pjbooks Chapter 396 The Trialer
Chapter 396 The Trialer
"Xiao Weiqing, I'm a few years older than you, but I've never seen you call me 'brother'."
"Hahaha... When you can withstand even one or two of my moves, I might call you brother."
"Hey... Let's find a place to practice properly after we get out. This place is too small; I can't really move around freely," Lou Xiaoxing said, unconvinced.
Tian Zhenzhen laughed and said, "With your skills, you shouldn't compare yourself to Xiao Weiqing. You'll only make things difficult for yourself."
"By the way, what about that woman from yesterday?"
Xiao Weiqing briefly recounted what he had said to Yin Wenzheng.
"Are you really going to enter the fourth gate?" Lou Xiaoxing asked with some concern.
"Well, instead of waiting here idly, we might as well take the initiative." Xiao Weiqing did not change his mind. He could survive even under the hands of a god, so what if he was invincible in the Eighth Realm?
Furthermore, whether Onaya is truly invincible in the Eighth Realm is another matter.
"We'd better be careful. If even a servant has the strength of the eighth realm, then that Onaya Fang is definitely not an ordinary person."
"Of course, I never underestimate any enemy."
"So when are you planning to leave?"
"It will be about an hour from now. After I leave, be careful. If you don't see me, leave the ruins first."
"Okay." Lou Xiaoxing nodded.
Then he added, "What if something happens to you?"
"..."
"Why don't you leave the Nirvana Stone with me?" Lou Xiaoxing said with a grin.
Xiao Weiqing glared at Lou Xiaoxing, "I won't get hurt even if something happens to you!"
However, just in case, Lou Xiaoxing and the others left the ruins first. Xiao Weiqing said, "Give me your Nirvana Stone. I'll keep it with me for now and return it to you when we leave the secret realm."
"Oh, right, you can get 20%. If I take it out, it will all go to the Vermilion Bird Empire."
After saying that, Lou Xiaoxing glanced at Yin Wenzheng and said, "You don't have any objections, do you?"
Yin Wenzheng shook his head with a smile, knowing that Lou Xiaoxing had misunderstood Xiao Weiqing's meaning.
Lou Xiaoxing thought Xiao Weiqing wanted to get an extra 20%.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Weiqing had already made a deal with him. However, since Xiao Weiqing didn't make it clear, Yin Wenzheng wouldn't say it either.
"Whoever wants your Nirvana Stone, most of it will be returned to you after the ruins are excavated, at least twenty pieces."
"Twenty portions?"
Lou Xiaoxing asked in confusion, "Aren't we going to give it to the Vermilion Bird Empire? Is that really okay?"
"You don't need to worry about that."
"Alright, I'll do as you say."
Lou Xiaoxing didn't ask any more questions. Xiao Weiqing had given him four portions of first-class Nirvana Stones, and he could give all of his Nirvana Stones to Xiao Weiqing.
Back in the room, he handed a pile of Nirvana Stones to Xiao Weiqing.
As Yin Wenzheng said, there were a total of 34 copies.
An hour passed quickly.
"Be careful, I'm leaving."
After bidding farewell to the three, Xiao Weiqing stepped into the fourth door.
......
The passageway was pitch black.
The passageway was not much different from the one we had taken to get here.
Although it was pitch black, Xiao Weiqing used his mental power to probe a hundred meters ahead, and the situation was immediately clear.
What puzzled Xiao Weiqing was that both the passage he had come through and the passage through the fourth door were much shorter than the usual passages.
Xiao Weiqing could reach the top with his hand.
"Could it be that the civilization that created this place is composed of people who are not tall?"
But that doesn't make sense either, since all the Nirvana Stone warriors are incredibly tall, exceeding two meters.
Without waiting to think it over.
An unexpected event has occurred ahead.
I don't know why.
The distance that mental power can probe is getting shorter and shorter, and the further in you go, the more difficult it becomes to control mental power.
Xiao Weiqing did not insist.
Withdrawing his mental energy, he took only a few steps before disappearing into the passage as if he had never been there at all.
