Chapter 129: Chapter 129: Blundering All the Way, Straight Up to the Thirtieth Floor

[Countdown to Clear Stay: 4 minutes 56 seconds…]

After a glance at the floating countdown digits, Zi Liyuan spoke directly.

“I want to enter the next level of the Secret Realm!”

As his words fell, a three-meter-wide pale blue circular space door opened in the center of the Secret Realm.

“Tch, I thought it was going to suddenly transport us to the second level again.”

After casually summoning Lao Tie, Zi Liyuan walked into the space door with him.

The next instant, they appeared in the second level of the Secret Realm.

Unlike being immediately attacked by the Boss upon entry, the second level didn’t treat them the same way; instead, a five-meter protective barrier appeared.

“Damn it, the first level of the Secret Realm was definitely set up on purpose!”

Cursing the people who set up the tower for not acting decently, Zi Liyuan’s gaze shifted toward the Boss about a hundred meters away from the barrier.

Two large bears that stood upright, arm in arm!

“Two elite Bosses, don’t tell me an additional Boss will appear with each level I ascend?”

Level 12 elite Bosses, with only 3000 hit points, as for their other attributes.

Sorry, Zi Liyuan couldn’t be bothered to check because Lao Tie directly charged at them, slapping the bears’ faces with two huge iron palms from left and right.

In the midst of the crisp “smack smack” sounds, the two large bears were directly beaten to the ground and vanished.

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan, for slaying the second level Secret Realm Boss, successfully clearing the second level, you have five minutes to rest, or you can choose to directly enter the next level for the challenge.]

[Countdown to Clear Stay: 4 minutes 59 seconds…]

“Enter the next level!”

After saying so calmly, and seeing the space door appear in the center, he stepped through it.

In the blink of an eye, he and Lao Tie appeared on the third level of the Secret Realm.

The same protective barrier, the same Boss appearing a hundred meters away, but this time there were three, and the level of the Bosses had also increased to Level 13.

“So, with each level, the level increases by 1 and the number by +1? If I reached level 40, would I have to face 40 Bosses at once? Are you sure those genius candidates won’t be beaten to death?”

Shaking his head, not bothering to ponder the mechanism of each level, he directly gave Lao Tie the command to wreak havoc.

The Bosses were only one level higher, but their hit points had surged by 1000, reaching 4000 points. However, under Lao Tie’s giant iron palms, they were still smacked down one by one.

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan, for slaying the third level Secret Realm Boss, successfully clearing the third level, you have five minutes to rest, or you can choose to directly enter the next level for the challenge.]

[Countdown to Clear Stay: 4 minutes 59 seconds…]

“Enter the next level!”

One-shotting Bosses and moving on to the next level, Zi Liyuan’s pace was incredibly fast.

In less than a minute, they had arrived at the tenth level of the Secret Realm.

The Boss of this level was Zi Liyuan’s old friend—the Goblin Lord.

Not only were there ten of them, but their level had also reached Level 20, and their hit points had soared to 10K.

Unfortunately, the 10 elite Goblin Lords were no match for Lao Tie, the hellish demon construct.

He didn’t even need to use skills; just the normal attacks and the damage from his fist spikes were enough to deal with two goblins with two punches, not to mention the crazy impaling from the eight spines on Lao Tie’s back.

However, these Goblin Lords didn’t just wait to be defeated but organized a simple tactic to counter.

Six goblins surrounded Lao Tie, while the remaining four charged straight at Zi Liyuan.

Unfortunately for them, their aspirations were grand, but reality was brutally slim.

A single Bone Spear, carrying the wind of death, skewered the two leading goblins in an instant, turning them into a shish kebab.

Then came two deathly shadow arrows, the massive dark energy instantly annihilating the remaining two Bosses without giving them a half-second of struggle before they hit the ground.

However, this time around, it took slightly longer than the previous nine floors, but it still didn’t exceed 10 seconds before the battle ended.

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for slaying the tenth floor’s Boss of the Secret Realm, successfully clearing the tenth floor. You have five minutes of rest time, or you may directly enter the next floor of the Secret Realm to challenge.]

[Clearance stay countdown: 4 minutes 59 seconds…]

“Next floor!”

Stepping through the spatial gate and reappearing within the protective shield, the scenery around him had finally undergone a significant change.

If the first through tenth floors were all plains and grasslands, then this time it was a desert wasteland.

“Huh, the mechanism changed.”

A hundred meters away, there weren’t 11 Bosses, but rather a large coiled serpent, hissing at him.

A Level 21 Boss, with its template changed from an Elite Boss to a Rare Boss, now had its HP increased to 50,000.

“No wonder they say that you’re only qualified if you reach the 30th floor. With every ten floors comes a change; from the 20th floor onward, you face Hero Bosses, and at the 30th floor, you have to contend with a barrage from 10 Level 40 Hero Bosses. The difficulty is not low!”

With just a bit of thought, he realized the pattern of the Secret Realm Tower’s challenges and understood just how difficult this thing was.

But for Zi Liyuan, wasn’t the 30th floor within reach if he had a hand to play?

He simply bulldozed his way through.

However, it was only after reaching the eleventh floor that he finally summoned the Skeleton Army.

The unstoppable momentum of a thousand Spectral Knights charging in formation was truly unstoppable.

Whether it was one Boss or ten, they were knocked around by the Spectral Knight charge as helplessly as duckweed in water, offering no resistance before being trampled into a pulp by skeletal horses and vanishing without a trace.

[Ding, congratulations to Zi Liyuan for slaying the twentieth floor’s Boss of the Secret Realm, successfully clearing the twentieth floor. You have five minutes of rest time, or you may directly enter the next floor of the Secret Realm to challenge.]

[Clearance stay countdown: 4 minutes 59 seconds…]

“Enter!”

The Boss of the twenty-first floor underwent another change, with the template shifting from a Rare Boss to a Hero Boss, increasing in level to 31 and boasting a whopping 100,000 HP.

But in the face of Lao Tie and the Spectral Knight charge, it still wasn’t enough, managing only slightly stronger resistance.

Sweeping through, the path was clear and unobstructed, and soon Zi Liyuan reached the thirty-first floor of the Secret Realm.

The mechanism changed once again, with the Boss template evolving to a Lord! Its level broke through to 41, and its HP skyrocketed to a formidable 1,000,000!

“A Lord ah, now the true battle begins.”

The moment the protective shield disappeared, Lao Tie charged out rapidly, unleashing skills like Armor-Splitting Slash and Two-Part Slash on the Boss.

With Lao Tie’s attributes, it was overkill, a Lord Boss of mere Level 41 couldn’t break through his defense, only able to inflict a pathetic, forced damage of “1” point, and to make matters worse, Lao Tie had life-stealing attacks.

With each punch thrown, the HP he gained was so much that the Boss wouldn’t know how long it would take to deplete it all.

Meanwhile, each of Lao Tie’s normal punch attacks landed with over 8,000+ damage, and coupled with his left and right blows plus the back-mounted octopus spikes, his damage per second could reach a staggering 50,000+!

How could a mere Lord Boss with 1,000,000 HP withstand Lao Tie’s shameful iron fists’ caress?

With countless holes punctured in it, bleeding out until dry, it finally closed its eyes in relief and vanished from sight.