I am the Arcane Archer, and all my skills are self-created.

The rules become much stricter at the fourth level.

"Tower of Despair, Fourth Floor: Gravity Maze." The system notification had a cold, mechanical feel to it.

"Completion conditions: Reach the central exit in the maze where gravity constantly changes. Hint: The direction of gravity changes randomly every 30 seconds. Touching walls or falling will cause high damage."

Beneath my feet were suspended metal platforms, and between them lay unfathomable darkness.

The surrounding walls were covered with runes representing gravity. Li Wu reached out and felt the heavy air, as if an invisible giant hand was pressing down on his shoulders.

"This level tests spatial awareness and instantaneous reaction," Hua Zitong quickly analyzed.

"Gravity shifts are unpredictable; they can happen up, down, left, right, or even at an angle. We must determine the new direction of 'down' the instant it shifts and react immediately, otherwise we'll crash into a wall or fall."

Zhui Feng swallowed hard: "Every 30 seconds? That would require constant high tension, it's too torturous."

Steel Shield looked at his massive frame: "With my weight, a change in gravity and inertia would be enough to give me a run for my money."

Li Wu closed his eyes, and his sense of destiny spread out like mercury.

In his perception, the "laws of gravity" in this space were not random, but rather foreshadowed by the changes in brightness and darkness of the runes on the walls.

However, this change is so subtle that ordinary people cannot detect it at all.

"Look at the runes," Li Wu said succinctly. "The runes on the third wall brick from the left are getting dimmer. The next time gravity strikes, it will shift in that direction."

Everyone immediately focused their attention on it.

Sure enough, the runes on that wall brick were dimming at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

Countdown: 3……2……1……

hum!

An invisible force suddenly pulled them to the left!

Everyone was prepared and immediately exerted force to the right to counteract the sudden lateral gravity.

Only Li Wu and An Ying, who were the fastest, completed their posture adjustments almost at the same moment the gravity changed.

"Stay calm! Follow the boss's instructions!" Hua Zitong shouted.

The next few minutes turned into Li Wu's personal prompting show.

He could almost predict the precursors of every change in gravity and inform everyone of the direction in advance.

The team moved swiftly through a constantly rotating gravity maze, much like skilled parkour performers.

Even so, the situation was still fraught with danger.

Once, gravity suddenly shifted upwards, and the steel shield, due to its weight, reacted a beat too slowly and was almost "sucked" towards the ceiling. Fortunately, the immovable mountain hooked its shield and pulled it back.

"Damn it, this lousy place!" Steel Shield wiped his sweat. "It's more tiring than fighting a hundred bosses."

Finally, guided by Li Wu in a manner bordering on cheating, they arrived at the central exit without any major incident.

The fifth layer, "Elemental Annihilation Field".

"Completion conditions: Survive for 60 seconds in the elemental turbulence. Hint: Fire, ice, lightning, and wind elemental storms will randomly generate within the space; contact with them will result in severe damage."

The entire space was like a raging furnace of elements.

Crimson firestorms, icy blue frost vortexes, blazing white lightning snakes, and bluish-gray gale blades rampaged wildly within the small space, without any discernible pattern.

"There's no way to dodge this!" Just as Chasing Wind finished shouting, a vortex of frost grazed past his shoulder, kicking up a shard of ice, and his health bar dropped a little.

Li Wu's perception of destiny was fully activated, capturing every subtle fluctuation before the formation of an elemental storm.

"Three steps to the left! Jump!" he shouted.

No sooner had they finished speaking than a bolt of lightning struck down from the spot where they had just been standing.

"Right front, crouch down!"

A fiery storm swept overhead.

Li Wu was like the most skilled navigator, guiding the team through the deadly elemental turbulence.

But he soon discovered that storms were forming faster and faster, and their patterns were becoming increasingly difficult to discern.

"This can't go on." Li Wu's eyes narrowed. Passively dodging wasn't a solution.

He drew his bow, and the bowstring quickly condensed with the elements of [Flow], [Condensation], [Domain], [Cold], [Extreme], [Sealing], and [Annihilation].

A simplified version of "Absolute Zero: Winter is Coming." Instead of firing, the arrow was aimed at their feet.

hum!

A thin layer of ice spread rapidly outwards from them. It wasn't for attack, but for "marking".

