Swallowing the Stars: Starting from Late Bloomers

Chapter 044: NO.36

"bring it on!"

Lu Qingshan, who could only rely on the surrounding environment to win against the Azure Sky Demon Ape on the previous level, took the initiative to rush towards one of the Myriad Serpents after letting out a low shout.

"Hiss!"

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan's actions, the surrounding Ziqian Thousand Serpents quickly transformed into streaks of light and charged towards Lu Qingshan's location. The Ziqian Thousand Serpent closest to Lu Qingshan even swung its massive tail violently.

call!

With a thought, Lu Qingshan swung his Zhenyue staff directly at the tail of the Ziqian Wanshe.

In fact, when Lu Qingshan was trying to break through this level of the trial tower, he didn't dare to confront the Naziqian Thousand Serpent head-on.

But things are different now!

boom!

With a muffled thud, the Ziqian Thousand Serpent that collided with Lu Qingshan instantly let out a piercing wail, because its huge serpent tail had been completely shattered in the collision.

After shattering the giant tail of the Ziqian Thousand Serpent, Lu Qingshan's Zhenyue Long Staff continued its momentum and then slammed into the giant head of the Ziqian Thousand Serpent.

boom!

After another muffled thud, although the giant snake head of the Ziqian Wanshe did not explode directly, its interior had been shattered into a mess by the terrifying power unleashed by Lu Qingshan, and the Ziqian Wanshe naturally died.

"The first one!"

After killing the first Ziqian Wanshe, Lu Qingshan quickly turned his attention to the remaining Ziqian Wanshe.

It should be noted that, with the support of the second layer of Earth Domain, his movements this time were incredibly fast.

After he successfully killed the first Zzeng Wanshen, the others didn't even have time to surround him.

For this reason, Lu Qingshan quickly turned his attention to the other Ziqian Wanshe that was closest to him.

It must be said that the power of the second level of the Earth Domain is absolutely incomparable to that of the first level.

Originally, Lu Qingshan had a very difficult time in the eighth level of the Trial Tower, and he could not pass through it even if he tried his best.

But now that he has mastered the second level of the Earth Domain, the myriad serpents can no longer pose any threat to him.

In just over ten minutes, all ten first-tier Hengxing Ziqian Wolves perished at his hands.

After killing all ten first-tier, eternal star-level serpents on the eighth floor of the Trial Tower, Lu Qingshan was directly teleported to the ninth floor of the Trial Tower.

Just like the previous pattern, the opponents on the ninth floor were ten celestial-level first-tier wolves.

These star-level wolves are far stronger than the lurking serpents on the eighth floor, especially in terms of speed, which is terrifying.

Fortunately, Lu Qingshan had mastered the Earth Domain, which was already quite adept at defense. Furthermore, his Earth Domain had now reached the second level, greatly enhancing his movement and offensive power.

So after a fierce battle lasting eighteen minutes, Lu Qingshan finally killed all ten star-level wolves on the ninth floor of the Trial Tower.

After killing the ten Eternal Star-level wolves, Lu Qingshan was quickly teleported to the tenth floor of the Trial Tower!

The opponents on the tenth floor are another hundred Azure Sky Demon Apes, all of whom are at the first level of the Eternal Star.

In fact, if the strength of the hundred Azure Sky Demon Apes on the tenth floor of the Trial Tower were the same as that of the Azure Sky Demon Apes on the seventh floor, Lu Qingshan would be able to pass this test now.

Unfortunately, although these Azure Sky Demon Apes were also at the first level of the Eternal Star, they were much stronger than the Azure Sky Demon Apes that Lu Qingshan had encountered on the seventh floor. They were only slightly weaker than the Heavenly Wolves on the ninth floor, but there were a full hundred of them.

Under these circumstances, Lu Qingshan naturally had no chance of getting through this hurdle.

Surrounded by a hundred first-tier Celestial Demon Apes of the Eternal Star level, Lu Qingshan didn't even have time to kill a single one before he perished at their hands.

After his death, Lu Qingshan was naturally kicked out of the Trial Tower.

At this moment, his Trial Tower level also became 10.0!

……

In front of the blue stone tablet at the entrance of the Trial Pagoda.

At the same time that Lu Qingshan was kicked out of the Trial Tower, many first-level elites from Tianzhu Mountain had already gathered here.

The rankings of these top-tier elites over the past year are about to be revealed and will be updated on the cyan stone tablet in front of them shortly.

Terence, dressed in cyan armor, was currently chatting with several companions who were close in rank and had a good relationship with him.

"Terrence!"

One of the fox-human geniuses smiled and said, "I heard you completed ten assessment tasks this year, and even improved your Trial Tower level. I imagine your ranking will improve this time!"

"It's not that simple!"

After listening to the fox-person genius's words, Terence quickly shook his head and said, "You all know how hard geniuses at our ranking work. Although I've improved a bit this time, at most I can only ensure that my ranking doesn't drop!"

Of course, although Terence said that, he still felt that he could make some progress this time.

"I think I have a chance to break into the top 50 this time!"

Terence thought to himself, "Although I'm a bit weaker in terms of accumulated experience compared to those top fifty geniuses, I am, after all, a mentalist. Whether it's conquering the Trial Tower or completing adventure missions, I'll have a certain advantage!"

"I was already ranked in the fifties a few years ago, but with such great progress this year, I'm sure I'll be able to break into the top fifty overall!"

"As for the next step, it's to quickly advance to the second level of the Wind Domain. With my strength then, I'll be able to break into the top ten overall!"

Just as various thoughts flashed through Terence's mind, the rankings on the cyan stone tablet in front of these first-level elites also underwent a new change.

NO.1: Parich (Level 9 Spiritual Master, Star-Level);

NO.2: Bonas (Ninth-tier martial artist of the Eternal Star level);

NO.3: Liu Guangyuan (Level 9 Spiritual Master)

……

Looking at this year's updated rankings, Terrence quickly saw his new ranking on the stone tablet—

NO.51: Terence (Level 7 Spiritual Master, Star-Level)!

"this……"

Seeing his ranking, Terrence felt slightly frustrated: "I'm still one place away from breaking into the top 50 overall!"

"Could it be that someone has made more progress than me in the past year?"

But just then, Terence heard a startled cry.

"How is this possible? How could Lu Qingshan be ranked 36th? Wasn't he always ranked near the bottom?"

"This can't be! Could there be a mistake in the rankings?"

"How could the leaderboard be wrong?"

Upon hearing these words, Terence was also startled.

When he looked up at the blue stone tablet in front of him again, he quickly found Lu Qingshan's name many places ahead of his own.

NO.36: Lu Qingshan (Second-tier martial artist of the Eternal Star level)!

Lu Qingshan's ranking seemed no different from the rankings before and after him, but it was particularly glaring in Terence's eyes!