"Tier Two is the first watershed in life and also a significant hurdle. Over 90% of spiritualists can reach Tier Two, but whether they can continue to progress afterward depends on the solidity of their foundational work."

"Moreover, what’s more important is that after you reach Tier Two, the difficulty of the Spirit Realm tasks will increase dramatically, and the probability of death becomes higher. Therefore, many spiritualists with unstable foundations and insufficient resources and confidence to advance further choose to stop, ceasing to upgrade their strength or explore the Spirit Realm."

Tang Ruobing looked down and typed.

Broken Star: Simply put, when entering Tier Two, the difficulty of the first challenge will sharply increase. If one can’t adapt, the consequences will be dire.

Ye Mingqiu nodded slightly, indicating understanding.

Divine Monarch: Indeed, if I can’t defeat even a Dominator of Level Three, my mentality naturally would suffer some trauma.

A Dominator of Level Three?

You really put me here!

Tang Ruobing’s gaze instantly changed. The previous agony of being unable to quickly pass the Nine-Story Tower with her strength vividly materialized in that moment. Her chest subtly undulated, like waves arising in the ocean, and then she directly pinched Ye Mingqiu’s side, using magic to drive telekinesis amplification, fearing she wouldn’t break his defense.

"Hiss..."

Ye Mingqiu’s expression changed, as he typed.

Divine Monarch: Stop fooling around, the teacher is watching!

"Hmm!"

Tang Ruobing snorted lightly, released her hand but remained puffed with anger like a small hamster.

"How long is the cooldown for the Little Spirit Realm here? Can we enter it again later? Are there similar Little Spirit Realms?" Ye Mingqiu changed the topic and asked.

After the Little Spirit Realm challenge ended, a Spirit Realm notification was automatically sent: Successfully passed the wisdom trial with a full score, hidden permission level increased, emergency summoning probability increased.

The increases in permission level and emergency summoning probability are considerable benefits. If they can be stacked several times, they would be quite excellent.

Moreover, the characteristics of the Little Spirit Realm allow for multiple entries without occupying cooldown time in exploration. If one can challenge repeatedly, the rewards are still quite good.

"With natural cooldown, it’s only one week’s time, but when challenging the tower subsequently, you’ll only gain experience. Even though the 100% experience granted is a lot, Tier One experience cannot be converted to Tier Two experience; there’s no need to enter again."

Zheng Xuejun frowned in doubt but soon relaxed his brow, saying, "You mean... want to rapidly upgrade through the wisdom trial?"

"Yes."

"That’s feasible."

Zheng Xuejun nodded slightly. Actually, he couldn’t quite understand Ye Mingqiu’s situation at that moment, feeling as if nothing about this person had changed, but reason and others’ judgments told him that this person was no longer the original Ye Mingqiu.

But it didn’t matter; whether or not he was the original Ye Mingqiu was something Zheng Xuejun shouldn’t meddle in. Providing him with avenues for upgrading, or reasons for changing the data by upgrading, was sufficient.

He smiled and said, "Little Spirit Realm is an important asset of our school. Allowing you to enter freely is not really feasible. How about a ticket fee of 100,000 Spiritual Points per entry?"

"No problem."

Ye Mingqiu responded readily.

100% experience equates to 2.5 times the normal full-score challenge experience. Albeit there are no other gains, the mere experience yield is quite good. Even at 100,000 Spiritual Points per entry, the ticket fee is quite reasonable, considering it is an additional means of obtaining experience outside Spirit Realm exploration.

100,000 Spiritual Points per entry—this price is already very friendly and significantly affordable.

With experience for leveling secured, attribute enhancement items naturally should not be omitted; otherwise, only having level increases would lead to inflated levels without substance. This would be unacceptable; it is crucial to elevate actual strength to match the level.

Thinking about this led Ye Mingqiu to instinctively turn his head toward Tang Ruobing beside him.

"Hmph~"

She snorted haughtily.

"Cough cough!"

Zheng Xuejun coughed twice, feigned ignoring their exchange, and said, "Speaking of which, since your level already meets the requirements and is close to Tier Two, perhaps you can consider participating in the Ladder Ranking early; acclimatizing to the environment in advance is always beneficial."

"Hmm."

"Understood."

Tang Ruobing and Feng Xinglie nodded simply. Ye Mingqiu, lacking information on this matter, remained silent, waiting for Tang Ruobing to send an explanation via messages.

Broken Star: Ladder Ranking is a special ranking which only extremely strong Tier One Spiritualists qualify for entry. The higher the ranking position, the more impressive the academic resume appears, leading to better guarantees for admission to prestigious academies; moreover, maintaining a ranking itself carries some hidden rewards.

Divine Monarch: Oh? What hidden rewards?

Broken Star: The Spirit Realm Will’s attention. The higher one ranks in the Ladder Ranking, the more attention one receives from the Spirit Realm Will, making emergency summonings or war summonings more likely to target you.

Broken Star: The difficulty of summonings is relatively high, but completing tasks also offers greater rewards, proving quite useful for powerful spiritualists.

Divine Monarch: I see, how is the difficulty?

Broken Star: It’s quite high. This leaderboard only displays the top hundred positions; subsequent ranks are not shown. To enter the top hundred, one must at least possess Level 9 Hero strength and must be an extremely strong Level 9 Hero at that.

Broken Star: There are many Legendary Level spiritualists towards the top of the leaderboard, with extraordinarily strong power. They remain at Level 10, not because they cannot break through to Tier Two, but because they haven’t solidified their powerhouse foundation. Only after thoroughly firming up their strength will they advance.