Trial Space

The next day, at eleven in the morning.

Yang Wu and Yang Hui arrived together at the ninth floor of the Ninefold Tower and entered a somewhat dim little room.

Trial room!

From the 1st to the 30th of every month, people entered the trial room to train. During those thirty days, the only rest period each day was from noon to one in the afternoon.

If there was a 31st, it was either used for maintenance shutdowns or given over as a full day of rest.

Therefore, whenever outsiders came for assessments, or new reserve trainees took their examinations, they would choose the period from noon to one o'clock, conducting the assessment within that one hour.

There were only two sofas in the room, each with a dark blue helmet resting on it. Under the lights, they reflected a dazzling dark blue glow.

"These two helmets..."

Yang Hui began introducing them to Yang Wu. In truth, Yang Wu already knew what they were: consciousness sensors created by human scientists in imitation of virtual space equipment.

Once a person put on this consciousness sensor, their consciousness would enter a virtual space with 100% realism. Within the virtual space, they could basically do anything possible in reality.

Of course, although the realism was said to be 100%, psychic power could not be brought inside.

Yang Wu lay back on the comfortable sofa, took the dark blue helmet Yang Hui handed him, and put it on.

The next moment, he appeared on an endless expanse of silvery-white ground.

Above him stretched the vast, boundless starry sky. Countless stars filled the limitless night, casting dreamlike light across the silver earth.

Not far away stood an enormous tower that reached into the clouds. Even with the naked eye, he could vaguely make out that it had seven floors.

"That's the Trial Tower."

Yang Wu understood. He casually moved his limbs, swiftly making a rough assessment of the combat strength of his current body.

Everyone whose consciousness entered the virtual space received a body with identical physical attributes: the standard Warrior General Level.

Only when everyone possessed the same physical attributes could their true standards in combat be tested more effectively.

Except for Psychic Masters!

After all, psychic power was a Psychic Master's primary means of fighting enemies, and psychic power could not be brought into the Trial Space. Its impact on a Psychic Master's combat strength was undoubtedly enormous.

It was like a tiger with its teeth pulled or a machine gun emptied of bullets. The difference in strength was too obvious. Without psychic power, could a Psychic Master still be called a Psychic Master?

When he arrived at the entrance beneath the tower, Yang Wu saw his identity information and Trial Tower level immediately appear on the black stone pillar to the left.

The so-called Trial Tower level was actually the number of floors one had cleared in this towering structure. Yang Wu's Trial Tower level was 1.0, which meant he had no record of clearing any stages.

The entire Trial Tower had seven floors, and each floor was divided into three stages of different difficulty: A, B, and C.

Those who entered the Trial Tower used identical physical attributes and fought their way upward step by step. After clearing the first floor, they could directly enter the second.

After passing the first floor's Stage A trial, one's Trial Tower level would be 1.3. After passing the first floor's Stage B trial, it would be 1.6.

After passing the Stage C trial and completing all the trials on the first floor, one would enter the second floor's trial, and their Trial Tower level would directly become 2.0.

And so on.

However, even for trials on the same floor and at the same stage, completion levels varied. Some people could complete 90%, while others could only manage 70%, or even 50%.

Therefore, Trial Tower levels also differed. For example, for the first floor's Stage A trial, Trial Tower levels could be 1.1 or 1.2. Only fully clearing it counted as 1.3.

The higher one went, the more difficult the trials became.

The Trial Tower had seven floors in total, yet no one had managed to reach the seventh floor so far. Even Hong, the world's strongest expert, had stopped at the sixth floor.

Yang Wu also guessed that the first three floors of the Trial Tower merely tested a martial artist's overall abilities: movement technique, spear technique, bodily force output, combat experience, on-the-spot performance, and other such aspects.

From the fourth floor onward, one also had to consider whether their attacks could break through defenses.

In the virtual space, the Trial Tower could only admit one person at a time. Thus, every trainee, including members of the War God Palace, entered one after another.

Yang Wu summoned the weapon and equipment selection panel, casually chose a combat uniform, then selected a Po Jun Spear.

After he clicked confirm, the combat uniform and Po Jun Spear dropped directly in front of Yang Wu.

"They don't synchronize directly onto your body?"

"Terrible rating!"

Yang Wu grumbled inwardly, but he quickly put on the combat uniform, picked up the Po Jun Spear, then pushed open the doors of the Trial Tower and entered the pitch-black passage ahead.

The trial had begun!

Outside the Trial Tower, after Yang Wu went in, Yang Hui waited beneath the entrance. He was greatly looking forward to Yang Wu's final Trial Tower result.

Two minutes later, the numbers carved on the black stone pillar belonging to Yang Wu abruptly changed.

His Trial Tower level changed from 1 to 1.3.

Yang Hui did not find this strange. After all, Yang Wu had successfully cultivated the third level of the Extinction Spear Technique. Fourfold bodily force was no joke.

With the explosive power of fourfold force, an Elementary Beast General Level Savage Bull might not even be able to touch a hair on Yang Wu.

Another two minutes and thirty seconds later, Yang Wu's Trial Tower level changed from 1.3 to 1.6.

"So fast!"

"Excluding the one-minute preparation countdown, that means he only took one minute and thirty seconds to pass the first floor's Stage B trial."

Yang Hui was somewhat surprised at the sight. It was not that he was astonished Yang Wu had passed the Stage B trial.

Rather, he was surprised because the number of Savage Bulls in the first floor's Stage B trial was twice that of Stage A. Yet after the number of Savage Bulls had doubled, Yang Wu had only needed thirty seconds more to clear it.

There were more Savage Bulls, so why had the clear time barely increased?

Strong movement speed did not mean equally strong neural reaction speed. According to the information he knew, Yang Wu's greatest strength was his fourfold bodily force.

His physical attributes came second, while his movement technique seemed to have only reached the Entrance Level.

To kill a sufficient number of monsters in the shortest possible time, relying on physical movement speed alone was useless.

Especially within the Trial Tower, where everyone had the same physical attributes, monsters could make countless mistakes.

But as long as you made one mistake, or had your attack rhythm disrupted, the monsters would swarm you in minutes and beat you to death.

"It seems his movement technique has improved as well. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for him to pass the first floor's Stage B trial so quickly."

Although Yang Hui was surprised by Yang Wu's clearing speed, when he thought of how Yang Wu had comprehended the third level of the Extinction Spear Technique's fourfold force technique in just one month—

With such terrifying comprehension ability, it was hardly strange that he had made some progress in movement technique as well.

"I just wonder how many floors you'll ultimately clear."

Yang Hui raised his head, gazing at the gigantic tower standing upon the endless silver earth, and muttered to himself.