Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#440 - Chapter 439: Students Entering the Sixth Floor

"It's my first time." Xiang Nanzhi nodded obediently.

"Understood."

The staff member gave a mechanical smile, turned around, and pointed in a certain direction, saying, "Please keep your eyes on that mirror. The fastest you can enter the Spirit Realm is one minute, the slowest is three minutes."

Hearing this, Li Chenqiu followed the direction the staff member pointed, and saw an irregular hexagonal mirror with sharp edges and corners strangely suspended in the air.

"The Spirit Realm will perfectly replicate everything in reality, not only strength but also various physical conditions. If you suddenly feel abdominal pain in the Spirit Realm, you must exit in time.

Definitely do not, for convenience's sake, find an uninhabited place in the Spirit Realm to relieve yourself, otherwise your body in reality..." The staff member gave a meaningful smile.

Li Chenqiu and Xiang Nanzhi understood and nodded solemnly.

"If you want to exit the Spirit Realm midway, just close your eyes for one minute, and when you open them again, you will leave the Spirit Realm. As for the rest, I'll leave it to you to explore!"

"Thank you," Li Chenqiu said.

"It's my duty." The staff member nodded with a smile, then turned and left.

"Li Chenqiu, he left out a key point. After your consciousness enters the Spirit Mirror, you won't directly enter the Spirit Realm. You need to select the location where your consciousness will appear. The Exquisite Pagoda is in the very center, don't forget."

Xiang Nanzhi poked Li Chenqiu with her elbow, saying without turning her head.

"Select a location? How..."

Li Chenqiu turned his head, just as he was about to ask something, he discovered that Xiang Nanzhi had already closed her eyes and fallen asleep with her head tilted, obviously having entered the Spirit Realm.

"That was fast!"

Li Chenqiu muttered, then turned his gaze back to the mirror suspended in the air.

Before long, his eyes became dazed, and he finally slowly closed them.

...

"Where is this..."

Li Chenqiu looked around, everything was dark, and he couldn't see his fingers.

"Please select a teleportation location." A pleasant and melodious female voice sounded in his ear.

The next second, a sheepskin scroll with a bronze-colored glow appeared in front of Li Chenqiu. He fixed his eyes on it and saw a circuit diagram on the sheepskin scroll, instantly realizing that it was a map of the Spirit Realm.

"Please select a teleportation location." The voice sounded again.

Thinking of what Xiang Nanzhi had said, Li Chenqiu looked towards the center of the sheepskin scroll and found the location of the Exquisite Pagoda marked.

"Excuse me, how do I select a teleportation location?" Li Chenqiu asked in confusion.

"Please select a teleportation location." The voice continued to repeat the previous sentence as if it hadn't heard the question.

"I choose the Exquisite Pagoda."

"Please select a teleportation location."

"Hmm? Could it be..."

Li Chenqiu raised his eyebrows and reached out his finger to press on the Exquisite Pagoda on the sheepskin scroll.

The moment his fingertip touched the sheepskin scroll, the surrounding darkness quickly dissipated, and everything in front of him had color. The noisy voices, like overlapping waves, grew louder and clearer.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

The cool night breeze caressed the tender buds of the grass, the moonlight was thick like water, pouring on the endless grassland, coating the verdant green with a layer of silver.

Not far away, a tall pagoda with flying eaves and upturned corners, with an ancient style, stood alone on the grassland. A group of young men and women gathered at the foot of the pagoda, making the noisy sound that Li Chenqiu had heard earlier.

"This mystic artifact is really awesome!"

Li Chenqiu looked around and praised in surprise.

"Li Xiaoqiu, here!"

Just then, a voice came from under the Exquisite Pagoda.

Li Chenqiu looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xiang Nanzhi hopping up and down, waving at him in the crowd.

"Li Xiaoqiu? She's quite thoughtful."

Li Chenqiu muttered to himself, quickly walked to the foot of the pagoda, and joined Xiang Nanzhi.

Looking at the dark crowd, Li Chenqiu asked with surprise, "Why are there so many people in the middle of the night?"

Xiang Nanzhi raised her head and pointed to the sixth floor of the Exquisite Pagoda, which was glowing faintly, and said, "Someone is trying to break through the sixth floor, these people are probably here for that."

"Is this Exquisite Pagoda difficult to break through?" Li Chenqiu asked in confusion.

Xiang Nanzhi guessed, "I'm not sure, but since it's for the students, it shouldn't be too difficult."

"Not too difficult, hum hum hum~~~" A tall, thin young man looked at Xiang Nanzhi like an idiot: "Ignorance is bliss, it's true."

Xiang Nanzhi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, pointed at the tall, thin young man's nose and scolded, "Who the heck are you calling ignorant? My nickname is Master of Erudition, you're the ignorant one!"

The tall, thin young man smiled at several companions beside him, pointed at Xiang Nanzhi and said, "The old woman praises her own melons!"

"You son of a..."

Xiang Nanzhi instantly turned red with anger, rolled up her sleeves and was about to step forward. Seeing this, Li Chenqiu hurriedly reached out to stop her, and advised in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"Calm down, the strong always maintain their status. Have you ever seen an Emperor roll up his sleeves and fight a third or fourth-level Destiny cultivator?"

Hearing this, Xiang Nanzhi gradually calmed down, snorted coldly, and stopped talking.

The tall, thin young man smiled and reminded, "Brother, don't ever say that the Exquisite Pagoda is not difficult, it's really too funny."

"Is the Exquisite Pagoda particularly difficult to break through?" Li Chenqiu asked curiously.

The tall, thin young man had a mind to show off, and seeing that Li Chenqiu's attitude was quite friendly, he explained, "It's not just particularly difficult, it's very, very difficult.

The Exquisite Pagoda will conjure life forms of different levels based on the challenger's forbidden level. The higher you go, the stronger the conjured life forms. The later levels are not for people to challenge!

It has been a hundred years since the Spirit Realm was opened, but do you know how many people have broken through the eighth floor?"

"Ten or so?" Li Chenqiu asked tentatively.

"No, not a single one."

"What!" Li Chenqiu showed appropriate shock on his face.

The tall, thin young man laughed smugly: "People who can enter top academies, like us, can basically break through the first floor, and those who are slightly better can break through the second floor.

People who can break through the third floor can basically be considered geniuses, and those who can break through the fourth floor, tsk tsk tsk, are even more amazing. If nothing unexpected happens, they can definitely reach the ninth level!"

"So exaggerated?"

"It gets even more exaggerated later. It's rare to find one person out of a thousand who can break through the fifth floor. As long as you can break through, 80% of you can become a tenth-level cultivator. I'm not just making this up, there's data to support it!"

The tall, thin young man became more and more excited, gesturing with his hands and feet, and the people standing nearby all looked over.

"As for the sixth floor later on, it's no exaggeration to say that it's basically no different from the Dragon Gate. As long as you can break through, you'll definitely be a big shot in the future, and even the conglomerates will have to give you face!

Look at the group of people standing at the very front, they are basically from the three major conglomerates, they are there for the student who is currently breaking through the sixth floor.

As long as this student can break through the sixth floor, I bet that as soon as he steps out of the Exquisite Pagoda, the three major conglomerates will immediately step forward to recruit him!"

Li Chenqiu subconsciously asked, "Who is that student?"

"That student... seems to be from the War Academy, what's his name..." The tall, thin young man scratched his head and looked at a student from the War Academy.

"His name is Qi Mingyue, a freshman who just enrolled this year."