This place no longer felt like the interior of an ancient tower.
It was practically an entirely different world.
Chu Feng raised his head and looked around. Above him stretched a blue sky dotted with white clouds.
Beneath his feet lay vast, open land, and on all sides stretched an endless jungle.
More importantly, while standing here, Chu Feng could not only hear the cries of birds and beasts, but could also sense that the heavenly energy of this place was considerably denser than that of the first layer.
This place felt far more like a world meant for martial cultivators.
"It seems I'll have to find the entrance to the third layer on my own."
Though Chu Feng was not old, his journey from the Nine Provinces Continent had been fraught with hardship. He had ventured through countless forbidden zones, navigated innumerable formations, and seen his fair share of the world.
Thus, upon entering a place like this, he saw through the secret of this second layer of the Rookie Formation at a single glance.
Chu Feng opened his Heavenly Eyes and surveyed his surroundings.
Under the gaze of his Heavenly Eyes, secrets invisible to the naked eye began to reveal themselves.
Before long, he located the entrance to the third layer.
It was an invisible staircase that soared straight toward the sky, hidden deep within the jungle to the southeast. Without real ability, one would never find it.
But Chu Feng not only discovered the staircase leading to the third layer — he also found that hidden within this second layer were a number of cultivation resources.
However, those cultivation resources were scattered in different directions. While spotting them was easy enough, collecting all of them would require considerable effort.
Moreover, for Chu Feng at his current level, the martial dao contained within those cultivation resources was far too weak to be of much help.
So he did not linger. He set off immediately for the entrance to the third layer and passed through into it.
Upon reaching the third layer, the difference from the second was not especially great. The only distinction was that the heavenly energy here was considerably denser, and the cultivation resources hidden within were significantly more powerful.
Furthermore, the entrance to the fourth layer was even harder to find, and around that entrance lay numerous traps and mechanisms.
But all of it was laid bare before Chu Feng's eyes in an instant.
At the third layer, Chu Feng again did not stay. He headed straight for the fourth layer.
By the fourth layer, locating the entrance to the fifth layer was exceedingly difficult. And the cultivation resources here were actually of some use to Chu Feng.
Yet he still did not go after those resources. Instead, after a period of careful observation, he finally found the entrance to the fifth layer.
Upon arriving at the fifth layer, Chu Feng was overjoyed. He felt that bypassing the fourth layer and coming straight here had been exactly the right decision.
Because this fifth layer had changed once more compared to the second, third, and fourth.
The fifth layer had reverted to the shape of a tower once again. But the walls within this layer were covered with powerful talismans and runes, their light flickering and intertwining to form a scene of breathtaking beauty.