A strength of 15,000 kilograms was equivalent to the force of 15 tons, and the actual force when throwing a punch was definitely more than 15 tons. The weapon’s swing produced a frighteningly high killing power.
Upon evolving to Rank 3, the strength of the opponent in the twenty-seventh challenge had not changed drastically; the Sky Tower still increased the difficulty based on the standard when he had first entered the tower at Rank 2.
But indeed, because of the evolution to Rank 3, there was a slight adjustment in difficulty. The opponent in the twenty-seventh challenge was neither a horrific monster nor a powerful Exotic Strongman, but an Evolver—in particular, a projection of past Evolvers who had challenged the Sky Tower.
This was a Tiger person from the Beast Tribe wearing only a set of leather garments and without any visible weapon; his sharp claws were his natural weapons.
Just as he appeared, he swiped with both claws, and despite the several hundred meters’ distance, two claw marks appeared out of nowhere on Lin Xiao’s body. One even scraped across his face, slicing his prominent nose in half and spilling blood profusely.
It’s worth mentioning that as he cleared higher levels, the challenge space also became larger, now offering a thousand-meter diameter space.
Putting aside the bizarre attack method, the attack power was also considerably high, such that even his current Damage Absorption Talent could not fully absorb it.
Startled, Lin Xiao flashed into a streak of light and vanished, reappearing in the blink of an eye at the position of the Tiger person. A transparent aura with a ten-meter diameter took shape around him as the center, locking this part of the void within a time bubble.
What surprised him even more happened next; inside the frozen time bubble, the figure of the Tiger person he thought he’d hit was actually an illusion, a fake. His True Body was on the edge of the time bubble, four meters away. He hadn’t clearly seen how the Tiger person instantly moved there.
Luckily, the Time Lock produced a ten-meter diameter time bubble. Had his Talent not advanced, this move would have missed.
Time Lock lasted only one second, but within the locked bubble, it was equivalent to ten seconds. Now that the True Body had been found, the outcome was undeniable; he swept it away in one go.
When the Time Lock ended after one second and the time bubble disappeared, the frozen Tiger person suddenly burst apart.
A white light descended, the body disappeared, and the countdown began anew.
Lin Xiao’s mind was still recalling the Tiger person’s attack method. If he was not mistaken, this Tiger person’s Talent was related to space, also quite dominant, but unfortunately, it was mercilessly crushed by the even stronger Time Law.
As one of the Fundamental Laws, the Space Law was always one of the strongest laws when time did not intervene.
This kind of attack that could strike from great distances was completely unforeseeable, and crucially, the lethality was extremely high. If this Tiger person had been clearing levels all along, the previous challenges would have been a breeze. Neither the mighty Scorpion Lion nor the Hydra could withstand more than a few claws. Just swinging his claws from a distance could easily dismember them, and the Hydra’s defenses were no match for Lin Xiao’s Damage Absorption Talent.
It was certain that this Tiger person was also one of the super elites who had made it to the higher levels of the Sky Tower, and definitely not just to the twenty-seventh level.
Soon the countdown ended, and another white light descended, throwing down a fascinating and graceful figure—a Succubus.
Blood-red wings dripped drops of burning blood, horns ablaze with blood flames, an exquisitely gorgeous face, and a delicate blood-colored Dagger in her fingertips twirling agilely, every move radiating an enticing aura.
She resembled a Succubus but was probably not just any ordinary one; Lin Xiao preferred to call her the Succubus Queen.
As she materialized, she flickered, and a figure identical to her but with wings and horns burning with a silver light flew out from behind her, quickly solidifying into a Silver Queen. Her weapon was not a Dagger but a silver whip. Amidst her seductive laughter, she flicked her whip which rapidly extended into the void and vanished from sight. The next second, it appeared next to Lin Xiao, coiling around him and rendering him unable to use Skills or Spells with an invisible force.
Meanwhile, the other Blood Queen threw the Dagger entwined with blood flames in her hand, and then vanished in a flash. Lin Xiao suddenly felt pain in his chest as the Dagger appeared out of nowhere, stabbed into his chest, and the immense damage along with the blood flames started burning inside him.
Lin Xiao looked at the handleless Dagger in his chest and was somewhat speechless.
His Damage Absorption Talent was obviously strong, but it felt as if it were just for decoration. Both the previous and the current challenge had easily wounded him.
However, from another perspective, the Evolvers who had made it this far were indeed exceptional. Their Talents might not be as perverse as his Time Talent, but their lethality was definitely not weak; otherwise, they wouldn’t have made it this far.
Too bad his Time Talent was simply too unstoppable.
At LV4, Time Roaming instantly negated any damage received in the last five seconds, appearing behind the Silver Queen in an invulnerable state, locking her down, and pressing her against his body, blade pressed against her neck—he exerted force...
Seeing her other half subdued, the other Blood Queen let out a silent scream, and then Lin Xiao felt a terrifying ultrasonic shockwave sweep over him, his clothes, along with his skin and flesh, were instantly shattered, and in a moment, he became a bloodied figure with his organs and bones visible.
"Fuck!"
