Chapter 110: A Stroll Through the Tower

As he walked along, the tower's interior area was surprisingly spacious.

Just the interior space of the first floor alone is enough for five hundred people to cultivate simultaneously.

In the tower's circularly distributed interior space, cultivation rooms of various sizes have been set up.

However, over ninety percent of these cultivation rooms are already occupied at this time.

Moreover, above the doors of these rooms hang small red plaques, but the characters written on them are not all the same.

A quick glance showed Lin Feng that these small red plaques bore the words high, medium, and low, representing three levels.

One would think they represent the ranks of the cultivation rooms in the Blazing Flame Refining Qi Tower.

As he slowly walked from east to south, Lin Feng noticed that it seemed all the high-level cultivation rooms were located near the tower's center.

Outside them were distributed the medium-level cultivation rooms, and further out were the low-level cultivation rooms.

After walking for about ten minutes, Lin Feng wanted to use his soul perception to sense how far the staircase to the next level was.

But he discovered that the building material of the qi-refining tower could actually absorb all the soul perception he emitted, making it impossible for him to sense what lay beyond the walls.

He sighed disappointedly and could only honestly follow Zi Yan slowly forward.

Zi Yan also worried that nearby people would discover Lin Feng was not an inner academy student, so she stopped speaking and just walked silently.

After all, there are no new students joining now; if an old student didn't know about the Blazing Flame Refining Qi Tower, that would be too strange.

Not long after, upon turning a corner, his eyes lit up; not far ahead at another corner was a spiral staircase entrance.

One would think this should be the entrance to the next level.

Because Canaan Academy stipulates that new students cultivate in the tower for one week, after adapting to the heart fire they can proceed to the second level.

Moreover, since it's still about half a year before new students arrive, there are also no instructors guarding here.

Following Zi Yan into the downward staircase and walking along the spiral stairs for about five minutes, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

When his body turned another corner, another spacious interior of the tower appeared in Lin Feng's view.

The second level of the Blazing Flame Refining Qi Tower does not differ much in area from the first level.

However, compared to the first level, it appears slightly more deserted.

Moreover, it lacks the crowded feeling of the first level, even though students occasionally pass through in small groups.

But compared to the first level's situation where even walking is difficult, it is undoubtedly much better.

However, the appearance of Lin Feng and Zi Yan did not cause any surprise among the other students.

After all, inner academy students can come down here to cultivate, provided their fire energy is sufficient.

Everyone merely glanced over for a moment, then went back to their own affairs.

Lin Feng and Zi Yan then passed again through numerous cultivation rooms of various levels and arrived at the staircase leading to the third level.

What surprised Lin Feng was that, at the staircase entrance to the fourth level, there was still no instructor guarding here.

Upon reaching the fourth level, there were even fewer students here; in the tower, one could only occasionally see a student passing by.

"Zi Yan, the Blazing Flame Refining Qi Tower gets more dangerous the lower you go, but why haven't we seen any instructors guarding here? Aren't you afraid students will barge in recklessly?"

Upon arriving at the staircase entrance to the fifth level, seeing that there was still no one guarding here, Lin Feng scanned the surroundings, confirmed no one was present, and then asked.

Because in his memory, when Xiao Yan and others entered this place in the original story, the staircase entrance had instructors guarding it.

Upon hearing this, Zi Yan also observed the surroundings, saw no one, flicked her purple ponytail, and softly replied: "Each year when new students arrive, those old-timers fear the newcomers will run around recklessly, causing unnecessary trouble, so someone is stationed here to guard. But now the inner academy students have all been here for at least half a year; they know the rules inside and out, so naturally they won't run around like those freshmen."

"Moreover, those lacking strength don't have the fire energy to cultivate down here, after all, the deeper you go, the more fire energy is deducted each day; those who do have enough fire energy to cultivate below already basically meet the requirements, so there's no need to station people here to guard."

Hearing this, Lin Feng already understood the situation.

The reason Xiao Yan and others in the original story encountered guarding instructors at the staircase entrance was to prevent those newcomers who didn't know the rules from wandering about recklessly.

As for the old students, they've already suffered the losses they should have, so naturally they have a long memory.

Furthermore, due to the fire energy issue, those lacking sufficient amounts can't cultivate down there for long; in the end they can only slink back up dejectedly.

However, the lack of instructors guarding here actually makes it convenient for him, an outsider, to come and go.

Not long after, Zi Yan brought Lin Feng to the sixth level.

Likewise, this is also the lowest level that ordinary students can normally reach.

Passing some cultivation rooms, Lin Feng discovered that here the cultivation rooms no longer have high, medium, or low distinctions.

Only numbers are written above the doors of the cultivation rooms.

