Chapter 244: The 27th-Floor Trial! Will Xu Jingming Fail?

"Huu—"

Xu Jingming, his entire body wreathed in golden lightning, slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.

Lei Shen Zhi was a top-tier S-class combat technique; even though he had already reached the third tier, upper rank.

Releasing it just once could still burn through a quarter of his abilities.

Of course,

the effect was also extremely astonishing—five Storm Lei Xiong were instantly killed!

If it were close-quarters combat instead, these five fourth-tier peak Storm Lei Xiong would have taken him at least three or four minutes.

"You have cleared the 26th-floor trial. The 27th-floor trial is a fifth-tier lower-rank Great Earth Black Wolf.

May I ask, S-class, would you like to rest, or continue the challenge?"

The petite loli in midair asked crisply.

Her green twin-tails, falling all the way to her feet, looked very smooth and silky in the gentle breeze.

"A fifth-tier lower-rank Great Earth Black Wolf..." Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened slightly.

His solid foundation in knowledge of fierce beasts instantly brought up the relevant introduction of the Great Earth Black Wolf in his mind.

It was a wolf-type fierce beast that wielded the power of the earth element, apart from the standard use of earth element.

It also had two innate skills—one was 'Earth Wall,' which could condense thick walls of mud to block attacks.

The other was 'Earth Block,' which could condense earth element into stones for ranged strikes.

Compared with dragon-type fierce beasts, wolf-type fierce beasts were undoubtedly the most ordinary kind among the vast fierce-beast族群.

But any fierce beast that could reach the fifth tier was no simple matter.

After Lei Ting's Indestructible Body advanced to the fifth level, Xu Jingming was confident he could fight a fifth-tier fierce beast.

But after all, he had never actually engaged one in close combat, so in his heart he was still somewhat unsure.

"Let me rest for a bit first." Xu Jingming said thoughtfully.

He had charged straight from the 1st floor of the virtual trial all the way to the 26th without a single pause, his abilities constantly being consumed.

Then he had activated Lei Jitai and used one shot of the extremely costly Lei Shen Zhi.

His current abilities were now only about three-fifths remaining.

A fierce battle was coming next, so naturally he had to first recover his condition to its peak.

"Okay! S-class, you have a 3-minute rest period."

"Good." Xu Jingming nodded slightly, and after exiting Lei Jitai.

Just as he was preparing to sit cross-legged and use his ability training method to recover his abilities.

He sensed that the abilities within his body were recovering at an extremely fast rate.

"Huh?"

Xu Jingming's sword-shaped brows rose slightly—what was going on? Abilities could recover automatically?

"In reality, abilities require cultivation to recover, but in this virtual space.

Recovering abilities naturally falls to me—a single small thought is enough."

Yiwa in midair giggled, instantly vanishing from the air and appearing beside Xu Jingming.

This immediately let Xu Jingming catch a faint, girlish fragrance unique to her.

This made him once again marvel at how terrifyingly human-like the top-tier artificial intelligence was, even handling such fine details.

"Doesn't this count as cheating?" Xu Jingming asked hesitantly.

He didn't want to be branded a cheater just because of these 3 minutes of rest.

"Of course not. Every student participating in the virtual trial.

The recovery speed of abilities is calculated as 10 times their normal cultivation recovery speed.

I merely canceled the meditation action so you could talk."

Yiwa said softly, then promptly plopped down on the grass, stretched out her small hand, and tugged at Xu Jingming's combat suit:

"Doesn't standing the whole time get tiring? Sit down and rest for a bit."

"With my physical conditioning, I could stand for ten days and ten nights without getting tired." Xu Jingming replied with a smile.

But he didn't refuse either, and likewise sat down on the ground.

Looking at Yiwa sitting obediently beside him, Xu Jingming's heart suddenly stirred, and he asked curiously:

"Yiwa, you were excavated from an ancient ruin—can you tell me what the ancient civilization was like?"

"Yiwa doesn't know. When I was excavated from the ruin, I found that all my data had been wiped clean.

Only the core content related to anthropomorphism remained."

Yiwa shook her head.

"It's actually like that?"

Xu Jingming was a little disappointed. "Then are the other top-tier artificial intelligences in the same situation as you?"

"Yes, the artificial intelligences of Jingda and Jin Da are also in the same situation as me."

"How strange—it seems the ancient civilization must be hiding some great secret."

"..."

The ancient civilization was extremely mysterious; when technology and abilities had developed to their peak, they were suddenly wiped out.

Although Xu Jingming was very interested in this.

There was very little related information online, and even the Mo-da database rarely touched on it, so he didn't know all that much.

Now that he had Yiwa, this living fossil, here, naturally he wouldn't miss the chance.

Even if Yiwa's data had been wiped clean and there was no way to know the specific circumstances of the ancient civilization.

Eva had been at Magic University for over a hundred years, so she could also obtain a great deal of information from conversations.

Of course,

Only because Xu Jingming possessed S-level authority could he do this; an ordinary student wouldn't even get a response from Eva......

"It finally stopped. That really wasn't easy."

Inside the villa, they watched Xu Jingming's combat power surge to 710,000.

After a full minute-plus of combat power not continuing to climb, Tao Guan and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If the instant kills had kept going, they were worried their hearts could even take it.

"Brother Kong, Xu Jingming should have cleared the 26th floor trial. So what will the 27th floor trial be?"

Tao Guan asked Kong Shi curiously.

"I'm not sure either. It could be several dozen peak fourth-order beasts, or it could be lower fifth-order beasts."

Kong Shi shook his head.

In the virtual trial, only after clearing a floor could one know the species and number of beasts on the next floor.

He had always been stuck at the 5 peak fourth-order Storm Lei Xiong on the 26th floor, unable to clear it at all.

He had no idea what the 27th floor trial contained.

"Lower fifth-order beasts? That probably isn't very likely, right?" Tao Guan hesitated.

Fifth-order beasts were an utterly crushing existence compared to fourth-order beasts!

Even over a hundred peak fourth-order beasts couldn't take down a single lower fifth-order beast.

"It should be several dozen peak fourth-order beasts." Kong Shi also nodded slightly.

The virtual trial's difficulty shouldn't jump that much all at once.

"Several dozen peak fourth-order beasts? What a terrifying number. Even lightning-system ability users might not be able to clear it."

Zheng Heng remarked from the side.

The intelligence of peak fourth-order beasts was already on par with an 18-year-old adult; they knew how to form different formations.

Xu Jingming's powerful lightning-system combat techniques might be able to kill five or six of them in one go.

But the remaining several dozen beasts would be very hard to deal with.

"The difficulty is indeed enormous. Even Xu Jingming would very likely fail here." Kong Shi said in a low voice.

After a pause, he added: "But even so, he will still be the strongest person at Magic University."

Given Kong Shi's current cultivation progress, clearing the 26th floor trial before graduation would already be quite impressive.

As for the higher 27th floor trial, he didn't even dare to think about it!

However, what Kong Shi and the others didn't know was—

The 27th floor trial was not the several dozen peak fourth-order beasts they imagined.

It was an even more terrifying fifth-order beast!