Chapter 1164

The three-day rest period passed quickly.

The female voice in the sky rang again.

"The three-day rest period is over. Now, let me explain the rules of the fourth stage of the assessment.

"Thirty-seven people present are eligible to participate in the fourth stage of the assessment. However, to pass the fourth stage, you must have a main quota token. Currently, only five teams have completed the third stage of the assessment, and there are only five main quotas. This is why there are only five quotas for the fourth stage of the assessment.

"Once the assessment begins, all of you will be randomly sent to the same area. As long as you reach the end of the area and find the twelve bronze doors, you can open any one of the doors with the main quota token and you will pass the assessment.

"Of course, it is not that easy to pass the assessment area and reach the end. The assessment area is divided into three stages. The first stage is the easiest and is the furthest from the end. The second stage is more difficult and the area is huge. The third stage is the closest to the end and is extremely difficult.

"The fourth stage of the assessment does not prohibit fighting and killing each other. However, before entering the assessment area, I will give each of you a jade cocoon. As long as you crush the jade cocoon, you will be immediately sent out. However, being sent out also means that you have given up on this stage of the assessment. If a main quota shatters the jade cocoon and gives up on the assessment, the main quota token will fall at the place where the examinee crushed the jade cocoon.

"The assessment period for the fourth stage is one month. Those who are unable to open the bronze door within a month will be directly eliminated.

"That's about all the rules. If you have any questions, you can ask them now.

"I have a question!" This time, the first to speak was still Miko from the Gu Ding Pirate Crew. Miko always found the key to the question. "There are twelve bronze doors, and only five of us can pass the assessment in the end. If the five of us can choose any door to pass the assessment, does that mean that the choice of the twelve doors is related to the fifth stage of the assessment?"

As soon as Miko's question was raised, everyone fell silent and waited patiently for the voice to give an answer.

"That's right. The choice of the twelve doors is related to the final assessment. I didn't have to say it, but since all of you have reached the fourth stage, there's no harm in saying it. After all, you won't remember anything once you leave the King's Path. "The female voice in the sky gave a very straightforward answer after a moment of silence. "As for the difference between the twelve bronze gates, it will be up to the fourth trial's challenger to distinguish them."

"I have another question!" Mi Ke Ke did not continue to dwell on the first question, and continued to ask, "After the jade cocoon is crushed, there should be a certain time gap, right? During this period of time, if we are attacked, will we be injured, or will the teleportation force defend against it? "

"There is indeed a time gap between the activation of the Jade Cocoon and the teleportation, but this time gap is extremely short. If you are attacked during this time, you will be injured. The Jade Cocoon only has the ability to teleport, not defend, "the prompt explained.

After Mi Ke Ke raised these two questions, a few more people raised some questions, but they were all trivial matters. The answers given by the prompt were also very vague, and some questions that involved the details of the assessment were even directly refused to be answered.

After about a quarter of an hour, no one raised any new questions.

Thirty-seven rays of white light shot out from the sky and landed in the hands of the thirty-seven people present.

The teleportation array on the floor of the main hall suddenly lit up, and everyone felt dazed for a moment before they all disappeared from the main hall.

Gu Ding adapted to the dazed feeling brought about by the teleportation array, and immediately looked around.

It was a barren wasteland, and most of the ground had been turned into gravel. Occasionally, the bones of ultra beasts could be seen, as if they were decorations of this world.

As the prompt said, everyone was randomly teleported to a different area, and there was no one around Gu Ding.

Just as he was about to confirm his direction, Gu Ding sensed a powerful aura coming from a distant place, and he immediately knew where he should go.

The prompt said that the more dangerous the area, the closer it was to the end of the area. Gu Ding could clearly feel an extremely strong coercion coming from that direction. The person who released the coercion was probably an existence at the peak of Holy Lord level, and his strength was probably not much weaker than Gu Ding's before he became a Holy King.

"Hey, thanks, big guy. If it wasn't for your guidance, I really wouldn't be sure which direction I should go." Although Gu Ding could not see the other party, he still smiled and expressed his gratitude, not caring if the other party could hear him from so far away.

As Gu Ding sped along, ultra beasts occasionally sprang out of the barren sand, treating Gu Ding as their prey. These ultra beasts were all Holy Disciples powerhouses, and in the human world, they were considered great existences. However, in front of Gu Ding, they were like ants.

Every time he encountered an ultra beast pouncing on him, Gu Ding did not even attack. Instead, his figure flashed, and with a stomp, the ultra beasts' brains burst open, and they fell to the ground dead.

By the time Gu Ding passed through the first area mentioned by the prompt, the number of ultra beasts that he had trampled to death had already exceeded a hundred.

It took Gu Ding less than a day to enter the second area.

The reason why he knew it was the second area was because this area was a dense forest, like an oasis in the desert, but the area of this oasis was probably more than ten times larger than the desert.

"This forest is a little strange, the life force is too strong …" Gu Ding noticed something unusual as soon as he stepped into the forest. "Either there are a lot of ultra beasts hiding here, or there are other unknown reasons."

Having lost his probing ability, Gu Ding could only rely on his basic senses. The so-called basic senses were actually the special perceptual abilities of powerhouses. This kind of perceptual ability could only sense vague things and could not give precise instructions, only a general direction.

Gu Ding was now a Holy King powerhouse, and his perceptual ability was more than ten times stronger than before.

His figure leaped between the branches, but it was much slower than before.

He did not choose to rush through the forest. One reason was that his field of vision was greatly limited here. Unlike the desert before, where there was no end in sight, he would be able to see anything sneak up on him. Another reason was that this forest gave him a faint sense of threat. He did not know where the sense of danger was coming from, but he had to be careful. He did not want to fail miserably and lose the right to walk to the end of the King's Path.

The unseen danger was the greatest danger.

Gu Ding clearly remembered what his father, who had raised him, once said. Because you can't see, you don't know what kind of danger it is, where it will develop, and what the outcome will be. Everything was unknown, and the unknown was the scariest thing.

Gu Ding was not worried about encountering any powerhouses in a head-on battle, but if he encountered an Assassin of Hark's level and found the right time to strike, there was a certain chance that he could kill him, even though the chances were extremely small.

"What exactly is hidden in this forest?" Just as Gu Ding was thinking about this question, he suddenly saw the corpse of an ultra beast hanging from a tree not far ahead …