure in the water mirror, who should have been exhausted from the continuous fierce battles... was now calmly brushing the dust off his sleeves...

"Impossible! This Ten-Cave Dragon-Trapping Formation clearly requires..." Before she could finish her words, a rainbow of light suddenly erupted from the center of the platform. Ten demon cores shattered simultaneously, transforming into countless points of light that condensed into a palm-sized crystal in the air. The crystal was a decahedron, each facet radiating a different halo. Sometimes it was transparent like glass, and sometimes it seemed to contain the entire universe.

The moment Liu Yang reached out and grasped the crystal... a massive stream of information flooded into his mind... This magical weapon, called the "Ten-Faced Spiritual Heart"... was actually a natal spiritual treasure forged by a powerful ancient being using his own ten fundamental energies... It could simultaneously simulate ten different spiritual energies... Even more bizarre... each face corresponded to a different understanding of a law... The holder could use it to quickly comprehend unfamiliar energy systems...

Even more astonishing was... the Ten-Faced Spirit Heart's ability to perfectly fuse the user's abilities. When Liu Yang simultaneously activated Eternal Freeze and Lightning Control... complex patterns appeared on the crystal's surface... the two forces, originally restraining each other, formed a miraculous cycle... frozen targets would automatically draw upon the power of lightning to destroy them from within... and objects struck by lightning would be instantly frozen...

"So that's how it is..." Liu Yang felt the new power coursing through his body... He looked into the void with a look of understanding... Su Qingyao's meticulously designed Ten Caves Dragon Trapping Formation... had become the key to activating the Ten-Faced Spirit Heart... The properties of the ten demon cores corresponded perfectly to the ten faces of the crystal... The spiritual energy lost during the fierce battles became the energy source for the activation... All of this coincidence... seemed like a divine will...

In the central chamber, Su Qingyao stared at the crystal radiating a rainbow of light in the water mirror... Her face was as pale as paper... She could sense... the magical weapon's aura rapidly merging with Liu Yang's... The barrier that had originally been used to trap him... ultimately became a stepping stone for his breakthrough...

Liu Yang looked up at the staircase leading to the 69th floor... The Ten-Faced Spiritual Heart slowly spun in his palm... The ten sides of the crystal lit up simultaneously... reflecting the ever-deeper light in his eyes... He knew... this magical weapon, obtained by chance... would open a whole new door for his future cultivation... And the young lady cultivator who had tried to stop him... was probably now experiencing the bitter taste of having shot herself in the foot...

The halo on the stairs gradually intensified... Liu Yang took a step forward... and his figure disappeared into the light gate... The ten caves on the 68th floor began to slowly close... Only the mark left by the ten spiritual hearts on the central platform... still emitted a faint residual warmth... Witnessing this opportunity in the name of a dilemma...