Chapter 82: Jade Emperor Kingdom? Tomato Town!
Outside the tower, everyone was watching as Number 1 sped through the Hero Trial Tower in just a few seconds to a matter of tens of seconds, and the place exploded in chaos.
She couldn’t possibly do that, right? Didn’t she get stuck on the first layer for an entire hour?
Could it be that she had suddenly attained enlightenment? That’s the only explanation!
Many people’s attitudes started to shift quietly.
Only Kreemans continued to glare at that number as if she were about to explode.
Each time the number went up a layer, a new vein of rage popped up in her eyes.
She kept murmuring, “Impossible, absolutely impossible. Cheating, it has to be cheating.”
As she watched Number 1 catch up to the other numbers and then pull ahead, she nearly crumbled at the sight.
In just a few minutes, Number 1 cleared the Tenth Layer, leaving Number 2 in the dust.
At this moment, Kreemans finally couldn’t hold it together, collapsing onto her chair.
At this point, it had only been two or three minutes since Number 1 broke through the First Layer and just a little over an hour since the trials began.
Elia’s brow finally unfurled into a smile.
She knew Little Wind could do it!
She felt a twinge of guilt for doubting him earlier and resolved to make it up to him once this business was all over.
But right now, she couldn’t declare it a total victory until the trials were completely finished.
What if that kid got stuck on one layer for an hour, maybe even two hours, and ended up getting kicked out? That would be a disaster.
Let’s face it, given Little Wind’s personality, he could truly pull something unexpected.
This was where Elia underestimated Xu Xiaofeng.
She was an adult! She could differentiate priorities. There was no way she’d be light-hearted about such an important matter.
She made it to the Tenth Layer and saw the Tower Guardian.
It was a warrior clad in pitch-black armor.
Wow! So edgy!
Soon, the guardian spoke.
“#@&*@#%！~￥”
“Huh?”
She didn’t understand a word.
So she concentrated, activating her Golden Eyes, and displayed the panel:
【Name: Reynold (NPC·Hero State·Chaos Infection)
Profession: Swordsman
Affiliation: Demon Hunter from the Kingdom of Loza
Panel Data: Please Expand (Suppressing)
Talent Skills: Demon Slaying, Tracking, Demon-Breaking Slash…
HP: 3300
MP: Unlimited】
This guy… seems a bit off…
Xu Xiaofeng furrowed her brow, but when she expanded the detailed panel, she sighed in relief.
“Thank goodness, his original strength is just Silver Level.”
The Demon Hunter must be some kind of class, and she didn’t really understand what Chaos Infection was; maybe it was an accident during a hunt for so-called demons.
Unfortunately, Xu Xiaofeng couldn’t understand a word he said, and his mental state was clearly unhinged.
Well then, it was battle time.
Xu Xiaofeng raised her sword, and the guardian responded by lifting his own sword.
They locked eyes, no words needed, yet everything was said in silence.
The Guardian was strong; if it were the old Xu Xiaofeng, she might have had some trouble. But after Aslan mentored her, she was now far beyond her former self.
The black swordsman looked sinister, but his combat style was quite straightforward.
And Xu Xiaofeng? She appeared harmless, but she had all kinds of weird tricks up her sleeve during a fight.
Many previous layer guardians had been defeated before they even realized what had hit them.
In no time, Reynold held on for two minutes before Xu Xiaofeng impaled him right through.
As the blackness faded away, she sighed in relief.
At that moment, she twitched her nose.
“This smell… seems oddly familiar…”
Though she sensed it during the fight, she didn’t have the luxury to think deeply about it then. Now that it was over, she could ponder.
Finally, a light bulb went off in her head.
“I smelled this on Uncle Edward that day! Even earlier, it was… the day of the World Boss!”
Everything clicked together!
“A Demon Hunter? Chaos Infection? Could it be that Uncle Edward is actually a hidden Demon Hunter?!”
“Wow! That’s so cool!”
And that so-called demon was likely referring to the World Boss, aka, Calamity.
Now it all made sense!
“Too bad I can’t chat with that Demon Hunter.”
Xu Xiaofeng shook her head in resignation and pressed on to the higher levels.
The bosses on the Eleventh and Twelfth Layers were still Silver Level, but their real combat prowess was significantly weaker than that guardian.
“The Kingdom of Loza must be a pretty ancient nation.”
From this climb, she got sidelined in understanding— the Jade Emperor Kingdom is really weak!
Just look at these Tower Guardians from the Jade Emperor Kingdom; even in the same realm, they’re a joke compared to the other kingdoms. Not to mention, the number of high-level experts in your kingdom is even less.
You need to know, according to Aslan, we in the Golden Kingdom had over a thousand legendary-class strongholds before that day.
And there were plenty of high-level legendary-class experts, some even approaching breakthroughs.
Sadly, she didn’t get to experience any of that.
Xu Xiaofeng sighed a bit and continued toward the next challenge.
As she climbed higher, she began to feel the pressure.
By the Fifteenth Layer, her opponent’s strength was already constrained to Gold Level.
But the good news was, he was from the Jade Emperor Kingdom.
Eventually, it took Xu Xiaofeng more than ten minutes to finally defeat him with great difficulty.
The Sixteenth Layer was still Gold Level and still from the Jade Emperor Kingdom, but this guy was a fragile assassin. Didn’t that just mean she was walking into a minefield?
Today, the Wind Mage was determined to show this assassin what profession counters really mean!
It took Xu Xiaofeng three minutes; she made a few swift movements, and the assassin was done for.
And what about the assassin? All that power and nowhere to unleash it; he just kept running and hiding. But hiding was futile because Xu Xiaofeng could see him.
So he must’ve felt incredibly frustrated.
But before he died, the assassin nodded appreciatively, “With such a genius in the Jade Emperor Kingdom, there’s hope for revival!”
To that, Xu Xiaofeng could only smile politely.
In the Seventeenth Layer, still Gold Level, but the strength was significantly better than the previous one, which took her a good effort to overcome.
As for the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Layers, the bosses’ strength reached Emerald Level.
But here’s the thing; no matter what level you are, even if you’re a king, in this place, you’re just bronze and have to play by bronze rules!
And the bronze waters are too deep; you can’t quite grasp them.
Actually, these two Emerald-level swordsmen were quite strong, but the biggest problem was that the sword techniques they used were the Jadeite Ten Swords, or even a chopped-down version!
Facing the Golden Battle Technique, they felt completely restrained; plus, with Xu Xiaofeng’s little tricks, it was like being beaten black and blue.
In the end, she made it to the Twentieth Layer, the final layer of the Hero Trial Tower.
Before the boss even appeared, the voice had already echoed.
“It’s been so long since anyone reached here; I’ve waited far too long. Challenger, you’re lucky; you will be the first to test the blade I’ve honed over many years.”
Wow! Such high standards!
This… could he be stronger than Aslan?
That was Xu Xiaofeng’s immediate reaction.
Aslan had said he should only appear in the last two layers.
So Xu Xiaofeng very carefully activated her Golden Eyes to assess the layer boss.
First glance: Jade Emperor Kingdom.
Second glance: Legendary Level Beginner.
“Uh… seems like… it’s just the high standards?”
Seeing Xu Xiaofeng’s expression shift, the layer boss grumbled, “What’s wrong? Am I not worthy to be your final trial?”
Xu Xiaofeng pondered, trying to choose her words carefully, and finally humbly replied, “It seems… you’re actually not enough.”
What could she do? She was an honest child who never lied.
