Indeed, the Trial Tower contained a dazzling array of cards available for exchange, but exchanging for cards required Trial Points!
Trial Points were not that easy to obtain.
To give the simplest example, the Trial Tower currently had two modes: the Arena and the Secret Realm.
There was no death in the Arena. Defeating one's opponent earned one point, while losing deducted one Trial Tower attempt.
The Secret Realm offered considerably more points, but dying inside the Secret Realm meant true death!
Under normal circumstances, a Master of the World from a miniature or Small World could only earn two or three hundred points from a single Secret Realm run.
Yet a blue Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card required ten thousand points to exchange for!
For ordinary people, if they entered the Trial Tower once a month and chose trial mode each time, it would take nearly four years to exchange for a single Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card!
That was not a short period even for a talented Realm Lord like himself.
After looking up this information, Zhang Zhi finally understood why the admissions Teacher from Yuanzhou School had said that their Trial Tower's exchange shop contained so many Tier 1 Spirit Vein Cards.
It was not that everyone did not want to exchange for them. Ordinary people simply could not save up that many Trial Tower points!
He had seen too little of the world and had not known about the tricks involved at all. He had been bluffed by that Teacher at the time, so it was no wonder Li Qianjun had been so angry!
Fortunately, he had ultimately chosen Seven Dragons Academy.
Zhang Zhi went straight to the Trial Tower.
He registered at the entrance using his Student ID. Looking at his real-time photo on the card, he thought, No wonder a Student ID is all that's needed. Who could impersonate someone with this live portrait?
Following the instructions at the entrance, Zhang Zhi reached out and touched the stone tower's gate. The next moment, he appeared in a spacious hall.
There were many people in the hall, and every figure was extremely blurry. This was the Trial Tower's built-in shielding function.
Inside the Trial Tower, no one could observe anyone else—not their appearance, clothing, or voice.
Looking at the packed crowd in the hall, Zhang Zhi was puzzled. I didn't see this many people at the entrance just now.
Could it be that a great many Trial Towers shared a single hall?
The information he had looked up had not mentioned this!
After trying and discovering that it seemed impossible to communicate inside the hall, Zhang Zhi gave up on investigating further.
Naturally, he first tried the Arena. At worst, losing would only cost him a Trial Tower attempt. He came to an Arena Match platform in the hall and, following the instructions in the information he had found, reached out and touched it.
The next moment, Zhang Zhi appeared on a gigantic arena.
Although he had learned from the information that the arena was enormous, he was still stunned after entering this arena, which was at least a kilometer across.
An arena this big? Wouldn't it be difficult even to find the opponent?
Before that thought had faded, a pillar of light appeared roughly a hundred meters away from him.
He looked up at the pillar of light enveloping him.
When the pillar of light disappeared, the Arena Match would begin.
A few seconds later, the pillar of light slowly faded, revealing a figure nearly two meters tall on the other side.
Looking at the mouthful of fangs, the scales covering its body, its sturdy limbs, and the claws on them, Zhang Zhi thought, Is that all?
The first opponent matched by the Trial Tower was a beastman species Zhang Zhi had never seen in the information. Moreover, it was a beastman that had only just advanced into the Elite Realm.
With a thought, a figure appeared in front of him. Before the beastman could understand what was happening, that figure leaped forward and struck with one palm, ending the match.
Needless to say, that figure was Fang Yun, whom he had summoned.
From the information he had found earlier, Zhang Zhi had already learned that those able to enter the Trial Tower were not limited to Realm Lords or humans. Thus, he was not surprised to be matched against the Beast Race in the first round.
After finishing the first match and seeing how weak the opponent matched by the Trial Ground was, Zhang Zhi immediately entered the second match.
His second opponent was an archer in the Elite Realm, but the exaggerated arms of that archer clearly did not belong to a human.
For Fang Yun, however, it was still just a matter of one palm.
After the second match, the Arena gave him a pleasant surprise: a win streak. The point reward increased by one, so he earned two points this time.
The third opponent was a huge boar over two meters tall, with an aura that had already reached the Elite Realm Late Stage.
Yes, that was right. The opponent in this match was actually a wild boar, not an Intelligent Lifeform.
Moreover, that boar had taken two hits from Fang Yun before leaving the arena, forcing Zhang Zhi to marvel at the thickness of its health bar.
Needless to say, that wild boar was definitely a Boar Demon that had awakened its intelligence.
When the pillar of light in the fourth match had just faded, Zhang Zhi thought the opponent on the other side was human. It was only when he saw that fellow transform into a gigantic bat and fly toward him that Zhang Zhi realized:
This time, his opponent was a vampire.
In the fifth match, his opponent was a human-like creature with pointed ears. Well, needless to say, it was an elf.
The elf really did look quite good, and its archery was quite good too. Its wits were also quite sharp. The moment it appeared and saw Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun in the distance, it turned and ran while drawing its bow and firing arrows at them.
That elf seemed to want to kite them, but no matter how fast it was, it could not outrun Fang Yun.
Fang Yun easily caught up and dealt with the elf.
This elf was already in the Mortal Transformation Realm.
The sixth opponent was a member of the Beast Race.
The seventh match produced the first human opponent.
The eighth match was against an undead.
The ninth opponent was unexpectedly a demon who could cast five small fireballs at once.
Starting from the fifth match, every opponent matched against him had been in the Mortal Transformation Realm. However, none of them had lasted three rounds against Fang Yun.
In the tenth match, Zhang Zhi was given a huge fright when he saw the pillar of light opposite him, which was at least a hundred meters in diameter!
"Fuck, don't tell me the opponent assigned this time is some giant creature like a Gan Giant or a Titan?"
As the pillar of light dissipated, Zhang Zhi relaxed when he saw a dark mass of skeletons charging toward him!
All right, it seemed that this opponent was a necromancer. It had summoned too many skeletons, which was why the pillar of light had been so large!
Looking at the dark mass of skeletons charging over, Zhang Zhi had a thought, and squads of armored cultivators appeared beside him.
Before the two armies could even clash, the charging skeletons vanished without a trace.
Along with them came a voice: "Fuck, how did I run into a Master of the World in a Tier 1 Arena? My ten-win streak!"
Only after the ten points arrived did Zhang Zhi understand. Had his opponent realized victory was impossible and simply given up?
(Monthly ticket bonus chapter. I said I'd do it, so I did. Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people.)
On April 1, I received seventeen monthly tickets from twelve dear readers, so here's an extra chapter. That's it—the monthly ticket bonus lasts for one day.
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