At this moment, the eyes of the entire world were focused on the six Tower challengers from Huaxia.
After a wait of a full half hour, the first challenger successfully walked out of the Tower of Life.
Judging from his overall mental state when he came out, he seemed to be doing fairly well.
He walked up to Dong Shuai, saluted, and reported, "Reporting, sir, the Tower of Life trial has been completed."
Dong Shuai hurriedly asked, "Quickly, what's the situation inside?"
The man answered in a loud, clear voice, "The difficulty is within the acceptable range for ordinary combat professions. However, at a certain professional stage, under normal circumstances, each person only has one chance to challenge the tower. If you want to continue challenging it, you need to advance your profession."
"What!" Luo Ping said in shock. "At a given profession, after death you must use a rebirth badge of the corresponding level. In other words, from the Tower of Life, each person can only obtain one rebirth badge of the corresponding level!"
Hua Tianchen frowned. "For ordinary people to level from level 1 to the level 20 cap, who knows how many times they'll die. Getting only one rebirth badge from the Tower of Life is definitely not enough!"
Dong Shuai frowned as well. "You said under normal circumstances there's only one chance. Then are there special circumstances?"
The man nodded. "Yes. To obtain additional rebirth badges, you need 'tickets.'"
"Tickets?" The military personnel around them asked in unison, surprised.
The man said, "The system prompt says that the source of Tower of Life tickets is in the various Beast Lands. Beast Lands are regions that produce large numbers of beasts and influence the movements of surrounding beasts."
"In addition, the system mentioned that there may be several different Beast Lands around a single country, and different countries may also enter the same Beast Land."
Hearing this result, Dong Shuai, Hua God, and Luo God could not help but widen their eyes.
"This… doesn't that mean Beast Lands are actually passages connecting different countries!"
"Exactly. The system prompt says Beast Lands have different entrances and exits. If we enter from one entrance and leave from another, wouldn't that allow us to reach the territory of another country?" Hua God said excitedly.
Even Dong Shuai was a bit stirred. "The news Xiao Zhao brought back is extremely important. After Ghost Star upgrades, there's a real chance that the barriers between our countries might be broken!"
Luo God frowned. "The difficulty of the Tower of Life isn't high. Since that's the case, I think going to find Beast Lands to get tickets is easier than directly hunting for rebirth badges. Dong Shuai, what do you think?"
Dong Shuai was silent for a long time. The information Xiao Zhao brought back was massive.
"Don't rush. Let's wait for the others."
After that, the remaining five challengers successively came out of the Tower of Life.
As super experts carefully selected by the military, they were top-tier powerhouses at their respective stages.
And they lived up to expectations, all successfully clearing their corresponding Tower of Life trials.
At the same time, they brought back even more information. It seemed that each floor could provide some information related to "tickets."
Combining the information brought back by several people, the current conclusion was that without tickets, each person could only challenge the tower once, regardless of success or failure. Additional tower challenges required tickets obtained from elite-level and above chests in Beast Lands.
At present, there was still no specific information about the locations of Beast Lands. It was only known that beyond an area of 150,000 square kilometers, entrances to level-one Beast Lands would appear.
In the end, a super level-six expert gave an explosive tip.
The entrances to Beast Lands are extremely difficult to find, and each time only fewer than ten people can enter. If too many people enter, it will alarm all the beasts in the Beast Land. They may even affect the entire jurisdiction, causing beasts across the whole region to riot.
After grasping all this information, Dong Shuai hurriedly logged off. It seemed he was going to discuss the matter immediately.
That very day, the Ghost Star international forum erupted into heated discussions about this issue.
"So that means Ghost Star upgrading to the transcendent stage will finally give us a chance to meet players from other countries?"
"It's not that easy. Every country has wanderers, right? The top-ranked countries' wanderers might have already entered areas beyond the 150,000 square kilometer mark long ago, and yet no one's discovered a Beast Land entrance."
"Did you notice that the information Huaxia got mentioned 'level-one' Beast Lands? That means there are level-two, level-three ones? If level-one Beast Lands isolate countries from each other, then what do higher-level Beast Lands isolate? The more you think about it, the scarier it gets."
"Why does it feel like we're prisoners, locked up and guarded by countless beasts, needing to break through layer after layer of barriers to enter a higher-level world…"
"No matter what, if we can break the barriers between countries, it's definitely a good thing. I've long wanted to test myself against the top five professions in the world!"
Five days later, the Global Ghost Star Joint Organization held a global conference, hosted by Huaxia.
Huaxia also showed the bearing of a major power, sharing the data obtained from this tower challenge with other countries.
There was indeed competition between countries. For example, in the Endless Abyss and the Tower of Life leaderboard rankings, everyone wanted a good position to obtain more system rewards.
Or in events like the Global Championship and global nation wars, every country wanted better results to enhance the strength of its own elites.
But at the same time, no single country could deal with the threat of the Beast Gods alone.
If one country were completely devoured by a Beast God, that would absolutely not be good news for its neighboring countries.
The relationships between countries involved both competition and mutual dependence, where the fall of one would affect the others.
All in all, past discoveries mostly led to increased competition between countries, but this Ghost Star upgrade brought about global cooperation.
With this data in hand, each country could arrange for personnel to first obtain some initial rebirth badges based on their own professional situations.
In addition, given that Beast Lands might break through the barriers between countries, the conference decided to establish an international organization to coordinate interests among countries on Ghost Star and resolve potential direct conflicts in the future.
The difficulty of the Tower of Life was within an acceptable range. Very soon, countries opened the Tower of Life to the public, allowing citizens to obtain a rebirth badge first.
Half a month later, the Global Ghost Star United Alliance was established. Given Huaxia's key role in this alliance, Huaxia would serve as the main responsible country for the organization.
For some time after that, Huaxia steadily organized personnel to challenge the Tower of Life.
Not only Huaxia, but the progress of Ghost Star development in all countries seemed to suddenly stagnate. Even the number of people going out to train and level up dropped sharply.
Globally, the main focus was now on the Tower of Life.
However, since each person could only obtain one rebirth badge in a short period of time, even the military found it difficult to forcibly requisition others' badges, so the demand for badges remained extremely high.
As for Beast Lands, due to the special circumstances at this stage, no country had announced plans to search for them.
Instead, civilian players showed unprecedented enthusiasm for Beast Lands.
After fifty years of lonely struggle, up to now, aside from the Global Championship and global nation wars where countries had a chance to meet, at other times, countries seemed completely isolated from one another.
On the forums, the popularity of Beast Lands remained sky-high.
"Isn't anyone going to try looking for Beast Lands?"
"Right now there aren't even enough rebirth badges. Who dares to run around recklessly?"
"Exactly. Just hearing 'Beast Land' doesn't sound safe. It should be considered the beasts' lair. Even if you find an entrance, only ten people can enter. Going in, you'll probably just die inside."
"Even super level-seven experts wouldn't dare enter Beast Lands rashly."
"Where's your Huaxia Jiang Kai? Isn't he the Treasure King? At least have him find an entrance first and give us some hope."
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At the same time, Jiang Kai was疯狂 leveling up in an unknown region.
After a full month of day-and-night grinding, Jiang Kai's experience finally reached the super level-five cap.
"Finally, I can change professions!" Jiang Kai let out a breath.
He found a quiet, secluded cave, slipped inside, and blocked the entrance with a large rock.
Carefully taking out the job change materials, Jiang Kai looked at the unknown liquid in the bottle. After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth, opened the cap, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Come on. I want to see just what's special about such a fierce material!"
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