Exploiting a Small Bug in the Three Step Tower, Cultivation Skyrockets!

The Golden Serpent coiled tightly around the Molting Banshee's body. The sharp crackling sounds of bones breaking intertwined with the Molting Banshee's miserable screams.

"What a pain!"

Since he wasn't sure whether the host was still alive, Li Xingze couldn't use Jealousy to behead her in one stroke. He could only deal with her using magic.

It seemed he needed to raise his Lightning Element to the intermediate level as soon as possible. Only then would he be able to handle all sorts of situations more effectively.

"Lightning Seal - Fury Strike!"

Li Xingze decisively used a Third-Level Thunder Seal. Empowered to five times its usual strength, this Third-Level Thunder Seal was no weaker than Intermediate Magic.

Golden Thunder descended straight from the ceiling and crashed down onto the Molting Banshee, the immense current making it let out an utterly intoxicating sound.

After that intoxicating moment, her once-hard scales had been completely charred black. Li Xingze lightly brushed at them a few times, and the blackened chunks fell from her body, revealing a still-charming mature woman.

Because Li Xingze's electricity had been too powerful, Flower-Face Lady's current state was somewhat...

Li Xingze forcibly pulled his gaze away, then brought down the poor girl hanging from the ceiling.

"Lingling, call an ambulance first. Someone's seriously injured, and the female host might still be saved."

Lingling nodded, but the look she gave Li Xingze still carried a hint of suspicion and strangeness.

This guy had electrocuted all the woman's clothes away. He hadn't done it on purpose, had he?

Li Xingze didn't notice anything off about Lingling's gaze. Instead, he turned to the other two frightened girls and said softly, "The banshee is dead. Help this person stop the bleeding first. I still need to deal with the other one."

"Okay, okay."

The two girls had been scared senseless. Only after hearing Li Xingze's voice did they remember their injured friend and hurriedly get to work.

Following the child's cries, Li Xingze quickly reached a room downstairs and saw the Molting Banshee crawling through the darkness.

Compared to that Molting Banshee, this male demon had only just finished molting. Li Xingze did not even need to restrain it further; one Third-Level Thunder Seal solved the problem outright.

After dealing with the two parasitic demons, the remaining matters were left to the Healing Mages. Whether they could be saved was no longer his concern.

After cultivating for another month, Li Xingze sensed the bottleneck in his Lightning Element and decisively chose to enter the Three Step Tower.

If he cultivated normally, it would take at least another two months for his Lightning Element to break through to the intermediate level. Unfortunately, he didn't have a cultivation cheat like Little Loach.

The Nebula Magic Tool only worked on nebulae. While cultivating his Lightning and Wind Elements, Li Xingze was still using a spirit-grade Stardust Magic Artifact.

A Stardust Magic Artifact could only increase cultivation time; it could not accelerate stardust cultivation like Little Loach.

Still, as his cultivation improved, his stardust cultivation speed had indeed become much faster than before.

The Three Step Tower stood in Pearl Institute's Main Campus. A large part of why Pearl Institute ranked among the top three institutes in the country was because of the Three Step Tower!

The Three Step Tower had a long history and was Pearl Institute's deepest foundation!

"Junior, entry isn't allowed without permission."

The moment Li Xingze arrived at the entrance to the Three Step Tower, two senior students stopped him. Their tone and attitude were fairly polite.

"I have permission." Li Xingze took out a certificate stamped with Dean Xiao's seal and handed it to the senior student on the left.

After confirming that it was valid, the two exchanged stunned looks.

Just how had this guy managed it? Could he be Dean Xiao's relative?

"Junior, please follow me."

With that, the senior student on the left entered the Three Step Tower, and Li Xingze followed after him.

A long passageway came into view. This was probably only the entrance passage; they had not yet reached the first floor.

"The Three Step Tower is inside. The end of this passage is the first floor. You'll have to explore the rest yourself."

After offering that reminder, the senior student left the Three Step Tower without looking back.

Li Xingze had not expected those two senior students to kindly tell him the details. Not everyone was a living saint.

But it didn't matter. Those two might not know much more than he did anyway.

Most likely, those two senior students had never enjoyed the Three Step Tower themselves. Under normal circumstances, they had to guard it for two years before earning a single cultivation opportunity.

Two years! Even capitalists would weep at the sight!

It looked cruel, but that was often reality. There were many students like them in the Main Campus—students without outstanding talent or abundant resources to support them.

These students could not enjoy the cultivation resources reserved for those at the top of the rankings. If they wanted to advance further, they could only take on work like this.

The only reason they did so was to use the Three Step Tower to break through their bottlenecks.

These students would most likely remain intermediate mages for their entire lives. Without resources, it was hard to take even a single step forward anywhere.

After walking through the long passageway, Li Xingze finally saw the stairs.

With every step he took up the staircase, Li Xingze felt his Summoning Magic Energy being continuously consumed.

And this was only the first floor!

Fortunately, his Summoning Magic Energy had already reached intermediate level two, so this amount of consumption was nothing.

Very soon, Li Xingze reached the platform of the first floor.

Upon reaching the platform, a dense elemental aura immediately rushed over him.

The elemental concentration on the first floor was twenty times higher than outside, and the rate at which his nebula grew during meditation was also twenty times faster.

But that still wasn't enough for Li Xingze. He planned to push straight to the second floor first!

As he entered the stairs leading to the second floor, Li Xingze could clearly feel that the gravity was more than twice as strong as on the first floor, and his magic energy was draining much faster as well.

Yet Li Xingze's steps remained steady, and before long, he reached the second-floor platform.

In this environment, using Instant Shift might cause Li Xingze to pass out on the spot. To avoid that, he would not use Instant Shift.

The elemental concentration on the first floor was twenty times that of the outside world. On the second floor, it doubled to forty times. The third floor should be eighty times.

Normally, one could only cultivate in the Three Step Tower for seven days—one week—but because Li Xingze had given up most of his resources, Dean Xiao granted him an additional two days.

That made a total of nine days.

Those nine days had to be allocated carefully. Li Xingze did not intend to rush up to the third floor right away.

When cultivating in the Three Step Tower, the effects of cultivation declined as time passed. After several days, the third floor's benefits could even become worse than those of the second floor.

If he cultivated on the second floor for a while before charging up to the third, the effects would reset completely. It was a small loophole he could exploit.

Li Xingze planned to first break through to the intermediate level with his Lightning Element on the second floor. Then he would head up to the third floor to cultivate his Summoning Element. Once he raised the Summoning Element to intermediate level three, he would spend the remaining time on his Wind Element.

In just two and a half days, his Lightning Element stardust naturally expanded into a nebula. His first goal was complete!