Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

Chapter 376 Chaos on the Fourth Floor

By the time Liu Xing had leisurely cleared the level, the fourth floor had already become bustling with activity. Numerous Nascent Soul experts had already cleared the level and were rushing to the sixth floor in search of treasure. Even more fellow Jindan cultivators had also emerged from the level, roaming the fourth floor like Japanese invaders, raiding every storage room. Because the storage rooms were protected by restrictions, most of them were beyond their reach.

"Get out!" A Yuanying master saw a palace that was being attacked by others and rushed forward and shouted angrily.

"Senior, this is what we saw first." The group of Jindan cultivators who were besieging the enemy suddenly became anxious. They had spent a long time to finally break the restriction and were waiting to find the treasure, but who knew that Cheng Yaojin would appear halfway.

"Boom!" The Yuanying master was too lazy to talk to them, and punched them, knocking them far away with one move.

"Hmph! If you keep talking nonsense, you will lose your lives here!" The Yuanying master forced them back aggressively, and swept his cold eyes over them.

The group of casual cultivators who had reached the Jindan stage finally realized the difference in strength. Although they were unwilling to accept it, they had no choice but to leave with a grumble. There would be no benefit in continuing to pester them.

Some, attacking here and there, hoping to find an easy target, discovered that the restrictions within each hall were extremely powerful, and not something they could easily break. Eventually, they all calmed down, choosing their own targets and beginning to break the restrictions. Nascent Soul masters, confident of their strength, often fought alone. Core Formation masters, for self-preservation or to expedite their progress, formed groups of three or five.

More and more people broke through the level, making the fourth floor unusually lively. Some masters who came out later took a fancy to some occupied targets and started to grab them directly, making the scene even more chaotic.

Liu Xing didn't come out early and was wandering around the fourth floor, mainly trying to find his wife Nie Xiaoqian.

"Qian'er, where are you?" Liu Xing sent several messages to Nie Xiaoqian, but they all fell into oblivion and there was no response at all.

Nie Xiaoqian felt the vibrations of the sound transmission talisman and knew it was from Liu Xing. However, with a group of top experts watching closely, she pretended not to hear and focused on studying the nine-layer restriction and helping Elder Sun break it.

"That shouldn't be the case. With Qian'er's strength, she must have cleared the level. She didn't reply to my message, so maybe she's trapped?" Liu Xing thought worriedly. Either she was trapped in some restricted area, or she was being held hostage. Liu Xing's guess was pretty close.

"Wait and see." Liu Xing also chose an inconspicuous storage room on the fourth floor and began to study the formation and restrictions. He lived in seclusion in the Righteous Path Alliance and knew few people except for a few Nascent Soul Elders. So he acted alone, and no one came to disturb him.

The restrictions in various locations of the Chaos Tower were quite similar. Although they were all profound and obscure, he had studied them for a long time while trying to break through them and had some experience. So he naturally wouldn't use brute force to break through the formations like others did.

The restrictions in the storage room weren't as elaborate as those in the previous three levels. It seemed as if the Chaos Tower's weaponsmith had casually placed them. Even so, it took Liu Xing considerable effort. He spent the better part of a day figuring out the pattern, and combining his lifelong knowledge, he finally managed to crack a hole in the restrictions. He determined the storage room was safe, and since no one else was paying attention, he slipped through the gap and entered.

Liu Xing surveyed the small storage room, a mess of miscellaneous items. Some of them were unfamiliar materials, mere scraps from refining equipment. He picked some up and examined them carefully, discovering some of them were the ingredients for the second-level puppet. These ingredients gave him a glimpse into the puppet's design, and he was overjoyed. He packed the scraps in a jade box, ready to study them more closely once he left.

He searched the storage room carefully several times, and only after confirming that there was nothing of value did he turn around and leave. After he came out, the restrictions here automatically closed again, as if no one had touched it.

After Liu Xing emerged, he saw the others still sweating profusely as they attacked the barrier. Concerned with Nie Xiaoqian's safety, he had no intention of seizing the treasure. His gaze wandered here and there, giving others the impression he harbored ill intentions. If it weren't for his impressive late Jindan peak, he would have been rebuked and driven away.

"Qian'er, where are you?" Liu Xing grew increasingly anxious. After so much time had passed, Nie Xiaoqian must have made it out. He searched every area of ​​the fourth floor, but couldn't find Qian'er. Liu Xing reached the entrance to the fifth floor, where a powerful barrier blocked the way. Most Jindan cultivators were blocked here. Perhaps it was a deliberate arrangement by the Chaos Tower, allowing Yuanying and higher masters to pass through without issue, so the vast majority of Yuanying masters entered the fifth floor.

"Could it be that Qian'er went to the fifth floor?" Liu Xing couldn't find his wife on the fourth floor, so he wanted to look for her upstairs.

"With Qian'er's master's attainments in restricting things, it's not impossible for her to break the restriction and enter." Liu Xing muttered to himself.

There was no point in overthinking, so he went up and continued searching. So Liu Xing calmed down and concentrated on studying the restrictions at the fifth floor entrance.

He had now grasped some of the restrictions of the Chaos Tower, so he quickly broke the restrictions that blocked the Jindan cultivators, and he hurriedly got in.

This scene happened to be seen by some Jindan cultivators, who immediately followed. The higher the level, the more treasures there are. This was the general idea. If blocked by a restriction, then break it!

So many Jindan cultivators also joined the army to attack the fifth-level entrance restriction, but they spent a long time trying and failed to break through it. It seemed that brute force was no longer effective.

"Is there any restriction master here? I am willing to pay one million spirit stones to invite you to help me break the restriction!" Qi, a cultivator named Qi who had just seen Liu Xing, a fellow Jindan stage cultivator, break the restriction and enter the fifth floor, shouted. He was surprisingly at the peak of the late Jindan stage and was considered the top master among this group of people.

"Count me in, I'll also give one million!" Another fellow who was at the peak of the late Jindan stage echoed.

"Count me in, too."

"Count me in, too."

Suddenly, more than ten cultivators at the peak of the late Jindan stage stood up and jointly invested in recruiting a master of prohibition.

There will always be brave men when there is a big reward, so some monks who are well versed in the art of prohibition stepped forward, formed a temporary research team, and began to try various methods.

On the fourth floor, after such a long time, some masters finally broke into some storage rooms, but unfortunately, these storage rooms were either empty or filled with some sundries, and there was no treasure that everyone wanted.

There were several palaces that looked magnificent, but the power of the restrictions was too strong. Several waves of people came to attack, but no one could break through. In the end, everyone had no choice but to give up.

The people from the Righteous Alliance and the Demonic Alliance each formed small groups. They were the most powerful and they jointly attacked and broke into several storage rooms, but gained very little.