In the Heavens Hall guild group chat, unrest stirred.
[Knight Owl: @Zhang Yue, Guild Leader, hurry and come out, don't stay in the Ghost Tower, it's dangerous!]
[Ouyang Ling'er: According to reliable sources, people from all seven great nations are currently gathered in the World 19 slaughtering Soul Devourers like mad. They definitely know you've entered the Ghost Tower, so they're using this method to increase its difficulty and are trying to use the Ghost Tower to deal with you.]
[Lin Tian: Now, there's an endless stream of power pouring into the Ghost Tower, you'd better come out and take shelter for a bit.]
Facing the guild members' worry and anxiety.
Zhang Yue, however, said offhandedly, [Alright, I got it.]
Though he said that, Zhang Yue immediately put the matter out of his mind.
After clearing the fifth floor of the Ghost Tower, he went straight into the sixth floor.
The difficulty of the Ghost Tower increased with each floor.
The monsters inside the sixth floor were still level 110 Soul Devourers.
However, their strength had all reached 1.6 times the standard of Soul Devourers of the same level.
And there were more of them.
Zhang Yue, unhurried, raised his Transcendent Staff, leading four pets, and began the slaughter.
At this time, upon hearing the news of the seven great nations' actions, Ice Emperor, Moon Mark, and Seraph hurried to the World 19.
Standing outside the Ghost Tower, gazing at the Ghost Tower that was constantly absorbing beast souls from the outside world, each wore a solemn expression.
Seraph quickly ordered, "Have all our country's professionals in the World 19 stop killing monsters immediately."
"It's useless," Moon Mark said, "All the Ghost Towers in the world are interconnected. Globally, there are more than two hundred World 19s. Even if we shut down this one portal in Dragon Nation, there are still other portals supplying power to the Ghost Tower."
"The seven great nations are doing this on purpose. This disaster cannot be stopped from the outside."
Seraph sighed lightly, "Just don't know what consequences these beast souls will cause once they enter the Ghost Tower."
"I've already warned Zero, but he insisted on not coming out," Ice Emperor said, "Hopefully, with his strength, he can resolve this crisis."
———
Meanwhile.
As beast souls poured endlessly into the Ghost Tower.
On the first floor of the Ghost Tower, all the Soul Devourers that Zhang Yue had previously killed were resurrected.
And those beast souls were still continuously reshaping new Soul Devourers.
This Ghost Tower was a paradise for Soul Devourers.
Soul Devourers that died in the outside world, as long as their souls entered the Ghost Tower, could be reborn.
As the number of Soul Devourers on the first floor of the Ghost Tower increased to bursting, the beast souls began to spread to the second floor, reviving the dead beasts there or reshaping new ones...
At this time, Zhang Yue was on the sixth floor of the Ghost Tower, slaughtering Soul Devourers.
Relying on his full 20-star Mythical·Transcendent Set, Zhang Yue swept through the entire sixth floor.
In less than half an hour, he reached 10,000 kills and received an SSS rating.
And the final SSS-exclusive reward: +2 Ghost Stones
After that, the seventh floor, eighth floor, and ninth floor were almost a straight path of destruction.
Because Zhang Yue's 150–200 million range damage was far too excessive for these level 110 Soul Devourers.
Even on the ninth floor, the Soul Devourers with 1.9x all attributes only had less than 120 million HP.
Zhang Yue's damage was more than enough to insta-kill them.
And it wasn't just Zhang Yue.
Cherry's damage was also enough to directly one-shot these Soul Devourers.
With two energy balls from Armageddon Black Dragon, triggering AOE damage, it could easily insta-kill dozens of Soul Devourers in a large area.
The exclusive SSS rewards for floors seven, eight, and nine were all 2 Ghost Stones each.
In addition to the 4 Ghost Stones gained from floors one to four, used to upgrade his Transcendent Set from 16 to 20 stars...
The 10 Ghost Stones obtained from floors five to nine, Zhang Yue used 9 of them to upgrade the 15-star Sovereign Sets of Armageddon Black Dragon, Phantom Predator, and Infernal Skeleton King to 18 stars.
The three-star consecutive upgrade in equipment caused these three sons of Zhang Yue to have a massive power boost.
Unfortunately, the maximum upgrade cap of the Sovereign Set was 18 stars.
Beyond that, it could no longer be upgraded.
So with the remaining 1 Ghost Stone, Zhang Yue chose to continue using it on his Transcendent Set.
Raising its star level to 21 stars.
So far, summarizing from floor one to floor nine, all that Zhang Yue had encountered were regular Soul Devourer mobs.
That is, the scale gradually increased, from a level 1 beast tide scale at the beginning, to about level 3 scale by the ninth floor.
He had not yet encountered a boss.
Zhang Yue speculated that on the final floor, a super boss was very likely hidden.
After all, this kind of map couldn't possibly not have a boss guarding it.
As for how many floors the Ghost Tower had, this was still unknown.
But up to now, Zhang Yue's total time clearing the Ghost Tower had been less than six hours.
There was still a full half of the strategy time remaining.
Unless the Ghost Tower had twenty floors.
Otherwise, Zhang Yue could clear it.
So next, Zhang Yue began advancing to the tenth floor of the Ghost Tower.
And just as Zhang Yue had barely stepped out of the ninth floor...
In the next second, countless dark auras suddenly seeped out from underground, gradually covering the Soul Devourers that had just been killed by Zhang Yue, their corpses still radiating residual heat.
Moments later, all those Soul Devourers revived on the spot and stood up.
They each howled to the sky...
———
On the other side.
["Ding~ You have entered the tenth floor of the Ghost Tower!"]
With the system notification, accompanied by a beam of white light, Zhang Yue appeared in a vast and boundless primordial forest.
Zhang Yue gripped his 21-star Transcendent Staff, preparing for battle.
However, looking around, he found that there was not a single Soul Devourer in sight in all directions.
In the previous nine floors, he was always immediately targeted by a horde of Soul Devourers as soon as he entered. Looking out, there was an endless army of them.
Now, the scenery of the tenth floor was a bit strange.
At this moment, Cherry said seriously, "Master, I sense a very dangerous aura."
"You sensed it too?", Zhang Yue said thoughtfully, "Looks like this is probably the final floor of the Ghost Tower."
Realizing this, Zhang Yue became even more vigilant.
Because he knew: the ultimate boss of the Ghost Tower must be nearby.
Based on the beast tide level of difficulty in the previous nine floors...
The ultimate boss of the Ghost Tower was definitely not ordinary.
At the very least, it had to be god-tier, emperor-tier level.
If it turned out to be immortal-tier, that would be even better.
The Transcendent Staff in Zhang Yue's hand was already itching for battle.
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