Upon seeing the system prompt, Shi Feng immediately chose to enter the second floor of the Magic Temple.
The moment he did, a triple magic circle appeared beneath his feet. In the next instant, he transformed into a streak of light and shot into the corridor, which was layered with magical barriers, vanishing before everyone's eyes.
When Shi Feng opened his eyes again, he was standing in a magnificent temple hall.
The entire hall was resplendent with gold, and twelve divine statues stood around the perimeter. The statues were strikingly lifelike, brimming with boundless vitality — they not only supported the hall's vaulted ceiling but also emanated a faint divine pressure that made Shi Feng feel as though a thousand-pound boulder was pressing down on his body.
"Such powerful divine pressure," Shi Feng murmured, eyeing the statues before him with inward astonishment. "Under this level of oppression, a Tier 2 Class wouldn't even be able to move."
He had taken only a few steps and already felt the strain. If a Tier 2 Class had appeared in this hall, they would have been flattened to the ground the moment they arrived.
Moreover, under this kind of pressure, his mental energy was being consumed continuously, making it impossible to stay here for long.
Just as Shi Feng was wondering why the second floor of the Magic Temple had been designed this way, the walls around the hall suddenly opened up, revealing several corridors — three in total. Each corridor led to a separate temple, and those temples were filled with all manner of magic scrolls. In the center of each temple, a pure gold book radiated streams of light.
"A Magic Circle Compendium!" Shi Feng's gaze locked onto the golden book in one of the temples, and his breathing quickened.
This was no ordinary Magic Circle Compendium — it was a high-grade one, the kind rarely seen even across kingdoms and empires.
The Holy Beast Summoning Circle, which served as one of his guild's trump cards, was only a mid-grade magic circle. A powerful high-grade Magic Circle Compendium could absolutely be treated as a guild-protecting treasure, and the book before him radiated the dense mana that only a high-grade compendium could possess.
Unfortunately, the distance was too great for him to make out exactly what kind of high-grade magic circle it contained.
The moment Shi Feng stepped into the corridor, rows of magic circles materialized before him — nine in total, blocking his path.
"A trial?"
Shi Feng studied the magic circles that had appeared and began to understand how the second floor of the Magic Temple worked.
The magic circles grew progressively more difficult, and the three corridors varied in difficulty as well — quite different from the uniform setup on the first floor.
The easiest corridor featured mid-grade magic circles, followed by a high-grade one. The most challenging corridor was set with Grandmaster-grade magic circles — far beyond what an ordinary player could handle.
On top of that, his mental energy was constantly being drained in this hall. By Shi Feng's estimation, he could stay here for roughly six or seven hours before his mental energy was completely depleted, and that was only because he possessed a bloodline. Any other Tier 3 Class would likely manage four or five hours at most.
That meant he had to crack the magic circles within six or seven hours, or he wouldn't be able to enter the temples beyond.
As for destroying the magic circles by force — that was laughable.
With the twelve divine statues exerting their divine pressure, forget about a single Tier 3 player — even a Tier 4 Class couldn't hope to destroy the magic circles in these corridors. Only a Tier 5 Class could manage it, and Tier 5 was an unimaginably distant milestone. Who knew how long it would take a player to advance to that level?
Relying on external tools was also out of the question. The instant he had entered the hall, the only thing he could still access was his bag space — every other item was completely locked out.
"Time is limited. I'll have to start with the easiest magic circles," Shi Feng decided after a moment's thought, and headed toward the corridor lined with mid-grade magic circles.
The first magic circle in this corridor, though classified as mid-grade, was far from simple. Among mid-grade circles, it ranked solidly in the upper tier — an ordinary mid-grade mage would likely need a considerable amount of time to crack it.
But for someone like Shi Feng, who stood half a step away from becoming a Magic Circle Grandmaster, the challenge was considerably easier. He finished it in under two minutes.
The second magic circle was only marginally harder — roughly twenty percent more complex — and Shi Feng took three minutes to complete it.