As for the truth of the matter, no one bothered to investigate. After all, there was no responsibility to bear for scolding people online. All one needed was to pick up a keyboard and stand on the moral high ground to condemn everything that displeased them.
Since Wan Lei came to the Five Elements Hall, the biggest victim had actually been the Hall Master of the Fire Hall...
Looking at the online comments, Wan Lei sighed.
It seemed as though the Fire Hall was destined to be at odds with him. First, he had killed a large number of their people in the Molten Death Zone, then they had played a trick on him after the assessment, and now they were condemning the Fire Hall Master to death.
Alas, it was all the Fire Hall Master's fault for bringing it upon himself.
With a secret surge of satisfaction, Wan Lei clicked to accept the mission, and then left with Xiao Jin, flying towards the Creation Tower in the south.
The Creation Tower was very tall. Although it only had four floors, it was as high as a hundred floors of an ordinary tall tower, and its footprint was vast, occupying most of the area of this mountain.
Despite the huge stir it caused online, not many people came in reality to watch Wan Lei challenge the Creation Tower.
After all, the situation inside the Creation Tower was invisible to outsiders, and even inside, each disciple was in a different space, unable to see each other.
The Creation Tower was originally built by the Seven Sages themselves. Each independent small space inside was personally crafted by Bodhi Ancestor, who was most skilled in the laws of time and space. Later, it was personally improved by the Immortal Venerable, increasing the Creation Tower's status and its utility.
On the massive wall of the Creation Tower, there was a huge display screen on each floor.
The screen was densely populated with disciple rankings, numbering in the tens of millions. This was only for those who could make it onto the list; those ranked beyond ten million couldn't even get their names on it.
Generally, only those who cleared the first five levels were eligible to be listed.
Xiao Jin then gave some more instructions, such as how the enemies inside, although projections, were still corporeal. The Creation Tower would create a physical form based on the combat power displayed by the disciples, capable of unleashing their full strength.
After giving the instructions, Wan Lei walked through the open main entrance of the Creation Tower, and then, with a flash of light, he found himself in a void of chaos.
This space seemed boundless, with no discernible size.
After observing for a moment, a disciple suddenly appeared before Wan Lei.
The disciple wore green disciple robes and was from the Wood Hall.
Wan Lei threw out a punch. This unpretentious punch directly shattered the enemy's body.
He didn't even get a clear look at his opponent's face.
After defeating his opponent, nothing appeared, and the surroundings remained an endless void.
Wan Lei knew that he had to wait until the next day when the sun rose, casting its first ray of light, to challenge the second level.
The spiritual energy in the space of the first level was very thin, and the rules were very obscure, making it difficult to gain any insight. Wan Lei then settled down and began to cultivate the divine ability that the Great Sage of Equaling Heaven had given him.
He was currently meant to cultivate the second stage, called the "False Body." Not only could he transform himself in countless ways, but he could also create an identical false body of himself. This false body would possess the same combat power as himself for a short period, but after its death, it would require a cooldown period before it could be used again.
Wan Lei preferred to call this false body a "clone."
The second stage was very difficult and extremely hard to cultivate. Wan Lei sat cross-legged for a full day before he managed to grasp a slight hint of it.
And this was with the help of the Creation Tower.
Truly worthy of being a Sage's divine ability.
When the sun rose again the next day, a door appeared before Wan Lei.
He stood up, pushed open the door, and walked in.
The second level had begun.
His opponent was still as frail as ever, blown apart with a single punch.
He continued to sit cross-legged in mid-air, cultivating in boredom.
Wan Lei sighed, deeply dissatisfied with the various unreasonable regulations of the Five Elements Hall.
New disciples were not allowed to trade contribution points. If they were, he could have directly bought a thousand contribution points.
New disciples were only allowed three missions per year. If they offered more, wouldn't he be able to accumulate them?
The martial arts arena was no longer allowed to use contribution points as bets. Otherwise, he would have already accumulated enough by now.
The Creation Tower only allowed one level to be challenged per day. If they loosened the rules, he could clear a hundred levels a day, couldn't he?
New disciples required a foundation of one thousand contribution points to take office. If they changed the requirement to something else, wouldn't he have achieved it directly?
There were many ways to break out of prison, but every single one was blocked.
Wan Lei even suspected that the rules of the Five Elements Hall were specifically created for him, specifically to make things difficult for him.
But when he thought about it differently, perhaps these rules were indeed established for disciples like him who harbored ulterior motives.
On the third day, the third level, one punch, and he continued to sit cross-legged.
Wan Lei wasn't unaccustomed to secluded cultivation, but he had never been so bored.
He couldn't immerse himself in cultivation because he still had to get up and throw a punch every day to train his body.
If he were allowed to fully immerse himself in the Dao, it wouldn't be so boring. For example, when he became an immortal, he sat for half a year straight.
If he were allowed to fight continuously, it wouldn't be boring either, as he would be constantly tense, concentrating his energy, and enjoying the visceral thrill of impact.
But now, cultivating while also punching was the most boring of all.
On the sixth day, Wan Lei punched and shattered his opponent, and his name finally appeared on the Creation Tower's ranking board.
As soon as this news broke, people remembered that Wan Lei had not emerged since entering the Creation Tower, and reaching the sixth level in six days indicated that no enemy could stop him.
People began to speculate whether Wan Lei could reach the hundredth level within the hundred days to spar with Jian Fanchen.
As soon as this topic was brought up, discussions immediately increased. A minority believed that Wan Lei, as the second person with Origin-level aptitude in the Origin Plane in all of history, was a divinely gifted genius. Moreover, no one had ever seen him go all out, so he was bound to clear a level a day and reach the hundredth level.
The majority, however, remained reserved. They believed that no matter how strong Wan Lei was, he was still just a new disciple. The reason no one had seen him go all out was simply that he hadn't encountered anyone worthy of his full effort.
The last three levels were all occupied by powerful individuals at the Hall Master level. Whether he could win was another matter, but could he not even be obstructed for a single day?
Were the Hall Masters of our Five Elements Hall so useless?
The online arguments grew heated, with some even resorting to insults.
The opposing sides were the disciples of the Thunder Hall and Wan Lei's supporters, on one side, and the disciples of the Water Hall and Fire Hall, on the other.
Although the battles inside could not be seen, some observant individuals noticed that every time the first ray of dawn appeared, Wan Lei's ranking would increase significantly within a few seconds, signifying a progression to the next level.
This indicated that Wan Lei most likely defeated his opponents with a single move before leveling up.