Moreover, the further forward one goes, as the numbers decrease, the cultivation rooms become increasingly exquisite.

Because the number of people on this level is already very small, Zi Yan gradually regained her lively demeanor and introduced: "This sixth level has no high, medium, or low distinctions you saw before; basically it's all prepared for the experts on the Strong Ranking. Your rank determines which cultivation room, corresponding to the number on its door, is yours."

After a pause, Zi Yan lifted her little head, a hint of pride on her face, and said: "And I am first on the Strong Ranking; the cultivation room corresponding to that is the innermost Room Number One, which is the cultivation room with the best effect in the tower."

Hearing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, thinking inwardly: "You, a magic beast of unknown age, compared to those twenty-something youths, you shouldn't be bullying people like this..."

"This cultivation room is mine; from now on you can cultivate inside it."

Arriving before the door of a spacious cultivation room, Zi Yan pointed at the heavy stone door and said.

And Lin Feng, standing at the doorway, could even faintly feel the pure energy flowing out from these cultivation rooms.

He reached out, grabbed a strand of energy, drew it into his body, then sighed: "Even we Fighting Kings cultivating inside would probably be faster than cultivating outside by more than double."

"Of course, hehehe, Lin Feng, look at me lending you such a good thing, you aren't...?"

Saying this, Zi Yan extended her little hand and rubbed it, the meaning already quite obvious.

"You little girl."

Lin Feng gave a light laugh, then took out some fifth-grade elixirs and half-finished pills from his space ring and tossed them over, saying: "Take these; these fifth-grade elixirs and those thousands of pills should be enough for you to eat for a while."

"Hehe, you're still the one who knows the way."

Seeing the pile of numerous jade bottles before her, Zi Yan's delicate white face instantly broke into a smiling grin, and she quickly stored them into her space ring.

"Since I already know the location of the cultivation room, let's go out; there's no fire energy point now, so I can't use it anyway."

Lin Feng now wants to quickly get some fire energy to cultivate, so he turned his head and said to her.

Alright.

Zi Yan excitedly touched her storage ring and readily agreed.

Arriving at an open space outside the tower, Zi Yan's eyes quickly rotated a few times, revealing two small tiger teeth, she said with a smile: "You already roughly understand the situation in the inner courtyard, go attend to your own affairs; I'll go for a walk in the nearby forest with Little Color."

Queen, what you mean is...

Upon hearing the former's words, Lin Feng began to ask Medusa for her opinion.

Not going.

Just as Lin Feng finished speaking, a cold and beautiful female voice transmitted into his mind.

Seeing Medusa refuse, Lin Feng immediately said to Zi Yan: "Little Color will cultivate with me for a few days; come find it again in seven days."

Ah.

Seeing her plan go to waste, Zi Yan's little face instantly scrunched up into a ball.

Gazing at Lin Feng's unmoving sleeve, she could only wait a few days later to come take revenge.

Sighing lightly, waving her little hand, she said: "I'll wait a few days then come find Little Color; you also know the basic situation of the inner courtyard, as long as you don't go to the central area, those old fogeys basically won't notice, so I'll leave first."

After saying that, a pair of purple wings unfolded behind her, and then she rushed deep into the forest on one side of the inner courtyard.

And Lin Feng turned his head to glance at the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower that only showed a tip of its top above ground, then headed east...

Due to the inner courtyard's vast area, and also because he dared not recklessly use Dou Qi to form wings here, it took him a full half hour to finally arrive.

However, fortunately this so-called trading zone is also an extremely bustling place within the inner courtyard.

Therefore, on the road leading there, there is always a steady flow of people, so he wouldn't easily get lost.

Half an hour later, Lin Feng stopped outside a vast square.

In the square, many Shi Tai were set up, and at this time, these Shi Tai were filled with all kinds of dazzling items.

Outside the Shi Tai, the crowded crowd bustled; that fervent popularity, compared to Lin Feng's Ling Mountain City, was also comparable, leaving him somewhat clicking his tongue.

Entering this vast trading zone, he twisted his body, squeezing into the crowd, his gaze continually sweeping over the items on those Shi Tai on either side.

As his gaze swept, Lin Feng's heart grew ever more astonished.

He discovered that some of the items sold here were in no way inferior to those in some major cities of Heijiaoyu.

Perhaps because the inner courtyard itself lies in the vast deep mountains, some of these strange things are even hard to find in some shops of Heijiaoyu.

After strolling in the trading zone for a while, Lin Feng couldn't help but frown.

Here, second- and third-tier medicinal pills basically sell for just a few fire energy points, while fourth-tier medicinal pills have almost no buyers or sellers.

Selling low-grade medicinal pills, how long would it take to accumulate enough fire energy points needed for his cultivation?