"Is Jie Tian still in there?" Chu Feng asked.
"He should be. He went in several days ago, and nobody's seen him come out yet."
The pockmarked man pointed toward the barrier gate deep within the hall.
"If Jie Tian found out that Chu Feng broke his record and took his token, he'd definitely challenge again, right?" Chu Feng said.
"If Chu Feng really showed up now and broke Jie Tian's record, Chu Feng would directly receive the Death Exemption Token."
"And the Death Exemption Token in Jie Tian's possession would transform into a challenge formation. As long as he hasn't left these ruins, he could challenge Chu Feng directly."
"The two would enter a formation world to compete."
"But this sort of coincidence has never happened before."
"I've only heard that such a rule exists," the pockmarked man said.
"If the rumors are true, then it's about to happen today," Chu Feng said.
"How would you know?" the pockmarked man asked.
"Because I am Chu Feng," Chu Feng said.
"Haha, good one, brother," the pockmarked man naturally didn't believe him.
But in the next instant, Chu Feng's figure transformed into a streak of light and shot straight into that shield.
During his conversation with the pockmarked man, Chu Feng had also been observing the so-called Death Exemption Token.
He had already seen through all the clues on it.
What the pockmarked man had said was largely accurate.
The Death Exemption Token was divided into three tiers.
First tier: only protected against the damage of the formations. If one encountered other experts, death was still certain. The exemption could be used once.
Second tier: only protected against the damage of the formations. If one encountered other experts, death was still certain. The exemption could be used three times.
Third tier: not only protected against formation damage, but also against attacks from other experts. The exemption could be used ten times.
That was why the man had said that when Jie Ranqing previously held the Death Exemption Token, the token had been gold in color.
Because Chu Feng's mother had succeeded in challenging the third tier.
But the difficulty of the third tier's challenge was far greater, and it wasn't something one could challenge simply by wanting to.
First, one had to find the method to challenge the third tier.
So naturally, ordinary people didn't know that the Death Exemption Token was divided into three tiers.
Now, Chu Feng had entered the formation world of the Death Exemption Token.
He was floating in midair.
Below was a vast ocean, its depths teeming with lethal intent.
"If I fall in there, I'm dead for sure."
While Chu Feng marveled at this, a line of formation text drifted into view.
It informed him that within this ocean, only one path led to survival, and Chu Feng had only one hour to find this path and escape safely.
In the next instant, the formation text shattered and fell into the sea.
Immediately after, the seawater began to boil, and countless swarms of fish leaped across the surface.
But upon closer inspection, they weren't fish at all — they were barrier sigils.
Chu Feng didn't dare slack off. He carefully memorized the barrier sigils that leaped into the air and moved swiftly.
Although Chu Feng's field of vision was now extremely vast, this ocean surface was equally immense.
And those barrier sigils could only be seen clearly up close. Chu Feng couldn't afford to keep too much distance.
So he could only record them section by section, then piece together the complete map of barrier sigils covering the entire ocean.
Half an hour later, Chu Feng lost his ability to remain airborne and was forced into the seawater.
The spot where Chu Feng landed was a safe zone — it was where the formation's power had designated he would fall.
Next, he needed to swim out of this ocean within half an hour.
Under normal circumstances, with Chu Feng's speed, leaving this ocean would be trivial — it wouldn't take remotely half an hour.
But the catch was that across this boundless expanse of water, only one route was safe, and if Chu Feng wanted to leave, he had no choice but to follow that route.
And this route was extraordinarily complex.
The position Chu Feng currently occupied was the starting point. He would have to swim the entire length of this complicated route from beginning to end.
However, this didn't stump Chu Feng.
Because during the earlier half-hour, he had already mapped the entire ocean into his mind. The safe route was already clear as day.
In less than half an hour, Chu Feng swam out of the ocean.
The moment Chu Feng stepped out of the seawater, the formation power that had been gathered in the ocean — the very power that had threatened his life moments ago — erupted from the water all at once, and in the end transformed into a golden token that stood suspended in the void.
The only thing was, this golden token was hollow in the center, bearing no one's name.
At the same time, this golden token was unclaimed.
Meanwhile, outside the formation — in the hall.