214: Chapter 214 Assassination

The space inside the Tower of Heaven seemed to be pieced together from countless absurd dreams.

Ever since Li Murou displayed the god-tier skill "Time Editing," a technique akin to a dimensionality-reduction strike, on the first floor, the Nirvana Battle Team's climb, while still fraught with danger, had at least been manageable.

On the tenth floor, gravity reached fifty times that of the outside world, and the air was as dense as mercury;

on the twentieth floor, space was divided into countless constantly moving hexagonal cubes, where a single misstep meant being sliced into chunks of meat;

and the thirtieth floor was a domain of pure mental pollution, where countless indescribable eyes whispered in the void...

In this tower, traditional physical attacks and elemental bombardments were weakened to the extreme; what truly determined life and death was one's understanding of the "rules."

Chen Xi was like a calm chess player, coordinating the overall situation; Su Xiaoxiao's "Void Power" tore through spatial barriers; Ye Fei's "Myriad Spirit Divine Seal" pacified the eerie spirits alienated from mental power; and Li Murou, with her SS-rank "harp of time reversal," ruthlessly pruned away those deadly "rule bugs" time and time again.

I do not know how much time had passed, but after they slew a Faceless giant materialized from pure "gravity laws," the light gate leading to the fiftieth floor finally opened slowly before them.

"Whew... everyone, let's rest."

Chen Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead. Even with his terrifying mental power of over four hundred, he felt deeply exhausted from this high-intensity confrontation of rules.

"Captain, I feel like my fingers are about to snap from playing..." Li Murou hugged her zither and plopped down on the glowing stairs, panting heavily. "Just how many floors does this Tower of Heaven have? Why does the rule logic of those monsters get more complex the higher we go?"

"I don't know, but we have no way back now."

Chen Xi took a deep breath and looked at the light gate with a resolute gaze. "Let's go. Let's see what surprise the fiftieth floor has prepared for us."

The four of them supported each other and stepped through the light gate.

However, when the white light before them dissipated, the four members of the Nirvana Battle Team stood frozen in place.

There was no twisted space, no deadly traps, and no hideous rule phantoms.

Appearing before their eyes was, unexpectedly, a bustling human city full of life!

"This... where is this?"

Ye Fei widened her eyes, watching the endless stream of vehicles on the streets, the towering glass-curtain-walled buildings on both sides, and the crowds wearing retro clothing hurrying along the streets.

The sky was azure, the sunlight was warm, and even the breeze carried the aroma of a street-corner coffee shop.

"An illusion?"

Su Xiaoxiao subconsciously gripped her staff, lightning dancing on her fingertips, only to discover that her skills could not lock onto any targets.

Because those pedestrians on the street were passing directly through their bodies!

"It's not an illusion; it's a holographic historical recording."

Chen Xi crouched down and touched the seemingly hard asphalt road beneath his feet, but his fingers passed straight through it. He stood up, gazing deeply at the bustling city, his voice carrying a hint of undisguisable shock:

"If I'm not mistaken... this must be a human city from before the Great Cataclysm, that is, one hundred years ago!"

"One hundred years ago?!"

The three women exclaimed in unison.

Just then, the city scene before them suddenly underwent a violent change.

The originally azure sky was torn open without warning, revealing a massive, scarlet rift!

Immediately after, accompanied by a deafening, terrifying roar that seemed to want to tear the entire planet apart, an ultra-giant interstellar spaceship—so massive it defied description, silver-gray in color, and covered in strange runes—crashed out from that rift!

The shape of that spaceship was exactly the same as the "Tower of Heaven" they were currently in!

"Rumble—!!!"

In the scene, the massive spaceship slammed heavily into the city center. The terrifying shockwave instantly leveled the surrounding skyscrapers to the ground, and a mushroom cloud soared into the sky, as if the apocalypse had arrived.

Countless humans were wailing and fleeing.

However, the truly terrifying part had only just begun.

From the depths of that crashed spaceship (the Tower of Heaven), a surge of extremely intense, visible blue radiation suddenly erupted!

This radiation wave swept across the entire planet at the speed of light.

Chen Xi and the others stood within the holographic image like bystanders of history, staring intently at the events that followed.

As that blue radiation wave swept over the surviving humans,

a miracle occurred.

A faint virtual light screen suddenly appeared on the surface of some people's bodies—that was the awakening of the first "Classer Panel" in human history! Some had flames ignite in their hands out of thin air, while others' bodies became as hard as iron.

"This is... the truth behind humans awakening classes?!"

Li Murou gasped, feeling her worldview suffer a massive shock. "Our powers aren't some natural evolution at all, but radiation pollution from this alien spaceship?!"

But gifts are often accompanied by even crueler costs.

As the radiation wave continued to spread, the once-stable spatial barrier of Earth began to collapse like a shattered mirror.

One black space-time rift after another opened in succession above the city and in the wilderness.

Immediately after, horrific beasts with hideous faces, exuding the stench of the void, surged madly from those rifts, beginning to wantonly slaughter the humans who had just awakened and had not yet mastered their powers!

"Those are... Void Predators! The most primitive fierce beasts!"

Seeing this, Ye Fei's delicate body trembled violently. She remembered what Black-Robed Shen Ye had said on the altar: those "Guardian Beasts" created to protect humanity were actually meant to combat these void monsters crawling out from the rifts!

At this moment, the holographic image zoomed in sharply, focusing on the core area where the Tower of Heaven had crashed.

In that scorching ruin, a group of human pioneers wearing white hazmat suits were pushing forward toward the interior of the spaceship, braving the lethal radiation.

"Hurry! Cut off its main energy valve! This high-dimensional radiation is tearing our space apart. If we don't shut it down, the entire Earth will be swallowed by those void monsters!"

In the scene, a young researcher with a face covered in dust, yet eyes extremely resolute, was shouting hoarsely into a walkie-talkie.

When Chen Xi and Su Xiaoxiao saw the face of that young researcher clearly, their hearts skipped a beat.

"Wu Tian?!"

Su Xiaoxiao cried out involuntarily.

That's right, the young man charging desperately through the ruins was indeed the Wu Tian from a hundred years ago!

At this time, he was not yet that high-and-mighty demigod-level powerhouse, but merely a passionate young man who had disregarded his own life to save humanity.

In the scene, the young Wu Tian went through countless hardships and finally rushed to the core control console of the spaceship.

With blood-covered hands, he frantically hacked at the alien control panels. As he operated, the originally rampaging blue radiation light finally began to flicker and weaken, and the space-time rifts in the sky faintly showed signs of closing.

"It worked! I'm about to crack its underlying logic!"

The young Wu Tian turned his head excitedly to look at his companions behind him.

However.

What greeted him was not the cheers of his companions, but a pitch-black dagger emitting an eerie green poisonous glow!

"Pfft!"

The sound of the blade entering flesh sounded exceptionally jarring in the deathly silent holographic image.

A man completely shrouded in a black robe, his face indistinguishable, had appeared behind the Wu Tian at some unknown moment and plunged the dagger fiercely into his heart!