"Brother Qi, you're here to brush the Magic Tower again!" The young boss immediately stood up and said with a smile when he saw Chuqi.

"Yeah." Chuqi responded.

"There are not many people as persistent as you, Brother Qi, nowadays. More and more people are coming here to break into the Demon Tower. I watched videos online and found that many places outside are holding Demon Spirit Competitions. I heard that many people who came here before have gone to the Southern Cross Federation. My business is getting worse and worse." The young boss sighed.

"Why run so far away when you can just use the free trial gate here?" Li Xiu asked.

The young boss shook his head and said, "There are demons over there, but there are no demons here. Who would be willing to stay here to the death?"

"Why is there no evil spirit?" Li Xiu was a little confused.

"I heard that only those who reach the top of the magic tower can enter the trial ground mentioned by those trial participants, but this magic tower is too high and no one can reach the top. If we can't enter the trial ground, where will the magic spirits come from? Not to mention the magic spirits, we can't even get rewards such as skills and talents. Who would be willing to defend it to the death?" The young boss pointed to the gems on the table and said, "Brother, you are from another place, right? You can pick whatever you want. For the sake of Seventh Brother, I will give you a 10% discount. The price of these gems has dropped a bit today. The small ones are 45 per carat, so you can pick whatever you want. These blue ones are 160 per carat, and the big ones are not expensive either..."

The price is indeed cheap, but the quality is indeed average. Li Xiu looked at Chu Qi and asked, "How many gems are needed to open the door?"

"Ten black sapphires of one carat or more will do." Chuqi replied.

Li Xiu took a look at the gems on the table, divided them in the middle with his hand, pointed at one half and said, "I want all of them. Calculate how much they are."

The young man had never seen such a generous buyer. His eyes lit up and he said with a big smile: "I met a big boss today. He is worthy of being Brother Seven's friend. Let me calculate for you."

The young boss took out a sophisticated electronic scale, then weighed the gems in groups of ten and put them into small plastic bags.

"The small ones are a total of 106 carats, the large ones are 137 carats, and the blue ones are 54 carats. The large ones are more expensive..." The young boss was weighing while quickly typing on a calculator.

"The total is 78,660 yuan. I'll give you a discount and round off the zero. Since you're such a big customer, I'll give you an additional discount. Just give me 70,000 yuan." The young boss said generously.

Li Xiu took out his mobile phone, scanned the code and paid him 70,000 Baiye coins without even bargaining.

On the one hand, Li Xiu was not as short of money as before because he had received tens of millions from Xiao Er. On the other hand, these gems were indeed very cheap.

If you use 70,000 Baiye coins to buy sapphires produced in Hongsha City, you can only buy two small top-quality sapphires of two or three carats at most. But when you buy these gems, you can directly buy hundreds of carats.

Fortunately, before deciding to come to White Night City, Li Xiu exchanged a lot of White Night coins, so he didn't have to worry about having no money to spend.

"Why did you buy so many?" Chu Qi asked after watching Li Xiu put away the gems.

"If you come again in the future, you won't have to buy it again." Li Xiu said casually.

This is just one of the reasons. In fact, what Li Xiu is interested in is the black sapphire.

But the value of that magic gem is far more than 70,000 yuan.

Chuqi didn't say anything else. The two of them came to the gray-blue trial gate, and Li Xiu took out ten black sapphires and inlaid them.

The trial door burst open and two people walked in together.

"Welcome to the Magic Tower Trial Field. The B-level trial has begun. The trial rules are as follows..." In an octagonal room, there are no windows on all sides. There is only one staircase leading to the second floor. The trial rules appear on the light screen.

The rules are simple. You will pass the level if you can reach the second floor before the sixty-second countdown ends.

Li Xiu looked at Chu Qi next to him, doubting whether he was really an S-level trialist, because he was only wearing a white tights and there was no sign of any contract.

"You go first. Don't be afraid, I'm here. If you can't climb up, I will push you up." Chuqi said.

Li Xiu nodded and walked up the stairs.

