by Feng Yise
When Ye Yuan's Flame Movement Carnage was executed, the mysterious person almost jumped up.
Ye Yuan really did it!
He completely comprehended the Scorching True Intent!
Within 45 days, from being instantly killed to fully comprehending the Scorching True Intent; just how heaven-defying a talent did this require?!
How could there be such a freak in this world?
"Heh, this brat is really interesting! I increased a bit of difficulty for him previously in the third level. To think that he still finished perfectly. Now, he even fully comprehended the Scorching True Intent during the first reward. Truly remarkable! Looks like he really cares not for cultivation methods and medicinal pills. This brat's soul force isn't weak. Could he be an alchemist still? If that's true, then this boy will really be heaven-defying! This venerable has guarded here for countless years. Finally, I encountered an interesting youth! In these countless years, this is still the first time that I'm so looking forward to a youth!" said the mysterious person to himself.
. . . . . .
"Ouch!"
Ye Yuan gave a miserable cry, landing heavily onto the ground.
"This fellow is actually so petty! I merely just didn't want his cultivation methods and medicinal pills, and he actually restrained my essence energy, directly throwing me into the fourth level!" Ye Yuan rubbed his b.u.t.t.o.c.k.s and stood up.
Right away, Ye Yuan guessed that it was the mysterious person playing tricks.
But this fall was really heavy. Even with Ye Yuan's physique, he cried out in pain too.
However, after entering the fourth level, Ye Yuan's essence energy was already recovered. Slightly circulating essence energy a bit, the pain instantly disappeared.
"En? The fifth level's entrance is actually right there? What the hell is with this fourth level? Why isn't there anything at all? Could it be that that mysterious person saw that this Young Master is incomparably talented and that the fourth level couldn't stump me, so he directly guaranteed me to enter the fifth level?" Ye Yuan guessed very c.o.c.kily.
This fourth level was greatly different from the first three levels. It could be seen through at a glance. The fifth level's entrance was not far ahead. Ye Yuan could go over with a few leaps.
Furthermore, this fourth level's layout was different from before. It seemed to be an illusionary space. The surrounding was void of anything.
"Who cares. Head over first before talking!"
As he said, Ye Yuan opened up his footsteps and directly walked over towards the fifth level's entrance.
Yet, he had just walked for not very far when all of a sudden, several dozen phantoms descended from the sky, encircling Ye Yuan in the center.
"Illusionary Spirits Killing Array, activate now!" said one of the phantoms faintly.
Chapter 565 - Cracking the Formation with Might
Seeing those phantoms, Ye Yuan could not help turning solemn.
"Illusionary spirit bodies!"
That middle-aged man at the helm was stunned hearing that as well and said rather surprisedly, "Young man, you actually know about the illusionary spirit body. Indeed, you have some knowledge and experience. No wonder you could perfectly clear the first three level."
The so-called illusionary spirit body was created by refining the divine soul spiritual body with an extremely special method into a virtually undying, imperishable state.
This sort of illusionary spirit body was exceedingly hard to tangle with. Because they were very difficult to kill.
Even when blasting them into dregs, they could still restore their original appearance very quickly.
Unless the martial artist's realm was much higher than the illusionary spirit body's and used a mighty arcane ability to utterly annihilate them, that was how one could kill them.
Ye Yuan had very in-depth research into the divine soul before and saw through at one glance that these people were illusionary spirit bodies.
"Uh . . . Senior, you actually have your own consciousness!"
Hearing this middle-aged man actually speak to him, Ye Yuan was stunned as well.
As far as he knew, illusionary spirit bodies generally had their consciousness wiped by others, becoming an unfeeling killing machine.
Yet, these people in front of him had intelligent eyes. Clearly, they had their own consciousness. This unwittingly made Ye Yuan greatly surprised.
"Looks like you know quite a bit! Relax, we were refined to become illusionary spirit bodies out of our own accords and at the same time preserving our own consciousness," said the middle-aged man.
"Willingly?" Ye Yuan could not help being amazed.
The process of refining an illusionary spirit body was exceedingly tortuous. Even for the divine soul spirit body, that anguish could also overwhelm people until they wished for death.
Moreover, to refine an illusionary spirit body, one must kill the other party in front of them, and extract the soul to undergo refinement. The method was exceptionally cruel.
It was precisely because of so that this sort of method was classified as a forbidden art in the Divine Realm. Once it was discovered that somebody refined an illusionary spirit body, they would be rallied upon and attacked together.