Lin Xiao was shocked, blinking on the spot to return to his state one second earlier. Without hesitation, his long sword decapitated the Silver Queen’s head.
Without hesitation, he flashed towards the Blood Queen only to find that she had disappeared, having used a flickering move to switch places with her afterimage that had been time-locked by him.
Lin Xiao didn’t even think before flashing again, but the Blood Queen’s response was exceedingly fast. A piercing scream detonated, and just as he materialized, he was blown back by a strong shockwave. However, the Time Lock had already taken effect on her.
What followed was needless to say, with a swift move of his hand, he decapitated the Blood Queen.
Although her series of talents were extremely powerful, she was only a Rank 3 Evolver. Her race was not the kind with thick skin and flesh like some monsters, and a full-powered slash from him was sure to behead her.
It had only been two trials, and Lin Xiao felt that his spiritual power had been drained more than all his previous ones combined. The talents of these elite Evolvers were simply too strong.
The twenty-ninth trial presented a nearly three-meter-tall human with exceptionally strong talents for defense and physical attack, whose defense was even tougher than his Damage Absorption but only against physical attacks. His defenses against other types of attacks were also present but paled in comparison to his physical defenses.
Normally, such a talent with a huge flaw wouldn’t make it far, but unfortunately, at this stage, they lacked powerful spells, making it very hard to deal with him.
It took Lin Xiao, relying on his speed advantage, about six to seven hours to gradually wear him down to death.
At the thirtieth trial, an undead Evolver resembling a ghost appeared, possessing a terrifying talent called Essence Extraction. He could lock onto a target from a distance and extract the essence of their life and spiritual power, doing so at an incredibly fast rate. Moreover, his ghostly constitution was impervious to most physical attacks, easily gaining the upper hand initially.
Fortunately, his ghostly constitution wasn’t completely immune to physical damage, and Essence Extraction was not infinitely usable. After Lin Xiao disrupted him several times with Time Roaming, preventing further use, he eventually ground him down.
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The thirty-first trial featured a demon capable of trapping and killing the souls of its enemies.
As soon as this Evolver appeared, he summoned several hundred powerful souls to temporarily reconstruct bodies—either powerful mages, master swordsmen, Evolvers with strong talents, etc. Among them was a formidable Red Dragon Soul and an Evolver with talents so impressive that even Lin Xiao was amazed, a pity that they died at the hands of this demon.
Most of these souls weren’t very strong against Lin Xiao, but when hundreds of Evolvers with various abilities surged forward, it became quite formidable.
To deal with such an opponent he only needed to behead it. Time Roaming ignored all defenses and interceptions of the souls, appearing behind the demon and locking on, a single combo took it down.
The thirty-second trial brought forth a giant wielding a crystal-made hammer.
As an Evolver of the Giant race, his talents were incredibly strong. With one swing of his hammer, another giant made of light appeared out of thin air behind Lin Xiao and brought down its hammer on him.
The instant the Giant of Light appeared out of nowhere, Lin Xiao felt incredibly weak. At the moment the hammer was about to strike, he had a strong premonition that if he took that blow, he would die instantly, without even having the chance to use his talents to save himself.
With a thought, he used Time Roaming to appear behind the giant, and before he had the chance to act, the Giant of Light was gathering its strength and energy waves surged, correlating with the immobile giant trapped in the time bubble.
A thought flashed through Lin Xiao’s mind and, after hesitating for a long moment, he chose to retreat quickly. He then witnessed a space-shaking roar and a terrifying shockwave erupt from both the giant and the Giant of Light it had summoned. The horrific energy pressurized space, creating a violent explosion of wind that spread across a twenty-meter radius from the Giant of Light in an instant.
If it hadn’t been for the durability of the space within the Sky Tower, Lin Xiao felt that even the space outside would have shattered.
The impact slowed down tenfold inside the space bubble, giving Lin Xiao enough time to escape the range of the blast, and he expelled a breath, heart still racing.
"What kind of talent is this? So ferocious?"
He hadn’t encountered an opponent with such high attack power even up to the thirty-second trial of the Sky Tower.
What was crucial was that the giant—both its actual body and the Giant of Light it summoned—carried an Aura that seemed to reduce defense. Near it, Lin Xiao felt as though his defenses were completely nullified, suspecting that one hit from the hammer would shatter him like porcelain.
Despite its unusual attack method, being rather slow for this level, every strike affected an area of twenty to thirty meters, instantly shattering rocks with each casual swing, with no way to block it.
The giant’s talent granted him an ultra-strong constitution, much more robust than other giants; Lin Xiao couldn’t figure out which giant race he was from. After much struggle, and nearly wiping out several times from the residual effects of attacks, he barely managed to grind him down.
While Time Talents were formidable, they had no direct offensive talents and relied solely on his own strength.
And his own strength, based on the human blueprint, was nowhere near that of the inherently stronger Giant race.
The countdown soon ended, and the thirty-third trial began.
Before a marveling Lin Xiao emerged The Golden Ancient Tree, its entire body cast in gold, branches reaching the top of the thousand-meter space of the Sky Tower.