Xia Ruofei laughed and said, "Time should be tight, right? How can a mission in the Tower of Trials be easy? "
Ling Qingxue saw that Xia Ruofei wasn't in a hurry and couldn't help but ask anxiously, "What's the mission about? Hurry up and tell me! Don't let it be like the previous mission where we wasted time and ended up in such a dangerous situation! "
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but laugh and say, "I'm just kidding! The specific mission content hasn't been announced, but there are clear instructions. Let's just follow them! "
Then, Xia Ruofei briefly repeated to Ling Qingxue the contents of the Perceptive Mirror.
Ling Qingxue heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. Then, she hit Xia Ruofei playfully and said, "Stop joking at a time like this! Even if the mission hasn't officially started, we'd better hurry over! Who knows, there might be some trouble! "
"You're right!" Xia Ruofei said, "Let's pack up and set off immediately!"
Xia Ruofei put away the area-of-effect fire attack formation, then said to Ling Qingxue, "Let's go! Let's see what the last part of the mission is! "
He took Ling Qingxue with him and rode on the Qu Shuang Flying Sword, moving in the direction indicated by the arrow in the Perceptive Mirror.
In the vast wasteland of the fifth floor of the Tower of Trials, Xia Ruofei naturally couldn't follow the arrow and move in a straight line. This was because he was bound to encounter Star Fern Thorns blocking his way.
Therefore, he more or less had to take a detour.
Xia Ruofei didn't idle along the way. Every time he encountered a Star Fern Thorn, he would spend a few seconds to identify it. This was a basic operation he had done for more than eight hours, and it had become a habit.
Xia Ruofei flew with Ling Qingxue on the Sword Kinesis Flight for more than fifty minutes. Basically, they would encounter a Star Fern Thorn every few minutes. Of course, because there weren't many special Star Fern Thorns, Xia Ruofei only encountered normal Star Fern Thorns along the way.
After traveling for nearly an hour, the light shown on the Perceptive Mirror's map was getting closer and closer. They estimated that they would reach it in at most half an hour.
Xia Ruofei maintained a relatively constant speed as he flew in the direction indicated by the arrow.
There was another Star Fern Thorn in front of them.
Out of habit, Xia Ruofei glanced around. Just as he was about to go around and continue moving forward, he paused slightly and stared blankly.
"What happened?" Ling Qingxue asked curiously.
"Another Star Fern Thorn's" Xia Ruofei couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Why wasn't it so easy to find when I was doing the mission?"
The Star Fern Thorn in front of them had pitch-black thorns, and its roots were also darker in color.
Clearly, this was a special Star's.
According to their previous experience, this Star Fern Thorn had a high probability of dropping a Soul Essence.
Although Xia Ruofei was able to find a special Star Fern Thorn every hour or so when he was doing the mission, that was when Xia Ruofei went all out. Moreover, he followed the principle of proximity and identified as many Star Fern Thorns as possible. Although he had spent an hour or so just now, Xia Ruofei was mainly in a hurry. He would only identify Star Fern Thorns before taking a detour if they happened to be growing along the route.
It could be said that the number of Star Fern Thorns Xia Ruofei had identified in the two situations was at least ten times greater.
Therefore, the appearance of this special Star Fern Thorn was definitely a rare occurrence.
"This Star Fern Thorn can also drop a Soul Essence?" Ling Qingxue asked curiously.
"Yes!" Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "Since we've encountered it, let's not be polite! Let's take it! "
After saying that, Xia Ruofei took out the materials for a small fire array and set it up with a wave of his hand.
Immediately after, he threw out another Origin Crystal and activated the array formation with a Dharma Seal.
Although the Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence was only a mission item and couldn't be stored in the Ring-Tu space, Xia Ruofei knew that it was definitely something good. Moreover, the rarer something was, the more valuable it was. Since he had encountered such a rare Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence, he definitely couldn't miss it. Even if he couldn't take it out of the Tower of Trials, Xia Ruofei was willing to take it.
