pertwk Chapter 122 Entering the Three-Step Tower for Cultivation
Chapter 122 Entering the Three-Step Tower for Cultivation
Chapter 122 Entering the Three-Step Tower for Cultivation
"You bastard Jiang Han, you shocked me! I'll fight you to the death!" Ai Tutu shouted, about to rush into the room to fight Jiang Han.
Just as Ai Tutu was about to rush into the room, Mu Nujiao appeared and stopped her, saying, "Aren't you going to fight him or deliver the vegetables? Don't you know what you're doing?"
"But·····"
Ai Tutu wanted to say something more but was interrupted. Mu Nujiao said with exasperation, "You're a girl, after all. If word gets out that you secretly sneaked into a boy's room, do you know how much damage that will do to your reputation?"
"Oh, I know I was wrong." Ai Tutu walked out of the room with a pitiful look on her face.
After having breakfast, Jiang Han exchanged a few words with Ai Tutu and Mu Nujiao before heading out.
Jiang Han will spend the next two weeks in the Three-Step Tower. When he comes out of the Three-Step Tower again, his strength will experience a qualitative leap.
The Three-Step Tower is located deep within the main campus of Mingzhu Academy. According to the school, this Three-Step Tower is a special building constructed by ancient ancestors who gathered together the scattered and wandering elemental energies between heaven and earth. It was built a very long time ago.
It is precisely because of the Three-Step Tower, a sacred place for cultivation, that Mingzhu Academy is able to rank among the top three among the many academies in China.
The Three-Step Tower is a three-dimensional triangle with an exterior made of an unidentified silver-white metal. It stands tall and conspicuous deep within the main campus, and can be seen from afar.
Jiang Han came alone without any academy instructors to guide him, so he was stopped by two guards as soon as he approached the Three-Step Tower.
"Halt! This is a restricted area of the Three Steps Tower. Do not approach!" the two guard cadets shouted in unison.
Jiang Han glanced at the two of them and said calmly, "I'm going to the Three-Step Tower to cultivate. My name is Jiang Han."
"Oh, so you're Jiang Han, junior! You just arrived and were promoted to the main campus, and even got the qualification to train in the Three-Step Tower for half a month. I'm so envious! If I were as lucky as you, I'd be laughing in my sleep." One of the students, who looked quite burly, said with a smile.
Jiang Han just smiled politely and didn't say anything. Saying something might hurt the senior in front of him.
The burly student led Jiang Han into the Three-Step Tower and through a long, metallic-looking corridor. They walked for several minutes but still couldn't see the end, as if the corridor had no end at all.
"Do you know why this place is called the Three-Step Tower?" the burly student said with a smile.
Jiang Han surveyed his surroundings and casually remarked, "It's a spatial ability, isn't it?"
"Oh, you actually know about spatial abilities?" The burly student was quite surprised that Jiang Han could say it was a spatial ability. After thinking for a moment, he smiled and said, "Yes, I suppose you are also a member of a large family. It's normal for you to know that the Three-Step Tower uses spatial abilities."
How did he know that? Of course, he saw it in the original work.
Jiang Han shook his head and said, "I am not from a prominent family. My guess is that the Three-Step Tower uses spatial abilities."
"I see. Then let me tell you about the Three-Step Tower. In the space system, there's a concept called: one step a thousand feet, two steps ten thousand miles, three steps boundless! The Three-Step Tower is also called the Tower of Boundless. Although it doesn't look very grand from the outside, the space inside is almost endless." The burly student explained to Mo Fan with a smile.
"As far as I know, the Three-Step Tower was built by a great sage who cultivated the space system. It uses countless wonderful space magic arrays and spells. However, no one has been able to decipher the space magic arrays and spells in the Three-Step Tower so far. Therefore, we can only use it according to the instructions left by our predecessors."
"The Three-Step Tower has many layers of space, each capable of gathering countless elemental energies. The higher you go, the greater the energy becomes. However, with each small step you ascend, the gravity generated by the space increases several times over, accelerating the consumption of your mana. As a mid-level mage, it's best to stay on the first floor. If you recklessly go to the second floor, you're very likely to run out of mana halfway there. The result of running out of mana is unconsciousness, which will waste your opportunity to cultivate in the Three-Step Tower."
As the two walked, a staircase appeared ahead. The staircase looked incredibly impressive, mainly because it was suspended in the dim space, and at the end of the staircase was a huge triangular suspended platform.
"I can only take you this far. You'll have to walk up the steps yourself," the burly student said.
Jiang Han and the student thanked him and began climbing the stairs. Upon reaching the first step, Jiang Han felt no pressure. So he continued upwards: level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4…
When Jiang Han was still 10 steps away from the first floor, he began to feel the spatial gravity and his magical energy was being depleted. Despite the spatial gravity, Jiang Han tried to rush up to the metal platform on the first floor in one go, but the faster he climbed the stairs, the faster his magical energy was consumed.
Upon reaching the first platform, Jiang Han clearly felt a powerful aura of ice element rushing towards him. Countless ice elemental energies actively flowed into Jiang Han's mental world to help him restore his magical energy. Once Jiang Han's magical energy was replenished, he once again embarked on the path of climbing the stairs. The first floor of the Three-Step Tower was not his goal; his target was at least the third floor, where the elemental concentration reached 80 times the normal level.
It took Jiang Han half an hour to reach the second floor and two hours to reach the third floor.
Upon reaching the third level, Jiang Han felt as if he were immersed in an ocean of elements. Endless ice elements surged into the ice nebula of Jiang Han's spiritual world, and his fatigue dissipated considerably with the influx of ice elements.
After Jiang Han's magic power recovered, he did not continue to attempt to reach the fourth level. If he rushed up directly, he might faint halfway due to the depletion of magic power. He could cultivate in the Three-Step Tower for half a month, and at worst, he could wait until his ice element broke through to a higher level before attempting to reach the fourth level.
Jiang Han summoned his junior disciple and exchanged him for a six-fold cultivation boost card. Then, he entered the system space to begin cultivating.
With the six-fold increase in the system's cultivation space and the elemental concentration of the third-level platform reaching a staggering 80 times, cultivation progressed at an unprecedented pace, far surpassing anything achievable outside. Ten days later, Jiang Han's ice element successfully broke through to the advanced level, and the entire ice element on the third level rejoiced as if celebrating the birth of an ice and snow king.
After reaching a high level of strength, Jiang Han could clearly feel that controlling the ice-type star was still just as smooth. If he wanted, Jiang Han could instantly release the high-level ice-type magic, Frozen Coffin.
"Finally, I have some ability to protect myself!" Jiang Han said excitedly, clenching his fist.
However, the thought of the Mu family, who had imprisoned his mother, dampened Jiang Han's initial joy at breaking through to the advanced level. Staring at the dim space, Jiang Han murmured, "Just wait, sooner or later I will personally storm the Mu family and rescue my mother."
After resting for a while on the third platform, Jiang Han began climbing towards the fourth platform again. He was eager to know the level of elemental concentration on the fourth platform. The gravity on the stairs leading to the fourth platform was four times that of the stairs leading to the third platform. With each step, Jiang Han's body endured immense gravity, and his magical energy was rapidly depleting. If a mid-level mage were to climb the fourth platform, he would probably exhaust his magical energy after reaching about one-fifth of the way up.
(End of this chapter)