Chapter 1848 - 1446: Third Layer, Anxious Waiting

While Gu Changsheng and a group of people were merrily looting on the second layer of the Star Innate Tower, unbeknownst to them, those who were frightened and fled on the third layer were indeed very anxious!

In the third layer of the Star Innate Tower, unlike the formations on the second layer, after being scared by Gu Changsheng, the remaining hundred or so people could no longer bother with fighting. However, they were understandably very nervous now!

Looking at the chessboard in the middle of the third layer of the Star Innate Tower and the unknown location of the stairway entrance, they knew that the unresolved chess puzzle on this board was likely the test of the third layer!

In fact, in the fifteen years since the completion of the Star Innate Tower, this was the first time so many people had survived to reach the third layer. However, what they hadn’t anticipated was that in the past, reaching the third layer promised immense glory and wealth, but this time, so many people arrived all at once!

This largely owed to Gu Changsheng’s contribution!

That woman was too formidable. If it weren’t for her overwhelming fierceness that scared them into only thinking about escaping to the third layer of the Star Innate Tower, entirely forgetting the chance to scramble up the staircase, they wouldn’t have all survived to reach the third layer. But what they hadn’t expected was that upon reaching the third layer, what awaited them was a chess game!

An unfinished chess puzzle, no less!

Instantly, it became awkward!

Those brave enough to participate in the Star Innate Tower’s trial are mostly Northern Mongolian warriors, with solid Kung Fu skills. Yet they never imagined that when truly faced with the Star Innate Tower, they would lose their Inner Strength on the first layer. Whether they had Kung Fu skills or not, there wasn’t much difference, really. And the test of the second layer of the Star Innate Tower was that Ancient Array of the Revolving Cosmos. That formation was actually all about luck and appearance. But the third layer was even more excessive; it’s a test of a chess game!

Chess, seriously? Aren’t they supposed to be warriors?

You have to believe them, not all warriors are skilled in both civil and martial arts. Particularly among the Northern Mongolians, especially among those who firmly believe "risking one’s life for wealth" as they joined the tower trial, there really aren’t many who are well-rounded in both civil and martial skills!

In fact, those things like music, chess, calligraphy, and painting all originate from the Central Plains. Although the Northern Mongolians have interacted with the Central Plains considerably over the years, largely emulating their culture, emulation remains emulation. Even if some behavioral and speech aspects have been learned, when it comes to truly delving into this level of personal cultivation, bless them, they truly haven’t gone that deep!

So, this situation became deeply awkward!

Forget about complex chess puzzles, even simple chess playing, those present who are unfamiliar with the black and white game are certainly plentiful!

Thus, fleeing from the second layer of the Star Innate Tower to the third layer, the remaining hundred or so people were instantly halted in place within this third layer of the Star Innate Tower, unable to move forward!

Even with Gu Changsheng’s formidable presence having greatly intimidated everyone, facing the chess puzzle, this time, no further internal strife occurred. They merely stared blankly at the chess puzzle and glanced at the entrance of the third layer of the Star Innate Tower, each person’s face could not help but darken slightly...

Godfather, why hasn’t that woman who’s chasing them shown up?

What was that one literary saying?

"Waiting is the original desolation of life!"

Thus, faced with the chess puzzle dilemma, the group of Northern Mongolian warriors, truly just a bunch of rough men, anxiously experienced the desolation of life on the third layer of the Star Innate Tower!

At first waiting, but Gu Changsheng and the crew haven’t arrived!

At second waiting, the figures of Gu Changsheng and others still didn’t appear at the entrance of the third layer!

At third waiting, still not a single person in sight!

Heavens know their fearful anticipation, worried that in the next instant, Gu Changsheng would show up wielding a cleaver, charging at them fiercely! Ah no—it’s to take their precious lives!

Thus, their anxiety grows heavier and more restless with the prolonged waiting!

At this point, they even hope Gu Changsheng would hurry up wielding the cleaver, whether they live or die, at least it’d be an end to this ordeal, wouldn’t it?

Leaving them stupidly waiting like this, their courage nearly shattered from fear, what kind of situation was this?

What they didn’t know was, during their anxious waiting, Gu Changsheng and her group were happily looting in the second layer of the Star Innate Tower, and they were very satisfied with their harvest!