These illusionary spirit bodies before his eyes were all actually refined out of their own free will. This truly gave Ye Yuan a surprise.
"That's right! We received the Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner's great grace while we were still living. But because of an accident, all of us fell. The Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner made it at the last moment and killed the adversary. That's how we were spared from the outcome of our souls dissipating." The middle-aged man seemed to be very spirited and actually chatted with Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan only came to a realization after hearing it. But he said doubtfully again, "With the Vast Heaven Pagoda owner's means, even if he couldn't revive you guys, finding a couple of bodies to let you all take possession to revive should still be achievable, right?"
The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Certainly! It's just that we weren't willing, that's all. Back then, the Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner gave us two options. One was to let us take possession and revive. The other was to become this Vast Heaven Pagoda's guardian spirits. The few of us discussed it and finally still decided to become the guardian spirits!"
Ye Yuan nodded slightly. Since these people were willing, then he was naturally disinclined to poke a finger into other people's affairs as well.
"Senior, just what kind of person is this Vast Heaven Pagoda's owner?" Ye Yuan could not hold back the puzzlement in his heart, and he inquired.
"I can't talk about this. If you have an affinity with this Vast Heaven Pagoda, you'll naturally know in the future," said the middle-aged man.
Looking at the middle-aged man's appearance, Ye Yuan knew that he could not inquire anything either. He clasped his hands and said, "Make a move then, Senior."
The middle-aged man looked at Ye Yuan and said smilingly, "Even though I find you, this brat, rather pleasing to the eye, we won't pull our punches!"
"Senior just feel free to take action will do!" Ye Yuan did not care a whit.
These illusionary spirit bodies before his eyes were clearly not just Sea Transformation Realm strength. But they suppressed their realms at the middle-stage Sea Transformation without exception, matching theirs with Ye Yuan's realm.
The power of the array was released, and Ye Yuan sensed a pressure blotting out the heaven and earth approaching.
With Ye Yuan's knowledge and experience, he could naturally discern that these illusionary spirit bodies formed a set of array formation!
Furthermore, this set of array formation, Ye Yuan actually had not seen before!
But using his b.u.t.t to think, even he could also figure out that the power of this array formation was bound to be extraordinary.
"Young man, take this!"
A cold light flashed. Countless streaks of sword light assailed towards Ye Yuan.
With this attack, Ye Yuan knew that the difficulty of this round rose more than just a tiny bit compared to the first three levels.
Even though it was much lesser in numbers, in terms of quality, it was more than a level stronger.
Although the first three levels were challenging, that was only in terms of demonic beasts numbers. On a small-scale, it simply had no way of stopping Liu Hong and Qin Yan these people.
But wanting to charge out of the formation in this fourth round, without some capabilities, one probably could not pass it.
However, Ye Yuan's current goal was not just to make it through, but it was to thoroughly crack the array formation, even going as far as to kill all of these illusionary spirit bodies!
Having tasted the benefits of Perfect Clear, Ye Yuan was naturally unresigned to just simply succeed in clearing the round.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth level, these three levels, he wanted to perfectly clear them too!
The allure of the Vast Heaven Stele was seriously too great!
"Heh heh, just comprehended the Flame Movement Carnage. Perfect for trying it this time!" Ye Yuan chuckled lightly, his figure instantly becoming strange.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ye Yuan unleashed three punches in succession, directly scattering aside all of the sword shadows!
"Scorching True Intent! Fine lad!" The middle-aged man's shock was by no means small.
This array formation of theirs killing middle-stage Sea Transformations was no different from pinching an ant to death. But now, it actually could not form an effective attack in front of Ye Yuan!
Ye Yuan just relied on the Flame Movement Carnage and actually utterly suppressed all of them!
This involuntarily made the middle-aged man feel very aggrieved. This fourth level's mission was to make them suppress their boundaries to the same level as the challenger. They were simply unable to unleash the strength that they should have.
Initially, with their Martial Path cultivation and coupled with this set of array formation, suppressing opponents at the same realm was simply like playing around.
But he never could have expected that Ye Yuan's true combat strength far surpassed his own realm. Moreover, Flame Movement Carnage this move was extremely powerful. It was simply unrivaled in front of those at the same realm!
If not for their Martial Path experience being very abundant, that strike just now would already have let Ye Yuan directly crack the array formation.
