262 Ninth Floor (2/2)

Contemplating for some time, Bai Tianyi decided to do it this way. It was not that his body could not grow and become an adult's, it was just that the energy needed to do so was quite exorbitant, almost as much as creating a body from scratch.

If he were to create a new body, he would lose all the energy he had stored within the one he had right now, and that would be quite the significant loss to him, so in the end he made the difficult choice.

”Wei is busy cultivating and he should take around a week to break into the Earth Warrior rank,” Bai Tianyi continued to mutter to himself while moving past the floor towards the stairs to the ninth floor. ”I guess that means that I can stay on the ninth floor for a week and swallow up all this lovely soul power.”

Bai Tianyi's face was filled with a great smile and he had high expectations for the floor above. The energy he was getting on the eighth floor was already so dense, so how would it be on the ninth floor? It had to be the most outstanding environment he could imagine; perhaps the air was so filled with energy that there was no space for anything else?

With this in mind, his steps picked up their pace and he almost rushed to the stairs. However, he quickly noticed that something was amiss.

Usually, the pressure would get worse the closer to the stairs one came, but here it was very steady throughout the entire floor.

As he reached the stairs, he found that there was still no change, and when he placed a foot onto the first step his face turned grim. The energy was actually dissipating!

And it was not slowly either—it was dissipating at a very rapid pace for each step that he took on the stairs towards the upper floors.

”Did those crooks trick me?” Bai Tianyi could not help but wonder about this. ”They have noticed my ability to devour and become cheap?”

He stepped back down to the eighth floor, and here the energy was still as dense as before, but when he went up a few stairs again, the energy quickly vanished.

”No? Then is there something special on the ninth floor?” Bai Tianyi could not comprehend what was happening and he kept muttering to himself as he decided that even if there was no energy, it would be worth it to go to the last floor to have a look.

As he made it up into the ninth floor, Bai Tianyi found that there was absolutely no energy remaining. There was even less soul energy than there was outside, and he could not help but frown. What was the point of this floor if there was no energy?

Bai Tianyi started exploring. He looked through every nook and cranny, but no matter how much he looked, it was obvious that there was absolutely nothing there.

After looking around for the umptieth time, he finally realized that there was really nothing at all on this floor. Perhaps they just never expected that students would reach the ninth floor and thus they deactivated it?

Having spent a full day on the ninth floor without absorbing any energy, Bai Tianyi's mood was rather foul and he quickly descended to the eighth floor again where he sat down in the very middle of the room and started to absorb the energy at a speed so fast that everything around him became a blur.

The soul power poured into him at such a speed that it seemed as if a mist had appeared around him. He was not capable of seeing it himself, but anyone who saw this sight would be stunned silly.

While Bai Tianyi was busy absorbing the energy, he was unaware that his actions had caused a stir in the rest of the academy.

Outside, there were certain lights on the tower that lit up when someone entered one of the floors and stayed alight while they were there.

Many people had seen that the light of the ninth floor had been turned on and even worse, they had seen it being on for a full day before it finally descended to the eighth floor where it stayed.

Everyone was filled with curiosity about what exactly the monster that had caused such a commotion looked like.

But as the days ticked by, more and more were getting annoyed waiting, and only a few teachers and stubborn experts stayed behind to see this marvelous expert.

While Bai Tianyi was causing a shock throughout the academy, Hei Gou and Lin Xiao were staying at home in the courtyard, both busy cultivating their Qi.

Neither of them were shocked that it would take Xue Wei and Bai Tianyi a long time before they would return. Both of them had expected this, and thus they just focused on cultivating themselves, not stepping out of their rooms for even a moment.

Xue Wei was the same. He was not worried about Bai Tianyi not returning. He knew that the sword spirit was likely to have been intoxicated with the energy that was coming from the Soul Tower and had forgotten all about the time that had passed, thus he also just focused on his own cultivation.

After a week, Xue Wei once more saw the familiar figure of a small child appearing on the fifth floor where he was sitting now.

Seeing that Xue Wei had moved to the fifth floor, Bai Tianyi could not help but raise an eyebrow in surprise. He had not expected that he could move up that fast. He did not have a spiritual body after all.