My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 348 - 345 Challenge

Lu Wu "swooshed" into the Divine Blade Tower, leaving everyone present dumbfounded.

The fiancé of Princess Cimu wanted his hands and legs, and he still dared to run?

Did he naively think that hiding in the Divine Blade Tower for a while would mean he wouldn’t have to have his limbs severed afterward?

What a joke! You can’t hide in the Divine Blade Tower forever, and the longest anyone has stayed was a young man who lasted 21 minutes. Could Lu Wu possibly surpass him?

Even if he deliberately stalled for time longer than him, did he plan never to come out?

Once he came out, his consequences would be even worse!

Didn’t they see how the face of the Cimu family’s princess had darkened by now?

"Whose man is he?"

Cimu Qingzi spoke to the people around her for the first time.

Everyone’s gaze turned towards the Rukawa Family. Rukawa Feng quickly stood up and pulled out Sakuragi Hanamichi as well.

"He’s not from my Rukawa Family. He’s from the Sakuragi Family. We only gave him this slot because we received something from the Sakuragi Family!"

Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was pulled out, clenched his teeth and prostrated on the ground: "Your Highness Princess, Zheng Dajun is a child from a commoner background, unaware of the Cimu family’s renown and he has offended you. I am willing to exchange an arm and a leg for your forgiveness!"

This statement made Cimu Qingzi, who originally only had an offended anger, raise her eyebrows slightly with some interest.

"From commoner origins? For such a person, you’re willing to buy him this slot and even sacrifice an arm and a leg to atone. It seems you really value him!"

"Yes, he is a genius!"

Sakuragi Hanamichi was prostrated on the ground, not daring to get up or look up, but when mentioning Lu Wu’s talent, his voice got slightly more vehement.

"A genius, huh?"

Cimu Qingzi’s lips curled up slightly, "Then let me see how this ’genius’ proves himself!"

Meanwhile, on Lu Wu’s side.

He pushed the door and entered the Divine Blade Tower.

This Divine Blade Tower was somewhat similar to the Inheritance Tower Lu Wu had visited before.

Both had interiors that appeared much larger than what they seemed from the outside.

From outside, one floor seemed to be at most about a hundred square meters, yet once inside, it appeared to be tens of thousands of square meters.

Moreover, the environment wasn’t that of inside the tower, but a vast plain.

As soon as Lu Wu entered the Divine Blade Tower, the tower had roughly informed him through data about the challenge.

The challenge was simple: combat, and defeating the opponent would allow advancement.

The first-floor opponent was a puppet wielding a sword.

Lu Wu glanced at the opponent’s attribute:

Name: Sword Slave

Power: 1 Star (Ordinary)

Skill: None

Such terribly poor attributes, Lu Wu could crush countless such beings with just one hand.

Even now, as he couldn’t use his energy due to being inside the Divine Blade Tower, his physical strength remained intact, and with his bodily power alone, Lu Wu had the strength almost of a Boss 3 Star, making this battle seem like child’s play. free𝑤ebnovel.com

With one sword stroke, the Sword Slave was slashed, and a Black Iron long sword appeared in front of Lu Wu.

Taking it, Lu Wu could leave; not taking it meant going to the next level.

Naturally, Lu Wu didn’t take it and ’whooshed’ straight to the second floor.

The second floor hosted an Ordinary 2 Star Sword Slave, still defeated with a direct sword strike.

Then came the Ordinary 3 Star Swordman on the third floor, and the Elite 1 Star Swordman on the fourth floor.

Similarly, Lu Wu passed these levels without much effort.

The fifth floor housed an Elite 2 Star Swordman, and the sixth floor an Elite 3 Star Swordman.

Lu Wu didn’t exert much effort and directly advanced to the seventh floor.

From the first to the seventh floor, Lu Wu only took two minutes, much faster than the previous young man.

This caused a stir among the people outside the tower.

Cimu Qingzi’s eyes shimmered with distinctive light.

However, just when everyone thought that a genius who could possibly match or even surpass that young man was about to emerge,

something unexpected occurred: Lu Wu’s progress halted at the seventh floor.

He stayed there for almost twenty minutes before moving to the eighth floor.

This, while causing the people outside the tower to look sideways, also gave them a faint hint of the truth.

Perhaps Lu Wu was not a genius after all, or at least not one who could match that young man.

His earlier rapid progress was the result of him exerting his utmost effort, and after reaching the seventh floor, he realized he couldn’t breakthrough to the ninth and tenth floors, so he opted to stall.

Lu Wu probably thought that if he could stall past half an hour, his limbs would be spared.

In this respect, indeed, Lu Wu succeeded.

That young man couldn’t wait for half an hour, and once he confirmed that Lu Wu couldn’t come out shortly, he chose another unfortunate person to transfer his arms and legs onto himself.

