To Noah, Combat Art was the ability to fully utilize one’s strength in battle.

Every rank had a range for attributes. It was not as simple as endlessly stacking points.

The upper limit for Fourth Order was one million in each attribute. Within this range, Awakeners could control their power with ease. Once they exceeded it, they crossed the limits of Fourth Order, and control became far more difficult.

With high Combat Art, even excessively high attributes could be handled smoothly.

With low Combat Art, one could not even unleash their full strength.

An Awakener with attributes reaching two million might only be able to use power equivalent to one and a half million.

But someone with exceptional Combat Art could surpass their limits and display strength far beyond what their attributes suggested.

That was the true importance of Combat Art.

Noah’s eyes sharpened slightly.

He also wanted to know just how far his own Combat Art could go.

His talent allows him to grow stronger with every breath. As long as he continues breathing, he becomes stronger in every aspect. More importantly, he can maintain perfect control over his power. Because of this, any attributes, skills, or cultivation techniques enhanced through his talent completely under his control.

However, this control does not apply to attributes gained from full attributes crystals, universal rewards, titles, and similar sources. These external gains fall outside the scope of his talent.

The immense power he gain when entering his explosive state is even harder to control. Otherwise, Noah would not have collapsed so quickly after activating his Destruction Form.

Logically, Noah should possess a large amount of power that he cannot fully control. Yet in his usual battles, there is no sign of his strength out of control.

"I choose the bow and arrow, the saber, and the arena as a plain."

As the preparation time was about to end. Noah quickly made his selection. A long saber, a bow, and a quiver instantly appeared before him. They were all of perfect grade with no special properties, only sturdy and sharp. The arrows would also refresh automatically.

The countdown reached zero, and a monster appeared a few hundred meters away.

Noah calmly drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

"Pfft."

The arrow cut through the air and pierced the monster’s head, killing it instantly.

[Congratulations on clearing Sky Piercing Tower Floor 1. You have obtained 1000 Full Attribute Crystals.]

[You have ten minutes of rest time, or you may enter the next floor immediately.]

"Enter the next floor."

Noah smiled as he spoke.

If the attribute panel does not show skills, does he really need the system to guide him in using them?

Whether it is learning a new skill or upgrading an existing one, the process involves a massive infusion of memories. Once those memories are fully absorbed, it becomes the same as completely mastering the skill. He will not be unable to use it just because this system generated body does not display the skill.

Noah did not even look at the reward of 1000 full attribute crystals.

They were completely useless to him now.

The battles in the Sky Piercing Tower excluded interference from factors such as physical attributes, talents, and bloodlines. What they tested was pure Combat Art, so adding attributes was impossible.

The second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer...

Noah cleared each floor at the fastest speed, instantly killing his opponents. The rewards he received were always the same, 1000 full attribute crystals.

Although the monsters grew stronger with each layer, they were still no match for him.

He did not even need to use active skills.

It had to be said that high quality skills gave a clear advantage. The bonuses were immense, and Noah fought with ease.

When Noah instantly killed the monster on the tenth layer with a single arrow, a notification appeared.

[Congratulations on clearing the 10th layer of the Sky Piercing Tower. You have received 1000 full attribute crystals and 1 Basic Skill Crystal.]

[You have ten minutes of rest time, or you may immediately enter the next layer.]

"Hmm, there is an extra Basic Skill Crystal."

Noah’s interest was slightly piqued as he checked its attributes.

[Basic Skill Crystal]

[Quality Rare]

[Type Item]

[After use, Skill Level plus one. Effective up to Rare grade skills.]

"Basic and Intermediate... then High grade Skill Crystals should correspond to Epic, allowing the level of Epic skills to increase at most," Noah muttered to himself.

He did not care much about Basic or Intermediate Skill Crystals, but High grade Skill Crystals were different.

Epic skills leveled up far too slowly. Even with Noah’s talent, it would take a long time to fully max them out. Skills like Savage Bloodline were even slower to level.

Perfect grade skills were already this slow. Epic grade would be even worse.

Noah suspected that if he relied entirely on his talent to level up, then even after advancing to a Five Order expert and further strengthening his talent to increase skill leveling speed, it would still take several months to fully max out the Epic Savage Bloodline.

Because of this, the value of High grade Skill Crystals rose sharply in his eyes, and he no longer found them unimportant.

The 11th layer, the 12th layer... 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

On the 20th and 30th layers, Noah received one Basic Skill Crystal each time.

On the 40th layer, the reward changed to 1000 full attribute crystals and a Rare grade sublimation stone.

The rewards on the 50th and 60th layers were the same.

Starting from the 70th layer, the reward changed again, becoming a Rare grade talent upgrade pill.

Up to the 90th layer, the reward did not change.

This allowed Noah to realize that, aside from full attribute crystals, the Sky Piercing Tower granted an additional item reward every ten layers. These item rewards were clearly general items.

This was undoubtedly a good thing, since the drop rate of general items was extremely low.

If Noah wanted to obtain Epic Skill Crystals, he would either need extraordinary luck to get them from a dungeon, or he would have to trade for them in the market.