Virus Invading the Spirit Pagoda

The attendant continued her introduction as she led them to the elevator.

However, to everyone's surprise, she did not step inside. Instead, she looked at Chen Ye.

"Young Tower Master, would you like to take your classmates to the standard facilities on the tenth floor, or the twentieth floor?"

The attendant looked at Chen Ye as she asked.

The tenth floor contained the standard hibernation pods reserved by Eastsea Academy. These pods had no automatic disengagement function; one had to press the red button to forcibly exit.

The twentieth floor contained special hibernation pods. They could automatically detect danger, make predictions in advance, and press the red button to help their occupants disengage.

The two were on entirely different levels. The high-end hibernation pods allowed one to select a location, while the standard ones could gather them together but only deployed them randomly.

Upon hearing the attendant's words, everyone looked at Chen Ye with confusion in their eyes.

"Miss, what do you mean? Brother Chen is the Young Tower Master of your Spirit Pagoda?" Wei Xiaofeng swallowed, staring at the attendant before him in disbelief.

"Does the Spirit Pagoda have that kind of connection with Brother Chen?" Wang Jinxi added.

Both of them stared at Chen Ye, their eyes filled with disbelief.

The others did not look much better. Aside from Na'er, who remained relatively calm, everyone else wore expressions of shock.

After all, Chen Ye had never seemed much different from them. Sometimes, he was even stingier than they had imagined.

Especially Wang Jinxi and the others who lived with him. Whenever they bought snacks, they would usually share them with Chen Ye, but Chen Ye rarely bought snacks himself. They had always thought his family was poor.

But now, what the hell? It turned out he was the Young Tower Master of the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda. What an exalted status that was.

Seeing their expressions, the staff member merely smiled. Naturally, he did not dare reveal Chen Ye's true identity.

After all, Chen Ye was a disciple of the Deputy Tower Master of the Headquarters Tower. That status was incomparable to that of a disciple of the local Spirit Pagoda's Tower Master. There was not even any basis for comparison.

The Tower Master here was merely a Soul Sage, while the Deputy Tower Master of the Headquarters Tower's Spirit Pagoda was Heavenly Phoenix, a rank 98 Super Douluo.

Chen Ye truly did not care much about their stares. He had never cared much for titles or status.

"Then let's go to the twentieth floor. Pod sixteen. I'll swipe my card."

Chen Ye stepped forward as he spoke, ignoring his classmates' astonished gazes. He casually took out a black card and placed it against the reader.

Gu Yue was the first to follow. She was used to this by now. After all, she was also Leng Yaozhu's disciple, though she kept a lower profile than Chen Ye.

Thus, many Spirit Pagoda staff members did not know her identity. They only knew that she was always with Chen Ye.

Once everyone had entered, the attendant nodded slightly and respectfully pressed the button for the twentieth floor.

No one mentioned their sudden upgrade from standard pods to luxury pods. Even Wu Zhangkong stood to one side with an utterly composed expression.

After all, the luxury pods had many excellent hidden features. Given better service, who would choose the worse option?

Upon reaching the twentieth floor and seeing the neatly arranged cultivation pods, everyone entered their respective pods and slowly sat down.

Wu Zhangkong looked at them, his expression more solemn than usual. "Once you enter the Spirit Ascension Platform, you can only rely on yourselves."

"I'll say only one thing. The longer you remain in the Spirit Ascension Platform, the greater your gains. The more soul beasts you kill, the greater your gains as well."

"The cost of each entry is very high. Even with Eastsea Academy's full support, we can only come here once a week."

"Do your best to improve yourselves and obtain the greatest possible gains in the fewest visits."

Wu Zhangkong spoke seriously. No one objected to his instructions. Everyone nodded earnestly, then lay down in the cultivation pods one by one.

"The passage will open shortly. Let me explain something to you all in advance."

"The button in your hands can help you disengage with a light press. Of course, if you suffer a fatal attack, it will also directly help you disengage."

The staff member spoke, then glanced at Wu Zhangkong. But before he could say anything, Wu Zhangkong had already nodded.

Seeing their tacit exchange, Chen Ye's eyes flickered as he looked toward Wu Zhangkong.

Well, well. This luxury-version Spirit Ascension Platform can actually reduce pain? How could that be allowed!

Back when we were students, the minimum was ten percent. Shouldn't you at least keep theirs at thirty percent?

Listening to Wu Zhangkong's inner thoughts, Chen Ye could not stop the corner of his mouth from twitching.

As the Spirit Ascension Platform activated, his consciousness gradually blurred.

A tingling numbness slowly spread through him. When Chen Ye opened his eyes again, he was surrounded by a dense forest.

Chen Ye raised a hand and punched the side of a nearby tree, feeling the pain in his fist.

The pain was not especially intense, but it felt utterly real.

"Damn Teacher Wu. He really kept the pain sensation. And this is thirty percent? Why does it hurt so much?"

Chen Ye looked at his fist and muttered.

Then, his gaze silently flicked toward the sky before he slowly walked forward.

Before Chen Ye stood a towering tree. The instant his body passed by it, his entire figure seemed to blur.

Then Chen Ye slowly emerged and began searching for his teammates.

Beneath another large tree, another Chen Ye stood silently.

Only, a pure white mask had appeared on his face.

He raised a hand and snapped his fingers. In an instant, his body transformed into a massive White Ape.

Watching Chen Ye's figure disappear into the distance, the enormous White Ape suddenly swung its body and shot wildly to the side.

As the White Ape raced toward the depths of the Spirit Pagoda, a monkey in another peripheral area slowly opened its eyes. The confusion in its gaze was instantly replaced by a faint golden radiance.

Then its body turned into bubbles and vanished where it stood.

Chen Ye's two bodies were like viruses that had suddenly appeared within the Spirit Pagoda, swiftly making their way toward its depths.

Chen Ye had waited a long time for this opportunity. The reason he had not used it before was not because he could not enter a genuine Spirit Ascension Platform.

It was because he needed to use Leng Yaozhu's identity as a code when entering.

Under those circumstances, carrying out this virus-like intrusion could very easily lead back to him.

But now? If an accident suddenly occurred in the Spirit Pagoda, what did it have to do with Chen Ye?

He was merely one of the people who had entered, one suspect among several hundred.

Given Chen Ye's status, he might even be the first to be ruled out—or the sort who would never be suspected at all.

Of course, as for which unlucky fool would be listed as the primary suspect, Chen Ye had already decided. But that had nothing to do with him.