One day... two days... three days...
One month... two months... three months...
Time passed slowly. During this time, although the Bloodthirsty Sword could help refine many of the rare and precious materials Lin Yun used, he did not let the Bloodthirsty Sword help him refine them all.
On the one hand, if the Bloodthirsty Sword helps refine it, it will absorb one or two tenths of its energy. Lin Yun doesn't want to waste this energy. Originally, he lacked time to break through to higher levels of the Heavenly Dao Tower. Now, he is trapped inside the Heavenly Dao Tower and cannot get out, so he is no longer too short of time.
The quantity of rare and precious materials is limited. He doesn't know how many more he will need to use before breaking through to the Super Realm. Once he runs out of rare and precious materials, going out to find new ones will be life-threatening. At this point, conserving the efficiency of his rare and precious materials is of utmost importance.
Secondly, he can better sense and become familiar with the energy that he refines little by little on his own.
Six months later, Lin Yun had used up half of the rare and precious materials he possessed. The rest were mostly unsuitable for continued use or required the assistance of other rare and precious materials. For example, Lin Yun could not use too much of the Super Golden Source Liquid, otherwise the hidden injuries left in his body would become more and more serious. He would have to use water-attribute rare and precious materials to neutralize them or spend a lot of time slowly repairing them.
Lin Yun began to search for new rare and precious materials. According to his previous observations, the rare and precious materials in the seventy-third level of the Heavenly Dao Tower had a relatively complete range of attributes.
In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.
"Boom! Boom—"
On this day, countless explosions rang out in the air above the seventy-third level of the Heavenly Dao Tower, and a figure darted through them.
Several tens of minutes later.
Lin Yun, covered in blood and looking disheveled, arrived at a cave. He grinned and said, "I found three rare natural treasures, one of water, one of wood, and one of earth attributes, which are perfect for my needs. Combined with the other rare natural treasures I have, it should be enough for me to cultivate for about half a month..."
For the past six months, he has gone out to search for rare and precious materials about every ten days to half a month. Each time, he encounters powerful combat forces, some of which are humans, some are beasts, some are monsters, some are demons, ghosts and so on.
Without exception, perhaps every treasure land is protected by powerful forces, or perhaps this is the law of this space.
Similarly, each of them possessed terrifying strength, no less than that of the snow leopard he encountered when he first entered this space.
At first, he was always in grave danger. Later, he gradually gained experience and discovered a pattern: each combat force seemed to have a certain territory.
Once he escapes that territory, those powerful forces will stop chasing him.
Of course, it was also because his strength increased significantly in the first half of the year, and he became stronger and stronger in battles afterward. Otherwise, even if he knew this pattern, he might not have been able to escape the pursuit of powerful combat forces he encountered each time.
However, it's best to avoid such risky things as much as possible.
Now that he doesn't need to go out to search for rare and precious materials for more than half a month, he is naturally happy.
"A year has passed, and I feel that my martial arts strength and spiritual strength are very close to perfection. I wonder how much my strength can increase in the next half month..." Lin Yun thought to himself.
Perfection is out of the question. Martial arts strength is manageable, but spiritual strength is very difficult to improve. The gray crystals he obtained earlier that could increase spiritual strength have long been used up.
Only on the fiftieth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower did he obtain a large number of rare and precious materials that could increase his spiritual power. In the subsequent spatial levels, apart from occasionally encountering one or two ghost cultivators from whom he obtained gray crystals, he had not encountered any other kinds of rare and precious materials.
This gray crystal is clearly a unique item found within the body of a ghost cultivator. There are indeed ghost cultivators in the seventy-third level of the Heavenly Dao Tower, but the combat power in the seventy-third level of the Heavenly Dao Tower is too strong. He couldn't even escape when he encountered them, let alone kill them and obtain the gray crystal from their bodies.
This was a great pity for Lin Yun. If he had known, he would have hunted more gray crystals on the fiftieth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower, or he would have hunted more ghost cultivators in the earlier spatial layers.
Of course, this thought was fleeting.
He didn't expect to encounter a powerful figure like Lord Black Mountain so soon on the fiftieth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower. By the time he met him, it was already impossible for him to hunt ghost cultivators and obtain gray crystals on the fiftieth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower.
The first few levels of the Heavenly Dao Tower were fine, but later on, he gradually realized the difficulty of obtaining rare and precious materials to increase his spiritual power. He had been paying close attention to the ghost cultivators who appeared, but unfortunately, he hadn't gained much.
