Jingcheng, the Tower of Babel has ninety-nine floors.

When Shen Qian returned to this long-lost "home," there was already someone standing in the living room.

His features were cold and aloof. Although he stood there, he seemed to be detached from this world. He had the appearance of a human, yet he gave people a sense of aloofness and distance from all living beings.

"You're becoming less and less like a human being."

He looked at the other person carefully and sighed.

“In a sense, kings and nobles have indeed transcended the category of ‘human beings’.”

As if on cue, his body suddenly shattered into endless raging flames, completely obscuring everything around him. Within those flames, strange plants sprang up from the ground, spreading plague, viruses, traps, and sharp blades. Almost instantly, Shen Qian felt an intense sense of unease.

"It seems you've only now truly taken control of the 'domain'."

Shen Qian smiled and said, "You've gained a lot from this seclusion!"

The person before him was naturally the king's clone from before. In fact, the two were of one mind, and before he could use this form of dialogue, he was just playing around.

"The hundredth floor of the Myriad Pagoda is indeed extraordinary. I suspect that the core of the formation that constitutes that floor also comes from the river of time."

The clone spoke.

"The Tower of Myriad Images was left behind by the White Emperor. It is said that he once traveled through the universe. Given the White Emperor's strength, it is not surprising that he entered the River of Time."

He nodded slightly.

During these four months, Shenqian and his clone took turns acting. For the first two months, the clone took Shenqian's place in the outside activities, and only in the last two months did Shenqian's original body revert to his original form.

And they spent most of their time at the Vientiane Tower.

More than four months ago, with the cooperation of the Jintahou, the Vientiane Pagoda was no longer open all day, but only for twelve hours a day.

In fact, it doesn't have a big impact on ordinary martial artists, because even when the Myriad Pagoda was open all day before, the number of people was not high. There were restrictions due to the Martial Arts Token. Although the Myriad Pagoda is the number one secret realm of the human race, it is also the secret realm with the highest threshold.

Chen Qian devoted all twelve hours of the night to himself, and after clearing ninety-nine floors of the Tower of All Things at a cheat-like speed, he finally reached the legendary one hundredth floor.

Surprisingly, the hundredth floor didn't contain any treasure as expected; instead, it was still a level called "Time-Space Purgatory."

After careful study, Shen Qian discovered that the "Time-Space Purgatory" was essentially just a test of mental strength. If the highest difficulty was activated, even kings and nobles might get lost in it.

But if that's all there is to it, it's hard to explain why the King of Zhouyi would be so interested in the hundredth floor of the Pagoda of Myriad Images.

Until the sinking, he suddenly remembered the third function after gaining control of the Pagoda of All Things that he hadn't understood before: form change.

After the "morphological change" was activated, the 100th floor of the Vientiane Tower underwent a transformation.

The secret realm that allowed you to clear the level has disappeared, and in its place is a mysterious formation.

After the array switch was activated, nothing else changed, but the flow of time was altered within the space of the hundredth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower.

After understanding the hidden secrets of the Myriad Pagoda, Shen Qian finally understood why Lao Gao had specifically mentioned the Myriad Pagoda and said it could save Shen Qian a lot of time.

The hundredth layer of the time-controlling array has two functions: acceleration and deceleration.

If the passage of time were accelerated, it could be as if a day had passed in the outside world, but only five minutes had passed in that time.

If the passage of time is slowed down, the ratio can be adjusted to 1:240, which means that one day outside is equivalent to eight months inside.

What is the most lacking thing in the current situation?

Without a doubt, it's time!

Shen Qian couldn't remember how many years his main body and clone had cultivated within it, but for the past four months, the lights on the hundredth floor of the Myriad Manifestations Tower had never gone out.

To prevent any accidents, before sinking, he directly changed the mechanism of the Tower of All Things, so that no one else could find the 100th floor unless they had his authorization.

This allowed them to gain a significant amount of time before sinking.

Taking the original body before sinking as an example, one night is four months, thirty nights is ten years, and sixty nights is twenty years.

It only took him a little over half a year to go from a novice martial artist to his current master of the Mountain and Sea realm.

Moreover, these twenty years were extremely pure, spent solely on cultivation.

Of course, Shen Qian is currently focusing on the forbidden domain, so the two are not comparable... But without a doubt, the existence of the hundredth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower has helped Shen Qian make up for his biggest weakness for a long time.

Anyone who still thinks he's the same nineteen-year-old boy is definitely going to suffer a great loss.

In fact, the hundredth floor is a place of miracles for any martial artist, especially those at the lower levels. It is no exaggeration to say that if you stay there for a month, even a pig's cultivation level will advance by leaps and bounds.

Of course, this is on the premise that resources can keep up.

According to incomplete statistics, the total value of the various cultivation resources that I spent on myself and my clone in the past six months exceeded five hundred small goals.

As for the points in the Hall of Hundred Kings, they were completely squandered by Shen Qian.

Fortunately, Shen Qian possessed astonishing assets and had accumulated a wealth of resources. Coupled with occasional bonuses for his merits, he has not yet gone bankrupt.

In conclusion, if it were for the long-term development of the human race, Shen Qian should not have monopolized the 100th floor, but given the special circumstances, Shen Qian dares not reveal the secret of the 100th floor at all.

He suspected that the core of the formation on the hundredth floor was something far more precious than "Time Sand" and "Time Conch," which might be Zhou Yiwang's true target.

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