The 55th checkpoint of the Stairway Tree was the Secret Forest.
Bai, Lancelot, and the rest of the imperial monsters killed all sorts of monsters along the way and headed to checkpoint 56.
This layer of the Secret Forest was not actually a monster checkpoint. It was just an area with special rules. Under normal circumstances, the difficulty of this checkpoint would lie in the harsh living environment.
However, the special rule of this checkpoint made many of the remaining monsters from the monster horde choose to stay. Since it had shrunk by 1,000 times, the area of this checkpoint was equivalent to being magnified by a million times. It was extremely vast. Moreover, the native plants and monsters of normal size were huge, and there were all sorts of resources.
One could say that the total number of monsters on this checkpoint was actually more than the actual checkpoint 56. However, due to the vast area, they were sparsely distributed.
The reason why Lin Huang did not waste his time on this checkpoint was that he had already passed it. No matter how many monsters he killed, he would not obtain any Stairway Tree points. Even the God Figurine's Combat Souls in his body would not obtain any spiritual energy at all.
As long as he had passed the checkpoints before, he would not obtain any benefits from climbing the checkpoints again. Even if he died on the Stairway Tree and returned to checkpoint 1, it would be the same.
For example, Lin Huang's current highest record was checkpoint 56 on the Stairway Tree. If he died for some reason on the Stairway Tree, he would fall back to checkpoint 1. But in the process of climbing from the first floor to the 55th floor, he wouldn't gain anything. The difficulty of each checkpoint would still be the same. He would still encounter the harsh environment and monster horde, but the benefits would be zero.
Therefore, many people struggled to climb to a certain height with great difficulty, but if they were to do it all over again, they might not be able to climb to their current level. If they could not reach their original height, they would not obtain any benefits. That was also the reason why many people were afraid of dying on the Stairway Tree.
Only a minority of powerhouses with absolute abilities would not be afraid of death as they had the ability to climb back to their original level.
After spending more than an hour passing through the Secret Forest, Lin Huang returned to checkpoint 56 with the imperial monsters again.
This checkpoint was a monster checkpoint. There were monsters called Combat Hornetdemons all over the place.
Previously, Lin Huang only dared to attack one hornet nest at a time. He did not dare to make a big commotion as he was afraid that the hornet nests nearby would surround him. He was even more afraid that the Queen Bee and the Bee Guards would sense it and come looking for trouble.
But this time, with a Red Gold Palace -level beast, Lin Huang had nothing to fear.
However, the high-level immortal-level Combat Hornetdemons could not even break through the Red Gold Palace monsters like Bai and the rest. They posed no threat at all.
When he stepped out of the Secret Forest and saw the first Hornet Nest not far away, Lin Huang's lips curled up.
"Apart from Bloody, the rest of you can leave now. Each of you will take one hornet's nest and kill them as soon as possible," Lin Huang ordered. "The top three who kill them the fastest will be rewarded when we get out of here."
Lancelot and Tyrant's eyes lit up when they heard about the reward.
Under Bloody's guidance, Bai and the rest of the 13 monsters soon dispersed. Each of them found a hornet's nest and began a one-sided massacre.
The imperial monsters that were fully equipped with demigod relics were killing much faster than when they were in the Fallen God Land.
Bai's main direction was sword cultivation at the moment. Lin Huang shared his Sword Dao inheritance with him without holding anything back. Bai intentionally gave up the best sword for this mission and only picked a mid-level demigod battle sword relic for himself. Among the 13 teams, his killing speed was the slowest because he was using the Combat Hornetdemons to practice his sword skills.
Tyrant, who used to use his fists, was now using a pair of demigod-level battle axes. Both of the battle axes were mid-level demigod relics. As he wielded them, killing the Combat Hornetdemons was like cutting fruits.
The Malachian Fiend picked a huge mace from the pile of hammers and axes. According to him, it felt the best when he used it. As he swung the mace, the Combat Hornetdemons were smashed into minced meat. Fortunately, the monsters on the Stairway Tree would vanish as soon as they died, so there was no way to pick up their carcasses.
