Free Web NovelChapter 771: Chapter 323: Nine-Headed Bird! (Part 2)
"Maybe, after he passes the trial, you’ll become the fourth junior sister!"
"Hahaha!"
The robust male voice resounded in the dueling arena, making the soul bodies shiver all over.
The soul body referred to as the fourth junior sister wanted to continue retorting when the soul body in the middle finally spoke.
"Alright, the trial has begun, keep it quiet!"
This voice, extremely cold, as if it came from an extremely cold ice cave, seemed very calm, yet could make one feel a deep chill.
With the appearance of this voice, the time in the entire dueling arena seemed to freeze, without any movement. All the soul bodies looked at the mirror.
Compared to the beginning, the scene in the mirror had already undergone a tremendous change.
...
At this moment.
Xu Ran stood in the lush green valley, fully focused, his eyes fixed on the giant tree forest ahead, from which some birdsongs occasionally emerged.
"The innate Qi cannot be mobilized!"
Xu Ran murmured.
He found that ever since he entered the valley, he couldn’t feel the innate Qi inside him at all, only the spiritual Qi existed. What was more disconcerting was that in this valley, there was no spiritual Qi, meaning that once the spiritual Qi within him was exhausted, Xu Ran would become a normal person who can only rely on physical strength.
For a cultivator, this is an absolute disaster.
After all, any divine techniques, means, or cultivation techniques all require spiritual Qi to activate.
Moreover, the trial of this Nine-Layered Giant Tower is certainly not ordinarily difficult, and in such a situation, without any replenishment of spiritual Qi and unable to mobilize the inherent Qi as a trump card, it is a huge weakening for Xu Ran.
"Heh!" Faced with such a situation, Xu Ran grinned, not affected at all, instead, feeling somewhat excited.
"This is more challenging!"
Ever since Xu Ran achieved Great Success with the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body, he hadn’t had any opportunity to showcase all of his strength. Now, this time, is his chance to show his full strength, to find out to what extent he can reach.
The soul bodies in the dueling arena, upon seeing Xu Ran’s smiling mouth, instantly exploded with chatter.
"This newcomer laughed, how can he laugh?!"
"Now he should have already felt that spiritual Qi cannot be replenished, how can he still smile?"
"Once the trial begins, there is no way to replenish spiritual Qi, why is he still so confident?!"
...
The soul bodies in the arena are puzzled by Xu Ran’s smile. Facing a situation where spiritual Qi cannot be replenished, for any cultivator, it’s an extremely dangerous situation.
Unless, you are a cultivator who specializes in body refining, but even so, there will be moments of exhaustion.
Anyway, the trial of the Nine-Layered Giant Tower is absolutely difficult, and for any normal person, there should be no smile.
Except for those at the very front three people.
"Brother, this newcomer can still smile? Has he been scared silly?" The shy female voice rang again, subconsciously moving closer to the middle soul body.
"Someone confident enough in their abilities can naturally smile, you wouldn’t understand that feeling!" the robust voice retorted with the female voice once more.
"He’s just been scared silly!" Then looked towards the middle soul body, "Brother, you’re right, aren’t you?"
The soul body in the middle said nothing, its illusory face quietly staring at the mirror in the middle of the dueling arena.
On a face unseen by anyone, slight ripples appeared, with icy words only audible to itself.
"Innate Saint’s Sacred Body!"
...
The sight returned to the valley.
"Cuckoo!"
"Cuckoo!"
"Cuckoo!"
"Cuckoo!"
...
After Xu Ran felt that the spiritual Qi could not be replenished, a series of clear cuckoo bird calls suddenly resounded in the silent giant tree forest ahead. The sound, carried by the wind, echoed between the cliffs of the valley, crisp yet ethereal.
Soon after, the cuckoo calls in the giant tree forest played in succession, the pitch rising and falling, as if conducting a strange chorus.
These eerie cuckoo calls, in Xu Ran’s ears, seemed like whispers from hell, sending chills down one’s spine.
Upon hearing these cuckoo bird sounds, Xu Ran’s hair stood on end, focusing entirely on the giant tree forest ahead.
In this so-called trial, it was the first time encountering such a situation, even though he had high confidence in himself, caution was still necessary.
"Hm?" As the cuckoo sounds grew louder, the bizarre feeling in his heart intensified.
The next moment.
Before Xu Ran’s eyes, without warning, the surrounding light was swiftly swallowed by darkness, the entire world plunged into a deathly silent pitch-black. The heavy darkness, like a thick blanket, enveloped everything, making it hard to breathe.
At this moment, in the darkness, pairs of cuckoo bird eyes glowing with a ghostly green light slowly emerged. The light, as deep as an ancient pool, carried a chilling aura.
Each pair of eyes appearing in the darkness seemed to possess independent consciousness, neatly lined up, their gaze fixed ahead as if guarding a hidden secret, or waiting for a specific moment to arrive.
These pairs of eyes made the already sinister darkness even more oppressive, each gaze like a sharp blade, cutting at the heart, freezing the spine, daring not to act rashly.
As these eyes appeared in the darkness, Xu Ran’s own eyes emitted a dazzling purple light, akin to the eastern glow at dawn, dispelling all darkness before him.
In Xu Ran’s eyes, what was once a scene of darkness, was now a realm of light.
He saw, in his eyes, small cuckoo birds, shrouded in black mist, with wings covered in strange patterns resembling a kaleidoscope, seeming to draw one into an illusion with a single glance.
The black mist emanating from the cuckoo birds slowly drifted around Xu Ran’s body, tightly encircling him.
Apart from his body, the rest of the valley remained lush and green.
"Interesting, able to cover my vision alone, what era do these cuckoo birds belong to, with such eerie methods?" Xu Ran murmured.
In an unintentional finding by Elder Qi of the Body Refining Manual, he documented most types of demon beasts, including various strange ones.
However, among tens of thousands of demon beasts, there were none as bizarre as these cuckoo birds.
After a moment of thought, in Xu Ran’s eyes, those hundreds of cuckoo birds began to flit their wings, the patterns on them ricocheting and combining together to form ripples in the air.
These ripples, though soundless, sliced the leaves in their path cleanly.
These silent ripples came directly in front of Xu Ran.
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
"Buzz!"
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The ripples struck Xu Ran’s body, immediately tearing his clothes into pieces, leaving dozens of cracks.
However, when the ripples hit his body, they dissipated into nothingness.
Moreover, at this moment, a faint purple mist appeared on the surface of Xu Ran’s body, directly blocking the invisible ripples floating over.
It did not cause any damage to Xu Ran’s body.
The soul bodies in the dueling arena, seeing the ripples strike Xu Ran’s body in the mirror, yet leaving no scars, widened their eyes in disbelief, starting to discuss fervently.
"He can actually use his body to withstand attacks!!"
"Since when did the trial’s attack methods become so weak?"
"Could it be that it’s been so long since a newcomer came, they’ve reduced the difficulty?"
