“Ding! Obtained Adamant Rock ×!”
“Ding! Obtained Crystal Adamant Rock ×45!”
“Ding! Obtained Adamant Core ×14!”
“Ding! Obtained Star Gold ×11!”
“Phew…” After collecting everything, Bai Qiu didn’t pause for even a moment.
He immediately threw out the high-level Contract Space Card in his hand and shouted, “Get in here, little turtle!”
The Black Crystal Mutated Rock Turtle turned into a streak of white light and was absorbed into the card.
Bai Qiu retrieved it, didn’t bother checking what was different about the Contract Space Card, and rushed straight toward the stairs leading to the 56th floor of the Tower.
Time remaining before being kicked out of the Tower: 1 second…
…
“This damn system… Did it set this post-clear time limit just to stop players from stripping the Tower of all its resources?”
Bai Qiu felt a bit regretful.
If he had known, he would’ve mined everything first before contracting the Black Crystal Mutated Rock Turtle.
Upon reaching the 56th floor, Bai Qiu found himself in what seemed like a vast desert.
Endless yellow sand stretched in all directions—the internal space of the Tower had expanded once again.
To be safe, Bai Qiu flew straight into the air.
His Sevenfold Arcane Crystallized Eyes scanned the ground below, guarding against any high-burst transcendent creature ambushing him and killing him instantly.
That’s right—despite clearing floors one after another, those high-burst transcendent monsters still had the potential to one-shot him if they struck first.
“No detectable aura… Could it be like A Yuan, possessing a stealth ability that blends with the environment?” Bai Qiu stroked his chin, studying the barren desert below.
He took out the Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear and activated its Wind-Gathering trait.
Only after it reached full charge did he hurl it fiercely toward the desert below!
“Boom!” Sand exploded into the air.
Bai Qiu knew the strike had missed, but he didn’t get discouraged—he simply moved and continued bombarding different spots.
Finally, on his 25th strike, the creature hiding beneath the sand couldn’t take it anymore and burst out.
“Hiss!!” A massive black scorpion emerged from beneath the desert, roaring angrily at Bai Qiu in the sky.
From the stinger at the tip of its tail, it fired a glob of venom straight at him—but such an attack was easily dodged.
Sand Armor Scorpion (Level 35, Monarch-tier Boss)
Strength: B-
Magic: C
Endurance: B-
Agility: C ~ C+
Skills: Omitted
The Sand Armor Scorpion was a classic ambush predator.
Its defense was astonishing—despite taking a direct hit from Bai Qiu’s full-powered Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear, its back only showed dents and cracks in its carapace, without suffering major damage.
Bai Qiu’s guess was correct.
Although its standout attributes were strength and endurance, it was indeed a burst-type creature.
If Bai Qiu had walked carelessly across the sand, he could very well have been taken out in a single combo.
But now, he had absolute control of the skies.
With no anti-air capabilities, the scorpion could only endure Bai Qiu’s relentless bombardment.
Worst of all, the moment it surfaced to attack, Bai Qiu had already locked onto it.
Even if it burrowed back underground, every subsequent throw landed precisely on its position.
So, in just a few minutes, the Sand Armor Scorpion was beaten to the brink of death—without ever getting a chance to touch Bai Qiu.
Seeing the moment was right, Bai Qiu activated Noble Phantasm and finished it off.
However, after killing it, instead of heading to the stairs for the stage reward, Bai Qiu placed his storage card near the ground, intending to collect resources directly…
“Ding! After obtaining the stage reward, environmental resources within the stage can no longer be collected!” the system prompt rang out, as if to say:
That’s enough—don’t try to take everything. It’s a bad look.
“Tch, stingy. What’s the point of leaving this stuff here when the guardian monster is already dead?” Bai Qiu grumbled.
Still, he didn’t dwell on it and walked straight toward the stairs leading to the 57th floor.
“Ding! Obtained Transcendent Toxin: Concentrated Gravel Poison ×10.”
Concentrated Gravel Poison (Quality: B-)
Description: The moment Concentrated Gravel Poison comes into contact with a creature’s blood, it spreads through the entire body at an rapid speed. The affected areas will undergo large-scale petrification!
The poison appears pale yellow, similar in color to sand and gravel—but it is a true weapon of mass lethality, especially effective against living beings.
As long as a creature suffers even the slightest cut and gets a trace of this toxin on it, death is practically inevitable. This is a poison capable of harming B- rank creatures and even higher-level existences!
Bai Qiu stored the ten vials of poison in his storage card.
A plan had already formed in his mind—he had just obtained something terrifying, capable of rivaling a Noble Phantasm.
After that, Bai Qiu essentially bulldozed his way forward, reaching the 60th floor.
Whenever he could determine the guardian monster’s location, he would first find a way to collect some stage resources before killing it and proceeding upward.
However, the system quickly patched this loophole.
If the value of resources he gathered from a stage reached or exceeded the weight of the transcendent materials dropped by the guardian monster, then no advancement reward would be granted.
Bai Qiu might be a fairly upright person, but that didn’t mean he didn’t understand the principle of “the more you take, the more you gain.”
He didn’t do bad things simply because he chose not to—not because he couldn’t or didn’t know how.
But the system had a god’s-eye view.
It followed his actions step by step, constantly fixing loopholes, leaving Bai Qiu with no room to exploit them.
So he could only take a symbolic amount before using his class Noble Phantasm to kill the increasingly frenzied guardian monsters.
The environment of the 60th floor was an endless ocean, with not a single piece of land to stand on.
The moment Bai Qiu was teleported in, several thick tentacles shot up from beneath the sea, reaching toward him.
However, Bai Qiu simply swung his Dragon-Slaying Star Breath Spear a few times in rapid succession, slicing them apart.
Chunks of flesh fell from the air, and as the ocean churned violently, the guardian monster finally revealed itself.
Mutated Kraken (Level 40, Monarch-tier Boss)
Strength: B
Magic: B
Endurance: C
Agility: C
Skill 1: Regeneration – The Kraken’s tentacles can rapidly regenerate by consuming magic power.
Skill 2: Viscous Ink – The Kraken spews thick ink that gradually spreads, blackening a thousand-meter radius of ocean. Creatures within this area suffer severe movement restrictions.
Skill 3: Tidal Surge – Unlocked after releasing ink. The Kraken stirs the contaminated waters, boosting all its own attributes while reducing those of its target.
Skill 4: Hundred-Eye Beam – The numerous eyes covering its body can fire powerful magical beams.
Skill 5: Tidal Soundwave – The massive mouth on its head emits soundwaves that deal damage and forcibly stun the target.
A Mutated Kraken with two B-rank attributes—its appearance was overwhelmingly Lovecraftian.
Compared to it, even a pseudo-chimera hybrid seemed almost normal.
It had twenty thick, elongated tentacles, and its head was densely covered with eyes of varying sizes—each one bearing vertical pupils. But even that wasn’t the most horrifying part.
The massive mouth split open on its head was filled with rows of jagged teeth of different sizes.
And at the base of its tentacles, there was yet another mouth—lined with concentric rings of neatly arranged, razor-sharp teeth…
— The end of the Chapter–
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