The battle sword in Killer's hand was the supreme-level demigod relic that Lin Huang had just obtained. As he swung the sword, the Combat Hornetdemons were chopped into halves. They were no different from chopping chives. Lin Huang could not use the supreme-level demigod battle sword relic since he had yet to reach imperial-level. Therefore, Killer, who was also a sword cultivator, took advantage of it.
As for Lancelot, Lin Huang spent a lot of effort to gather 19 demigod swords relic for himself and his 18 sword servants. Fortunately, their performance did not disappoint. They were the fastest among the 13 teams.
Due to the restriction of the Stairway Tree's rules, the Evil Dominator could not transform into an imperial-level human. Once again, he transformed into Killer. However, his weapon was only an expert-level demigod battle sword relic. His killing speed was slightly slower than Killer's.
The two knights picked a mid-level demigod spear relic each. Although they were in their knight form without merging, their combat strength had elevated to imperial-level yellow gold-rank. None of the monsters survived the second attack as they swung the spear.
Initially, Lin Huang planned to prepare demigod-level telekinetic weapons for Grimace and the Imp who possessed telekinesis. However, he did not even have one, so he could only lend two sets of ancient-level telekinetic flying daggers to the duo. However, with the duo's telekinesis in the Red Gold Palace, they could control a set of ancient-level telekinetic flying daggers each. Their killing speed was rather shocking.
However, among the 13 teams of imperial monsters, Warlord's killing speed was the fastest. Although Lin Huang did not prepare any demigod relic for him, apart from a handful of rare materials that he kept, he basically gave all the usable materials to him to build his mechanical army. Not only did Warlord's mechanical army increase to 300,000, but its quality was also much higher than before. He had the advantage of numbers and could clear a hornet's nest within a few minutes.
With Bloody's map guidance, all the hornet's nests on checkpoint 56 were cleared.
As the killing continued, the combat strength of the three new God Figurines' Combat Souls in Lin Huang's body kept increasing.
Iron-level, bronze-level, silver-level, gold-level, holy fire-level …
He did not use the primitive soul crystal right away. Instead, he replenished the spiritual energy of the three new God Figurines by killing monsters. The reason being that it was relatively easy for God Figurines to elevate their combat strength before they reached imperial-level. To be exact, it was not difficult for God Figurines to elevate their combat strength before they reached imperial-level yellow gold-level. The soul crystal could be saved for when it was difficult to elevate their combat strength by killing monsters.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang did not use the demigod-level soul crystal at the moment. He had yet to decide which Combat Soul he should elevate to imperial-level purple gold-rank first.
His Stairway Tree points were increasing along with the God Figurines' Combat Souls' combat strength.
One must know that there were usually 20,000 to 30,000 Combat Hornetdemons in a hornet's nest. Some of them could even reach 50,000.
All of the Combat Hornetdemons were on high-level immortal-level. Even if they were only on immortal-level rank-7, they would be rewarded with 640 points while immortal-level rank-9 would be rewarded with 2,560 points.
Apart from Warlord and Lancelot who were using his army, the rest's killing speed was similar. They could clear a hornet's nest in about half an hour. Even Bai, who was practicing his sword skills, only needed about 40 minutes to clear a hornet's nest.
As for Lancelot, he needed less than ten minutes to clear a hornet's nest in seven to eight minutes. Warlord was even faster. He could do it in two to three minutes.
As a result, Lin Huang only stayed on checkpoint 56 for less than 20 minutes before his Stairway Tree points skyrocketed to over 100 million points. He became No. 1 on the Stairway Tree leaderboard again.
Lin Xie's name that appeared out of nowhere on the leaderboard shocked everyone again.
The name had not appeared for more than half a year and people had almost forgotten about it.
Now, he appeared again out of nowhere and ranked No. 1 without any warning. Almost all of the Evil Alliance members who were online recalled the fear when Lin Xie's name dominated the Stairway Tree leaderboard last year.
After half a year, the Great Devil King was back!
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