CHAPTER 1057: CHAPTER 330: THE HEAVENLY TRIBULATION APPROACHES!

"..."

At this moment, Chen Qiu had already reached the 180th floor. Honestly speaking, continuing downward like this, though not exhausting nor requiring to solve any dilemmas, does take some time, considering each floor is a thousand feet.

He couldn’t manage to fly far away first and then free fall.

There are air walls.

The entire staircase was enveloped by Nihility, causing him to slowly descend layer by layer, which was rather cumbersome.

"Sigh..."

Standing on the edge of the 180th floor, Chen Qiu looked at the Nihility in front of him and the endless staircase below, sighed lightly. He had not yet figured out how to bring Fat Long and others up here.

He could pass the levels easily, but how to bring Fat Long and others up was quite a problem.

Without thinking too much further.

He continued to jump down the stairs, proceeding downward.

It is worth mentioning that on the rankings, after his name still showed "Second Floor," meaning that although this ranking is real-time, it only displays the highest step reached by the challenger, and when the challenger voluntarily walks downward, the ranking does not change.

...

After a full few sticks of incense, Chen Qiu finally met "Ba Dan" at the 976th floor. Without much conversation, he only instructed Ba Dan to wait for him at this floor, then continued downward.

Along the way, he encountered many cultivators.

He ignored those bewildered looks from the cultivators, just continued to walk downward, like moving in the opposite direction among the crowd, when everyone else was climbing upward, only he was walking downward, which was quite conspicuous.

It even sparked numerous conspiracy theories.

Some people believed that this "immortality opportunity" was a scam, becoming the first to reach the top wouldn’t result in a great fortune, but in being... sacrificed or something wholly harmful, otherwise, how could one explain why Chen Qiu, who had clearly reached the second floor, wasn’t stepping onto the first floor to obtain the immortality opportunity, but was heading downward instead?

You can’t reach the top, reaching the top means death!

For a moment, many people had this thought, but soon dismissed it, perhaps as if implying they could reach the top, such a matter should be considered by those in the top tier.

Not their matter to ponder.

Finally—

Just hundreds of breaths later, he saw Xiao Shuai at the 999th floor, and Fat Long was also on this floor. Chen Qiu did not linger much and went straight to Xiao Shuai. He couldn’t directly converse with the Secret Realm Artifact Spirit as he hadn’t even seen the artifact spirit’s vessel, all he heard were those emotionless process-driven announcements, to converse with this Secret Realm Artifact Spirit, he could only do so through Xiao Shuai.

After expressing his needs.

Xiao Shuai nodded, then closed his eyes, stood on the spot for a few breaths before opening his eyes and softly said.

"Senior."

"She says you can complete the levels on behalf of someone, but it’s limited to members of the ’Giant Team’, you cannot complete the levels on behalf of others, otherwise it would be too conspicuous, which might cause problems."

"Understood."

Chen Qiu nodded. He roughly understood what conspicuous meant; perhaps it was fear of drawing attention and causing the Heavenly Dao to awaken prematurely?

Although he deemed it unlikely.

After all, while the "Ascension Conference" is extremely important in the Tidal Immortal Realm, descending once every ten thousand years, placed within the boundless Continent, one Ascension Conference is somewhat insignificant, this level of conspicuity couldn’t possibly catch the attention of the slumbering Heavenly Dao.

At most, when the Heavenly Dao awakens, it would start settling accounts, but the sides were already set as enemies, what’s there to care about?

Yet since the Secret Realm Artifact Spirit said so, he didn’t argue.

He just tried placing his hand on Xiao Shuai, and soon a panel enveloped with cloud appeared before him.

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"999th Floor Dilemma."

"Randomizing..."

"Randomized, this floor’s dilemma is ’Life in Desolation’, you will challenge puppets of the same cultivation, the number of puppets is decided by the challenger themselves, and based on the puppet number, it will determine how many floors you can jump after succeeding in the challenge."

"The minimum number of puppets is 1, the maximum is 997."

"After failing the challenge, there will be no more opportunity to continue climbing."

"Please choose whether to challenge."

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As expected.

Seeing this panel, he got the idea, if it were a different dilemma, not to mention whether he could ensure to clear, even if he could ensure to clear, to send these people to the floors he wanted, would take quite a long time, but since it was randomized to this dilemma, then it all became simple.

His plan is.

Ba Dan reaches the top, he gains a "Supreme" Red Entry on the second floor, and the remaining people all stay between the 51st-100th floors to get a Top-Grade Cultivation Card.

This way, it maximizes benefits.

For Fat Long and others, having an extra Supreme Red Entry actually doesn’t make much of a difference, after all, the combat power of the Chao Tian Sect essentially centers on him, and now his weakest link is his cultivation is too low, only if his cultivation quickly elevates can he take on the main combat power post the awakening of the Heavenly Dao.

Without thinking much further.

He immediately chose to challenge over 900 puppets, sending Xiao Shuai to the 51st floor, instructing him not to continue ascending but to stay on the 51st floor to get a Top-Grade Cultivation Card.

Next, he sent Fat Long and other Chao Tian Sect disciples at the same level upward.

Afterward, he began searching for other Chao Tian Sect disciples one layer at a time, once found, sending them all to the 51st floor.