Fenglei Tower

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Fenglei Tower (风雷塔)
Type	Neutral combat-training system / landmark
Affiliation	Fenglei Martial University
Occupation / Role	Virtual combat trial facility that tests students against simulated guardians, awards points for cleared floors, and can generate student Combat Phantoms
Status	Operational 90 240
First Appearance	89
Locations	Main campus Freshman District; Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School, whose tower data is separate from the main campus's 90 156 157

Appearance

The main-campus tower is a compact structure about twenty meters tall, built from unknown black stone and alloy. Complex electronic circuits across its exterior emit a dim, ghostly-blue light. Its entrance consists of a tall alloy door beside a large challenge-statistics screen; inside is an illusory vortex of wind and lightning. 90

• Dark stone-and-alloy construction.
• Blue-glowing electronic circuit patterns.
• Entrance leaderboard displaying challenge statistics, floor-clear counts, and rankings.
• Interior arenas commonly manifest as circular, pure-white combat spaces. 90
• The Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School tower has similar dark-blue formation patterns and a faint blue glow. 156 163

Challenge Structure

The Freshman District Fenglei Tower has eighteen floors. Difficulty rises in three-floor brackets, while each cleared floor awards points. Clearing all eighteen floors during the freshman year grants a Grade A Star Power Body-Tempering Pool slot. 90

Floors	Documented guardian bracket / conditions	Clearance reward
1–3	Late Body Tempering Stage guardians; their martial-skill proficiency rises from Entry to Mastery Grade.	100 / 200 / 400 points 90
4–6	Peak Body Forging Stage projection bracket.	600 / 800 / 1,000 points 90
7–9	Blood-Qi Realm opponents; later floors feature increasingly refined martial skills and higher fixed Blood Qi values.	1,500 points per floor 90 116
10–12	Higher-realm bracket.	2,000 points per floor 90
15	A guardian with dual C-rank martial skills at Great Success Grade was recorded.	2,500 points 186 187
16–18	The sixteenth floor is treated as a peak Blood-Qi Realm threshold; the eighteenth floor is stated to have a peak Blood-Qi Realm gatekeeper.	— 187 185

• Students receive three free challenges per day. 90
• Successful clears open a staircase or teleportation route to the next floor. 90 187
• Guardians may be fixed NPC martial artists, Fierce Beasts, or generated student Combat Phantoms. 90 96 173

System Functions

Virtual Combat Simulation

Fenglei Tower provides practical-combat training with 99% realism, allowing students to hone their fighting ability without entering the Star Realm. It is a major source of points for freshmen, who are not yet permitted to hunt Star Beasts for points. 89

• Simulates armed martial artists, unarmed martial artists, and Fierce Beasts. 90 163 239
• Scales guardian cultivation, Blood Qi, weapon type, martial skill grade, and skill realm by floor. 90 116 240
• Uses resurrection spaces after a challenger is defeated, allowing further attempts while free challenges remain. 173
• Pain-simulation settings were later adjusted, including a 30% pain threshold for certain areas during a designated challenge window. 127 128

Exclusive Combat Phantom Generation

When the system judges a challenger’s performance to be exceptional, it can scan them and create an exclusive Combat Phantom. The phantom is assigned to floors appropriate to the challenger’s cultivation and may replace ordinary guardians at random. 91 117 188

• A generated phantom can replicate the challenger’s combat style, martial-skill proficiency, and tactical awareness from the recorded challenge. 91
• The projection remains in service until the student clears the tower again at greater strength and triggers an update. 91
• Defeating challengers earns the recorded student 1% of that floor’s clearance reward. 91 117
• Under the original rules, a student phantom had a 50% chance to appear whenever a phantom guardian was selected. When Lin Ye was the only Late Body Tempering Stage phantom in the pool, any phantom on Floors One to Three was necessarily his. 96
• The main campus later retained Lin Ye’s special phantom while reducing its appearance rate to 20%. 182

