64: An upgraded arena? This is a free-for-all mode!

“Welcome to the Tower of Heaven, Thirteenth…”

The voice stopped abruptly halfway through its sentence.

Then came a series of harsh static sounds.

“Zzzzt… Zzzzzzt…”

“Alert! Alert!”

“Detecting unknown… zzz… dimensional erosion…”

“Trial Space Number Thirteen… structure… unstable…”

Lin Yuan frowned.

“Another malfunction?”

He looked around and found himself in a Gobi Desert.

The sky was a strange dark purple.

There was no sun, nor any clouds.

“This scene setup really has a post-apocalyptic vibe.”

Lin Yuan pouted, feeling a little annoyed.

What was wrong with this broken tower?

The first floor’s energy had been sucked dry by him, and now the thirteenth floor was acting up again.

The quality of the Central Bureau’s engineering was worrying… Meanwhile, at the Central Assembly Plaza.

On the light screen, Lin Yuan’s name remained steadily at the “Thirteenth Floor” position.

A minute passed.

No movement.

Five minutes passed.

Still no movement.

The atmosphere in the plaza began to turn subtle.

“He stopped.”

“He finally stopped.”

A team member from the Capital Branch breathed a sigh of relief.

“I knew it, how could a D-rank keep being so fierce?”

“The Thirteenth Floor is already his limit.”

“Heh heh, I thought he could rush to the twentieth floor in one go.”

“It seems the previous checkpoints were either due to his good luck or their difficulty was too low.”

Mocking and discussions started again.

Previously, Lin Yuan’s rocket-like speed had left everyone breathless.

“Seriously, I was nervous for nothing.”

“Just a lucky guy.”

In Formation Area 73.

Shi Lei stomped his feet anxiously.

“What’s going on? Why isn’t Brother Lin moving?”

“Did something happen?”

Liu Yan also tightly clenched her fists, staring intently at the light screen, her face slightly pale.

On the high platform.

Captain Qin Zhan’s face was so grim it looked like it could drip water.

He had just received a report from the monitoring room.

Trial Zone 73, signal lost!

It wasn’t an data anomaly like on the first floor, but a complete loss of signal!

“What’s going on?!”

He roared softly into the terminal.

“Reporting, commander-in-chief!” The anxious voice of a technician came from the terminal, “The Thirteenth to Twentieth Floors of the Tower of Heaven have been invaded by an unknown source!”

“We suspect… it’s the Abyss!”

The Abyss!

Captain Qin Zhan’s pupils suddenly constricted!

“What about the participants?!”

“All participants on these floors have lost signal! We… we’ve lost monitoring of them!”

…Tower of Heaven, Thirteenth Floor.

Lin Yuan didn’t know that the outside world had already turned into a chaotic mess.

He just felt that the air here was becoming increasingly unpleasant.

“Screech—!”

A sound like fabric being torn came from above.

Lin Yuan looked up.

He saw agap in the dark purple sky.

Unidentified black liquid dripped from thegap.

“Drip… drip…”

The liquid fell onto the Gobi Desert, making a “sizzling” corrosive sound and emitting plumes of white smoke.

Immediately after.

The black liquid began to squirm and gather.

They grew deformed limbs, twisted heads, and a pair of pitch-black eyes.

“Low-Tier Abyssal Demon Servant!”

“Roar—!”

Dozens of Abyssal Demon Servants roared and charged towards Lin Yuan!

“Oh?”

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, his gaze turning cold.

“Dimensional erosion… unstable structure…” He recalled the intermittent alert sound from earlier.

Looking at these Abyssal cannon fodder in front of him, he understood.

“After all this, real guys have sneaked in.” Lin Yuan shook his head with a look of disdain, “Interrupting my leveling, how disappointing.”

He extended a finger, and a wisp of electric arc leaped at its tip.

“These filthy things, just looking at them for another second makes me feel dirty.” Lin Yuan muttered softly.

An Abyssal Demon Servant had already pounced in front of him, opening its mouth full of sharp teeth.

Lin Yuan did not dodge or evade; the electric arc at his fingertip gently flicked out.

“Hiss!”

The electric arc struck the demon servant’s forehead.

There was no explosion, no loud noise.

The demon servant’s body instantly dissolved and evaporated, leaving only a wisp of black smoke.

“As expected of Abyssal stuff, it melts upon contact with my lightning.” Lin Yuan frowned in disgust.

He looked at the Abyssal Demon Servants surging forward fearlessly, his face filled with impatience.

He had made up his mind.

A quick battle!

Finish the fight quickly and go to the next floor to see if there was anything good to eat.

However.

Just as he was about to raise his hand to clear the area with a Palm Thunder.

“Rumble—!!!”

The entire space began to shake violently without warning!

The ground beneath his feet was cracking!

The sky above his head was collapsing!

The surrounding scenery peeled off and shattered like broken glass, piece by piece!

“Hm?”

Lin Yuan stabilized himself, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

The next second.

The scene before his eyes completely changed.

The barren Gobi Desert disappeared.

In its place was a… gladiatorial arena, pieced together from countless different scenes!

To his left was a land of lava burning with raging fires.

A brawny man wielding a giant axe was battling a flame giant lizard.

To his right was a frozen snowfield.

A participant was forming a formation, struggling to resist the encirclement of a pack of frost wolf spiders.

Further away, there were swamps, forests, abandoned cities… All the independent trial spaces were, at this moment, forcibly opened and connected together!

Hundreds of participants, along with the monsters from their respective checkpoints, were all thrown into this chaotic battlefield!

“This…”

Lin Yuan was stunned.

What was going on?

Buy one get one free, the venue got an upgrade?

Just then.

“Warning! Warning! Warning!”

“Tower of Heaven core system collapse!”

“All trial spaces forcibly merged!”

“Survival mode… activated!”

The cold, mechanical voice echoed in everyone’s minds, filled with a sense of despair.

In the plaza, silence had long fallen.

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the bizarre scene on the light screen.

What did they see?

The Tower of Heaven… shattered?!

Lin Yuan’s gaze quickly swept across this brand new battlefield.

Then, his sight fixed on a nearby ice plain.

A familiar figure was surrounded by three Warlord Rank Two-Headed Ogres, in a precarious situation.

It was Su Wanqing!