He hadn't expected that the difficulty of the seventy-third floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower would suddenly increase to such a terrifying level.
As a result, things have come to this.
"The combat power on the 73rd floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower is too strong. Although my strength has increased significantly over the past year, it is still impossible to kill one of them..." Lin Yun shook his head helplessly.
With his current strength, he estimated that if he encountered Huo Shiwei and Huo Shiao again, he could defeat them in one or two moves. With the Bloodthirsty Sword's ability to absorb the opponent's essence blood, he estimated that killing them would only take a few dozen moves.
Dozens of moves are extremely fast for experts like them.
A powerhouse at the fourth level of the Super Realm possesses extremely strong vitality. The fact that they can kill a top-tier super powerhouse at the fourth level of the Super Realm in just a few dozen moves would be an astonishing thing if word got out.
Even back then, when Lin Yun, Mo Dan, and Xiao Jin's mother Can joined forces, it took them hundreds of moves to kill Huo Shiwei, which shows how terrifying his current strength is.
However, even with such strength, Lin Yun was not confident in dealing with any of the combatants on the 73rd floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower, which shows just how terrifying the combatants on the 73rd floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower are.
During this time, Lin Yun had been wondering if the combat power on the 73rd floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower was really still within the fourth level of the Super Realm. If so, then the potential and gap at this level were too great!
The main point is that there are many Saints in their universe. If a fourth-level expert in the Super Realm can have this kind of strength, how strong must the Saint Realm be?
The Firestone family has a Saint-level expert. If the strength of a Saint-level expert far surpasses the combat power of those on the 73rd floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower, then the Firestone family's strength is far too great.
There is also a possibility that the fourth level of the Super Realm is like the half-step Super Realm or the peak of the twelfth level, because it is only one step away from the Super Realm, and this step is very difficult to break through. Therefore, there is a huge gap in strength between the strong people at this level.
A powerful half-step super strongman can likely annihilate a weaker half-step super strongman with just one move.
Although the higher one's cultivation level, the less likely it is to challenge those of higher levels, and the fewer strong individuals one can challenge, there has never been a shortage of top geniuses throughout history.
For example, in the Heavenly Dao Fruit Competition, he encountered many top geniuses at the peak of level twelve and half-step into the super realm, whose strength was comparable to that of true super strongmen.
He himself, at the half-step super realm, possessed the strength to kill ordinary fourth-level super realm beings. Although this was largely due to his use of the Bloodthirsty Sword, it was still incredibly terrifying.
"Although Senior Mo told me that there is a world of difference between the Super Realm and the Saint Realm, and that unless one is like the First Saint, ordinary Super Realm fourth-level experts can't even think about fighting beyond their level, not even the other Saints in the Immortal Origin Holy Land, they can't do it before breaking through to the Saint Realm, perhaps he has never seen such powerful Super Realm fourth-level experts. Perhaps these Super Realm fourth-level experts, like those top geniuses at the peak of the twelfth level or the half-step Super Realm, already possess strength comparable to or even surpassing the Saint Realm..." Lin Yun murmured.
"Because there are so few experts at the fourth level of the Super Realm, the probability of an anomaly appearing among them is low. Senior Mo thought it was impossible because he had never seen one. But the First Saint could do it, which means that it is not impossible..." Lin Yun thought to himself.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about these things anymore. I can't leave the Heavenly Dao Tower, so thinking about it more is useless. I should just focus on cultivating and break through to the Super Realm as soon as possible, and see if I can leave the Heavenly Dao Tower then..." Lin Yun shook his head.
With that thought in mind, Lin Yun closed his eyes, gathered all his thoughts, and began cultivating again.
The place he was in was a safe haven he had specifically sought out, so he didn't need to worry about safety.
...
Outside the Tiandao Tower.
"It's been three years. Lin Yun has been in the Heavenly Dao Tower for over three years, and he still hasn't come out..." On the judging platform, Mo Dan smiled bitterly and thought to himself.
He thought a lot during this time.
Before Lin Yun entered the Heavenly Dao Tower, he encouraged Lin Yun to see if he could reach the 108th floor, even though he knew in his heart that the possibility was extremely small.
Later, Lin Yun did not appear at the agreed time, and he began to feel uneasy.