As soon as he stepped onto the stairs, Li Xiu immediately felt his body sink, as if his whole body was carrying a weight.

Fortunately, this level of weight-bearing was nothing for Li Xiu. He walked up to the second floor easily. Chuqi also followed him up. Seeing his relaxed look, Li Xiu knew that Chuqi's physical fitness was indeed better than his.

The second floor was still an octagonal room. The light screen prompted them that they had completed the first round of tests. After being given enhanced rewards, they could exit or continue with the second round of tests.

Li Xiu and Chu Qi both chose to continue. After the countdown ended, Li Xiu walked up the stairs leading to the third floor.

This time the feeling of weight on his body was even stronger, but Li Xiu was still able to complete it easily.

As he walked up more than ten floors, the sense of weight increased with each floor. By the time he reached the eighteenth floor, Li Xiu already felt it was very difficult to walk.

"How many floors are there in this magic tower?" Li Xiu asked with a frown as he looked at the stairs leading to the 19th floor.

This magic tower trial field is really different from the ones he had been to before. Although he can quit at any time, if he wants to complete the final test, he may have to reach the top.

With his current physical condition, he seems unable to complete even a B-level test in the final trial. No wonder the trial-takers here choose to escape.

"I don't know. The highest I climbed to before was the 36th floor, and I still didn't reach the top." Chuqi replied.

When Li Xiu heard that he couldn't reach the top even after 36 floors, he knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to reach the top. He could only count the floors he reached and take some body strengthening rewards, but forget about the final reward.

Li Xiu gritted his teeth and walked up. His physical condition no longer allowed him to go up, but as soon as the blood boiling skill was activated, he immediately felt a lot more relaxed.

With the physical fitness doubled, this feeling of weight is nothing.

Every time he goes up the stairs, Li Xiu needs to activate his skills, but Chu Qi next to him has never used any skills, which shows how strong his physical fitness is. He said that he is S-level, so he should not be lying.

"Chuqi, have you been improving your S-level here all the time?" Li Xiu asked curiously.

"Yes, I grew up in White Night City. I have never left White Night City, and I have only entered this trial gate." Chu Qi answered truthfully.

"Awesome!" Li Xiu couldn't help but give a thumbs up. He was able to climb the tower repeatedly in such a weird place and be promoted to S-level with just these ordinary enhancement rewards. He didn't know how many times he had to go through it. This Chuqi was really awesome.

"That's not right. You haven't been to other trial fields, nor have you reached the top. Then how did you get the Symbiotic Contract?" Li Xiu suddenly thought of a question and asked while looking at Chu Qi.

"I killed a trial-taker before, and we formed a symbiotic bond." Chu Qi answered expressionlessly.

Li Xiu had to admit that this would allow him to reach S-level. He didn't know how much time and effort this guy had put in.

You have to know that this guy's symbiotic contract should have been someone else's parasitic contract. A symbiotic contract will die with its master, but a parasitic contract will not. However, generally speaking, the quality of a parasitic contract should not be as good as a symbiotic contract. It is imaginable how difficult it is to be promoted to S-level in a trial gate by relying on a low-quality symbiotic contract.

The stairs at the back had a much heavier feel on the first floor, and when Li Xiu reached the 23rd floor, he had to activate his dual skills. Only with the enhancement of the dual skills did he reach the 24th floor.

With the help of triple skills, Li Xiu reached the 27th floor, but his body could no longer bear it.

Although he only needed to use the skills when walking up the stairs, the three skills put too much burden on the body. Li Xiu felt that if he continued walking like this, his body would inevitably be damaged, and there was no point in going any further.

Then a little bit of strengthening reward is not worth the damage to the body.

When Li Zheng was about to give up, he suddenly had an idea and looked at Chuqi and asked, "Chuqi, have you ever tried to go down?"

"No, why should we go down?" Chuqi shook his head.

"Look, it says in the rules that you must enter the next level before the countdown ends to complete the trial. The meaning of the next level, if understood normally, is naturally the place you haven't been to before. But if you look at it separately, the meaning of the next level can also be understood as going one level down, right?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"It seems...it can be understood this way...but what's the point? Even if we can really go down, what's the point of going back?" Chuqi said uncertainly.

