An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

"break!"

On the ground, a dark shadow instantly materialized, and Xu Jingming's body emerged from the shadow, stepping into the gate.

[Ding! Level cleared successfully!]

[Congratulations to Xu Jingming, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, for successfully clearing the second level of the Tower of Babel!]

[Check-in time: Four minutes!]

[Perfect rating achieved. Reward: One Silver Treasure Chest!]

"Two levels now." Xu Jingming put away the treasure chest, his figure flashed again, and he stepped into the third level.

The third layer.

In the massive ancient Roman Colosseum built of obsidian, a towering three-headed Cerberus, its mouth spewing crimson lava flames, let out a deafening roar and charged madly toward Xu Jingming, who had just appeared.

"roar!"

The hellhound's three heads opened simultaneously, spewing out large amounts of high-temperature black fire powerful enough to incinerate the void.

"Absolute suppression with the Devious Hand, activate!"

Facing this ferocious monster with the characteristic of "three heads and three lives", Xu Jingming's eyes were cold. He had no intention of dodging. He directly used the Taotie's most domineering trump card with a thought!

"Buzz!"

His entire right arm suddenly swelled up, covered with a layer of Taotie scales that shimmered with dark golden light.

A gigantic golden claw materialized out of thin air, carrying an absolute power of dimensional reduction, and slammed the fire-breathing head of the hellhound into the obsidian ground with a powerful slap!

"boom!"

The first head, under the absolute suppression of the treacherous hand, had its soul essence instantly forced into a state of paralysis, directly shattered, and turned into ashes.

Hellhound, first life, death!

"roar!"

Upon seeing this, the remaining two heads let out a frantic wail. The hellish lava within their bodies instantly erupted, bursting forth with a vast sea of ​​black fire, attempting to melt Xu Jingming alive.

"Strange Fire! Strange Domain, suppress!"

Xu Jingming's eyes sharpened. With a thought, the Ghostly Fire Law within his body erupted, and clusters of dark green Yin Fire condensed in front of him, transforming into a huge wall of fire that forcefully blocked the Hellhound's lava.

At the same time, his [Ghost Domain] instantly opened, completely imprisoning the space within a radius of tens of meters around the Hellhound.

"Devour!"

The monstrous beast behind them opened its gaping maw wide once more in an instant.

Under the absolute confinement of the ghostly realm, the Taotie took a bite, cruelly and violently, directly biting off the second head on the right side of the hellhound, chewing it up and swallowing it into its belly!

A second life, death!

With only the last left side of the head remaining, the hellhound went completely into a hysterical frenzy.

Its body began to swell violently, radiating a dangerous, destructive red light, attempting a final, self-destructive explosion.

"die."

However, Xu Jingming didn't give it a chance to self-destruct.

His [Strange Eyes] instantly saw through the stagnation point in the flow of power within the opponent's body.

The Taotie's other claw shot out in an instant, ignoring the violent temperature, and grabbed the hellhound's last head, twisting it hard!

The last head was twisted into a pretzel, and its supernatural essence was completely annihilated under the violent power of the Taotie, turning into a pool of black blood that spilled all over the ground.

[Ding! Level cleared successfully!]

[Congratulations to Xu Jingming, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, for successfully clearing the third level of the Tower of Babel!]

[Perfect rating achieved, challenge time: 1 minute 50 seconds!]

[Third-tier reward: One substitute statue!]

With an equally domineering and overwhelming force, Xu Jingming completely slayed the third-floor BOSS in less than two minutes.

On the [Heavenly Black Stone Tablet] in the outpost square of the Tower of Babel.

With a burst of intense golden light, the rankings underwent another breathtaking and frenzied refresh that left everyone on the world in awe.

[First Place: Dragon Kingdom - Lu Xueyao (Third Floor, Completed in 2 minutes and 10 seconds)]

[Second Place: Dragon Kingdom - Xu Jingming (Third Floor, Completed in 1 minute 50 seconds)]

[Third Place: Cherry Blossom Country - Chiba Genma (Third Floor, Clear Time: 5 minutes 40 seconds)]

The chosen ones of the Dragon Kingdom have actually managed to take the top two spots on the leaderboard!

The entire outpost square instantly fell into a deathly silence.

The surviving chosen ones from all over the world looked at the two golden names of the Chinese from the Dragon Kingdom on the stone tablet. Their expressions were no longer just shocked, but turned into a deep, almost desperate sense of powerlessness.

"Baka yarou! Why! Why are both of the Dragon Kingdom's chosen ones so incredibly powerful?"

"One lasts two minutes, the other one minute and fifty seconds... those are A-grade hellhounds with three lives! Do they think they're just roadside cabbages to them?"

"Damn it! People from China are absolutely cheating! We protest! We protest against this unfair system!"

Meanwhile, the viewers in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream were in a frenzy, with countless comments scrolling by like a tsunami:

"Hahaha! Goddess Xueyao is number one! Captain Xu is number two! The top two are both from our Dragon Kingdom!"

"What thirty-nation coalition? What golden monster from the Sakura Kingdom? Before our Dragon Kingdom's two gods, they're all trash!"

"Goddess Xueyao is forever! Captain Xu was so brutal, he made the Taotie swallow him whole, so cool!"

……

Just as the outside world was caught up in a frenzy of celebration and shock.

The fourth floor of the Tower of Babel.

When Lu Xueyao opened her eyes again amidst the flashing white light, she found that she had not been transported to any battlefield filled with monsters or carnage.

What comes into view.

It is a towering white staircase that seems to lead directly to the deepest part of the endless starry sky.

This staircase has ninety-nine steps, each step of which is made of an ancient, warm, white jade, radiating a hazy, holy glow.

At the very top of the stairs, deep within the starry sky, a portal leading to the fifth floor floats silently in the void.

[The fourth level of the Tower of Babel trial is now open:]

[Mission Objective: Successfully climb all ninety-nine white jade steps and cross the portal to complete the mission!]

[Rules for this level: This level is a pure test of "mental state and willpower." There are no physical dangers on the stairs, but with each step, the mental pressure and gravity the chosen one must endure will increase exponentially!]

[Special Note: Starting from the fiftieth step, "Inner Demon Illusions" will forcibly emerge on the steps, directly targeting the soul and amplifying the deepest fears and obsessions of the chosen one. Those with weak will and flawed moral character are highly susceptible to soul collapse within these illusions, utterly reducing themselves to walking corpses!]

Looking at this heavenly staircase suspended in the endless starry sky.

Lu Xueyao took a deep breath, and a bright and determined light flashed in her clear and cold eyes.