Skyrocketing

"What's going on? Why isn't Master Chen Fan going in?"

"Could something have gone wrong?"

"Look at the leaderboard! Xiao Wuming's name is highlighted! First tier!"

"Holy crap! Second floor already! That was fast!"

"Luo Shenyue has also reached the second level! Lei Pojun is right behind her!"

"In less than ten minutes, Xiao Wuming has already broken through to the tenth level! This speed is terrifying!"

"But... what about Chen Fan? Why is his level still zero?"

On the massive leaderboard, the names of Xiao Wuming, Luo Shenyue, and others rose like rockets, rapidly reshuffling the rankings.

Chen Fan's name, however, was displayed alone at the very bottom of everyone else's list.

Number of floors: 0.

Just as the online discussion was about to reach its peak, and new doubts and speculations were about to emerge.

The child who had been standing in front of the tower for a long time finally made a move.

He let out a long, lazy yawn, then turned his head and said lightly to Shen Xuan and the others who had been waiting impatiently beside him.

"Let them run for a while."

"To avoid despair from the start, that would be so pointless."

The words had barely left his mouth.

Under Shen Xuan's bewildered gaze, and Tuo Bashan's increasingly excited eyes.

Chen Fan then took leisurely steps, his hands still in his pockets, and slowly walked into the door of the giant tower.

Light and shadow shift and change.

After Chen Fan's figure completely disappeared into the magnificent tower gate, the world before his eyes suddenly changed.

It was no longer the dazzling Virtual Star Domain of the outside world, but a gray plain stretching to the horizon.

The sky was a somber, leaden gray, and the earth was a deathly, grayish-white. There was no wind, no sound, and even the air seemed to be frozen.

As Chen Fan surveyed this monotonous landscape, countless gray specks of light appeared out of thin air in the center of the plain, as if drawn by some invisible force, and quickly coalesced.

"Click... click..."

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of rocks rubbing together, a giant three meters tall, made entirely of hard rock, slowly stood up.

Its body was robust and heavy, and at the joints, a yellowish-brown light flowed slowly like lava.

A powerful aura, unique to martial Martial Artists at the first stage of the Internal Organ Refining, suddenly spread out!

"They're here! The guards on the first floor!"

"Such a powerful sense of oppression! Although it's only the first stage of the Organ Refining, the solidity of this aura far surpasses that of ordinary Martial Artists!"

"For most candidates who are not at the Golden Body Realm, this first level is an insurmountable chasm!"

Throughout the entire universe, in countless live streams, all viewers and commentators held their breath at this moment.

They stared intently at the Light Screen, eager to see how this young man, who had created a legend in theoretical and fundamental assessments, would perform in real combat.

On the plain, two red lights suddenly lit up in the empty eye sockets of the rock guardian, instantly locking onto the tiny figure not far away.

"Roar!"

It let out a silent roar, and a shockwave of mental energy swept across the area like ripples.

Immediately afterwards, its rocky right fist, larger than Millstone, enveloped in a thick layer of earthy yellow Origin Power, was raised high and slammed down on Chen Fan's head with the force of splitting mountains and shattering rocks!

Before the punch even landed, the force of the punch had already created spiderweb-like cracks in the ground!

Faced with this thunderous strike that could level a small mountain, Chen Fan's expression remained unchanged.

He didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, and his left hand, still tucked in his pocket, showed no intention of leaving.

He simply extended his right hand and casually flicked his finger at the oncoming giant fist.

A tiny, almost imperceptible golden wisp of light floated out from his pale fingertips.

The light was so small and faint that in this gray world, it was like a firefly that could be extinguished at any moment, so insignificant that it could be almost ignored.

"What... what is this?"

"That's it? He thinks he can use this to block the Rock Guardian's attack?"

"You're kidding, right!"

To the bewilderment of millions of viewers, that golden ray of light gently touched the colossal, sky-covering rock fist.

The next moment.

A scene that sent chills down the spines of every living being in the universe unfolded.

From the point where the fist touched the light, the rock guardian's massive and indestructible body began to silently disintegrate, like a sand sculpture that had been exposed to the scorching sun for a thousand years...

The hard Petrification into the finest gray dust, which then decomposed into the most primordial specks of light, ultimately returning to nothingness.

From the moment the guard made his move to his complete annihilation, the entire process took less than a second.

It couldn't even utter a mournful cry.

[First layer, through.]

It wasn't until the cold, impersonal system notification sounded that everyone snapped out of their daze.

At the edge of the plain, a portal to the second level slowly opened.

Chen Fan let out a long yawn, a look of utter boredom on his face, as if he had just casually crushed an ant in his way.

He shook his head, his hands still in his pockets, and strolled leisurely into the portal.

"This game... seems a bit too easy."

A soft murmur, disappearing behind the portal with his figure, was clearly transmitted throughout the entire Federation via the live stream.

Meanwhile, outside the Prodigies Trial Tower.

On that colossal leaderboard that spans the heavens and the earth, the battle is reaching its climax.

"Look! Xiao Wuming has broken through to the sixtieth level! My god, this speed is inhuman!"

"It's only been less than half an hour since he entered, right? That's an average of two minutes per floor?"

"Incredible! No wonder he's Prodigies number one prodigy of the Heavenly Dragon Star System! He's currently fighting a bloody battle, having just defeated the Three-Headed Hellhound projection on the fifty-ninth floor. Although he suffered minor injuries, this achievement is enough to make him stand out from the crowd!"

"Luo Shenyue and Lei Pojun followed closely behind on the fifty-eighth floor! Our generation is truly a golden age!"

Countless viewers are cheering and shouting for Xiao Wuming's amazing speed in clearing the tower, and the headlines of major media outlets have begun to describe him as having the demeanor of a champion and being unstoppable.

However, at that moment, someone let out a scream filled with horror and confusion.

"Wait! Look... look at the very bottom!"

Everyone instinctively looked towards the bottom of the leaderboard.

The name that had been hanging at the very bottom with its layer number displayed as "0" the whole time has moved!

Just as Xiao Wuming's name had secured its position on the fifteenth floor, radiating a glorious light...

A glimmer of light appeared on Chen Fan's line.

The scene that everyone expected—the number changing from "0" to "1"—did not occur.

Instead, the number representing the floor level transformed into a blurry phantom that was impossible for the naked eye to perceive, pulsating wildly at a frequency that completely defied common sense!

One!

Five!

Ten!

Fifteen!

Twenty!

The numbers weren't climbing, they were... leaping!