"Let's try again and see if we can go down. If not, just go up one level." Li Xiu said.

"Okay." Chuqi nodded and said nothing more, although he felt that it was meaningless to do so.

The countdown ends and a new round of testing begins. It still takes sixty seconds to enter the next level.

Li Xiu and Chuqi walked towards the stairs leading to the 26th floor and walked down the stairs.

There was no obstruction and they walked up the stairs smoothly, which meant they could go down.

However, there seemed to be no point in going down, as the octagonal room on the 26th floor was still the same as when they came up.

Even the feeling of weight on the stairs from 26 to 27 is exactly the same, there is no difference.

"Let's go back and climb to the 28th floor. There's nothing different here. If we go down now, return to the 27th floor, and then climb to the 28th floor, you may not have enough time." Chuqi said behind Li Xiu.

"You are here, let's go downstairs and take a look." Li Xiu glanced at the light screen on the 26th floor. There was also a countdown on it, allowing them to see the time. This made Li Xiu feel something was wrong.

Chu Qi grabbed Li Xiu and said, "Stand here and don't move. I'll go down."

As he said that, Chuqi walked around Li Xiu and went downstairs. His speed was much faster than Li Xiu, just slightly slower than normal going down the stairs. After a while, he reached the bottom of the stairs and returned to the ground on the 26th floor.

The moment Chuqi left the stairs, his timer appeared on the light screen, indicating that he had completed the trial.

Chu Qi was slightly stunned, and Li Xiu nodded slightly. He had thought of this possibility just now, but he was not very sure. Now Chu Qi verified his guess.

Li Xiu no longer hesitated and walked down the stairs slowly. He walked much slower. Even with the triple skills, he could only move one step at a time.

Fortunately, there was plenty of time, and when there were only a dozen seconds left in the countdown, Li Xiu also came down.

The countdown stopped, and his timer appeared on the light screen.

"The final trial is completed, and the rewards are being randomly generated. Each person can choose one reward..." The prompt on the light screen made Chuqi's eyes widen.

"How could this be...how did you know?" Chuqi looked at Li Xiu with an expression of disbelief.

"I don't know, I just like to try new things. This is a complete accident." Li Xiu said with a smile.

"The sea of ​​suffering is boundless, but there is always a way out. This magic tower trial field may be intended to make the trial-takers understand this truth. Unfortunately, I have been suffering here for so many years, but I have not been able to figure out such a simple truth." Chu Qi sighed and said, but there was still no expression on his face, which looked very strange.

"Reason is reason, and doing is doing. There is a saying that goes, "A successful climb is ruined at the last moment." This is another principle that teaches you not to give up. The so-called reason is always reasonable, so reason doesn't matter. Just keep doing what you think is right. You haven't looked back, but you have already reached S level, right? If you had looked back and entered the trial ground, you might have died there, or you might have been distracted by the things in the trial ground and would not have been promoted to S level so quickly." Li Xiu said.

Chu Qi looked at Li Xiu carefully for a while before nodding and saying, "Anyway, I have to thank you for letting me discover the real way to pass the level. Otherwise, I would have been S-level and would not be able to go any further in the trial field. I would have to stop here."

"It seems that we are both lucky." Li Xiu saw the shielding icon appearing on the light screen. Both of them actually got admission tickets randomly.

Both of them chose the admission tickets, and soon they were sucked into the black vortex separately.

There was a copper lamp and a stone table, and on the table was a black piece of clothing.

"Clothes!" Li Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up. He had wanted a piece of clothing for a long time, but unfortunately he didn't know where to get a clothing-shaped deed.

Every time I enter the trial field, I wear a white tights. If it were all men, it wouldn’t matter, but when there are women, the protrusions on some parts of the body do make me feel a little uncomfortable.

The clothes on the stone table were neatly folded, like a tofu factory. It was impossible to tell what style they were, but they looked somewhat complicated, not like an ordinary coat. The material was somewhat like a piece of black satin.

