133: Challenge Tower

The Challenge Tower of the training camp is located not far directly in front of the Challenge Room.

From the outside, the entire Challenge Tower appears to be only about thirty or forty meters high.

However, it covers a considerable amount of ground.

Because he had visited it before, Zhou Xing was quite familiar with the Challenge Tower.

According to your previous entry manual and what he had learned during this time, the entire Challenge Tower has a total of 99 floors.

Even on the first floor, it's impossible to pass easily without the strength of the Control Mid-Stage.

As for the highest floor, the 99th, perhaps only students who have reached the middle or Late Stages of the Law Realm can attempt it, as it is already at a level no less than the Early Stage of a Demigod; the difficulty is extremely high.

Since the Challenge Tower was developed, no training camp student has ever successfully cleared all 99 floors within three years.

The most outstanding previous student from the first class, who is now the Seventh commissioner and City Lord of Dawn City, Wei Guangming, reached the Middle Stage of the Law Realm within three years and only managed to reach the 90th floor at most.

Currently in the training camp, besides the lessons led by Yue Hua, students can choose to use points to purchase corresponding videos for many other courses.

It could be said that other than not being able to leave the camp, things were already quite relaxed.

When Zhou Xing entered the Challenge Tower at this time, quite a few students were already lining up.

The entire Challenge Tower only allows a maximum of five people to challenge it simultaneously. Since this is currently the fastest way to earn points, most students come to the Challenge Tower whenever they are free.

At this moment, the entire hall was filled with constant chatter.

"That guy Augustus has already rushed to the 35th floor; that's the highest record among our batch."

"Xing Tian has also pushed to the 34th floor, and I heard he's about to break through to the Peak of Control. When that happens, Augustus might not even be his match."

"Look, Zhou Xing is actually here. I wonder how many floors he can reach."

"Do you even need to ask? I bet Zhou Xing has a chance to reach the 37th, and it's not even impossible for him to eventually reach the 40th floor."

Zhou Xing nodded to everyone, then waited patiently in line, occasionally chatting idly with others.

After all, they would be spending three years together and might experience a lot together in the future.

After a full hour, it was finally Zhou Xing's turn. The person in charge of the Challenge Tower was an instructor in the Law Realm, who smiled and said upon seeing Zhou Xing, "After all this time, you're finally willing to take on the Challenge Tower?"

"Everyone else is coming, so if I didn't try, wouldn't it seem like I'm not a team player? I also want to gain some combat experience against Mutated Beasts."

Zhou Xing replied.

"Then give it a try. The purpose of the Challenge Tower was originally to improve your combat capabilities."

While speaking, the instructor led Zhou Xing to a vacant spot and instructed him to wear the neural link helmet as required.

"You should be familiar with the specific rules: a maximum of three or four minutes per floor. Death or a timeout will result in an immediate failure, and points will be settled based on your final challenge results."

Zhou Xing nodded, then closed his eyes and waited for the device to start.

"Vroom—!"

A few seconds later, following a slight sense of dizziness, Zhou Xing opened his eyes to find he had arrived in a wasteland.

Sand and dust billowed, and a faint scent of blood permeated the air; the realism was so high it surprised even Zhou Xing.

The Challenge Tower was developed over a decade ago, but at that time, it was difficult for Earth's technology to achieve such holographic reality technology. It seemed to be related to some data Commander Jiang Ming took from Divine Gene.

Of course, it could also be because someone fused with divinity fragments like the 'god of technology', 'god of machinery', or 'god of knowledge', thereby driving the technological development of the entire Earth.

It could be said that the types of gods are quite diverse and strange.

Feeling his body at this moment, Zhou Xing found that everything was very real; whether it was the sense of touch or the temperature, it was no different from reality.

[Current Floor: 1]

[Objective: Eliminate 20 D-rank Mutated Beast Steelback Wolves]

Hearing the objective, Zhou Xing was somewhat shocked.

After all, the strength of each Steel-Backed Wolf in the outside world was equivalent to the Initial Control Stage. With twenty of them attacking together, even an ordinary Awakened One at the Control Mid-Stage might not be able to withstand them.

"Awoo—!"

At this moment, the howls of wolves rose from all directions in the distance.

Zhou Xing looked up and saw pairs of eerie green eyes appearing on the horizon.

Twenty Steelback Wolves, nearly two meters tall at the shoulder, surrounded him from all sides, with foul-smelling saliva constantly dripping from their muzzles.

Zhou Xing stood his ground and did not move.

He silently stared at the approaching wolf pack, allowing them to keep closing in.

The leader of the Steelback Wolves, whose strength had even reached the Control Mid-Stage, suddenly accelerated. When it was ten meters away, it leaped into the air and lunged at Zhou Xing.

"Swish!"

Right at that moment, Zhou Xing's figure suddenly became blurred, and in the next second, he appeared right in the center of the wolf pack.

Once in the center of the Challenge Tower's arena, Zhou Xing could finally use his various abilities without restraint.

A few days ago, Zhou Xing's own divinity fragment content for the "god of wind control" had reached 50%, and his Gale Step had been directly upgraded to top-tier; using it was no different from teleportation.

At this time, an ice crystal appeared in Zhou Xing's right hand, which he then flicked toward the ground.

"Frost · Bloom!"

"Crack!"

In an instant, with Zhou Xing as the center, a ripple of azure Frost Power spread out.

The wolves lunging toward Zhou Xing were instantly frozen into ice sculptures.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Immediately afterward, these ice sculptures shattered one by one, and all the Steelback Wolves instantly disintegrated into a sky full of ice shards.

[Floor 1 Clear Time: 3.2 seconds]

[Evaluation: Special Grade]

[Hidden Achievement Achieved: Instant Kill plus ending battle within 5 seconds, awarded 500 points]

Afterward, Zhou Xing began his clear-out mode.

In a few hours, Zhou Xing, exploding with full power and no reservations, rushed to the 35th floor in one go.

Within this, the difficulty would increase every five floors.

The 5th floor required the elimination of 50 D-rank Shadow Rats, a type of small, fast Mutated Beast that excelled at ambushes.

However, against Zhou Xing's area-of-effect attacks, it was of no use.

The 10th floor featured a Rock-Armored Giant Lizard with strength reaching the D-rank Late Stage.

Following that were Armored Tyrannosaurs, Wind-Thunder Tigers, and other powerful Mutated Beasts.

The outside world had already been stirred into a sensation by this time.

"Look, he's already reached the 35th floor. How long has it been?"

"It's too exaggerated. This is a complete steamroll. Poor me, I'm still stuck on the 23rd floor, unable to budge."

"The Mutated Beasts everyone encounters are different, but the strength displayed by the Mutated Beasts on the 35th floor is definitely no less than the early Celestial Phenomenon Realm or even higher.

Augustus only managed because he encountered a dark-type Mutated Beast that he counters; otherwise, clearing it would have been basically impossible."

...

At the same time, inside the Challenge Tower, Zhou Xing's target appeared — Thunder Horned Horse (F-rank Early Stage)

Looking at the Thunder Horned Horse, Zhou Xing finally understood why so many people were stuck at this level.