Chapter 1186. Reaching The Trial Location.

Yasenia looked at them and heard one of the humans speak. He was a handsome middle-aged man with long, black hair and a short beard. “Velmora, now it’s time to pay.”

Velmora laughed derisively. “Do you even have the guts to face me?” His fleshy wings extended majestically as the profound aura of a Demon Monarch swallowed everything. “If you want to kill me, you’ll have to leave your lives behind.”

The man’s face was serious. However, he didn’t show any sign of fear or being intimidated. “Even if your body is stronger than ours, we are three and you are only one.”

Velmora smiled and pointed at Yasenia. “One against three? Your eyes must be failing you. It’s clearly a three versus three.”

The human man looked at Yasenia with a light expression and asked. “Are you going to fight with this demon? Dragon, if you’ve been forced to, it is now your chance to revolt. We will protect you. Then, all of us joining together will make it rather easy to kill him.”

Yasenia blinked twice and looked at their robes. The robes were mostly white with a few green edges and beautiful golden accents. The symbol on their chest was quite familiar to our dragoness. ‘They are from the alchemy sect…’ She glanced at the three humans, and her eyes flashed with many thoughts. ‘When they saw me, they showed familiarity. These people know who I am. While I’ve been somewhat flashy, their gaze is too… calm and familiar.’

Connecting these dots in nothing but a fraction of a second, Yasenia guessed. ‘Are they Master Fu’s people? If so, everything would make sense.’

She had met with them in the past, so she remembered the faces she saw back then. While these three didn’t resemble those she saw in the past, after breaking through into the Sixth Realm, outer appearances were quite deceiving. Moreover, reaching the Sixth Realm also changed the essence of their energy to the point of being extremely hard to pinpoint someone you’ve seen just once.

Still, since she had suspicions, Yasenia chose to take a step back. “Velmora, don’t drag me into this conflict.”

Velmora’s face turned slightly disappointed for a second before recovering his usual charming and confident expression. “Whatever. I alone am enough to kill all three of you.”

He extended his hand, and a gorgeous claymore appeared in his hands proportional to his size. The giant sword gleamed with sharp lights, showing that it was far from a normal sword.

After Yasenia’s answer, the three humans glanced at Yasenia for a moment before refocusing on Velmora. Then, both sides charged at each other at ridiculous speeds and clashed.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The entire place began quaking under the terrifying strength of the Sixth Realm cultivators. Yasenia’s eyes followed their quick pace. ‘Velmora is at a disadvantage. I guess it is normal when you are outnumbered. However, Demons are usually stronger at the same level. I wonder why they are so strong that they can thoroughly suppress him.’

The attacks on both sides were comparatively simple, with no fancy skills that caught Yasenia’s attention. Most of it was pure martial arts, performed by people who could probably fracture the moon with a single punch.

‘Soluna, any idea why?’

“Yes!” Soluna commented calmly. “After reaching the Sixth Realm, the comprehension of energy makes a qualitative leap. Therefore, skills that you used during the mortal realms become basically unusable. Those skills were tailored for mortal cultivators, after all. Still, there are some that have the potential to go beyond the mortal realms. Among your skills, many of them have such potential.’

Yasenia hummed. ‘Well, I’ve seen enough. I guess I can leave.’ She turned to leave, but the second she did so, a rushing feeling of threat climbed up her spine. Reacting as quickly as she could, Yasenia summoned Draheart and swung behind her.

CLANG!

Her sword met with another sword, and the strength from each side blasted them apart for several meters. Yasenia’s face turned serious while looking at the woman she blocked. “Why are you attacking me?”

The woman faintly smiled, her beautiful face showing some traces of disgust and arrogance. “Because I wanted to. What’s wrong, mortal? Are you going to complain about what my esteemed self does?”

Yasenia snorted and spoke. “You either weren’t at the entrance of the Temple a week ago, or you are too arrogant. Soluna, deal with her. I’ll be going first.”

“Coward.”

Yasenia’s steps paused, and she turned her head to look at the brown-haired woman. “What?”

The woman laughed. “How else do you want me to describe you? You leave your spirit behind to fight me while you flee like a lizard. If that’s not the attitude of a coward, what is it? Bravery?”

Soluna muttered. “She is trying to provoke you, Yasenia. Why listen to the ramblings of a stupid person?”

Yasenia patted her head. “I know. But I want to know the reason for her obsession with me.”

Soluna chuckled. “Isn’t it obvious? She is jealous of how pretty you are~. She wished that her body or face could look even a thousandth as attractive as yours.” Soluna giggled. “Even while naked, she might fail to excite her partner. Therefore, she wants to kill you, who can make people excited with a simple glance or smile.”

The calm woman spun her sword between her fingers while looking coldly at Soluna. “If you wanted to die so much, you just needed to ask. No need to spew bullshit that’s not the truth.”

