The Battle Tower was also called the Tower of Guidance by the Celestial Mechanism Pavilion.
Shi Feng had heard Kong Haoran say that this Battle Tower could help players grow all the way to Domain Control.
Previously, Shi Feng had been somewhat skeptical, but after seeing it for himself, not a shred of doubt remained.
The State of Subtlety required mastery over oneself — the ability to burst to one's limits, control that power freely, and adapt with flexibility.
The State of Flow demanded sensing and observing one's opponent, reading their thoughts through the slightest movements, and responding appropriately in advance — achieving the ability to strike after the opponent but land first.
The State of Void granted a degree of control over the external environment, no longer relying solely on vision to assess situations but pushing all five senses to their limits to perceive everything happening in one's surroundings.
The purpose of the first trial was to teach players to control themselves — to learn to respond flexibly when facing an onslaught from a massive pride of lions.
The second trial was designed to sharpen a player's instantaneous observation and judgment.
The third trial was difficult because it demanded an enhanced understanding and judgment of distance. Accurately gauging distance was an extraordinarily challenging task — only by mastering it could one be considered to have truly entered the State of Flow.
The Battle Tower's guidance in this regard was exceptionally thorough, which explained why the super guilds had such a large number of top-tier experts capable of holding their own.
The Flame Hawks and Inferno Sculptors circling overhead had no intention of giving Shi Feng much time. With a piercing cry echoing throughout the valley, they spat scorching flames that surged straight toward Shi Feng.
"Now passing the third trial is going to be tough for him."
Among the spectators, there were plenty of people who had been stuck on the third trial and never managed to break through. They knew exactly how difficult this stage was — it was a massive leap in difficulty compared to the second trial.
A full ten streams of flames locked onto Shi Feng from every direction, while the ground itself kept shifting. Areas that were safe one second could become deadly danger zones the next, requiring constant awareness of one's footing.
On top of that, there was nothing in the surroundings to use as cover against the flame attacks.
The difficulty was evident. Most people couldn't keep up with everything at once and ended up either roasted by the ground fire or burned by the incoming flames — let alone actually attacking the flying monsters above.
"What is he actually doing?"
Everyone suddenly noticed that Shi Feng, facing the oncoming jets of flame, was standing completely motionless...
Just as the streams of fire were about to swallow Shi Feng whole, he suddenly took a step forward, leaving several afterimages in his wake. Each stream of fire devoured the afterimages he had left behind, and after all ten flames had passed, Shi Feng was still standing in the same spot without a scratch.
"How is that possible?" Even Leng Qiu was stunned speechless.
He hadn't entered the third trial yet, but he knew full well that facing these flames, his only option would be to keep running and dodging — there was no other way to survive. The intervals between flame attacks were far too close to evade within a small area. Trying to block with a weapon against the flames spat by Flame Hawks and Inferno Sculptors was utterly impossible. You would need to be wearing a full set of Iron Rank equipment just to withstand the Flame Hawks' attacks without taking damage, and as for the Inferno Sculptors' flames, you would need nothing less than a full set of Mythril Rank equipment.
But the equipment the system provided them was only Bronze Rank — nowhere near enough to tank the hits.
Yet now Shi Feng was standing in that tiny area and dodging every single attack unscathed, as if the flames were deliberately avoiding his body.
"That's impossible — the system must have bugged out. With attack intervals like those, how could anyone dodge them?" The spectators had long erupted into a frenzy, nearly screaming themselves hoarse.
No matter how they thought about it, the spacing between those attacks left no room for a person to dodge. The only explanation was a system error — otherwise, how else could this scene be explained?
Sitting off to the side, Wen Hua was not the least bit surprised.
Everyone had only calculated the flames' distance across a single plane and forgotten that they existed in three-dimensional space. Beyond the surface attack distance, there was also depth along the vertical axis. Shi Feng exploited the time differences between successive fireballs to exploit the gaps in distance, dodging the flame attacks one after another.