Li Xiu reached out to take the clothes. With his current physical condition, it was very easy for him to pick up ordinary clothes.

The clothes were picked up easily, and the erratic voice came from the longevity lamp immediately.

"Tiny..."

Li Xiu didn't give it a chance to finish speaking and dripped his blood directly on the clothes. Then, a black light flashed on the clothes. It was as if the clothes unfolded automatically, rolled into Li Xiu's body, and automatically put on him.

This dress is a bit complicated. The upper body is a short shirt and the lower body is a skirt. It is made of pure black satin. It has a unique charm when worn on the body, and it also reveals a bit of elegance in the spirit.

"Is this a Confucian skirt?" Li Xiu looked at the black clothes on his body, slightly surprised.

This is a Confucian skirt in ancient Chinese culture, which can be considered a type of Hanfu. I didn’t expect there would be such a style.

Although there were skirts, they were men's clothing. In ancient times, it was not only women who wore skirts.

Master Haoran’s clothes: parasitic contract.

Quality: Brilliant.

Level: E (evolvable).

Original quality: 0.9

Innate skills: uprightness.

"It's actually a Glorious Contract!" Li Xiu was a little surprised. He originally thought that the quality of the contract produced in such a place would not be too high. He did not expect it to be of Glorious quality, and it came with a talent skill at level E, which was also very rare.

"I'll just need to get a pair of shoes someday." Li Xiu looked at his feet without shoes. Because his feet were also wrapped in the bodysuit, after putting on the clothes, his feet looked like they were wearing white stockings, which looked very inconsistent.

The Longevity Lamp led Li Xiu into darkness. When Li Xiu's eyes brightened and he could see the surrounding scenery clearly, he found that he was still in an octagonal room and there was still a staircase leading to the upper floor.

However, this building was not as bright and clean as the previous magic tower. The building itself was very old and dilapidated. Moreover, it was made entirely of black wood. It was a pure wooden building with mortise and tenon structure and not even a single nail.

Although it looks shabby and even a little eerie, the entire building is ingeniously carved and painted, and looks extremely exquisite.

On each wooden pillar, there was a carving of a strange creature. It was a bird, a black bird, like a phoenix or an eagle, with murderous eyes, as if it was about to devour someone.

When Li Zhengxing was looking at the building, he saw Chuqi's figure appear beside it, and another longevity lamp also appeared.

Li Xiu saw that Chu Qi was not wearing a Confucian skirt and had a black boxing glove on his left hand. He thought that should be the parasitic contract he got here.

"The Principle Boxing Gloves, the Brilliant Parasitic Contract." Chu Qi saw Li Xiu looking at his boxing gloves and said directly.

"You don't have to tell me." Li Xiu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This Chuqi is a very honest person."

"Is this the trial ground?" Chu Qi looked around curiously. He was already S-level, but this was his first time entering the trial ground. Such a weirdo was probably rare among the trial-takers.

"Yes, there are many strange things in the trial land. We have to be careful. Perhaps something that looks very insignificant may take our lives." Li Xiu knew that it was Chuqi's first time to enter the trial land, so he reminded him.

"Just follow me, I will protect your safety." Chuqi misunderstood Li Xiu's meaning.

When they entered the Demon Tower before, Chu Qi saw that Li Xiu’s physical fitness was far inferior to his, so he naturally thought that he should protect Li Xiu, not to mention that this was the old man’s order.

"Thank you for your hard work." Li Xiu smiled and did not argue.

"How should we go now? Should we go up?" Chuqi looked at the stairs leading to the second floor.

"We have to go up, but..." Li Xiu wanted to use the magic spirit to explore the way first, but Chuqi had already rushed up and reached the second floor in just a few steps.

"ah!"

When Li Zheng was shaking his head and sighing, he suddenly heard a scream coming from the second floor. He was immediately startled and quickly summoned the Black Death Demon King and the Black Death Demon Legion to rush up.

Surrounded by a group of younger brothers and younger juniors, Li Xiu climbed to the second floor. He originally thought that he was going to face a fierce battle, but the scene he saw made even him stunned.