Pop You Like a Balloon

The amount of cultivators stuck within the tower quickly began to decrease, to a point where only a few hundred participants were left climbing up. In most of the other towers, only a few tens of cultivators per island had managed to gain access, and once their numbers reached fifty, the test would end.

Now that a full day had passed, only the tower where Nilo and the others were being tested was still active, with hundreds of participants stuck on the numerous floors, or trying their best to fight their way into the following one.

From an outsider's perspective, the observing cultivators could not deny the efficiency of the competition. 

The first one was a test of power and leadership. The participants would be evaluated based on how they would manage to successfully protect the puppet, and do so in the most efficient way possible.