Chapter 992 (1/2)

Chapter 992: Merciless Elimination

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Outside of the Body-refining Tower.

A light screen floated above the Body-refining Tower. Within it, a bright spot was flickering and racing at daunting speed. Within a few minutes, it was getting close to breaking through the third barrier.

The rest of the surrounding top powers watched, dumbfounded. It took them quite a while to recover from their shock at this sudden change of situation. Astounded exclamations followed.

“What… what’s going on? How can Mu Chen be so quick in this short span of time?”

“That speed is scarily fast! He has outrun everyone and gosh! He is reaching the third barrier!”

“Sst… this speed!”

“…”

Incredulous cries burst out everywhere. The top powers from each of the clans were stunned. No one had expected Mu Chen’s speed to explode just as he was about to give up.

Numerous people were looking at him with terrified shock on their faces, especially Liu Ching from the Heavenly Roc Clan. Liu Ching’s smile froze on her face. Her eyes were staring hard at the light spot that was flickering without stopping. Her expression looked like she could not wait to swallow him up in anger.

“D*mn it, how is this possible?!”

Her heart was in turmoil, and her face turned black. Liu Ching gritted her teeth and said, “This fellow must have used some sort of secret tricks. He can’t last for long. If he thinks he can last ’til the third barrier, he’s kidding himself!”

However, the gasping sounds started again right after she finished her sentence.

“He made it through the third barrier!”

“That’s scary, and he isn’t slowing down!”

“Can’t the barriers stop him at all?”

The light that had made it through the third barrier on the light screen continued to flicker non-stop. People found it unbelievable that the speed did not slow down. Instead, it got faster!

The atmosphere seemed to have frozen outside of the Body-refining Tower.

Even Liu Ching’s little mouth was half-open. She felt like saying something, but words just stuck in her throat, and she could not spit them out. Her eyes were wide-open, and her expression looked extremely funny.

They could not believe their eyes, but they had to accept the cruel fact happening before them.

…

Deep in the third level of the Body-refining Tower.

The surroundings were pitch-dark. Layers of dark thunderclouds filled the entire sky. Flashes of lightning struck like a huge dragon tearing up the sky. The power was so overbearing that even the earth shook.

While the lightning struck, a few figures stood in mid-air. They released powerful spiritual light from their bodies, dissipating all the bolts of lightning that hit them.

Zong Teng, Han Shan, Ink Blade, and the rest stood right in front. They fixed their gazes ahead.

The thunderclouds formed a lofty tower thousands of feet tall. Behind the tower, space was cracked, and light rays could be seen flitting in it like shooting stars.

Zong Teng and the rest narrowed their eyes when they saw the shooting lights. They could feel a liquid was forming within the tower as the storm’s lightning flickered.

Streams of pure and violent power exuded from within the tower.

“Is that the Thunder Marrow?”

Greed surged on their faces at once. Thunder Marrow could only be formed when the power of the lightning was condensed to a certain extent. It had a superb effect of meridian cleansing and body detoxification. At the same time, it helped to increase physical strength. Its value was on par with the Blood Spirit Soil.

The group concealed their greedy expressions. Since the Thunder Marrow was situated at the back of the Thunder Cloud Tower, they would need to pass through that tower if they wanted to retrieve the marrow.

That was the barrier to the fourth level.

Once they broke through that barrier, they could enter the fourth level of the Body-refining Tower!

The group stared hard at the point behind the tower. Five hassocks flickering with lightning were waiting for them. Their eyes sparkled when they saw the hassocks. They knew that the hassocks represented the number that could enter the fourth level.

That also meant that almost half of the people would be eliminated from the Thunder Cloud Tower. Such elimination was considered to be cruel.

However, Zong Teng, Han Shan, Ink Blade and some of the others seemed to be calm. Without any words, a sense of confidence gathered around them. Apparently, they had high confidence in themselves. They would definitely be taking one of the five seats.

Shoo! Shoo!

While the gang was waiting for the time to pass, air-rending sounds whistled on and off from afar. Blustering figures gradually came up on the group.