Chapter 328: New Escape Plan

“Where is the person?” City Lord Cao asked, looking around with a confused expression.

“They should be here…” An elder muttered, but he also looked confused.

Everyone who received a token after conquering the seventh floor of any tower would be teleported to a specific room in the city lord’s residence.

This had always been the case.

However, for some reason, someone cleared the Food Tower and was teleported to the right room, but the city lord couldn’t find him.

“Did they escape?” Someone asked, but the others were not convinced.

After all, their group consisted of one fusion realm cultivator, three void refining realm cultivators and more than a dozen spirit transformation realm cultivators.

Was it possible for someone to escape under the nose of such a group?

“If they didn’t escape, then…”

Several people frowned and began a wall-to-wall search of the room.

They touched the walls, floors, and air.

However, the person was nowhere to be seen.

“Did the tower break? Maybe the master was not teleported to this room.” Someone suggested, but the city lord immediately shook his head.

“I felt the formation shift. The master was teleported to this room.” He said.

The gathered people couldn’t help but feel helpless when they heard this.

After all, it was extremely strange for a living person to suddenly disappear without leaving a trace.

But how could they know?

Before Shen Xu was expelled from the food tower, he activated an absolute domain talisman.

After arriving in the room in the city lord’s residence, he messaged Zhen Yuan and then entered the space.

Zhen Yuan had already arrived in the remote village near the Martial Tower City.

After receiving the double’s message, he entered the space and helped Shen Xu exit from the other side.

“We can use this method to escape from the martial tower.” Shen Xu muttered, thinking of how he escaped from the food tower.

“Mmh.” Zhen Yuan nodded and quickly continued.

“We can hide the pendant necklace in this hut. That way, we can enter the space after leaving the martial tower, and then exit to this hut.”

After deciding, Shen Xu contacted the others and took them out of the space.

“Wenqiang, are you going with us?” He asked.

This time, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu planned to take Feng Xue and Yang Shi to the martial tower.

After all, the two were monster cultivators and were innately talented in physical martial arts.

“I will go.” Li Wenqiang said.

Soon after, Shen Xu hid the pendant necklace, and Zhen Yuan reinforced the hut’s formations before the group of five left the village.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the city entrance, paid the entrance fee, and went straight to the martial tower.

Like other towers, entering the martial tower was not free.

After paying ten thousand spirit stones each, the five received identity jade squares and entered the tower.

The layout of the first floor was different to what Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu were accustomed to.

Rather than a large hall, the floor had many small rooms.

“One person per room.” Shen Xu sighed, feeling a little reluctant to part with Zhen Yuan.

“Let’s meet at the bottom of the stairs.” Zhen Yuan said, pointing at the position of the stairs leading to the second floor.

“Okay.” Shen Xu sai,d and the others also nodded.

After that, each chose a room and used their jade square to open the door.

At a glance, Shen Xu’s room was empty.

However, there was writing on the south wall, and the double walked closer to read it.

“Practice the level one mountain shattering fist to completion.” He read.

Following that was a fist technique manual and an illustration of its practice method.

As a peak-stage fusion realm cultivator, a level one martial art was nothing to Shen Xu.

Most importantly, he had refined many drops of clarity, and his comprehension ability was unfathomable.

After reading the technique once, Shen Xu mastered it and directly clenched his hand and punched the air.

A moment later, ten phantoms appeared in the room.

“This…” The double muttered and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.

However, he basically understood how these tests worked, so he used the level one mountain-shattering fist and began punching the phantoms.

One punch and one down.

In no time, all the phantoms were destroyed, and Shen Xu heard the door open.

“I have passed this level.” He said, took back his jade square, and left the room.

At the same time, several doors opened, and the others walked out of their rooms.

“We actually cleared the first floor in two incense sticks.” Shen Xu said.

“It’s expected.” Zhen Yuan said.

Second floor…

Third floor…

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Sixth floor…

On each floor, the five learned an equivalent level of the mountain-shattering fist, and after practising it to completion, ten phantoms would appear.

At the beginning, the phantoms were at the qi refining realm, but their level increased with the increase in the level of martial art.

As a result, the five took increasingly longer to clear each subsequent floor.

However, despite this, the clearing speed was not slow.

On one hand, they could swiftly learn the martial art and on the other, each of them was a talented fighter and could easily dispatch the phantoms.

In just three days, the five cleared the first to sixth floors, directly breaking the fastest tower clearing record.

After arriving on the seventh floor, the five didn’t immediately choose their rooms.

Instead, they gathered together to discuss strategy.

“We will definitely encounter trouble after being ejected from the tower.” Shen Xu stated and quickly continued.

“Ayuan and I can enter the space freely, but the three of you can’t. That’s why we need to unify our clearance time so that we can be teleported out at the same time.” He said.

“One day.” Feng Xue suggested.

The seventh floor would have a level seven mountain-shattering fist.

However, they had already learned levels one to six, hence the seventh level was a matter of course.

Considering this, Feng Xue felt that practising the martial art would be easy, but defeating the ten phantoms would be a little troublesome since they were at the same level.

That said, she was confident that everyone could defeat their opponents and clear the stage in one day.

“One day is enough.” Li Wenqiang agreed.

“Let’s start a countdown.” Shen Xu said and quickly continued.

“Make sure to end the stage when the count is almost zero.”

Things went as planned.

One day later, five invisible people were teleported out of the tower and into a room in the city lord’s residence.

Soon after, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu grabbed the other three and entered the space.

“I can’t believe it went so well.” Shen Xu chuckled.

“It’s because we prepared well.” Zhen Yuan said, rubbing the double’s hair with a doting expression.

“The city lord and others must be going crazy.”

Shen Xu was right.

As soon as the tower issued five announcements, the city lord and others rushed to the teleportation room, ready to receive five masters.

However, they waited but saw no one.

In no time, excitement turned to suspicion and confusion.

Unfortunately, no one could explain how the five masters disappeared, so the city lord sent people to thoroughly search the residence and city.

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Inside the space, Shen Xu and the others sat in the peach garden.

“We did well.” The double praised himself.

“Master, I received a teleportation token, a pair of level seven gloves, a level one to nine martial arts inheritance, one billion spirit stones.” Yang Shi revealed.

“I also got the same.” Lu Wenqiang said and Feng Xue nodded.

“It seems we all got the same things.” The double sighed.

“Are we going to the sword tower next?” Li Wenqiang asked and Shen Xu nodded before turning to Yang Shi and Feng Xue.

“Will you go?” He asked but the two shook their head.”

“I am not interested in swords.” Feng Xue said.

“I have never learned a sword art.” Yang Shi also spoke.

“In that case, Ayuan, Wenqiang, and I will enter the sword tower. The two of you can stay in the space and wait in the house we prepared near the Sword Tower City.”

“We will wait in the house.” Feng Xue offered.

That way, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu would have to leave the pendant necklace unattended.

After resting, Zhen Yuan left the space and activated a teleportation formation disk.

A moment later, he disappeared and soon reappeared in a small village near Sword Tower City.

As planned, Feng Xue and Yang Shi stayed behind while the others went to the tower.

The sword tower was similar to the martial tower.

After learning a sword art, they would use the art to defeat ten phantoms before passing the level.

Time passed and once again, they conquered the tower in one week and promptly escaped from the city lord’s residence, leaving behind a confused batch.

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