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Chapter 148 Passing Three Trials, the Tower of Despair

Upon entering the Spirit Source Land, the group discovered a towering black spire reaching into the clouds, with three large golden characters above its gate.

——Qiongyuan Tower
Ning Wengui looked at the tall tower and understood something. He said, "So this year's continental competition is still using the method of passing three trials in the Spirit Source Land to determine resource allocation."

Lin Zhao asked, "Three trials? Is this the standard procedure for every Continental Grand Competition?"

“Generally speaking, yes,” Ning Wengui said. “Unless there are special circumstances, such as when only one continent’s forces participate in the competition, the competition will be conducted in a different way. However, this situation no longer exists after the Tianhuang Continent gradually declined.”

It's important to understand that in the early days of the Tianhuang Plane, any first-rate power on the Tianhuang Continent could easily crush the strongest powers on other continents. At that time, the resources of other continents depended entirely on how much the Tianhuang Continent was willing to allocate to them.

After all, these continents were essentially separated from the Tianhuang Continent, so their strength was naturally inferior to that of the Tianhuang Continent.

However, with the decline of the Tianhuang Continent, other continents were no longer satisfied with obtaining their own resource allocation and wanted to obtain even more resources than the Tianhuang Continent.

Therefore, the competition in mainland China has evolved into the current three-stage format.

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhao felt fortunate to be with another team, otherwise she would have known nothing about these things: "What are the three trials?"

"The Tower of Extinction, the Phoenix Selection, and the final free-for-all will each account for 30%, 30%, and 40% of the allocated resources, respectively. In the Tower of Extinction, disciples from all continents will compete for 30% of the resources in this plane."

Lin Zhao acted immediately: "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go in."

Ning Wengui quickly pulled her back, saying with some helplessness, "I haven't finished yet. In the first two rounds, the disciples participating in the competition cannot be the same as each other."

This condition successfully made Lin Zhao frown: "What?"

As she wondered, the Qiongyuan Tower in front of her suddenly lit up with bright yellow light layer by layer, with beams of light shooting out from the windows on each floor. Finally, these beams of light converged in the air to form several lines of text.

Qu Shu looked at the few lines of ancient text and translated them into language that everyone could understand.

"Three people from one continent will climb the tower. Each person will start from the first floor. In the end, the total number of floors climbed by the three people will be used to allocate 30% of the resources of the plane represented by the Tower of Exhaustion from the highest to the lowest."

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhao and Su Baining exchanged glances and couldn't help but sigh: "Disciples participating in the first two rounds of the competition cannot be repeated. There are no requirements for the third round, right?"

Ning Wengui nodded: "According to the previous rules, each continent sends thirty people to the platform to fight against the puppets of the Spirit Source Land in the Great Melee. The winner is determined by the quality and number of puppets defeated. Of course, the Great Melee can be even more terrifying in the end. Let's talk about that when we get to that level."

Well, let's worry about the future when it's too late; what's happening now is making us very sad.

Lin Zhao looked up at the endless spire of the Qiongyuan Tower, and thinking about how the manpower for the first two levels could not be repeated, he wished he could split himself into three pieces.

Somewhat frustrated, she asked the other two team leaders for their opinions: "Who should we send?"

One of the three of them will inevitably have to step up in this round; the momentum from the first round is crucial.

However, it was clear that Su Bai was unaware of these things, and Ning Wengui did not give a definite answer.

Lin Zhao once again made the final decision, "Let's see how the other continents perform first."

As they were talking, a small continent called the Golden Eagle Continent began climbing the tower.

The first one of them climbed to the ninth floor, while the remaining two climbed to the sixth floor but could not go any further. When the three of them came out, they were all pale as death, as if they had seen something terrifying.

The final score for Golden Eagle Continent in this level is twenty-one.

After that, more than a dozen other continents climbed the tower one after another. The highest score was achieved by three disciples from a continent called Dafeng Continent. The three disciples climbed to the 25th, 21st and 19th floors respectively and got 65 points.

Even after all these continents had conquered the Tower of Exhaustion, no continent had yet broken this score.

In the end, only the four continents that had formed an alliance and the people of the Heavenly Phoenix Continent remained.

Jiang Luo said to Su Ye in a sarcastic tone, "Aren't you very capable? Why don't you go for it?"

Su Ye said, "Even the dogs didn't get on, what am I supposed to do?"

Jiang Luo rolled up his sleeves, ready to fight him again, but Mo Zun's glance made him behave.

