To hide one’s strength on the earlier floors of the Floating Island, one only needed to collect token fragments. Even on the fifth floor, one only had to defeat an opponent to take their place and occupy one of the ten seats.

However, to charge from the fifth floor to the sixth floor, one had to defeat nine opponents of the same level in one attempt. The difficulty was naturally staggering.

After all, they were all experts of the same level, and there were nine of them. It was difficult to ensure that he would not encounter someone who countered him. Even if that did not happen, after several consecutive battles, his methods would be exposed, making it easier for the remaining enemies to target him.

Therefore, if Li Yun wanted to charge for the sixth floor, he had to hide his methods as much as possible in the upcoming battles while continuing to accumulate strength.

Whoosh!

In the next moment, Li Yun was teleported out of the Treasure Hall again and appeared directly on the third floor of the Floating Island.

Compared to the first two floors, there were far fewer small floating islands on the third floor. There were only a few hundred in total, many of which were empty. Only around two hundred cultivators were present.

Seeing Li Yun’s figure appear, the expressions of these cultivators immediately turned solemn.

Without a doubt, Li Yun’s arrival would stir up waves on the third floor.

However, to everyone’s surprise, after entering the third floor, Li Yun did not initiate any challenges. Instead, he actually sat down cross-legged and entered a cultivation posture.

"This..."

This scene left everyone looking at one another. Then, they all secretly felt relieved.

If Li Yun challenged people frantically, then even if they refused, they might still be randomly assigned by the Floating Island to fight him. By then, a battle would likely be unavoidable.

Being able to avoid fighting Li Yun, or at least delay it, was naturally a good thing.

Ignoring the thoughts of the others, Li Yun immediately began comprehending Soul Suppressing Nine Strikes.

Soul Suppressing Nine Strikes required not only the entire body to vibrate with a mysterious rhythm, but also essence, qi, and spirit to vibrate together in order to unleash its power.

He was not in a hurry.

On the third day, he issued challenges to a group of cultivators at the same time.

In the end, his opponent was a young genius at the Half-Step Heavenly Core Realm, an expert ranked within the top fifty of the Earth Ranking. However, after some fighting, he was still defeated by Li Yun.

In this battle, Li Yun did not reveal too much strength. He used only around half of his power. Because of this, compared to his earlier battles, this fight did not seem as swift or clean.

"What is going on? Why does Li Yun’s strength seem to have decreased instead?"

"I do not think his strength decreased. He must have used a special method to boost his strength before, but that kind of method surely cannot be used all the time."

"That makes sense. It seems this Li Yun is not as formidable as we imagined."

"This is more in line with common sense. After all, he is only a brat at the early Earthly Core Realm. If he were really that strong, how could the rest of us survive?"

The result of this battle surprised many people. But after the surprise passed, playful smiles gradually appeared on their faces.

It seemed they had overestimated Li Yun before. In reality, this kid was not as terrifying as they had thought. This was more logical, since there were not that many prodigies in the world.

Li Yun did not care at all.

In fact, the crowd’s contempt was exactly what he wanted.

After defeating his first opponent, he devoted himself entirely to Soul Suppressing Nine Strikes again. It was not until another three days passed that he conducted his second challenge.

In this battle, he hid even more of his strength, making his victory appear even more strained. It took him a full fifteen minutes to defeat his opponent.

This battle further confirmed the judgment of the other cultivators.

They shifted their attention away and no longer took Li Yun as seriously as before.

On the eighth day after Li Yun entered the third floor, a figure suddenly rose from the fourth floor and landed directly on the fifth floor of the Floating Island.

This figure was none other than the number one on the Earth Ranking, Feng Qingxiao.

She was teleported directly to the eighth of the ten islands on the fifth floor. Immediately, the cultivator on that island turned pale, and his expression became extremely ugly.

Clearly, the Floating Island had judged him to be the weakest among the ten experts on the fifth floor.

"Little girl, to gain the qualification to challenge the fifth floor so quickly, you truly deserve to be called the number one expert on the Earth Ranking."

That cultivator was a sinister old man whose face was covered in dark spots. He smiled grimly and said, "However, on this Floating Island, you are still just a little brat. Even your so-called Earth Ranking cultivators are merely self-satisfied juniors. In front of real experts, all of you are vulnerable."

Feng Qingxiao wore a white training outfit, and her hair was tied into a ponytail. Her voice was cold as she said, "If you can withstand three of my moves, it will be considered your win."

"You are courting death!"

The sinister old man was instantly enraged.

He struck out with a palm, and a cold wind suddenly swept across the island. A sinister aura erupted and surged toward Feng Qingxiao.

Ring! Ring! Ring!

Feng Qingxiao remained calm.

A light purple bell hung on her fair wrist. As her wrist moved, the light purple bell began to shake. At first, the shaking was not fast, but as time passed, the bell moved faster and faster.

Beams of purple light shot out from the bell. In an instant, they dispersed the sinister gale, then sent the sinister old man flying.

With just one move, the sinister old man was defeated by Feng Qingxiao.