It was the feathers left behind by the demigod Koren that came into play.
......
Xiao Weiqing didn't know how long he had walked, or rather, he didn't know how much time had passed. It was a strange feeling, as if the deeper he went, the less time mattered.
Suddenly.
A ray of light pierced the darkness ahead.
Xiao Weiqing felt a wave of dizziness and couldn't open his eyes at all.
but.
The consciousness is clear, and the person can see the surrounding situation clearly through their spirit.
Xiao Weiqing felt as if he had entered a time tunnel, and everything around him was rushing backward.
Suddenly.
Visual restoration.
Xiao Weiqing stepped firmly and arrived at a large hall.
"This is....."
A hall spanning hundreds of thousands of square meters.
Corpses were everywhere, roughly estimated to be nearly a hundred. There were strange humanoid creatures, tall beasts, eerie mechanical life forms, and many humans who looked similar to those on Earth.
They all looked like they had been dead for many years; the oldest body was almost completely decomposed.
These corpses also shared a common characteristic: the aura emanating from their bodies was not weak. Xiao Weiqing estimated that they all possessed the strength of the eighth realm when they were alive.
The walls were covered in blood of various colors, which had long since congealed. There were traces of fighting everywhere, and several pillars in the hall were broken.
Xiao Weiqing could easily imagine how intense the battle that had once taken place here must have been.
No longer concerned about these things, Xiao Weiqing focused his attention on the other side.
At the end of the hall, there are a total of six passageways.
There were four completely dark areas; I had no idea what was inside.
There were also two other channels that emitted a faint white light, very similar to the teleportation channels that Xiao Weiqing had seen before.
Above all passageways.
They all have warning lights, very similar to those on the doors of the Nirvana Warriors.
What made Xiao Weiqing's heart sink was that the passage was completely dark, and the warning lights were all dim, as if they were broken.
The passageway was illuminated by white light, and warning lights were displayed, one red and one green.
If, like the warning lights outside the Nirvana Warriors Challenge, green means you can enter, then red means... someone is there.
"Could they be from the Ona family?"
After scanning the area, they found that there were no other exits besides the passage they had come from.
"We need to go in."
Xiao Weiqing concluded that with his current strength and the precedent of the second-generation empress of the Vermilion Bird Empire, he did not believe he would be in any danger.
It would be dangerous to just wait here until the people inside finish their assessment or seize the divine fire.
With this in mind, Xiao Weiqing no longer hesitated.
He held the myriad tribulations in his hand.
Reach out and touch the white light.
It feels very gentle to the touch, as if you're passing through a layer of smoke.
A blur flashed before my eyes.
Xiao Weiqing arrived at an empty room.
Although it was called a room, it wasn't much smaller than the hall we'd just been in. The room was completely empty, which puzzled Xiao Wei.
Several beams of light converged.
A short, luminous figure appeared, less than 1.2 meters tall, human-like, with a pair of elven ears.
Upon closer inspection, however, it turned out to be a thin, elderly man.
"Which civilization do you come from, trial participant?" the old man asked.
Xiao Weiqing replied, "Senior, I come from the Blue Star Civilization."
"Blue Star civilization?"
"I see. Seventy years ago, a woman went there and passed the trial. She was also from the Blue Star civilization."
The old man waved his hand.
Countless rays of light converged and transformed into five figures.
"Please choose your opponent."
"Senior, do you really have to take on this challenge?"
"Why did you come in if you weren't going to challenge me?" the old man frowned.
Xiao Weiqing said, "Let's seize the divine fire."
"Then accept the challenge. There are three stages in total. If you succeed, you can go and seize the divine fire."
"What I mean is, can I get through without any challenges?"
The old man was taken aback, then said with a playful tone, "Countless geniuses have come here over the years, but this is the first time I've heard of such an unreasonable request."
"It is an honor for the junior."
"I wasn't praising you," the old man said irritably.
Xiao Weiqing didn't care. If he could pass the trial without a challenge, why not? He was just asking casually anyway.
If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.