In addition, Xia Ruofei had more or less figured out the routine. The chain of missions on the fifth floor of the Tower of Trials should be related. For example, the first round of the mission was to solve the Star Fern Thorn Belt, while the second round of the mission was to collect the Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence. Both were related to the Star Fern Thorn.
Now that Xia Ruofei was about to complete the third round of the mission, this mission was most likely related to the Star Fern Thorn. Perhaps the Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence would play an important role. Therefore, he prepared an extra Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence. Who knew when it would come in handy!
After the fire array was activated, the special Star Fern Thorn immediately erupted with an extremely powerful and crazy attack, just like the other special Star Fern Thorns that had been burned to ashes before.
However, it was destined to be futile. Xia Ruofei and Ling Qingxue stood there quietly, silently watching the Star Fern Thorn burn to ashes bit by bit.
The array stopped and the flames extinguished.
Xia Ruofei swept away the ashes with his palm and indeed saw a familiar Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence lying quietly on the ground.
Xia Ruofei smiled as he reached out and grabbed the Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence into his hand.
He glanced at the mission notification on the Sensory Mirror and discovered that the second round of the mission was still at 10/10. It didn't become 11/10 just because he had collected another Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence.
Xia Ruofei didn't care about this. In any case, the mission was completed.
He casually put the Star Fern Thorn's Soul Essence into his pocket and continued forward with Ling Qingxue.
In the next twenty minutes or so, Xia Ruofei and Ling Qingxue avoided another dozen or so Star Fern Thorns on the Qu Shuang Flying Sword and finally arrived at the location indicated by the Sensory Mirror's map. Of course, he didn't encounter any more special Star Fern Thorns after that.
When Xia Ruofei arrived at the location of the light spot, he stopped the flying sword and grabbed Ling Qingxue's hand before jumping down from the Qu Shuang Flying Sword that was about two meters above the ground.
In this vast wasteland, the scenery was almost the same. Although they had been flying on the sword for about an hour, this place was similar to the places they had been to before. It was completely barren. There were a few Star Fern Thorns scattered about a few dozen meters away, which made this wasteland even more barren.
Xia Ruofei grabbed Ling Qingxue's hand and walked forward a few meters before stopping.
The position he was standing at was exactly the location indicated by the map. There wasn't the slightest deviation.
Xia Ruofei was a little puzzled. This place looked very ordinary. What kind of mission was it that had led him all the way here? Why did it have to be released in this place?
Xia Ruofei's doubts were quickly answered.
When he and Ling Qingxue stood at the position marked on the map, Xia Ruofei heard the familiar creaking sound of a spring in operation in just a few seconds.
He hurriedly followed the sound and turned around, just in time to see stone pillars rising from the ground.
This scene was very similar to what he had seen when he had completed the first round of the mission and received the reward from the previous floor.
The difference was that there were more stone pillars rising this time, and they were spread over a very wide area.
In front of the two, there were at least one to two thousand stone pillars rising slowly in a two-kilometer radius.
In addition, these stone pillars were different from the previous ones. Their bodies were engraved with different numbers of veins. These veins looked very mysterious. Xia Ruofei took a few glances at them and suddenly felt that they were unfathomable.
There were also different numbers of grooves on these stone pillars. Judging from the size, they should be just enough to hold a Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence.
Some of the stone pillars had five or six grooves, while the smaller ones had at least one groove.
The grooves were also in different positions. Some were high, some were low. Some were on the mysterious patterns on the sides of the stone pillars, while some were directly on the top of the stone pillars.
The creaking sound of springs gradually weakened and finally disappeared.
The stone pillars finally stopped rising.
What appeared in front of Xia Ruofei were one to two thousand stone pillars of different sizes and heights within a two-kilometer radius. They were like silent statues, faintly exuding an ancient and desolate aura. The scene was quite spectacular.
"What is this?" Ling Qingxue was also shocked by the scene in front of her and muttered to herself.
At this moment, Xia Ruofei saw the latest mission description in the Sensory Mirror's vision:
[The third round of the chain mission on the fifth floor of the Tower of Trials has officially begun. Please embed the Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence in a suitable position. If the evaluation is good, you will pass. If the evaluation is excellent or perfect, you will receive more generous rewards. The mission has a time limit of ten hours. If the time limit is exceeded or the evaluation is not good, the mission will be considered a failure.