Meanwhile, inside the Divine Blade Tower, Lu Wu also encountered trouble.

After breezing through six floors, Lu Wu thought he could easily clear the Divine Blade Tower, but then problems arose on the seventh floor.

This type of Divine Blade Tower held an extremely high Secret Realm level.

The internal challenge levels weren’t stagnant.

They adjusted according to the power of the person entering.

After Lu Wuyi passed the sixth layer, the Divine Blade Tower had a detailed understanding of Lu Wu’s strength.

It also detected Lu Wu’s vaguely "cheating" circumstances.

So, starting from the seventh layer, the Divine Blade Tower increased the difficulty of the challenges.

What should have been a Boss 1 Star opponent was raised to Boss Level 3 Star, and an additional skill of a Master Level basic swordsmanship was added.

The puppet’s strength on the seventh floor was already very close to Lu Wu, and it took him over a dozen minutes to defeat it.

After taking down the seventh floor, the opponent for the eighth floor immediately appeared.

…

Name: Swordsman

Power: Boss Level 3 Star

Basic Sword Techniques: Willow Style (Master)

Advanced Sword Techniques: White Willow Style (Master)

Description: His strength is already not far behind yours now.

…

This Swordsman was far more formidable by many orders of magnitude than the one the youth had faced on the tenth floor.

Seeing the opponent’s attributes made Lu Wu very uncomfortable.

Because, if the upgrade pattern continued as before, it’s not just the tenth level in question, but even passing the ninth floor was uncertain for Lu Wu.

This meant he was far inferior to that youth.

How could Lu Wu accept that?

Go to District 1 and ask, who has he ever lost to in his life?

Well, those few high school league matches don’t count.

In short, Lu Wu’s pride wouldn’t allow him to accept this outcome.

Then he had only one option, to fight back!

"Each layer of challenge in the Divine Blade Tower has healing afterward, right?"

Lu Wu asked, his eyes already blazing with a nameless fire: "Then I’ll give it my all!"

As he spoke, Lu Wu and his eighth-floor opponent were already clashing.

At this moment, Lu Wu was not merely trying to defeat his opponent but was treating him as a whetstone to sharpen the 14 types of swordsmanship he recently acquired.

Moreover, Lu Wu was not stingy in taking hits.

As long as it didn’t cripple him, Lu Wu could bear any injury.

With the goal of tempering himself, Lu Wu’s battle on the eighth floor lasted a full two hours.

Only when he was covered in wounds and could barely squeeze out any more strength did he finally defeat his opponent.

And with Lu Wu taking down the eighth-floor opponent with a single strike,

the Divine Blade Tower activated, and the healing and energy replenishing powers surged into Lu Wu’s body.

That influx of energy made Lu Wu’s parched body open every pore, greedily devouring the energy.

The Unyielding·Growth skill operated to its limit.

Lu Wu’s injuries healed in just ten minutes.

His physical strength also broke through, from the initial Boss Level Star 3 approximately, up to Leader Level.

At the same time, outside the Divine Blade Tower, the eighth floor’s light dimmed.

At that moment, everyone who had waited for Lu Wu for two hours was taken aback.

Then, everyone sighed heavily.

Clearly, Lu Wu, who had held on for two hours, ultimately couldn’t survive the eighth-floor battle.

Old Man Sakuragi’s face also lost all its color at that moment.

However, the next instant, everyone saw the ninth floor’s light light up.

Old Man Sakuragi, shocked, became excited: "He’s not dead, Bright Lord isn’t dead! He passed the eighth floor! He’s challenging the ninth…"

He paused midway.

He suddenly remembered that Lu Wu was challenging the ninth floor, with the eighth already so tough. How could he have dared to attempt the ninth?

Wasn’t he afraid of dying inside?

Another tense wait began.

This time it was quicker than the eighth floor but still took an hour and a half.

An hour and a half later, the ninth-floor light dimmed.

Everyone held their breath, eyes tightly fixed on the tenth floor.

Moments later, the light of the tenth floor began to flicker.

And this time, the tenth floor’s light continued for nearly three hours before it went out.

After the light was extinguished, everyone’s faces flushed—could today witness the rise of a second successful challenger?

Everyone fixated their gaze on the exit of the Divine Blade Tower, anticipating the return of another prodigy, but after several minutes, they realized the door wasn’t opening. Just as they assumed Lu Wu was finished, they suddenly saw the light of the eleventh floor, which hadn’t been lit for ten years, turn on.

At this moment, Old Man Sakuragi completely despaired.

He hadn’t imagined Lu Wu could break past the tenth floor, let alone attempt the eleventh layer. Now, it seemed Lu Wu might never come out!