Chapter 58

Looking at the large characters on the ground at the entrance to the Sword Pavilion, everyone exchanged glances, and no one stepped forward; they were all somewhat hesitant, as the danger level of this round seemed rather high—an attack launched simultaneously by a thousand puppets with the same Cultivation as you.It was akin to one person against a thousand, and you had to kill at least ten of those puppets while making a full retreat.

The difficulty was certainly not ordinary.

"Forget it, forget it."

Zhao Yishi, who had been standing at the back of the crowd, couldn't see the characters at the entrance of the Sword Pavilion due to his height, but those characters mysteriously appeared above his Dantian. He could see them as soon as he performed introspection.

After reading the content of the fourth round, he shook his head and chose to give up without any hesitation.

Fighting against a thousand puppets with the same level of Cultivation as oneself?

Forget about it. If he had that ability, why would he remain a disciple when he could directly become a Sect Master.

He turned and walked towards the depths of the ruined building on the side, finding a corner to squat on the ground, and took off the necklace around his neck to place it on the ground. The necklace was conspicuously made of nearly a hundred Storage Bags linked together.

Zhao Yishi began to activate the Storage Bags nonstop, and soon, he took out a massive pile of cooked demon beast meat, towering seven or eight zhang high like a small mountain, and started swallowing it in big bites.

After a tiring day, it was time to eat.

Today had been quite strenuous.

...

But those who could enter the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm were at least somewhat courageous—the truly timid would never come to a place as crowded as the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm. With more people came more peril.

A man took a deep breath and with a cold expression on his face, he stepped into the Sword Pavilion while wielding a sharp blade. Sёarch* The NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Just like in the first round, his whole body instantly stiffened in place; it seemed that he had entered an illusion.

Once there was one, there was the second. Before this person could come out with a result, many more followed him into the illusion.

Chen Qiu stood patiently in place for a moment, and after about a dozen breaths' time, the man who entered first regained consciousness, drenched in cold sweat and somewhat frightened, took big strides towards the deeper part of the Sword Pavilion—he appeared to have passed the round.

Feeling slightly reassured,

he also did not delay any longer, calmly put away the fan in his hand, and took big steps into the Sword Pavilion.

...

The familiar illusion once again enveloped him.

In an incredibly vast space, exactly one thousand bronze puppets surrounded him, each holding a long sword with the Cultivation of the first layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage uniformly.

The puppets did not pause at all, and the moment they appeared, they brandished their swords towards Chen Qiu in synchrony.

Chen Qiu took a quick scan of his surroundings and roughly grasped the situation.

Their Cultivation was the same as his, but it seemed they couldn't cast spells; otherwise, a thousand puppets, to say the least, could knock him down here with a thousand spells. They only channeled Spiritual Energy into their Magic Artifacts, attacking with more basic methods.

Even though there were a thousand puppets, only about a dozen could attack him at first, while the others were blocked by the puppets in front and couldn't reach him immediately.

He saw the puppets almost reaching him.

Suddenly, Chen Qiu casually flicked his sleeve, and more than six thousand resentful spirits of demon beasts instantly filled the space nearly to capacity, the dense resentful energy chilling the air to the freezing point. He had accumulated all these resentful spirits over time.

Entering the Secret Realm this time also had a very important mission—to exhaust these resentful spirits. Having resentful spirits enter one's body was not a good thing, and had it not been for the reminder from the fortune-teller in the city, he wouldn't have noticed his own body temperature getting lower and lower.

Although almost all these demon beast resentful spirits had the Cultivation of the Qi Refinement Realm, let's not forget that he also had a resentful spirit of Demon Cultivation at the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, which was not a low level of Cultivation.

What followed was an almost one-sided slaughter.

Under the leadership of this seventh-layer Demon Cultivation resentful spirit, the horde-like swarm of demon beast resentful spirits brutally slaughtered the surrounding puppets.

The death of these puppets did not turn them into resentful spirits.

Less than the time it takes three sticks of incense to burn.

All thousand puppets were thoroughly annihilated on the spot.

In front of Chen Qiu, who stood amidst the demon beast resentful spirits, a hazy panel appeared.

"Fourth round, Slaying the Self, cleared."

"Officially become an Inner Sect Disciple of Chao Tian Sect, awarded one 'Sword Enlightenment Stone'."

"Fifth Level, Slaying the Lowly, cleared."

"Officially become a True Disciple of Chao Tian Sect, awarded one 'Foundation Establishment top-grade sword talisman'."

"Sixth Level, Slaying the Enemy, cleared."

"Officially become an Inner Sect Elder of Chao Tian Sect, awarded one 'Foundation Establishment top-grade Swordsmanship Seven Sufferings of Mortals' Inheritance Stone."

...

When Chen Qiu awoke from the illusion, the inside of the Sword Pavilion was already filled with many people, each with their eyes tightly shut and their bodies trembling, seemingly engaged in battle within the illusion.

As long as all the puppets are slain in the fourth round, it counts as having cleared the sixth level.

Meaning, now only the last challenge awaited him.

At this moment, he also sensed that the resentful spirits he had summoned earlier were still surrounding him, that chilling sensation washing over his skin once again, making him realize the maneuvers used in the illusion did not bring about any real exhaustion.

He had forgotten about that.

Well, let's see if there's a chance to use them in the seventh level, although he planned to dispose of these more than six thousand resentful spirits as soon as possible, to prevent the resentful energy from entering his body. But he wanted these six thousand resentful spirits to serve some purpose at least; it felt rather wasteful to just throw them away without any use—he was still somewhat reluctant to do so.

This Heavenly Dao Secret Realm wasn't quite suitable for him; before entering, he had no idea it was a Sword Cultivation Secret Realm.

The 'Sword Enlightenment Stone,' a treasure that could help one comprehend the mysteries of Sword Intent and accelerate the cultivation of one's own Sword Intent.

'Foundation Establishment top-grade sword talisman,' a one-time use Sword Cultivator talisman with power equivalent to the full-strength strike of a peak Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator.

'Foundation Establishment top-grade Swordsmanship Seven Sufferings of Mortals,' a top-level Sword Cultivation technique for Foundation Establishment.

All good items.

But all useless to him. His pink entry meant he couldn't easily abandon Magic Practitioner for Sword Cultivation; that would be putting the cart before the horse unless another entry regarding Sword Cultivation, either seven-colored or pink, appeared. Then he could consider Dual Cultivation of Swordsmanship.

Fortunately, they could still sell for a good price.

So, the trip wasn't a total waste.

Chen Qiu pondered as he strode through the Sword Pavilion, heading towards the location of the Seventh Level.

...

Meanwhile, at the same time, Steward Liu, who had just left Fufeng City with Family Head Wang Tiedan, sat on the outside of a carriage traveling on the official road, lifting his head to gaze at the thousands of miles of strange dark clouds overhead and muttered to himself.

"The weather's been like this for the past few days, how come it's the same today."

"This weather always makes one feel as if something big is about to happen, could it be the omen of some unparalleled Demon Cultivation emerging in the world?"

"It's ominous." Discover stories with empire

"Family Head, shall we go back to Fufeng City first? This weather doesn't seem suitable for a long journey. Let's stay in Fufeng City for a few days before returning home."

"What do you think?"

"Family Head?"

"Hey?!"