After Xia Ruofei finished reading the mission description, he turned to Ling Qingxue and smiled. "If I'm not wrong, these stone pillars should form a rather impressive array formation. However, this array formation is currently incomplete and lacks a few key nodes. The Star Fern Thorn Soul Essence in my hand will form these key nodes! "
After saying that, Xia Ruofei repeated the mission description to Ling Qingxue before continuing. "It looks like this mission isn't simple! The time limit is still ten hours. I have to study it properly first! "
"Okay!" Ling Qingxue nodded guiltily and said, "I don't know anything about arrays. I can only rely on you …"
Xia Ruofei chuckled. "Why are you being so polite with me? Alright, I won't waste any more time. I have to hurry and study this stone pillar array formation. "
After saying that, Xia Ruofei stepped onto the Qu Shuang Flying Sword and circled around the entire stone pillar array formation at a slower speed.
Although his mental strength could easily cover such a large area, Xia Ruofei felt that seeing was believing. After flying around on his flying sword, he basically figured out the distribution of all the stone pillars. As for the patterns and details of each stone pillar, he definitely couldn't remember them all in a short period of time, so he didn't deliberately try to memorize them.
Xia Ruofei circled around and returned to his original spot. He took out the Time Formation Flags from the Ring-Tu space and quickly set up a Time Formation. Then, he called out to Ling Qingxue and stepped into the array formation.
However, before he could analyze the stone pillar array, Xia Ruofei felt that something was wrong. He sensed it carefully and immediately discovered the problem.
It turned out that the flow of time inside and outside the array formation was the same.
In other words, the array formation set up by the Time Formation Flags didn't work at all!
Xia Ruofei was stunned. Could it be that there was a mistake when setting up the array formation?
He quickly checked it and found that there was no mistake at all. The position of every formation flag was accurate, and the error was definitely on the order of millimeters. In fact, Xia Ruofei had used the formation flags to set up the Time Formation countless times. It could be said that he could set it up casually with his eyes closed, and there had never been a mistake.
Since the array formation was correct, the fact that the Time Formation Flags didn't work was not his fault, but environmental factors.
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but smile bitterly. He originally wanted to take advantage of the situation, but now it seemed that this loophole was gone.
Xia Ruofei didn't know that in a secret space filled with purple Spirit Qi, the white-haired old man in a green Daoist robe was looking at his confused face through the mirror in front of him.
The white-haired old man in the green Daoist robe chuckled and muttered to himself, "Little kid! It's fine if I let you take a little shortcut earlier. After all, getting this set of array flags is also a part of your strength. However, this stage is testing your level of array dao. Your time is dozens of times more than others. That's too unfair … "
…
Ling Qingxue saw that Xia Ruofei had just entered the array formation and immediately walked out. She couldn't help but be a little surprised. After being stunned for a moment, she asked, "Ruofei, what's wrong? Is there a problem? "
Xia Ruofei smiled bitterly. "I wanted to save some time, but I didn't expect that such an obvious bug had already been fixed. The Time Formation doesn't work here at all!"
"No way?" Ling Qingxue was also a little surprised. "It was working fine before! It's also on the fifth level of the Tower of Trials! "
"This level is testing your understanding of array formation. The time requirement is also very strict. Relying on the Time Formation to give yourself dozens of times more time for no reason is indeed a little too much." Xia Ruofei said with a bitter smile. "Forget it! If it can't be used, then so be it! We'll win fair and square if we win! "
"En! I believe in you. If others can complete the task in such a short time, you can definitely do it too! "Ling Qingxue said.
Xia Ruofei nodded and said, "I'll just go inside the stone pillar array formation and study this array formation. I don't believe that I can't find a result!"
After saying that, Xia Ruofei directly flew into the stone pillar array formation on his sword. Then, he began to use his mind power to observe and record the shape, position, direction, and other information of the array patterns on each stone pillar.
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