Chapter 1002 - Trials (1/2)

The day the gate opened was greeted by euphoria from all cultivators there. This was one of the biggest opportunities in their life, so they were not going to waste it. After all, only those who were one hundred fifteen years old or younger could enter this place. If they combined with the time they needed to reach Martial Emperor, which was the basic requirement to enter this place, most of them only had around five tries before they were too old to participate.

Thus, not a single person who wanted to improve themselves wasted this opportunity.

Alex looked at the tower from afar with a smile. He might have noticed something they never had.

The Sword Qi that surrounded the tower was a Pure Sword Qi, but more than that, it was replenished by the Sword Qi from all the people. In fact, all the strength they expended during their stay in this city and inside the tower was converted by the tower to sustain its life.

Of course, it wasn't very effective, but with enough hype, the place was bound to be popular, diminishing that weakness.

The excess of Sword Qi was then given to the participants here by a certain someone in the tower. Although he didn't know who he was, he noticed a powerful existence inside the tower. Most probably, a Rank 3 God if not Rank 2 God.

It seemed to be the administrator that the Sword God told him.

The problem he needed to face was how to climb this tower.

The important people started coming to this place, watching everything unfolded. The crowd began getting into it, shouting how great those people were.

Alex ignored them all along and kept watching the tower with his Spirit Eyes.

Suddenly, many words appeared in front of the tower. They were separated into five parts.

The first part was the lowest one, and it made a certain riddle for the people to understand.

”You are cultivators who use weapons. Follow your own path.”

As much as he wanted to decipher the first code, he decided to see the others first.

”Strength is not always the answer.”

”Trust your weapons.”

”What is a weapon to you?”

”Only those qualified may enter.”

The riddles were not long and complicated, but they did hold deep meaning. Even Alex couldn't understand them easily.

When he was about to think about the riddles, the cracking sound echoed in everyone's ears as the door gradually opened, inviting everyone to enter.

”Hey, it's open!”

”We need to go now!”

”This door will only be opened for another ten minutes.”

Many started coming toward the door, trying to get inside the tower, but Alex still had no intention of coming in.

He waited and pondered the five riddles.

The bottom was surely the first riddle and the first trial, so he wanted to at least understand what it meant.

”You are cultivators who use weapons…Follow my path?” Alex narrowed his eyes. No matter how he thought, he couldn't understand the real meaning of this riddle.

At one point, he thought that he only needed to believe in his path and continuously walked inside a white room that had no end, but he felt something was wrong.

The riddle still had its first half, which emphasized the weapons, but Alex couldn't understand it. He thought everything would be solved if he brought his weapon, but he knew it wouldn't be the case.

Anyway, several minutes had passed, and the people were reduced to only a tenth of its original number. Alex found Aria still standing outside, watching the five riddles.

At the very least, she wasn't rash in making decisions, so yeah, he was pretty happy about it.

”Well, I understand the latter part, so I think I should go inside as well. It's not like I want to go together with these people who seem to have big status,” Alex muttered to himself before leaping from his inn.

He flew straight to the gate, passing everyone, including Aria.

Aria was still in deep thought, so she didn't notice him.

Alex didn't plan to meet her as well, so he also didn't look at her, and the scenery changed as soon as he entered the gate.

It turned out to be an enclosed space. Alex found himself in a small tunnel that could fit three people in at the same time. The height wasn't that great as well.

Alex took a deep breath, activated his Spirit Eyes and investigated the area. To his surprise, he couldn't see any people nearby. Even though the tower was spacious, he should be able to find many people because there were millions of people coming here.

But the fact that it showed no one and only Spiritual Energy that surrounded him, Alex knew that this was a special realm array or an illusion array. These two were the only ones that could mess with Alex right now.

He might have immunity to illusion, but his sense would still get messed up since the target was his sense of direction.

”Wait a minute…Is there a chance that this is not an illusion. But another realm or something? Or there is a chance that I am…” Alex suddenly realized something and raised his vision.

He was surprised to find many people above him. He then looked down and realized another clue by finding another batch of people.