Yan Guilai narrowed his eyes as he stared at the ancient tree from afar. If he was not mistaken, this should be the entrance to the second level.
As he pondered, Yan Guilai did not slow down. He arrived in front of the ancient tree. Just as he was about to jump onto the ancient tree and rush to the second level, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
From afar, the ancient tree was densely covered with thousands of green vines.
It was obvious that a portion of these thousands of green vines were real green vines. However, most of them were green vine demons! They were not real green vines.
Although he was a Martial Emperor, if he were to rush in recklessly, he would be in a difficult situation if he was not careful. Although he would not be trapped, it would still be a waste of time.
With a thought, Yan Gui Lai's Seven Star Ancient Sword whizzed out. With a blazing golden flame, it slashed towards the dense green vines.
Just as the Seven Star Ancient Sword approached, the densely packed Green Vine Demons screamed and leaped away from the ancient tree, fleeing in all directions pathetically.
It was obvious that although these vine demons were not very intelligent, they were still instinctively afraid of the threat of the Grand Sun Primordial Flame. Hence, they fled immediately.
Looking at the densely packed vine demons, Yan Guilai could not help but feel goosebumps all over his body. It was obvious that … the number of vine demons was about the same as Yan Guilai's estimation. There were at least three to four thousand of them.
However, knowing was one thing. When one saw so many vine demons with one's own eyes, the feeling of being densely packed together was enough to make most people's hair stand on end.
Looking at the sky full of vine demons, Yan Guilai did not use the Seven Star Ancient Sword to kill these vine demons.
With a leap, Yan Guilai used the Seven Star Ancient Sword to open a path and forcefully rose into the air. In a few leaps, he stepped on the branches of the ancient tree and disappeared into the canopy of the ancient tree.
With Yan Guilai's departure and the disappearance of the Seven Star Ancient Sword and the Grand Sun Primordial Flame, all the green vine demons leaped back. After carefully surveying the surroundings, they hung back on the ancient tree as if nothing had happened.
Originally, Yan Guilai could have used the Seven Star Ancient Sword to kill all the vine demons. However, in reality, Yan Guilai did not do so. Instead, he chose to leave these vine demons behind.
Yan Guilai had thought it through. Even if he killed these vine demons, he would not gain anything and would waste a lot of time.
If he left these vine demons behind, they would not only help him block the people behind him, but they would also buy him a lot of time.
One had to know that this round of assessment was related to everyone's ranking in the academy. If one wanted to be ranked at the top, it wasn't enough to gather more spiritual herbs. The key was to gather more spiritual herbs than others.
No matter how many spirit herbs one collected, if one's points were less than others, then one's ranking would definitely fall behind others. Therefore … the number of herbs one collected was not the key. The key was to collect more herbs than others!
Stepping on the branches of the ancient tree and leaping continuously, Yan Guilai soon arrived at the second level of the ancient pagoda.
Looking around, the second level of the ancient pagoda was completely different from the first level. If the first level was an ordinary forest, then the second level was a medium-sized forest.
Not long after, Yan Guilai encountered a monster on the second level.
Upon closer inspection, the monster on the second level was a type of grass-green frog. It could spit out water arrows that attacked all targets within a ten-meter radius.
At first, it sounded like the water arrows were not very powerful. But in fact, although the water arrows did not have much lethality, the speed at which they were shot out was very fast. Moreover, the water arrows were not ordinary water, but green venom.
Although Yan Guilai was not hit by the venom, he saw with his own eyes that white smoke rose from the ancient tree trunks that were hit by the venom. The hard bark of the tree was corroded until it was charred black.
If the venom were to hit a human body, although it would not cause too much damage, once one was poisoned, one would have to circulate their spirit energy to expel the venom from the body. Otherwise, if the venom accumulated too much, one would still die.
However, to Yan Guilai, the so-called water arrows had no power to speak of. Yan Guilai directly put up an energy shield and it was enough to ignore the water arrows.
Just like the first level, along the way, Yan Guilai only collected the spirit herbs within a ten-meter radius. As for the other spirit herbs, he ignored them and left them for others to collect.
According to the rules of the points system, the points for each grade of spirit herb were ten times higher than the grade of the previous grade of spirit herb.
A grade one spirit herb was only worth one point, but a grade nine spirit herb was worth one hundred million points. This was the difference.
The first level, the second level, the third level …
Swallow Return barged its way through six floors in a row, rushing all the way through.
Yan Guilai collected quite a lot of spirit herbs. After all … although he was rushing at full speed, because he was too fast, he encountered more spirit herbs than the students who were focused on searching.
As he ran, Yan Guilai finally reached the sixth level. At this point, Yan Guilai's speed finally slowed down.
The monster that appeared on the sixth level of the Ancient Pagoda was already extraordinary. Its realm and strength were already similar to a human Nirvana realm practitioner.
Although Yan Guilai was now a Martial Emperor First Heaven expert and his realm was very stable, after all … he had not truly raised the strength of a Martial Emperor.
Therefore, although there was a difference, it was not that easy to fight. If he was not careful and fell into a tight encirclement, he could be beaten to death.
In a one-on-one fight, Yan Guilai was not afraid of any Nirvana realm expert. Naturally, he would not be afraid of these Nirvana realm monsters.
But the key point was that no one had come to the sixth level for many years. There were so many monsters that they were practically in groups.
The monsters on the sixth level were colorful lizards. These lizards looked colorful on the surface and were extremely terrifying. Once they attacked, they could spit out green crystals with an attack range of up to a hundred meters!
Originally, when Yan Guilai had just arrived on the sixth level, he had followed the example of the first five levels and flew freely, completely ignoring the monsters that blocked his way. It was not until he fell into the encirclement of more than thirty colorful lizards that he finally tasted the power of these monsters.
Every second, there would be dozens of green crystals shooting towards them from all directions. Their speed was so fast that it was very difficult for Swallow Returning Star to dodge them.
Most importantly, the emerald green crystals would explode after hitting the target, turning into a green poisonous fog. Yan Guilai only took a small breath and could not help but feel dizzy.
If it was not for the Infinite Poison Pearl that he carried with him and absorbed all the poisonous gas in time, Yan Guilai might have been poisoned and directly collapsed here.
The sixth level of the Ancient Pagoda was an endless swamp.
On the surface, it looked like an endless grassland. The height of the grass was not high, only reaching the knees. However, when one stepped on it, it was not solid ground at all. It was an extremely soft swamp.
Once one stood in one place for a little longer, one's entire body would sink. If one did not escape in time, they would probably be swallowed by the swamp.
Fortunately, before each candidate entered, the academy gave them a jade talisman. They usually kept it in their mouth. Once they encountered danger, they only needed to activate the jade talisman in their mouth to escape the Ancient Pagoda.
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