Recorded Exclusive Projections

Recorded subject	Cultivation recorded by the system	Assigned floors	Notes
Lin Ye	Late Body Tempering Stage	1–3	His first exclusive projection could fully reproduce his combat approach from the challenge. 91
Lin Ye	Peak Body Forging Stage	4–6	Generated after he defeated the Ninth Floor gatekeeper and declined the Tenth Floor. 117
Lin Ye	Mid-Stage Blood-Qi Realm	10–12	Generated after his Sixteenth Floor performance at the main campus. 188
Lin Ye	Mid-Stage Blood-Qi Realm	4–6, Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School	Generated after he cleared the Branch School’s Tenth Floor. 240

Main Campus and Branch School

The Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School operates a separate Fenglei Tower with unsynchronized records. Its challenges are explicitly more difficult than those of the main-campus tower. 156 157

Tower	Documented conditions
Main Campus Freshman District	First-floor guardian: Late Body Tempering Stage with an Entry D-rank blade technique. 90
Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School	First-floor guardian: 650 Blood Qi with dual Mastery D-rank spearmanship and movement technique; fourth-floor guardian: 850 Blood Qi, Mid-Stage Blood-Qi Realm, and Major Mastery D-rank blade technique. 163 164
Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School	Fifth-floor guardian: 1,000 Blood Qi and Consummation-level D-rank swordsmanship, already touching upon principle. 164

Operational History

Fenglei Tower was introduced to Lin Ye as Fenglei Martial University’s landmark practical-combat facility and a point-earning route for freshmen. At that time, Xiao Yun had reached the Tenth Floor, Li Zhen had reached the Ninth, and Zhao Beidu had reached the Eighth. 89 90

Lin Ye’s early challenge established the tower’s most disruptive known phantom cycle. After clearing Floors One through Six, he triggered an exclusive Late Body Tempering Stage projection assigned to Floors One through Three. The projection repeatedly defeated freshmen, leading many to mistake its random appearances for a system bug. 91 92 95

Faculty determined that the phantom was operating within the tower’s rules. Complaints nevertheless surged because Lin Ye’s Late Body Tempering Stage projection possessed combat power beyond that of ordinary Peak Body Forging Stage students. 96

After later projection updates caused further disruption—particularly through Lin Ye’s Crotch-Striking Blade—the university asked him to notify the school before future clears. In exchange for his cooperation, it offered him 1,000 points per month. The tower’s phantom refresh rate, pain parameters, and challenge-notification procedures were subsequently adjusted. 126 127

Vice Dean Li Chang and Chen Su later cited stronger freshman Blood Qi averages and improved clearing rates as likely effects of Lin Ye’s influence. They proposed tying Fenglei Tower progress to scarce resources and privileges to further motivate students. 182

Relationships

• Fenglei Martial University — Operates the tower as a landmark training facility and point-reward system. 89 90
• Azure Ridge Mountain Branch School — Maintains a separate, more difficult Fenglei Tower with unsynchronized records. 156 157
• Lin Ye — Frequent challenger whose exceptional performances repeatedly generated Combat Phantoms across both tower systems. 91 117 188 240
• Vice Dean Li Chang — Uses Lin Ye’s tower challenges to motivate Branch School students and coordinates phantom-placement timing around Lin Ye’s cultivation level. 196
• Zhou Ting — Receives Lin Ye’s challenge notices and forwards them to Academic Affairs under the updated notification arrangement. 185

Trivia

• Students repeatedly described powerful phantom encounters as a “bug,” often luring friends into challenges before revealing the danger. 95 175 179
• The freshman community developed the “Everything is Normal Party” meme around survivors who concealed the threat of Lin Ye’s phantom. 128
• Lin Ye’s Crotch-Striking Blade simulation became notorious enough to produce a “Crotch-Striking Blade Victims Association” and widespread post-traumatic stress among challengers. 126 168