Soluna provoked further. “Oh? Am I wrong? Or do you truly think that you can even be placed on the same level as Yasenia’s beauty? Even as a perfected immortal cultivator, you still lose in attractiveness to Yasenia. Quite pathetic if you ask me.”

Yasenia tapped her chin with a curious expression. ‘Is it me, or has the number of arrogant people skyrocketed after facing Sixth Realm experts?’

She shook her head and sighed. “Well, whatever. I am going, see you in a while, Soluna.”

“Okaay~.”

Then, Yasenia turned and left. Of course, that woman wouldn’t let her go easily. She was preparing to run after her, but before she took the first step, Soluna pointed at her with a smile. “Where are you going? Let’s have the battle you wanted~.”

BOOM!

Soluna’s presence enveloped the entire space around them, as if the cosmos itself had manifested in the room. The woman's expression faltered as she saw the egregious cosmic energy blooming out of Soluna.

“Spirit. Without you, your summoner will have no chance to survive if she meets another Sixth Realm cultivator. After all, she is a mortal.” Her lips arched as she extended her hand. “How about becoming my spirit after the woman you served dies?”

Soluna laughed angrily. “If the precondition is Yasenia’s death, I might never become your spirit long after your soul has departed this world.” Her face turned cold, and flames sprouted around her like countless stars. “Enough talk, time to fight.”

Meanwhile, Yasenia continued rushing through the tunnels, and soon, she made it to the six-clawed area. However, instead of stopping here, she continued forward and skipped it. Soon after, she finally reached the place where the Long family dragons told her to.

Yet, as she was entering the room, Yasenia felt as if her body had gone through a strange film. ‘Hm? What was that?’

Observing her surroundings made Yasenia realize that she was in a rather large and circular empty room. The only decoration that you could see in the stone room was around the giant door in front of her. The door in front of her had a seven-clawed dragon hand on top of it. The color was a mix of jade green and silver, looking elegant and finely crafted.

The words on the door were written in the standard language used for cultivation techniques. “Prove that you are worthy of entering. Show me your might.”

Yasenia looked around the room and stopped in front of the door. “Hm… Show you my might? Should I release my dragon aura?”

Closing her eyes, Yasenia quickly extended her hand and pushed against the door. Then, as she opened her eyes, Yasenia’s presence burst forward with trampling might. “Open.”

The low and commanding tone carried Yasenia’s tyrannical and royal presence, slamming against the door with terrifying strength. However, Yasenia noticed that the door didn’t budge. Instead, some lines around it started glowing. “Hm… What now?”

The room was ruffled with energy, and the space was altered momentarily. Yasenia’s eyesight blurred momentarily, and when she recovered, she appeared in another place. It was a large, empty place with blue skies and green grass.

However, before she took that step, a man’s voice reached her.

“Finally. I was getting bored waiting here.”

Yasenia looked back and saw a familiar face. ‘Hm? Isn’t this the Black Claw Dragon that picked a fight with us?’

The dragon naturally noticed Yasenia too, and his face changed from a smiling one to a glaring expression. “It’s you! How did you pass the trial to enter this location?”

‘Hm… I really don’t want to deal with this person.’ Yasenia blinked twice and then tilted her head. “Who are you?”

The Black Claw Dragon was stupefied. “Huh? Why are you acting stupid? Do I look like someone who would fall for that!? You won’t deceive me with such tricks! I know you know who I am!”

Yasenia sighed. “Okay, okay. I was trying to give both of us a way out. After all, I didn’t want to fight you.”

His face quickly turned red with anger. “Are you mocking me!?”

Yasenia chuckled. “For you to need to ask that, it seems that I was too generous to give you the benefit of the doubt and reveal my ploy. Did Soluna fry your brains, too?”

His face suddenly changed from angry to terrifyingly cold. “Are you stalling for time? Since you are alone here with a Sixth Realm Dragon, you probably fear I will attack, right?” He suddenly smiled chillingly. “Sadly, no one will come here to your aid. We need to fight until one of us is victorious.” He laughed coldly. “If I cripple you, I wonder how your spirit will react.”

“So we need to fight.” Yasenia’s seductive lips arched. “Sure. Let’s fight then.”

Yasenia summoned Draheart and transformed it into a gorgeous longsword. Then, her dress also changed and covered her entire body, becoming thicker and metallic. After transforming, she was covered from the tip of her toes to the top of her head with an elegant, thick, blue and gold armor.

Once covered, two golden dragon horns sprouted from her head outside of the helmet, and her massive wings burst outward. Her tail swung elegantly behind her while her armored hands held Draheart tightly. From the small lines on her helmet, Yasenia’s golden eyes shone menacingly.

The Black Claw Dragon snorted. “A little armor can’t keep me from hurting you. Even if your equipment is top-notch, your mortal body won’t be able to bear the aftershock.”

Yasenia smiled under her helmet. “We’ll see about that.”