Chapter 481: New dungeon on the seventh floor of the Dungeon Hall: Demon-Catching Tower!

There were four days left until the Freshman Competition.

Excluding the Freshman Competition,

for the Dragon Nation,

today was still a day worth remembering.

【Tower of Breaking Limits】

Located in Sangyu City, built in the center of the main city.

After placing the manifested spiritual item for 72 hours, it gradually changed from a small tower about half a meter high to the iconic building over a hundred meters tall that it was today.

The tower body was built from unknown black giant stones,

and cyan runes flickered on the surface.

A high-spec army was stationed here, isolating a radius of a thousand miles; without permission, no one could approach the 【Tower of Breaking Limits】.

Directly below, more than a dozen top Dragon Nation professionals stood,

watching with full attention as the Dean of the First Military Academy, Lady Hua, stepped through the gate at the bottom of the high tower and disappeared.

Three days of construction were completed, giving Hua Hua Qianshuang enough preparation time.

Her severed arm was reattached, and her strength had recovered to its peak state.

She would face this class advancement in her prime!

The choice of the first person to enter was actually very particular.

Too strong wouldn't work;

no one knew the difficulty of going from the Seventh Turn to the Eighth Turn.

If the strongest Seventh-Turn professional entered,

no one could bear the consequences if an accident occurred!

Too weak wouldn't work;

this kind of building rewarded by national trials

was generally similar to the Tower of Masters, with clear spot limitations.

Failure would waste a lot of time.

Hua Hua Qianshuang—

a powerhouse ranked twelfth on the global Seventh-Turn list,

one of the four great professionals of the Dragon Nation.

She wasn't the strongest, but no one dared to say she was weak!

Plus, having a close relationship with the Chief General, she was the most suitable candidate to be the first to enter!

"You must succeed!"

All the top professionals present had only this one thought at this moment.

The Chief General had slain the three great demon races,

including top demigods,

a Demon Insect Mother,

and the Titan demon's "precious baby," the Titan Emperor.

Even as demons, they could not receive Heavenly Dao prompts,

but now that three days had passed since the national trial,

the three great demon races, no matter how slow they were, would realize something was wrong.

The demigods and the Demon Insect race were uncertain,

but the Titan demon race, having lost their entire hope, the Titan Emperor,

would absolutely not let it go!

The news could not be kept hidden for too long.

If the three great demon races disregarded everything and launched a full-scale attack on the Dragon Nation,

given the current situation,

no foreign nation would come to help!

They would only watch as the Dragon Nation, which had the hope of becoming the global hegemon, was swallowed by the demons!

The Dragon Nation must be strong itself!

An Eighth-Turn professional was the only hope now!

If they could get through this dangerous spot,

the Dragon Nation would enter a brand-new era!

The global-leading drop rate boost would make the Dragon Nation the undisputed hegemon of Blue Star!

Plus the 【Abyssal Compendium】 and the 【Tower of Breaking Limits】 before them,

it was not impossible to even defeat the three great demon races!

In the final analysis,

all hope was pinned on whether Lady Hua could break the shackles

and become the only Eighth-Turn professional in the history of professionals!

Time passed slowly.

The professionals waiting under the tower never left for a moment.

One day, two days.

Jingcheng,

Some Jingyu Martial Academy,

Dungeon Hall, seventh floor.

New dungeon, Demon-Catching Tower.

Li Yao was on the 108th floor.

Li Yao looked at the monster in front of him and let out a long breath of turbid air.

"Five days, finally reached the top floor."

"To be honest, this building reward is okay, but it's too troublesome."

"Can't it just appear on the corresponding floor based on strength?"

These hundred-plus floors—

if they were monster floors, it would be fine, but he was afraid of some 'puzzle-solving' floors!

The puzzle-solving was still the lowest-intelligence kind: taking detours, killing monsters in order, killing monsters of the same color.

Simple is simple, but it's time-consuming!

Li Yao sighed; he had finally reached the top.

"After getting the reward, I'm never coming to this Demon-Catching Tower again!"

In front of him was a monster similar to a Yaksha—

brown body, fish tail, four arms, barbed horns on its head, and hideous teeth exposed to the air.

Li Yao used 【Staff · Crystal Ball】.

Level 85 Named-grade monster.

Just as he used the skill,

the Yaksha's eyes erupted with golden light

and it lunged at Li Yao.

"Fortunately, the final floor is the simplest 'BOSS battle room'."

A flash of red light passed,

and Kha'Zix appeared in front of Li Yao a step faster.

A clean-to-the-extreme claw strike aimed straight at the vital point.

"Puchi!"

【- (Weakness Attack / Critical Hit / Fatal Strike!)】

【Over-level kill of Named-grade creature Fear Yaksha · Cassius, Experience +4%】

A flash of golden light passed;

his level broke through to seventy!

Li Yao's expression was calm.

Kha'Zix possessed 【Heart of the Master ①】.

When Li Yao obtained the Master-level sword skills, it similarly obtained Master-level Scythe Claws.

As long as the monster's agility attribute wasn't too high,

it could almost achieve a vital hit with every strike, a fire strike with every strike!

【Congratulations on clearing the 108th floor of the Demon-Catching Tower. Reward: choose one of three: Experience, Equipment, Item.】

"The final floor is actually still a choose-one-of-three reward?"

"Is this Demon-Catching Tower too stingy?"

Li Yao complained, then silently thought: "Item."

Thinking that this was originally a Sakura Nation building

and was only built in the Some Jingyu Martial Academy because of Kujo Mise,

Li Yao didn't feel it was stingy.

It was a free gift anyway.

It might be a bit cheap for him,

but for ordinary professionals, the gains were still quite considerable.

On the lower floors, he had chosen experience, but on the higher floors, he chose items.

Mainly because they were all Lord-grade monsters,

and Named-grade monsters had only appeared in the last ten floors.

He didn't look at the dropped equipment either!

Items were different; they contained all kinds of strange and peculiar things.

For example, on the previous floors, he had even obtained a few S1 Psychic Stones!

Even if he contracted more chess pieces later, he would not be short of Psychic Stones for learning skills for the first time!

It was just that S2 was a bit troublesome.

He had let Xiao Hei look for so long, and there was still no clue.

While pondering, a treasure chest appeared in his hand.

Li Yao opened it,

and a pale yellow gourd that looked nothing special appeared in his hand.

【Demon Catcher's Determination (Item)】

【Quality: SSS-grade; Bound; Unique】

【Effect: When a monster's HP drops to near-death, it can be used on it to absorb it into the body. After 15 natural days of refining, it can be converted into a summon-type skill book. The success rate includes various situations; the professional needs to explore it themselves. Cooldown: 30 natural days.】

【Introduction: Obtained by the first professional to clear the Demon-Catching Tower as an item reward. Unique item.】