Chapter 54 Gravity Tower Trial, This Blanket is a Bit Heavy
After being "fixed up" in Mu Qingxue's office (though it was only a symbolic hour of standing in punishment, plus being forced to sign an "Exclusive Air Conditioning Maintenance Agreement"), Jiang Chen finally returned to his dormitory.
Over the next three days, the atmosphere at Imperial Capital Martial Arts University became exceptionally tense.
Due to the deteriorating situation in the northern border of the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, the selection matches originally scheduled for half a month later were urgently moved forward.
All students wishing to head to the northern border must pass the "Gravity Tower" assessment.
This is a black spire reaching into the clouds, divided into nine floors; with each floor ascended, the gravity doubles.
Early morning, the square in front of the Gravity Tower.
Thousands of freshmen and seniors were ready and waiting.
Xiao Jian stood at the very front with the members of the War God Reserve Corps. Although he had been suppressed by Mu Qingxue, he still possessed absolute confidence in the face of such a test of raw strength.
“Listen up, everyone!”
Xiao Jian stood on the high platform, his cold gaze sweeping across the field. “In this assessment, the top ten will qualify for the 'Sharp Knife Squad.' The Gravity Tower doesn't care about fancy footwork; it only looks at the foundation of your Physical Body! Those who only know how to use tricks will only reveal their true forms here!”
After speaking, he pointedly glanced at Jiang Chen, who had just walked over yawning and wearing slippers.
Jiang Chen still looked as sloppy as ever today, clutching that starry sky blue pillow in his arms as if he weren't here for a devilish assessment but rather for a spring outing.
“What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a handsome guy catching up on sleep?” Jiang Chen rolled his eyes at him.
“Hmph, let's see if you can still sleep later!” Xiao Jian sneered. “There are no teachers to protect you here. Under the pressure of gravity, your Sleepwalking Steps are useless!”
“The assessment begins! Enter the tower!”
With a command, thousands of people flooded into the Gravity Tower.
First floor, 2x gravity. Everyone passed easily.
Third floor, 4x gravity. People began to fall behind, their faces turning pale.
Fifth floor, 8x gravity. Most freshmen were already drenched in sweat, every step feeling like wading through a swamp.
Xiao Jian took the lead, his True Qi erupting as he pushed through the pressure to reach the sixth floor (16x gravity).
“Hmph, that Jiang Chen must still be eating dust behind me, right?” Xiao Jian looked back confidently.
However, in the next second, his eyes almost popped out.
He saw Jiang Chen walking unhurriedly less than five meters behind him.
The most infuriating thing was that this guy actually had his eyes closed!
Not only that, but every step Jiang Chen took was extremely strange. He wasn't resisting the gravity; he was... enjoying it?
[Ding! High-gravity environment detected.]
[Environment Rating: Grade A (Deep Massage).]
[Judgment: This all-around sense of pressure is very similar to the legendary "Gravity Soothing Blanket," which can effectively alleviate the host's "Waking Up Anger."]
[Skill Activated: Sleepwalking · Thousand-Pound Drop.]
Jiang Chen felt extremely comfortable.
When he slept normally, he always felt the quilt wasn't heavy enough and lacked that sense of being wrapped in security.
Now it was perfect; this omnipresent gravity was like a thick, Advanced quilt, tightly wrapping every inch of his skin, helping him compress his muscles and expel Impurities.
“Mmm... this intensity is just right... it would be even more perfect if it were a bit heavier...”
Jiang Chen muttered with his eyes closed, and his steps didn't slow down; instead, they became faster and faster.
He walked straight past the dumbfounded Xiao Jian toward the stairs leading to the seventh floor.
“Impossible! How can he be so relaxed?! That's 16x gravity!”
Xiao Jian's mentality crumbled. He grit his teeth and burned his blood and Qi, forcing his way up to the seventh floor (32x gravity).
The pressure here was enough to crush an ordinary person's bones. Xiao Jian had to stop to gasp for air; blood seeped from his seven orifices, and his knees were trembling.
“I... I am a Genius... I cannot lose...”
He turned back with difficulty.
As a result, he saw a scene he would never forget in his life, one that shattered his Dao Heart.
On the floor of the seventh level, Jiang Chen actually... put down his pillow and laid down!
“This place is not bad—quiet, and the pressure is solid. Perfect for deep sleep.”
Under the stunned gazes of everyone (watching via the large monitoring screens outside the tower), Jiang Chen comfortably turned over and found his most comfortable position—the side-lying fetal position.
The 32x gravity pressing down on him didn't cause him pain; instead, it felt like he was covered by a thick "invisible quilt."
“Wheeze— Wheeze—”
In less than three seconds, even and rhythmic snoring echoed within the seventh floor of the Gravity Tower.
[Ding! Entering "Heavy Pressure Sleep" mode.]
[Cultivation efficiency increased by 500%.]
[Physical Body is undergoing deep tempering... Bone Forging progress: 99%... Organ Refining progress: 1%...]
“Pfft!”
Watching this scene, Xiao Jian was attacked by anger and spat out a mouthful of old blood.
He was desperately resisting, yet this guy was sleeping?! And he even thinks the gravity isn't strong enough?!
What kind of dimensional reduction strike is this?!
“I... I don't accept this... He's cheating...”
Xiao Jian's vision went dark, and he fainted from anger, being sent out by the tower's teleportation mechanism.
And Jiang Chen was still sleeping.
And as he slept deeper and deeper, the blood and Qi in his body began to make a thunderous roar.
Rumble!
The gravity Restriction of the eighth floor automatically activated because it sensed that terrifying power within his body attempting to Breakthrough!
Outside the Gravity Tower, the entire school's teachers and students were as if under a freezing spell, falling into a dead silence.
On the massive holographic projection screen, the image was frozen on the eighth floor.
There, Xiao Jian had already been thrown out by the teleportation Formation spitting blood, lying at the edge of the square like a dead dog, ignored by everyone.
Everyone's gaze was focused on the figure still snoring away in the tower.
At this moment, a bizarre anomaly was occurring inside the Gravity Tower that would be recorded in the history of Imperial Capital Martial Arts University.
As Jiang Chen's rhythmic snoring grew louder, it was like some ancient incantation that actually triggered the core of the gravity Formation within the tower.
[Ding! Detected that the external "massage intensity" is slightly weak.]
[System Evaluation: Like a technician who hasn't eaten scratching an itch.]
[Taking over Gravity Tower permissions... Activating "Deep Pressure" mode.]
As the System's cold prompt sounded in Jiang Chen's mind (though he couldn't hear it), the Gravity Tower's runes suddenly lit up with a blinding red light!
Ninth floor Restriction, broken!
Tenth floor Restriction, broken!
Rumble—!
The entire Gravity Tower began to shake violently as if it would collapse at any moment. The gravity coefficient inside skyrocketed from 32x to a staggering 128x in an instant!
What did that mean? It was equivalent to a heavy tank pressing directly on your eyelids!
“What's going on? Has the Formation gone out of control?!”
Chief Instructor Shen Yan's grip on his special alloy thermos tightened until finger marks were squeezed into it with a 'crack.' His expression changed drastically. “Quick! Cut off the power! This kind of gravity will crush him into meat paste!”