Location: 45th Floor

"Buy me a little time first."

Heisha suddenly spoke, "Given your current situation, attempting to act on the 45th floor is too difficult."

Chloe looked at Master Heisha meaningfully.

Seeing the subtle expression on her disciple's face, Heisha spread his hands and said, "Why are you looking at your master like that? I can't really send you to your deaths, now can I?"

Chloe smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble the master to handle it with effort."

"Sass."

Heisha slowly took off her silver cloak, revealing a sleeveless inner lining. A faint glow flickered on her healthy skin.

Suddenly.

A roar erupted from within the 45th floor.

The whole floor seemed to be shaken by some invisible force, making an unbearable sound.

The energy within the floor surged toward Heisha like a tidal wave, as if a massive beast devouring the surroundings.

Tiffany's face turned serious, "This commotion... I wouldn't doubt if she wants to break through to Demigod."

The only Legend in the team was Heisha.

Tiffany was a Demigod, a higher level, but that didn't necessarily mean she could defeat Heisha.

She knew very well what her own situation was.

Breaking through to Demigod at such a young age meant unstable foundations.

Other than swordsmanship she could take pride in, she didn't really have many techniques.

But this wasn't due to Tiffany's incompetence, rather she chose a path of [Suppression].

If she could crush her opponents with a higher level, there was no need to choose technique.

When the speed of promotion stagnated, she could turn around and hone her skills. Although there was a possibility of fixed limits, if truly talented, she may find another path.

But some people preferred to fully tap into their current potential before continuing to elevate.

Heisha was one of those.

What about Legend?

The number of Legends capable of killing Demigods is not small.

The most typical ones are the [Saint Realm].

Sword Saints, Blade Masters, Divine Shooters... each [Saint Realm] could defeat enemies of higher levels.

The Saint Realm is not a life level, but a technique realm.

It represents a realm of transcendence.

Consider humans as containers, some people's containers are filled with water.

Some might be filled with oil, rocks, poison, or even radioactive material.

The ultimate display of ability varies vastly.

However, the number of people in the Saint Realm is not many.

The whole continent estimates about twenty to thirty people have reached this level.

And they are distributed across different paths.

In fact, having a single Saint Realm in a path in the same generation is considered a lot.

Tiffany even knew that such a Saint Realm is actually a specialty of The Stars.

Having been isolated from the outside world for years, The Stars limited the promotion rate of the Extraordinary, but also led everyone to instinctively explore the heights of their craft.

When they went to the Star Realm to battle other opponents, they realized that even a regular Extraordinary from The Stars had a systematic level of training technique, which the majority of extraordinary beings in the Star Realm did not possess.

But, though the insect is poisonous, it still can't compare to the Poison King.

"Lady Heisha... is stronger than I imagined."

Tiffany couldn't help but praise.

Beside her, Teresa rolled her eyes, "Do you think I don't know how strong she is?"

In her early years of studying her aunt's Forbidden Techniques, she nearly paralyzed herself, which wasn't due to a lack of understanding about Forbidden Techniques.

Raised with family training from a young age, how could she possibly be unaware of the risks of Forbidden Techniques?

Why did she so strongly reject them, if not for her deep understanding of Forbidden Techniques and the inability to face the costs behind them?

—In other words, she was inherently capable of easily accepting and learning her family's Forbidden Techniques.

Yet, she still failed at her aunt's.

It can only be said that there's a difference, family Forbidden Techniques and those of her aunt are not the same.

In the end, she embarked on another path profoundly interwoven with her talents.

The Pure Life Forbidden Technique Realm was something that Aunt Heisha had already topped the continent with years ago.

Life Return: Furnace... is a method to flood the body with accumulated Life Energy, ultimately strengthening the body to reach the Divine Realm.

This was something her aunt researched herself.

Everyone looked at Heisha with awe.

Aisha, Fratiss, and Miseria were filled with desire.

Every Extraordinary aspiring to reach the top of the world is inevitably filled with longing for Demigod.

The girls were no exception.

Chloe didn't feel it so strongly, just because he had already simulated and echoed history, advancing numerous times.

Aisha and the others had yet to experience this.

Some might even lack a clear understanding of their future.

In the eyes of these girls, being able to quickly touch the level of Legend was already their limit.

Without extraordinary opportunities stored, stepping into Demigod might take a lifetime.

—It can only be said they need time to adapt to the current situation.

...

The outer circle of Heisha's advancement breakthrough.

Chloe focused as he surveyed the surroundings.

While paying attention to Heisha's advancement, he continuously gathered earth pulse force into his palm.

The commotion from Heisha was so large it made him apprehensive to watch.

If not for the fact that the deeper you go into the Abyss of Woe, the greater the energy concentration; it might not even be enough for Heisha to advance.

He could be certain that if she were on the 15th floor, Heisha alone might turn the 15th floor into an Elemental Vacuum Zone.

No wonder she hadn't tried to break through earlier.

The energy concentration on the upper floors wasn't even enough for her own use.

The absorption efficiency was poor, affecting the momentum of a breakthrough.

Chloe glanced at Heisha, thought for a moment, and placed his hand on the ground.

Earth pulse force surged, the earth power of the surrounding floors began to gather toward the vortex center.

"Huh?"

Master Heisha slightly opened her eyes and heard Chloe say, "Mentor, I'll give you a boost."

