Outside the Soul Tower of Trial, the representatives from the different sects watched the screens carefully.
There were many different screens that were added, all of which had different points of views.
There wasn’t a single screen other than the main screen that had a single point of view on it.
That was because there were so many contestants in this second round in the first place and they were all doing different things, so they couldn’t just ignore any single contestant.
Instead of picking and choosing, they broadcasted everything that was happening.
This showed that the Martial Might Sect had quite a bit of control over the Soul Tower of Trial, which was a bit worrying for Lin Fan.
However, this also meant that he would be able to keep an eye on the disciples of both the Love Sect and the Demon Palm Sect.
He cared about the Demon Palm Sect disciples since they were their allies and they were necessary for them to escape this place. So if anything happened to the Demon Palm Sect disciples, that would be bad for him.
As for the main screen, that was showing the point of view of a single disciple that was chosen out of everyone by the ones that were controlling the screen. That meant that they were the one that the Martial Might Sect chose to show off.
Right now, that was Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming was the one that was on the main screen.
Lin Fan and the other elders all knitted their brows as they watched this main screen.
They all felt like the Martial Might Sect was planning something by having Xiao Ming on this main screen, but they didn’t know what they were planning.
So the only thing that they could do was watch and wait.
…
When Xiao Ming reached the first floor, she was surprised to see what was in front of her.
It was a simple statue that was in the center of the room.
This was a statue of what seemed to be a normal looking man that didn’t have any distinguishing features. This was the kind of face that she would see many times in a day since it was a very common kind of face.
But she could tell that this statue wasn’t a normal statue.
Once she was in the room, the statue suddenly started to speak, “Welcome to my Soul Tower of Trial. This is the artifact that I made before my life was tragically cut short. It is an artifact that I made to test the future generation since I’ve always wanted the best for them. You see…”
The statue started to ramble on about his life, but the short of it was…
He wasn’t able to have children with his lover, but both of them loved children.
So the only thing that they could do was look to the children of others.
It wasn’t the strange kind of caring about children, it was the kind that they wanted to do something for the future of those children. Which was why they had built this tower of trial and had even left fragments of their soul in it.
This was a tower that would test those future generations and give them rewards based on their performance. At the same time, it would serve as training for them as it would put them in various scenarios that they would have to adapt to.
At this, Xiao Ming couldn’t help slightly knitting her brows.
It seemed that whatever was going to happen, it didn’t seem like there were any expectations that she could have. It seemed that there would be all kinds of different scenarios that she could face, so there was no preparing for it.
She would just have to adapt on the fly…
After telling his story, the statue said, “Now, I hope that you are ready for the first floor of my tower of trials.”
Xiao Ming had a bitter smile on her face when she heard this.
In truth, she had been ready for a long time and she had been patiently waiting for the statue to finish since she thought that there would be something worth it at the end. But it turned out that this statue, or rather the one that inhabited the statue, just liked to ramble on and didn’t have anything useful other than a few bits of information.
She should have stopped him much earlier since it wasn’t as if she had all the time in the world.
There was a limit to how long she could spend here since there was a time limit to this second round.
The statue didn’t waste any time this time as he said, “The first round will be a simple warm up, so there’s no need for you to be that worried. It’ll be a simple test of your combat abilities and the one that you’ll be facing is me.”
After saying this, there was a wave of spiritual energy that came from the statue.
Xiao Ming was surprised since she could tell that this was the exact same level as her.
As if the statue could see her surprise, it said, “I’ve adjusted myself to your level, so you don’t need to worry. Just go all out and defend yourself, you’ll be healed up after each trial so you can go into each new trial refreshed. You don’t need to worry about saving your stamina.”
Then the statue suddenly charged at Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming was caught off guard again, but she didn’t hesitate to pull out her weapon and slash out at the statue coming at her.
To her further surprise…the statue wasn’t able to resist for a single second.
This was a quick slash that she had released without gathering her power first, so it wasn’t considered a strong attack. It was by no means anywhere near the strongest attack that she could have released.
So of course she was surprised that she was able to cut the statue in half with just this.
Even though the statue had crumbled and fallen, Xiao Ming didn’t let her guard down as she waited to see what would happen next. She figured that since the statue fell so easily, there must be some kind of trap waiting for her.
But…
It wasn’t a trap.
The voice from the statue rang out once again to say, “Congratulations on passing the first floor. The entrance to the second floor will be opening soon.”
After a moment of silence, Xiao Ming couldn’t help asking, “Is that really it?”
There was a chuckle that rang out in the room before the voice said, “What, you think that it’s too easy? Well, you’re right, it is too easy. You can consider this a reward.”
“Reward?” Xiao Ming repeated in a confused voice.
The voice chuckled once more before saying, “You’re one of the few that sat through that rambling of mine, so of course you would be rewarded for that.”
“One of the few?” Xiao Ming repeated again as a look of figuring something out appeared in her eyes. After a moment of silence, she asked, “Are you linked to everyone else as well?”
The voice just simply said, “Of course, this is my tower of trial. I can see everything that is happening inside of this place.”
Xiao Ming quickly said, “Then can you tell me where my companions are?” She realized something was wrong with what she said and quickly said, “They are…”
Before she could describe the people from the Love Sect, the voice said, “Child, this is a fair trial, how could I do something like that? You’ll meet them when the time comes since there are floors where you’ll have to work together, but before then, you’ll just have to push on alone. That is all in the spirit of fairness.”
Xiao Ming’s mouth remained open for a few seconds before she slowly closed it and gave a nod in response.
She understood where the voice was coming from, so it wasn’t as if she could just force them to go along with her.
So Xiao Ming headed towards the stairs.
Before she could go up the stairs, the voice suddenly said, “Right, even though it’s easier to wait fifteen minutes to listen to my story, that doesn’t mean that everyone did it. If you’re strong enough, it’s actually easier to beat my statue than it is to wait for me to finish my story, which is what some people have done.”
Xiao Ming turned back to look at the statue that was there on the ground, but there wasn’t anything else that was said.
It seemed that this was a small gift of a warning from the statue and there was nothing else that she could gain from it.
So Xiao Ming just gave a simple bow before heading up the stairs.
After she was gone, there was a faint figure of light that appeared from the statue that looked in the direction of the stairs. This faint figure of light looked just like the statue, but there was a faint smile on their lips instead of the stern look the statue had.
With that smile, the faint figure of light said, “What a polite child, it seems like the world is still doing fine.”
“Since she’s so polite, I should reward her with something.” The faint figure of light stroked his chin before waving his finger in the air.
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He disappeared after saying this.
This was not something that was captured by the screens outside.