262 Ninth Floor (1/2)

Bai Tianyi smiled wryly when he saw Xue Wei sitting like this, cultivating hard, but he said nothing more and turned around, ready to ascend to the fourth floor.

As Bai Tianyi reached the stairs, he looked behind him and saw that many were still observing him with wide eyes as if they could not believe what they were seeing.

Noticing their glances, Bai Tianyi felt incredibly satisfied with himself and started swaggering up the stairs towards the next floor.

Seeing him swaggering, everyone on the third floor had ugly expressions on their faces. They felt as if he had slapped them hard. His behavior not at all like a normal cultivator but so self-assured that they felt inferior to a small kid.

Although Xue Wei had his eyes closed, a small smile appeared on his lips as this happened. He found it rather amusing to see Bai Tianyi act the way he did.

After Bai Tianyi left to do what Xue Wei had asked him to do, Xue Wei directed his attention on improving his cultivation. Although many people had to have died to create this highly nourishing soul power environment, it would be a waste not to use it and Xue Wei would do just that.

He was looking within himself and focusing on the dragon that was growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The scales on it were growing bigger and bigger, shinier and shinier, and even the surrounding air within the mind palace was starting to shine with the same luster that came from the dragon.

Xue Wei felt himself break through to the next level and he was excited. He had waited for a breakthrough for a long time.

But the dragon did not stop here. It continued to absorb the energy in the Soul Tower, and soon it had consolidated the foundation of the new realm and was rushing towards another bottleneck.

Time slowly ticked by within the Soul Tower. Xue Wei had gotten used to the energy pressure on the third level and slowly stood up to move up to the fourth level. There was no signs of Bai Tianyi's return yet, but Xue Wei was not worried.

Bai Tianyi had not been able to cultivate for a long time on their way towards Yan Dalu in the transdimensional tunnel. Now that he had a chance, he was eager to consume all the energy in the tower, wanting to swallow it all like Taotie, the gluttonous monster of legends.

Reaching the fourth floor, Xue Wei saw a lot of experts again sitting at the sides of the room. There were more experts on the fourth floor than on the third, but there was almost no one moving to the fifth, and even fewer coming down from the fifth floor.

Xue Wei found a place to the side and sat down. Sweat once again started pouring from his forehead as he once more experienced the heavy pressure of the soul power that was pushing down upon him, but a smile appeared on Xue Wei's face and he looked at his surroundings with narrowed eyes.

Few paid attention to him up here, but he could feel plenty of spiritual energy probes being sent towards him, and he shielded his body with his own spiritual energy.

As soon as the probes arrived, they were bounced backward from the barrier Xue Wei had erected, and no one continued to probe, but many had surprised looks on their faces. To think that this two-eyed expert was capable of overthrowing so many probes in such a short while.

Xue Wei saw that no one else seemed to have any intention of interrupting him and he once more started cultivating while quietly looking at the changes that happened to the golden dragon in his mind palace.

While Xue Wei had moved to the fourth floor, Bai Tianyi was already at the eight. He had encountered three people on the seventh floor, but no one on the eight. The three on the seventh floor had looked at him as if they had seen a monster when they noticed his upright, unrestrained posture and casual steps.

Even more shocked were they when they saw him step towards the stairs to the eighth floor, and when they saw him vanishing up the stairs, their hearts were stirred with horror.

Bai Tianyi completely ignored these people, and when he vanished they all looked at one another with shock in their eyes.

One of them could not handle the pressure and the shock at once and even vomited out a mouthful of blood before he hurriedly stood up and descended down the stairs.

The eighth floor was empty, but the pressure was so heavy that if Xue Wei were to enter without preparation he would without a doubt perish on the spot. The amount of energy that was present was enough to make Bai Tianyi happy. He could feel his breakthroughs appear in succession.

Not only was the energy pouring into him naturally, but he was also becoming like a black hole, absorbing all the energy and swallowing it as if he was a bottomless abyss.

His body was made from soul power and spiritual energy. Every time he absorbed the ambient energy, his body was getting stronger and his inner energy was also strengthened.

Unlike Xue Wei, Bai Tianyi did not have a mind palace. His entire body was made from spiritual energy and soul power. It was obvious that the entire body contained his energy, and all of it was a container for him.

He felt how his body was getting stronger and stronger. ”It is a shame I made a child's body,” he grumbled to himself as he looked down at his small size. ”I did not have a lot of spiritual energy so I decided to make a body that was not too big back then, but I could store more energy right now had I made it bigger.

”Still, it will cost quite a bit of energy to remake my body and I am not willing to do so right now. I guess I will just have to absorb energy until my body has reached its limits, then refine it, and then repeat like this until my body slowly grows on its own.”