"Yingying, let your Qingluan Continent give it a try first," said Mo Zun.

Lan Yingying nodded, and then her body shot into the Qiongyuan Tower like an arrow. Lan Yingying's move undoubtedly attracted the attention of all the disciples from the continent present.
This young girl, who ranks among the top three in the four-way alliance, will reveal just how far she can go in the Qiongyuan Tower, giving them an initial glimpse into the difficulty of the Qiongyuan Tower for these top geniuses.

Su Bai was the one among these people who didn't care much about Lan Yingying's actions. He spent nine-tenths of his time looking at Lin Zhao. Noticing that Lin Zhao's gaze at Qiongyuan Tower was a bit strange, he asked, "Is there a problem?"

Lin Zhao snapped out of his thoughts and said, "I was thinking that the Four-Party Alliance has a terrifying understanding of us. To put it somewhat narcissistically, if it weren't for my role as a variable, the Heavenly Phoenix Continent would have been almost completely destroyed before even entering the Spirit Source Land."

Even Zhou Delong, who had previously had many opinions about Lin Zhao, fully agreed with this point.

"Since they know so much about us as their opponents, wouldn't they know something about the three trials in the Spirit Origin Land?" Lin Zhao posed a hypothetical question: "Could there be some hidden rules in the three trials that they could use to scheme against us?"

This hypothesis was somewhat alarming, and even Ning Wengui's expression turned serious.

"The rules for passing the three challenges have always been the same, nothing has changed..."

Before he could finish speaking, gasps of surprise rose and fell from the crowd.

"Lan Yingying's score is out." Qu Shu read out her level with a solemn expression.

"Sixty-one floors."

One person climbed sixty-one floors?!

Lin Zhao instinctively realized that something was wrong. Then, her gaze was fixed on Qiongyuan Tower. She thought of something, slapped her forehead, and felt ridiculously stupid.

"Captain Ning, could you please take a look and see if there are any changes to the Qiongyuan Tower compared to when it was first built?"

The precise detector was right beside me; how could I have forgotten?
Ning Wengui listened to her reminder and subconsciously observed the changes in the Qiongyuan Tower. Upon seeing it, his expression turned extremely ugly.

"The sixty-one floors of the tower that Lan Yingying has passed through are all brighter than before."

Looking at the increasing brightness of the Qiongyuan Tower as it went up, Lin Zhao could guess that the brighter the level, the higher the difficulty.

And it seems that Lan Yingying has mastered some methods, subtly increasing the difficulty of the Qiongyuan Tower?!
Such profound thoughts.

If it weren't for Ning Wengui's purple-eyed glass body, they really wouldn't have noticed.

Lin Zhao was so angry she laughed, and she reacted quickly.

"You can discuss the rest, but I must be the last person from the Heavenly Phoenix Continent to enter the tower."

The first challenge is that the Heavenly Phoenix Continent must not lose, and Lin Zhao would not trust anyone else with this task; he would only feel at ease if he took the stage himself.

"Once the people from Qingluan Continent leave the tower, the people you have arranged will go in. The others from the Four-Way Alliance will definitely compete with you to go in, but we must be the one after Qingluan Continent."

Since Lan Yingying has the means to increase the difficulty of the Qiongyuan Tower, it's hard to say that the three continents don't have the same methods.

Ning Wengui, Su Bai, and the captains of the other forces exchanged glances and nodded.

Soon, the Heavenly Phoenix Continent nominated two more people: Su Bai and Chen Xinyue.

Su Bai took the lead, and only his speed convinced everyone that they wouldn't be beaten to the punch by the other three continents when vying to enter the Qiongyuan Tower.

My toothache is almost gone, so I'll start updating like crazy tomorrow until I meet Ji Wantang.

P.S.: I noticed some readers don't know who the male lead is.

To explain, the female protagonist of this story will have a harem, and the male protagonists are tentatively set as Su Bai, Qu Shu, and Ning Wengui, but in the end, there will definitely be more than three of them.

If you have any other suggestions, please type them in the comments section and I'll consider adding them.

Regarding the romance, there's quite a bit of it in the Mainland China competition section. It mainly focuses on describing the characters of the three male leads and their respective identities. Astute readers have already spotted the foreshadowing I've planted for them from an omniscient perspective, so I won't go into details.

After this part, the romantic scenes will be very sporadic, and the focus will shift to the main plot.

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