Xiao Ming didn’t have a problem passing the third and fourth floor after this as well.
It almost seemed like it was too easy for her with the way that she passed through these floors one by one.
But that was just how skilled she was.
The tower never seemed to have a complaint about how she had done it, so there was no chance that she was cheating. It just opened up the path to the next floor for her one by one, letting her keep going after she cleared each floor.
It was only when she reached the fifth floor that she was stopped.
When Xiao Ming came up to the fifth floor, she found that she wasn’t alone and this time, it wasn’t just statues that were here. There was only a single statue that was on this floor and it seemed to be idle.
The others that were here were people that she didn’t recognize, but she could tell that they were disciples from the other sects.
It seemed that they had reached this place before her…
Perhaps waiting that fifteen minutes really wasn’t the best thing for her…
But there were a few people that she did recognize.
Or rather they recognized her and immediately came over to where she was.
“Are you alright?!”
Both of the two that ran over immediately asked this.
Xiao Ming turned around to see Huang Xie and Yu Huang running over to where she was.
Before she could say anything, the two of them suddenly stopped and started moving around her. It was as if they were looking over her body to see if she was injured at all, but…
Xiao Ming didn’t like the way that their gazes were on her, so she raised her hand and punched them both in the head before saying, “Where are you looking?”
The two of them didn’t seem to mind being punched like this by her.
In fact, they both revealed smiles seeing this as they were glad that she was still filled with energy.
The other person who slowly walked over had a smile on his face when he saw the three of them like this.
But in the end, Mo Sha still said, “Alright, let’s not play around. Let’s share information while we still can.”
The three of them immediately calmed down and looked around before nodding in agreement.
The four of them moved over to the side of the room and started discussing what they had to go through.
Xiao Ming was surprised to find that none of the other three had listened to the whole thing and had cut the statue off.
“Well, it seemed like he would be going on for a while.” Huang Xie said.
In a rare moment of agreement, Yu Huang said with a nod, “He kept going on and on, so it didn’t feel like it would end.”
Mo Sha didn’t say anything, but the look on his face made it clear what he felt.
Xiao Ming shook her head and gave a sigh.
It wasn’t a sigh of regret over spending that time listening to what the statue had to say, it was more a sigh of regret that these two really didn’t have the patience to listen to what the statue had to say.
The rest of it wasn’t that strange, it seemed that all of them had went through similar experiences.
Though the strange thing was that Xiao Ming found that her experience was easier than the other three.
Though it didn’t seem strange enough that she would suspect anything, she just figured that she was stronger than them.
When they finished talking, they were about to try and find out what was going on here.
Only they didn’t get a chance in the end.
While they had been talking, there were more people that arrived on this floor.
There had been around thirty of them when Xiao Ming arrived, but now there were close to fifty of them.
It was actually when the fiftieth person arrived that the situation in the room changed.
The mechanical voice suddenly came from the statue.
“There are now enough people on this floor to activate the fifth trial.”
Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing when they heard this and focused on the statue.
Everyone had been waiting for this moment after all.
The statue didn’t seem to react at all at becoming the center of attention as it continued by saying, “The fifth trial is a team match. Everyone here will be working together to pass this trial together.”
Everyone looked at each other when they heard this.
There were a few people that didn’t have good looks on their faces as they looked at certain people. It was clear that there were grudges that were between the people that looked at each other like this.
However, they didn’t let their emotions take them.
They knew that they had no choice but to work together if they wanted to pass this trial.
After a moment of pause, almost as if it was giving them time to process what it had said, the mechanical voice continued.
“The trial is very simple. You’ll be given a total of five tasks to complete together as a team and as long as you can complete them, you will all be allowed to move on.”
The mechanical voice went on to give some more instructions that seemed simple enough, but there was one thing that it said that made some people knit their brows.
“Even if some were to fall, as long as the ones remaining pass, you will all pass.”
It seemed that whatever was coming at them was dangerous enough that they would be in danger of dying, or at least being seriously injured. That was what most of them figured was the point of these words.
But the ones that knitted their brows realized something that others didn’t.
From beginning to end, the mechanical voice had never said that no one would be allowed to interfere with each other. It just said that as long as some people reached the end, they would all pass.
However, if someone were to be seriously injured or even killed…
Well, wouldn’t they be delayed because of it?
That would throw them out of the race to finish the tower since they would be stuck for at least an hour to heal up. The tower would stop them from dying and would heal them, but it would take an hour to heal up.
So it was clear that this trial encouraged them to compete with each other even though they were supposed to be working together.
Xiao Ming’s group felt the pressure the most since there were many gazes that came in their direction. It was clear that there were many people that wanted to target them, which was no surprise.
Whether it was the Love Sect or the Demon Palm Sect, they had been in the limelight for a while now.
As the first and second place groups in the first round, it was clear that they wanted to knock them down.
So there were certainly people that would be targeting them.
Before the trial began, Mo Sha even suggested, “Should we just take care of all of them first?”
As expected of someone who came from a demonic sect, but…
“No, there’s no telling what will happen. It said that there are a total of five tasks that we need to complete, so there’s no telling what could go wrong. It’s better to keep them here as test subjects just in case.” Xiao Ming said in response.
Mo Sha nodded in agreement after hearing this.
While everyone was discussing what to do, the voice suddenly stopped explaining. It seemed that it was done explaining what it needed to explain, so it said, “Let the games begin!”
The way that it said this was very strange, but they didn’t have time to process it as the floor suddenly disappeared from under them.
When they landed, they found that they were now standing in a completely different room.
This room seemed like a normal room, but it was filled with balls.
And nothing else…
It seemed like there were only balls in this room as they came all the up to their knees.
Everyone was standing there confused when they saw this room filled with balls.
However, the statue soon landed in this room. It seemed to have fallen down with them.
When it landed, the balls that would have been crushed by it seemed to part and allowed it to land without any problems.
Once the statue landed, it said, “Your first task is to find the key that opens the path to your second task. It is hidden somewhere under these balls.”
Everyone started looking around when they heard this, but they couldn’t see a single thing off about these balls other than the fact that they were all different colours.
Yes, there wasn’t a single ball that was the same colour even if they did seem like they were the same. People with observant eyes could see that these were all different shades that were distinct from each other.
But before they could start searching, one of the balls suddenly flew over to the statue.
As the ball floated there, the statue said, “Of course, you should be careful of these balls since there are a few that have a surprise to them.”
As soon as its voice fell, the ball that was floating there started to release a chill.
It didn’t take long before the space around it was completely encased in ice.
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