Half an hour later, Xiao Ding of the Xiao Clan arrived at the seventh floor!
Perhaps no one had expected that the first person to clear the first six floors would be Xiao Ding! In truth, Xiao Ding's assessment of his own combat strength and that of the challengers was freakishly precise! Since Dou Qi could be restored after clearing a stage, Xiao Ding went all out in the first three stages, aiming to kill his opponents.
The only miscalculation had been Lei Che.
The Lei Che on the third floor had been completely different from what the intelligence reports described.
He had been even harder to deal with than Xiao Kuang! The fourth floor, meanwhile, had been Xiao Ding's easiest stage.
Xiao Li had simply stood there and let Xiao Ding slash at him.
Players could not hold back, but as gatekeeping NPCs, before enough real combat data had been recorded, the NPCs could go easy on their own!
That was actually more in line with reality.
On the fifth floor, against Huo Zhi, Xiao Ding had only chosen to last three minutes.
On the sixth floor, against the theoretically more difficult Jiu Feng, Xiao Ding had instead chosen to last five minutes!
As for the seventh floor, Xiao Ding discovered that he was actually standing above the clouds after arriving.
His body drifted forward of its own accord. Passing through the cloud layer, the blazing sun was so intense that it stung his eyes.
A platform floated overhead.
The platform was no more than three zhang long and wide. Upon it stood:
A pine, a cypress, and a spring pool.
A table, a chair, and a True Lord!
At that moment, Yang Shan's bearing was completely different from the Yang Shan in Xiao Ding's intelligence reports and the