However, he told himself that perhaps Lin Yun had passed the forty-ninth floor and left the Heavenly Dao Tower inside, unable to escape until reaching the Super Realm.
This possibility is not small, after all, he had previously pinned his hopes on Lin Yun reaching the 108th floor.
Although Lin Yun had researched a lot about challenging the Heavenly Dao Tower since entering it, he had seen that the fastest geniuses in history to challenge the tower did not reach the forty-ninth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower within a year.
However, he still held great hope.
After all, Lin Yun was the most talented teenager he had ever seen.
Furthermore, it cannot be ruled out that some geniuses who reached the 49th floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower within a year did not reveal the information. Historically, many top geniuses have conquered the Heavenly Dao Tower, and some of them have powerful backers. Even they could not know some of the information about the tower's ascent.
Such a thing is not impossible.
Unfortunately, before he broke through to the Super Realm, although the Heavenly Dao Tower had already appeared, events like the Heavenly Dao Fruit Competition had not yet begun. The Heavenly Dao Tower was also monopolized by some powerful forces, and ordinary people could not enter it, so he had not been able to either.
Once he broke through to the Super Realm, he could no longer challenge the Heavenly Dao Tower.
He wasn't particularly clear about the situation of breaking through the Heavenly Path Tower.
He could only rely on the information he had gathered and make various guesses.
“Based on the information I’ve gathered over this period, it’s confirmed that those who reached the 49th floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower broke through to the Super Realm in as little as six months and as long as one year and three months… Even if Lin Yun reached the 49th floor within a year… it’s been more than two years now, Lin Yun should have broken through to the Super Realm long ago… Could it be that Lin Yun really perished there?” Mo Dan said bitterly.
Conquering the Heavenly Dao Tower is an easy and fortunate event with an extremely low mortality rate. In this Heavenly Dao Fruit Competition, as long as there are no accidents during the competition and as long as one does not court death inside the Heavenly Dao Tower, there is almost no danger to one's life. The Heavenly Dao Fruit is the greatest benefit.
Who would have thought that Lin Yun might perish inside the Heavenly Dao Tower?
Three years have passed since Lin Yun entered the Heavenly Dao Tower... Now, the second round of the competition, the challenge of breaking through the Heavenly Dao Tower, is almost over... and the third round is about to begin...
Mo Dan looked up at the gate of the Heavenly Path Tower.
Several figures stood there alone, their eyes anxiously fixed on the gate of the Heavenly Dao Tower. They were the group of people beside Lin Yun.
Before Lin Yun entered the tower, he asked him to help take care of this group of people.
A year later, he saw the group of people waiting anxiously. He even sent a telepathic message to them, telling them that Lin Yun was very likely to have passed the forty-ninth floor of the Heavenly Dao Tower and was being forcibly detained there, so they shouldn't worry too much.
Now, however, he dared not tell this group that Lin Yun might have already perished.
"Wait another three months. If Lin Yun still hasn't come out, I'll let them leave first. I'll stay here and keep some people's attention..." Mo Dan sighed inwardly and made a decision in secret.
The super golden beast Chan is already nearby, and he will need Chan's cooperation then.
The scene of the Tiandao Fruit Competition.
"It's been three years, and Lin Yun still hasn't come out. It seems he really died inside the Heavenly Dao Tower!"
"How ridiculous! How powerful he was three years ago! Who would have thought he would die in the Heavenly Dao Tower!"
"Indeed, the mortality rate for those who attempt to enter the Heavenly Dao Tower is extremely low, yet he still managed to die inside. Tsk tsk, I understand now. The Heavenly Dao Tower contains illusion arrays and other spaces that severely test one's mental fortitude. Lin Yun seems quite young, so it's normal for his mental strength to be weak; that's precisely his weakness, and he probably failed because of it..."
"That's right! Heh! What good is strength if you're strong? Staying alive is the only thing that matters!"
"We cultivators should be low-key. Being too high-key can easily lead to arrogance and make us vulnerable in various ways. Now, the result is clear!"
Some people started talking amongst themselves and sneered.
Three years is but a moment for powerful individuals like them; the influence Lin Yun left behind three years ago is still very strong.
Or rather, many people are waiting for Lin Yun's outcome, and the fact that this topic has been brewing for three years has only made it hotter.
At first, many people just maliciously speculated that Lin Yun might have died inside, but as time went by, the possibility of this became more and more likely, and many people even felt like they were watching a joke.
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