Chapter 923: First Floor of the Void-Breaking Tower! Demonic Beasts?

Xu Jingming's vision blurred, and when he came back to his senses, he was already standing on a stretch of wasteland.

In the distance was a lush, verdant jungle with no end in sight.

The sky was a vast expanse of white — no sun, no moon, no celestial bodies of any kind.

"This is the first floor of the Void-Breaking Tower."

Xu Jingming swept his gaze around. To his right stood Su Qingli, poised and graceful.

Apart from her, everyone nearby was an esper who had just entered.

Looking back, he could see a massive teleportation gate.

At this moment, quite a few people were still streaming in one after another.

This teleportation gate was a one-way passage — once you entered, you could not leave through it.

There was only one way to leave the Void-Breaking Tower: reach the endpoint of that floor.

Each floor of the Void-Breaking Tower had an endpoint, and the endpoint had two passages.

One led out of the Void-Breaking Tower, the other led to the next floor.

"Good thing you're with me, Teacher. Otherwise we could only have reunited at the endpoint of the first floor."

Xu Jingming said to Su Qingli with a smile.

Although there was only one teleportation passage into the Void-Breaking Tower,

once inside, one was randomly teleported to one of four locations on the first floor.

"Yes, looks like our luck isn't bad — and that group of Ailun's isn't here either."

Su Qingli also smiled and nodded.

At this moment, blue-green Lei Guang swirled around her eyes — she had clearly already activated her perception-type SS-rank battle technique, 'Heart Web.'

She carefully took stock of the espers nearby.

Judging by the arrogance Ailun had shown earlier, if they ran into him, he might very well make a move.

"If we can't win, we run. With the spatial beast bone, we won't be in too much trouble."

Xu Jingming smiled, then asked, "Iva, which passage are we in right now?"

"Passage 3. The straight-line distance to the first-floor endpoint is roughly three hundred kilometers."

The little loli Iva's holographic projection poked out of her smart armguard and said, swaying her head.

Long before entering the Void-Breaking Tower, she had used Xu Jingming's Aurora-grade clearance to scan through all the internal data of the Spark God Palace related to the Void-Breaking Tower.

It was easy to analyze their current location.

"Three hundred-plus kilometers, not too far. Teacher, let's go."

Violent SSS-rank chaotic Doushen Shenlei surged forth, enveloping Xu Jingming protectively.

Black thunder-dragon wings unfurled behind him, and he became a streak of black light as he flew forward.

Beside him, blue-green Lei Ting also flowed around Su Qingli's slender form as she followed close to Xu Jingming, tearing through the sky.

Apart from them, quite a few ninth-tier powerhouses in the crowd likewise shot into the air.

Some high-tier wind-system espers, as well as powerhouses with special flight abilities, also rose into the sky.

"Flight... how envious."

"Nothing for it — we don't have that ability. Better just honestly hit the road."

"Heh-heh, good thing I prepared a flyer in advance."

"..."

Voices of envy kept rising from all around.

Flight — for espers below ninth tier, it was absolutely an enviable ability.

Some seventh-tier Grandmasters and eighth-tier Great Grandmasters had also long prepared flyers and were riding them toward the endpoint.

Lower-ranked fifth- and sixth-tier espers had likewise prepared multi-purpose off-road vehicles.

Of course, espers with such means were only a minority — the vast majority could only sprint forward on foot.

After all, their spatial rings didn't have enough capacity; pills and supplies already took up most of the space, leaving no room for an off-road vehicle.

Teleportation Passage 1.

Ailun and the others had likewise arrived here.

He swept his gaze around once, but did not see Xu Jingming anywhere.

"Not here, huh. No matter — the Void-Breaking Tower has so many floors. We'll meet sooner or later."

Boom—

Terrifying crimson-gold high-temperature flames surged from Ailun's body, forming golden wings behind him like a Golden Crow.

With a single beat of his wings, he shot straight up into the sky.

His followers likewise each employed their own means and trailed behind.

Apart from Ailun, Li Hao and Tian Yao, who had been teleported to Passage 2, were also keeping an eye out for Xu Jingming.

"Not here — they must be in one of the other passages."

Li Hao murmured.

"Even if we're in the same passage, we can't make a move. Let's regroup with the others first."

Tian Yao, whose features were bewitchingly beautiful, cautioned.

"Understood."

Li Hao's eyes flickered. "That bitch Hearing Ling Shuang actually didn't come in with them.

But this way, Xu Jingming's side has considerably less combat power, and it won't be so easy for them to escape.

Since Hearing Ling Shuang isn't here, Su Qingli is the same."

Thinking of Su Qingli's beauty, Li Hao's heart couldn't help but blaze with heat.

Like Ling Shuang, Su Qingli was also a great beauty.

Only one was enchanting, the other otherworldly like a fairy.

The first person he had noticed was Su Qingli, but she was a ninth-tier Law Saint, so he had extinguished that thought.

But now, with his strength greatly increased, his ambition had swelled along with it.

"First regroup, then go find Xu Jingming!

I want Xu Jingming to see with his own eyes the scene of his teacher being humiliated!"

A savage grin surfaced on Li Hao's fairly handsome face, and he quickly left the area with the Heavenly Demon.

After entering the eighth tier, Xu Jingming's flight speed in his normal form was already close to twice the speed of sound.

Three hundred kilometers — he could arrive in less than eight minutes.

And according to the data Eva had collected beforehand, the first floor of the Void-Breaking Tower had no real danger, so he could fly without worry.

"Squeak—"

Suddenly, a loud, sharp cry rang out.

A flying-type fierce beast roughly the size of a helicopter was soaring not far ahead.

Crackle—

A bolt of black lightning flashed, and this flying-type fierce beast was directly blasted into smithereens by Xu Jingming from several hundred meters away.

"Judging by its aura, this fierce beast isn't even sixth tier.

It couldn't even withstand your Doushen Shenlei, and you won't get a single bit of fierce beast material — why bother wasting an ability to kill it?"

Su Qingli beside him said with a strange expression.

Moreover, given Xu Jingming's current status, he no longer needed to earn money by selling fierce beast materials like before.

"Killed it on instinct."

Xu Jingming smiled and didn't explain further.

A mosquito's leg is still meat — although there was only one fierce beast, killing it could still earn quite a few ability points.

Sure enough, a system notification chime immediately sounded in his mind.

'Ding, killed one fifth-tier mid-rank demon beast Lord Hei Yu Iron Eagle, ability points +1012.'

Xu Jingming had long grown accustomed to the system notification chime after killing fierce beasts.

However, when this chime sounded, he froze for a moment.

Demon beast?

Compared to before, the system notification chime had added these two words.

And......

Previously, the ability points he gained from killing a fifth-tier mid-rank fierce beast were only just over five hundred.

Yet this time, he got over a thousand points all at once — directly doubled!