The ice-covered areas slightly alter the flow of elemental energy within the space, essentially creating the prototype of some "safe zones".

Meanwhile, Li Wu adjusted the arrow signal combination again.

【Blazing】+【Flow】+【Sculpting】, a variant of 【Ice and Fire Spiral Arrow】.

He wasn't going to shoot it; instead, he used the energy structure of the spiral arrow, interwoven with ice and fire, to envelop the entire team like a halo.

"What can this do?" Banxia asked, puzzled.

"Use their strength against them." Before Li Wu finished speaking, a firestorm swept towards them.

Li Wu raised his hand, and the ice and fire halos surrounding everyone lit up simultaneously.

The icy blue light formed an arc-shaped ice wall on the left, blocking the direct impact of the firestorm.

At the same time, the scorching energy on the right slid along the edge of the storm and, with the help of the storm's rotational force, deflected it!

The firestorm swept past the group without causing any damage.

"Holy crap!" Chasing Wind's eyes widened. "Using its power to change its course?"

"Elements naturally interact with each other," Li Wu explained while dodging. "I simply used the ice and fire aura to artificially create a deflection point. When the storm passes by, its trajectory will be slightly altered."

"But this requires extremely strong elemental perception and control!" Zhui Feng exclaimed.

Li Wu did not answer, but focused intently on observing the flow of the elemental storm within the space.

His brain was working at high speed, calculating the best time and angle for each deflection.

The next thirty seconds became a one-man show for him.

Whenever a storm approaches, he precisely adjusts the ice and fire ratio of the aura, deflecting, diverting, or even causing two opposing storms to collide and cancel each other out.

The countdown has ended.

"Passed."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Steel Shield plopped down on the ground, wiping away sweat: "Damn, this is more tiring than fighting a war."

The sixth level, the "Time Cage".

The rules for this level are even more outrageous. The condition for passing the level is to travel between the "time acceleration zone" and the "time deceleration zone" and finally reach the finish line.

Within the time acceleration zone, all actions are accelerated tenfold, including damage received.

Within the time deceleration zone, all movements become extremely slow, including one's own.

"How the hell am I supposed to get through this?" Zhui Feng stared at the distorted, flickering space ahead, his scalp tingling. "Where you go fast, you'll die fast; where you go slow, you'll be used as a target."

After observing for a while, a look of understanding flashed in Li Wu's eyes.

"The essence of the law of time is the speed of change," he said softly. "Acceleration makes change faster, and deceleration makes change slower. But whether it is acceleration or deceleration, there is a reference point, which is an unchanging anchor point."

"you mean……"

"Anchor point found." Li Wu raised his hand, and a brand new arrow materialized on the bowstring.

This time, he used the cipher text: 【恆】+【维】+【肘】.

It is also a combination created on a temporary basis.

The arrow was shot out, but instead of flying to any other area, it struck the very center of space.

hum!

A semi-transparent silver light barrier slowly unfolded from the point where the arrow landed. Within the area covered by the barrier, the flow of time returned to normal.

It neither accelerates nor decelerates.

"Go in," Li Wu waved.

Everyone immediately hid inside the light barrier.

The time zone outside was still distorted and shifting, but inside the light shield, everything remained normal.

"This...this is it?" Zhui Feng exclaimed incredulously.

"No matter how the laws of time change, they cannot be separated from time itself," Li Wu explained. "The light shield I created is essentially a blind spot of the laws of time. Within this area, any external changes in time will be isolated."

Hua Zitong exclaimed, "Using temporarily created rules to fight against the system's preset rules—this is already a confrontation at the level of laws."

Li Wu nodded: "Keep moving. Stay within the area covered by the light shield."

The group carefully followed the light shield. The shield's range was limited, so they had to precisely calculate their position for each step to ensure they remained within the "time blind zone."

Once, the edge of the light shield slightly grazed a time-accelerated area, and half of Steel Shield's arm was instantly accelerated, causing the skin to age and crack. Banxia was so frightened that she quickly cast a healing spell on him.

"Be careful!" Li Wu frowned. "The protective shield isn't foolproof; its effectiveness weakens at the edges."

In the end, they made it through the entire time prison unscathed.

The moment he cleared the level, Zhui Feng collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted: "This damn tower... every floor is pushing people to their limits."

"You'll get used to it." Li Wu patted him on the shoulder. "The real test is yet to come."