When Xiao Ming came up to the second floor, she was surprised to find…
There were five of the same statues that she encountered on the first floor.
It was almost as if the parting that had happened between her and the master of this tower hadn’t happened as they met again so soon.
But she quickly found out that it wasn’t what she thought it was.
That was because the master of the tower wasn’t in these statues.
Though they were the same statues that she had encountered before, a different voice came out of it. It was a voice that was completely mechanical and seemed to be devoid of all emotions that a person might have.
It just said in a mechanical tone, “Welcome to the second floor. This will be a floor that tests your abilities in a situation where you are outnumbered. You will now be facing enemies summoned by the tower. Please prepare yourself.”
Right as soon as this voice fell, the statues that were in front of her lit up.
There were spiritual energy fluctuations that came from these statues after they lit up, but this spiritual energy didn’t seem as strong as the one from before.
It seemed that even though enemies were being summoned, they weren’t as strong as her.
They seemed to be a bit weaker.
This must be the consideration of the person who designed this place.
After all, that person had told her that this place was created to train the future generation. It wouldn’t be much training if they were completely overwhelmed by the enemies that were summoned.
It would only make sense if they were a bit weaker so that the person being tested would stand a chance against them.
Or at least that would have been the case for a normal person.
But for someone like Xiao Ming who was much stronger than a normal cultivator at the same level, this wasn’t a problem at all. Even if there were a bunch of these enemies that were only slightly weaker than her, she would be able to take care of them all without any problems.
After the statues lit up, there were three beams of light that appeared around each of the statues. The statues were spread out far enough that none of these beams of light interfered with each other.
It was clear that each of these beams of light were an enemy that was being summoned, so that was a total of fifteen enemies for Xiao Ming to face.
After the light dimmed a bit, Xiao Ming could see that these were different spirit beasts that were summoned.
There was a tiger, a lion, a pangolin, even an elephant.
All fifteen of these enemies were spirit beasts of different races.
Once the light completely disappeared from them, they all turned to look at Xiao Ming who had been standing there in silence.
When Xiao Ming saw these spirit beasts looking at her, she couldn’t help slightly knitting her brows.
That was because she could see that the eyes of these spirit beasts weren’t dim. There was a faint light in them that showed that all of them had their own consciousness, so they weren’t creatures that were being forced to fight by the creator of this tower.
It was most likely that the owner of the tower had caught these spirit beasts and then tamed them to work for them.
But then again, it might not just be that alone.
After all, there was no telling how long ago this tower was created, but it certainly wasn’t created that recently. This was most likely an artifact that had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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So it was very likely that whoever the creator of this tower was, they had caught the souls of these spirit beasts and locked them in the tower like this. They were given free will and they would be allowed to do whatever they wanted outside of being summoned to test those that entered.
In a way, this was like offering them eternal life, even though it was just existing in the form of a soul.
Xiao Ming didn’t know how the creator of the tower had done this and wasn’t interested in how he had done it.
The only thing that she cared about that this told her was that…whoever had created this tower, he was most likely a powerful expert that had existed in the past. With the level of power that he had, he most likely had been able to travel without any restrictions.
So how did an expert like that fall?
Was there something else at play or was it just a natural thing?
She couldn’t help wondering about this as she started thinking about the story that the statue had told her earlier.
But it wasn’t as if the spirit beasts would just wait there for her to finish her thought.
The spirit beasts had been summoned out for one reason and one reason only. They were there to test her to see if she had the ability to fight them at the same time.
So they wouldn’t waste any time as they started moving around Xiao Ming.
With the way that they were moving, it was clear that there was a level of coordination between them. This was a level of coordination that shouldn’t have existed between beasts like this, but here they were working with each other at this level.
It was clear that they had been trained on working together like this before, but how could they reach this level?
Still, Xiao Ming didn’t have time to think about it as she was soon surrounded by these spirit beasts.
Once they were around her, all of them started releasing their spiritual energy.
However, they didn’t attack her right away.
They just gathered their spiritual energy around themselves and let it float around them, as if they were planning to do something.
All of a sudden, the spiritual energy of the spirit beasts started to mold together and form a net around her. This net quickly grew in size and in time at all, it completely surrounded Xiao Ming who was standing in the center of this formation.
This net began to shrink in size until it was the size of the area right around Xiao Ming.
It seemed that this net wasn’t to hurt her, but just to make sure that she wouldn’t be able to move.
As for why they wanted to restrain her…
Well it was very simple.
Once the next was in place, the spirit beasts started releasing even more spiritual energy to gather attacks.
The spiritual energy that they had released previously wasn’t even their full power. It seemed that the spiritual energy that they had released to form the net was only a fraction of their full power.
But with all fifteen of them releasing a fraction of their power like this, it formed a net that was much stronger than one that any of them could release on their own.
That was the power of them cooperating with each other.
Like this, they still had plenty of energy to gather to attack Xiao Ming with.
This seemed like a very good strategy for dealing with an enemy that was stronger than them, but that would only apply if the enemy was only a bit stronger than them. Such as only being a single cultivation level ahead of them.
These spirit beasts were all in the Low Foundation Realm while Xiao Ming was in the Mid Foundation Realm.
By common sense, this net should have been enough to stop her.
It was just that Xiao Ming had no intentions to follow common sense.
The only reason that she had been watching all of this silently was just to see what kind of things these spirit beasts were capable of. So when she was done observing them, she could only say that she was…disappointed.
It seemed that the formation that these spirit beasts created wasn’t as strong as she thought it was.
“Is that really it?” Xiao Ming asked with a disappointed look on her face.
The spirit beasts were clearly surprised to be asked this, also showing that they had enough intelligence to understand what she was saying. Though if one thought about it, since they were spirit beasts that had existed for so long, it wasn’t strange that they had the intelligence to understand Xiao Ming.
But they were naturally insulted at being called out like this by Xiao Ming, so they started gathering even more energy as they prepared to fully bombard Xiao Ming with their attacks.
It almost seemed like they had been holding back before because this was nothing more than a test.
But now…
That was when Xiao Ming suddenly revealed a smile.
She raised the sword that she had been holding and there was a faint layer of light that appeared around it. This was a faint layer of orange light that soon became flames that surrounded Xiao Ming’s blade.
She just slowly held this sword up in front of her before suddenly slashing out with it.
When she did, there was an orange slash of energy that suddenly went out around her.
This orange slash of energy quickly spread all around her before reaching the spirit beasts.
The spirit beasts had naturally used the spiritual energy that they gathered to form a shield in front of them, but…they couldn’t resist this slash at all.
All of the spirit beasts were cut in half and then disappeared without a trace.