The Fourth Floor

Good news. A Supersonic Hummingbird had spotted the first entrant through a mirror. Bad news. The Supersonic Hummingbird had watched helplessly as he teleported away, meaning he had already advanced to the next floor. The sooner he reached the next floor, the more people would die in this event. Could he truly succeed in trapping and killing the vast majority of class users? "What is it?" Niman asked, noticing Yu Xian's furrowed brow. Yu Xian sighed and answered, "A Supersonic Hummingbird found an entrant. He looks like a leopard spirit." "A leopard spirit? Could it be the King of Southern Mountain from Journey to the West?" Zhang Shou guessed at once upon hearing that. Niman cared more about why Yu Xian was frowning. She asked, "Since you found him, did he already move on to the next floor?" "Yeah. The Supersonic Hummingbird caught sight of him in a mirror's reflection just as he was teleporting to the next floor," Yu Xian nodded. Jin Sheng analyzed, "Then it's essentially confirmed. He's deliberately pulling ahead of the other class users, trying to use the event rules to slaughter everyone else." "You can't really call it malice, just intent. After all, everything is still within the rules. Everyone's just falling victim to their own greed," Cheng Pi countered. Zhang Shou shook his head, looking at the two of them. "Even if none of you were greedy, could you move as fast as him? It's only been thirty-odd minutes." Silence fell over the group. If not for Yu Xian's summoned beasts, they would probably still be back on the first floor searching for chests. This event's labyrinth was far too massive. Finding chests in such a colossal maze was not something that could be done in a short time. At their normal pace, it would take around three days to collect three chests, averaging at most one a day. If they ran into other class users, fights might break out, drastically slowing down their progress in finding chests. "That's exactly it. On the first floor, he was probably greedy too, so he wasted quite a bit of time. But after reaching the second floor, he realized he could use the rules to kill people. So he curbed his greed and gathered chests as fast as possible. This floor was the same," Yu Xian analyzed. Shuddering at the thought of the rules, Shui Yuetian spoke up, "We have to stop him, or way too many people are going to die this time." The number of class users on the Baihe Continent was immense. Although no one had ever done a proper census, it was generally understood to be in the billions, though some exaggerated it into the tens of billions or even hundreds of billions. "Yu Xian, how about you head to the next floor first while we search for chests on this one? Go kill him first!" Niman suggested. That was actually a good idea. The other party had only just teleported to the next floor, so Yu Xian still had a good chance of finding and killing him. However, doing so meant Niman and the others would have to search for their own chests. "What do you all think?" Yu Xian looked at Zhang Shou and the others, then turned to Little Nora's group. Jin Sheng agreed, "That's a good plan. Yu Xian, you go ahead. Once you kill him, just wait for us on that floor, and we'll hurry up to meet you." "Even though dying in the Zhen Realm isn't real death, wiping out that many people at once is taking it too far. I think we should do it," Zhang Shou nodded. Seeing that everyone was in agreement, Yu Xian took out the extra chests and set them on the picnic blanket. "Alright, then I'll head to the next floor and kill that leopard spirit. You all wait here." They had found six chests in total. With Yu Xian taking three, only three remained. "Wait. His strength is unknown. Take Chi Feihong along too. In case Salty Fish can't beat him, Chi Feihong can handle it," Nora spoke up. The others blinked in surprise, then realized the issue as well. Everyone had subconsciously assumed the leopard spirit couldn't be a very powerful class user, or else he wouldn't resort to such underhanded methods. In reality, none of them knew his true strength. What if that leopard spirit was a high-tier class user? Sending Yu Xian alone might not work, and he might even lose the fight. With Chi Feihong by his side, however, things would be different. Working together, the two of them had driven even the Nether Armor King to suicide. Taking down a mere leopard spirit should be no problem at all. "Alright, I'll take Chi Feihong with me," Yu Xian agreed with a nod. Chi Feihong declared with full confidence, "Don't worry, everyone! With me around, leave Master's safety to me. We're going to beat that leopard spirit black and blue!" He then picked up three chests. Wasting no time, Yu Xian and Chi Feihong teleported straight to the next floor. After Yu Xian left, the rest gathered their things, held a brief discussion, and dispersed in different directions to search for their own chests, aiming to reach the next floor and regroup with Yu Xian as soon as possible. *** Event labyrinth, fourth floor. As soon as Yu Xian and Chi Feihong teleported in, a biting chill seeped into their bodies from the surroundings, feeling like tiny needles piercing straight into their bone marrow. "Holy crap, it's freezing." Even Chi Feihong could barely endure it. The entire labyrinth was made entirely of ice. Moreover, this bluish-white ice was opaque; aside from radiating a freezing aura, it was impossible to see through it into the adjacent corridors. Yu Xian retrieved winter clothing from his inventory, put it on, and looked at Chi Feihong. "I... didn't bring any." Chi Feihong scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, thoroughly flustered. He had figured his body was so tough and shielded by transcendent power that no environment could ever trouble him. Yet the event labyrinth didn't play by the rules—the cold on this floor completely bypassed his defenses and transcendent power. "Make do with this." Yu Xian pulled out a piece of bear pelt and handed it to Chi Feihong. It was a crafting material dropped from a bear monster. Even though it was just a material, keeping him warm should not be an issue. Chi Feihong quickly wrapped the bear pelt around himself, and it indeed helped considerably. Yu Xian then began summoning, but under these conditions, many of his summoned beasts were useless. For example, Yu Xian tried summoning a Supersonic Hummingbird, but before it could even fly a thousand meters, it succumbed to hypothermia, crashed to the ground, and soon dissolved into white light. Left with no other choice, Yu Xian could only release thick-skinned, hardy beasts, having them spread out to search for the leopard spirit. Yu Xian and Chi Feihong climbed onto the back of a summoned beast that resembled a polar bear but was more than ten times larger. They set off as well, largely hoping to get lucky in case they stumbled across him. Meanwhile. In a corner of the fourth floor, Mikhail was shivering uncontrollably. His Treasure-Seeking Rat had it even worse—it had already frozen to death. He never expected that his well-laid plan would be ruined by the fourth floor's environment. At this point, let alone searching for chests, surviving at all was a challenge. If he had ever read a certain work involving vampires, he probably would have deeply resonated with a particular quote. And right now, he was the prime example of it. So cold. Mikhail bitterly regretted not packing more clothes.