Heisha's beautiful eyes gazed at the gathered Earth Power.

The speed at which it gathered was surprisingly close to the speed at which she extracted energy.

She nodded, closed her eyes, and sent the Earth Power into her body's furnace, refining it into primordial energy to nourish herself.

Seeing that Heisha did not refuse, Chloe felt instantly relieved and cheerful.

At this moment, Fufu frowned and said, "A demigod demon is approaching."

The group instantly became alert, ready to act and repel the formidable enemy at any moment.

Before long, a gigantic serpent as black as ink, with a body resembling a colossal structure, approached.

Seeing the wary group, it instinctively felt a bit threatened and did not attack directly. Instead, it hissed with its forked tongue:

"Do extraordinary beings of The Stars dare to ascend to demigod in the Abyss of Woe? Should I consider this a provocation?"

Even the hardest-to-spawn intelligent demons gain wisdom after ascending to demigod.

Clearly, this massive demon serpent was such a creature.

"The Abyss of Woe isn't your domain. We don't wish to fight now; leave, or are you planning a demigod battle here?"

Chloe impatiently tossed over a piece of demigod flesh.

The serpent was startled. Seeing the large chunk of flesh still retaining demigod aura, it realized this group truly hunted demigods, and it couldn't help but feel a bit more intimidated.

"Have you slain a demigod?" The serpent hissed, toxic mist surrounding it. "But looking at this demigod flesh, it seems to have been some time."

Chloe mocked, "Yeah, killed two fools half a year ago. What, you want to be next?"

The serpent glanced at the group.

Demigod Realm Chosen Ones and a demigod rookie eagerly eyeing it.

Though it had ventured quite far on the demigod path, this group was not to be trifled with.

Finally, it took the demigod flesh and retreated into the depths of the maze.

Seeing the demon serpent leave, Chloe nodded but did not let her guard down, continuing to survey the surroundings to buy time for Heisha.

The frequency of tremors in the surrounding floors increased.

Chloe looked at Heisha, who had become the core of an energy ocean, and nodded involuntarily, knowing that the mentor was about to ascend to demigod.

Even the 45th floor couldn't sustain the siphoning after the ascension of three demigods.

The serpent earlier was the floor lord here.

Such energy extraction would make its practice on this floor more difficult.

This situation would persist until the Abyss of Woe's floors replenished their energy.

As the surroundings churned with wind and clouds, an irregular force loomed, and the vast energy tide stalled in an instant.

"Finally become a demigod, huh."

Feeling the demigod aura emanating from within, Chloe's gaze became somewhat solemn.

At the moment of Heisha's ascension, he sensed a dangerous stir from the maze's depths.

Countless demons surged toward them like a torrent.

Chloe narrowed his eyes.

In the next moment, a resounding Filthy Thunder exploded in the void.

The demigod aura was valuable even to ordinary Sequence Six maze monsters.

But this wasn't enough to make these monsters defy their fear of high-life forms and attack.

Others were truly seeking to strike.

He saw legendary maze monsters watching from behind.

He even saw demigod demons.

Including that demigod-level serpent that had been eyeing them before.

"Trying to seize the moment when newly ascended demigods are weak, to devour their flesh and gain power?"

Chloe frowned.

Starting from the 45th floor, the floor lords' strength rose to demigod, and mid-level maze monsters began to appear as legends, while lower-tier monsters approached the Exemplar Peak.

With increased numbers, even Chloe, who was at the Exemplar Peak, felt pressure.

Although Chloe anticipated many demons might attack when Heisha broke through to demigod, seeing the situation now, there was more than one demigod...

"I see, even floor lords from deeper levels have been summoned?"

His eyes flashed with a cold light.

Extraordinary beings hunt maze monsters; maze monsters likewise hunt extraordinary beings.

This was the maze's ecosystem.

Now, a battle was inevitable.

Fortunately, everything was within his expectations.

Master Heisha's words "buy her some time" was never about buying time for her breakthrough.

But... to hold back the demigods.

Two major levels behind, it would be tough to fight... but worth it.

Chloe's gaze sharpened.

Master Heisha could certainly accompany them into deeper floors until everyone ascended to legend.

But deeper floors were more dangerous.

Legends aren't easy prey; attempting an on-the-spot breakthrough down there left almost no room for error.

A life gamble was needed.

Didn't you see Chloe specifically return to the 20th floor for Rephya and the others' breakthrough?

But the problem was that after the ascension, they couldn't move to higher floors.

Because a Saint was blocking the way upwards while advancing down.

Chloe's initial plan was to make breakthroughs during battles whenever possible, as long as they didn't die immediately, [Recovery] could heal them.

But Heisha didn't think the same.

She wanted to make her breakthrough on the 45th floor, where demigods didn't frequently appear yet.

With Master Heisha's abilities, even right after breaking through, she could easily have Saint-level destructive power.

This was the power of a top-tier tactical flow.

Though her breakthrough wasn't as smooth and without bottlenecks as Chloe's, she had accumulated too much over the years.

She also didn't need the usual demigod practice of closing herself off for ten days to a half month to overcome the final barrier.

The only problem she faced was... the floor lord would not permit it.

She understood this very well, and Chloe did too.

The biggest issue was being surrounded by demigods and legends.

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