Chapter 1166: 629: Trial_2

Chapter 1166: Chapter 629: Trial_2

Li Yuanba’s figure moved slightly, and ‘Step by Step Lotus’ was performed by him. He rarely used ‘Step by Step Lotus’, but that doesn’t mean ‘Step by Step Lotus’ isn’t useful.

‘Step by Step Lotus’ consumes very little, but the distance of teleportation is somewhat short.

A white lotus appeared among a trial sword light, which was also the node of the formation composed of 1,024 trial sword lights.

When the white lotus appeared, Li Yuanba’s figure appeared simultaneously.

Since he performed ‘Step by Step Lotus’, the trial sword lights lost their target. The trial sword lights maintained their attack speed, but were now preparing for patrolling flight.

He appeared within the 1,024 trial sword lights, casually slashing to break five trial sword lights, and at the same time broke the formation set by the 1,024 trial sword lights.

When the 1,024 trial sword lights turned to attack, he again performed ‘Step by Step Lotus’, appearing in another place and once more smashed several trial sword lights.

The trial sword lights were like a big net, and Li Yuanba was like a small fish in the net, a fish smaller than the mesh.

He continuously performed ‘Step by Step Lotus’, always managing to escape before being hit by the trial sword lights.

As the number of trial flying swords gradually decreased, his internal spiritual energy consumption was also intensifying.

Having previously destroyed 512 trial sword lights, his energy consumption was tremendous. Now, constantly striking with full force, his spiritual energy within his Nascent Soul was reduced to a dangerous level.

The trial sword lights were not particularly intelligent and reacted slower than him, which allowed him to always perform ‘Step by Step Lotus’ faster than the trial sword lights, thus dodging their attacks.

Finally, he shattered all 1,024 trial sword lights, drenched in sweat, with his Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation trembling slightly in his hand.

A Sword Cultivator who can’t even hold his sword steady, one can only imagine how great his consumption was.

“2,048 trial sword lights!” When he said this, his voice was weak.

In his current state, he absolutely couldn’t pass this trial.

Suddenly, his body transformed, his skin turned golden, and his aura changed from ‘Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’ to the aura of a Golden Corpse.

He used the characteristics of the Taiji Dao Body to transform from a human state to a Corpse Refining state.

In his Golden Corpse state, Li Yuanba could utilize limited abilities.

Among his Sword Cultivator abilities, he could only use ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’. ‘Supreme Yang Sword Intent’ was incompatible with the attributes of the Corpse Refining, so it couldn’t be used.

The Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation in his hand hadn’t been withdrawn previously, and it was held in his hand in his Golden Corpse state, with ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ augmented onto it.

His ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ divine skill did not distinguish between his states, and still formed a five-meter magnetic field around his body.

In the Golden Corpse state, his strength, speed, and stamina were greatly enhanced.

The Golden Corpse’s attacks rarely utilized internal Yin Cold Energy, relying solely on the Golden Corpse’s strength to contend with cultivators of the same level.

2,048 trial sword lights appeared from the void, forming a formation shooting toward Li Yuanba.

Li Yuanba, transformed into a Golden Corpse, held the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation and counterattacked.

When colliding with the 2,048 trial sword lights, he wielded a sword intent with the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation, breaking the formation set by the 2,048 trial sword lights.

He could only unleash one sword intent before being surrounded by the trial sword lights.

Continuously rotating his body, the Fourth-Grade Sword Intent rotated around him, shattering the trial sword lights slowed by the ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ field.

After slashing over a thousand trial sword lights, the ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ was already weakened to the extreme.

Though close combat consumed very little of the ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’, the circumstance of every attack being full force led to its almost complete exhaustion after thousands of strikes.

His brain was devoid of any thought, ‘Divine Eye’ working with the Golden Corpse body, the combat becoming instinctual for this body.

When the ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ was about to deplete, under the repeated full-force slashes, he gained deeper insights into the ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’.

While once again slicing a trial sword light, the ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ completely dissipated on the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation, but as the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation slashed at a next trial sword light, a new ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ appeared on the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation.

This newly appeared ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ held more powerful force, and the slashing ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ left spatial slicing marks in the void.

Under the continuous use of ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’, Li Yuanba’s ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ elevated to another level.

Originally, his ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ would have required at least hundreds of years of accumulation to achieve the current level.

However, the trial space battles greatly shortened this process for him.

Outside, where could he find similarly leveled enemies to continuously attack with ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’? The effect of slicing trial sword lights equated to that of slashing an enemy of the same level, affecting ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ in the same way.

To achieve the current ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ level, he would need to either kill thousands of early-stage Nascent Soul Sword Cultivators or focus on ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ for hundreds of years, and perhaps reach the current ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ level with an exceptional talent.

With the elevation of ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’, within five meters around him, the spatial slicing marks left by the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation formed a protective barrier around him.

This spatial protection barrier formed by spatial slicing marks could block the trial sword lights with the spatial energy contained within the slicing marks when they hit, with both consuming their energies.

In their energy consumption, the spatial energy of the slicing marks was more formidable, requiring many trial sword lights to erode the spatial slicing marks.

But Li Yuanba did not stop the rotating attack of the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation, new spatial slicing marks appeared before the old ones vanished.

After being slowed, some of the trial sword lights were shattered by the Fourth-Grade Sword Foundation, while others hit the spatial slicing marks turning into light spots.

Though the consumption in the Golden Corpse state was much smaller, the continuous full-force battle of over two thousand full-force attacks left the Golden Corpse exhausted as well.

The newly elevated ‘Void-Breaking Sword Intent’ again reached a level where it was difficult to mobilize, but he managed to shatter all the trial sword lights of this round.

Li Yuanba stood in the air, returning to human form.

At this moment, there was not much difference between his Corpse Refining state and human state, both were in a weakened state, with less than one-tenth of his combat strength remaining.

He didn’t announce the next round of trial sword lights because he was well aware that the next round was impossible to withstand, he had already given his all.

4,096 trial sword lights appeared, and Li Yuanba felt his body stiffen. The weakness made him unable to resist the terrifying aura of more than 4,000 Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level energies merged together.

Notably, the 4,096 trial sword lights appeared in the form of a formation, absorbing the essence of 4,096 Nascent Soul Early Stage Middle Level energies as one.

Li Yuanba opened his arms, smiling as he watched the countless trial sword lights shooting toward him.

Knowing he couldn’t evade, he might as well greet them with a smile, face life and death with laughter.

As the trial sword lights hit his body, his vision blurred, and he appeared in a room.

“Congratulations trialist, you have passed the test of 2,048 trial sword lights, you have received the following trial rewards:

1. One portion of Gold-hating Spirit Crystal.

2. A pot of Sword Transformation Spirit Liquid.

3. One inheritance of ‘Sanmei Divine Wind’ Divine Skills.

A voice devoid of emotion echoed from all directions, making it impossible for Li Yuanba to determine from which direction the voice came.

But he knew this must be from the rules rewarding the trialist for his excellent performance, considering there were three types of rewards.