With the middle-aged man's visual prowess, he could obviously tell that with their present strength, they were simply incapable of stopping Ye Yuan from entering the next level.
Right at this time, a voice sounded by the middle-aged man's ear, "Kuai Liang, raise the threshold to the late-stage Sea Transformation!"
Kuai Liang's eyes lit up, and his face could not help showing an amused look.
This voice came from none other than precisely that mysterious person.
"Okay!"
Very clearly, the others received the same order too.
In an instant, these people's auras skyrocketed, instantly breaking through the middle-stage Sea Transformation, and rising to the late-stage Sea Transformation!
When Ye Yuan saw this scene, he could not refrain from saying disdainfully, "Senior, can you all still be like this when guarding the pass? Isn't it too shameless?"
Kuai Liang chortled with laughter and said, "Young man, we can't be blamed for this. Want to blame, blame for yourself for being too monstrous! Come on!"
Ye Yuan grinned and said with a laugh, "Senior is thinking too much. Do you think that by advancing to late-stage Sea Transformation, you can stop me from cracking the formation? Are you ready? I'm coming!"
Kuai Liang's smile froze abruptly on his face.
"Quick! Combine attacks and kill this boy!"
This blow of Ye Yuan's carried tremendous power. The might of one punch actually made even him feel somewhat of a shudder!
Bang!
Just one punch shattered the grand array which Kuai Liang presided over into smithereens!
Chapter 566 - Fifth Level
The might of that fist was dreadfully powerful!
In the past, when Ye Yuan encountered array formations, he would think of cracking them first.
But this time, he did not!
In order to test out the power of the Flame Movement Carnage, he threw a punch over crudely just like this!
This punch collided head-on with Kuai Liang without the slightest bit of gaudiness.
The result was Ye Yuan's complete victory!
One had to know that behind Kuai Liang there was the support of an array formation. What Ye Yuan faced was not him alone, but it was the entire array formation.
Yet, this punch directly blasted everyone flying!
"Apologies for offending, Senior. This Ye wants to clear the round perfectly and have no choice but to kill you all!"
As he said, Ye Yuan's figure moved, and a punch rumbled towards Kuai Liang once more.
"Fine lad! I'll wait for you at the next level!"
At this time, the grand array was simply unable to finish forming. The late-stage Sea Transformation Kuai Liang when facing Ye Yuan only had the chance to close his eyes and await death.
"Okay. Let's meet at the fifth level!"
Ye Yuan said verbally, but his attack was not careless at all, directly blasting Kuai Liang into residue with a punch.
Regarding the other people, Ye Yuan followed suit as well, disposing them one by one.
Without the combined power of the array formation, these late-stage Sea Transformation illusionary spirits simply could not cause any threat to Ye Yuan.
After these illusionary spirits were killed by Ye Yuan, they did not appear again. They vanished.
Since Kuai Liang said to meet again in the next level, it naturally showed that the next level was even harder and that he would not appear again.
Ye Yuan did not hesitate either and directly entered the fifth level from the passageway.
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"Quickly look! Ye Yuan entered the fifth level! Why is it so quick?"
"Hiss . . . He spent three days in all the first three levels before making it through. But in this fourth level, he actually didn't even use 15 minutes? Isn't this too exaggerated?"
"Right now in the fifth level, there's only Liu Hong the four of them. They stayed in the fourth level for quite a few days. Ye Yuan he . . . actually passed through instantly!"
Ye Yuan's name only stopped in the fourth level for a very short time before directly showing up in the fifth level. This gave everyone a huge shock.
About Ye Yuan being able to clear the fourth level, these people already did not have objections long ago. But nobody could have expected that Ye Yuan's clearing speed would actually be so swift.
"What's this boy . . . playing at again?" Ren Xingchun said somewhat perplexedly.
"Huhu, if my conjectures are right, Ye Yuan might have reaped considerable gains in the inheritance space, and his strength had a very great improvement. Hence, his clearing speed is this quick," Qi Hai said.
"I think so too. But doesn't this boy want to clear the round perfectly anymore?" Ren Xingchun said.
"How can Perfect Completion be that easy? After the fourth level, the difficulty will get increasingly greater. Wanting to clear the round perfectly is practically impossible. Looking from Ye Yuan's performance previously, him clearing perfectly in the first three levels was probably very strenuous as well. Or else, he would not have passed through right on the time limit each time either. Now, he definitely knows that he's incapable of clearing perfectly. Hence, that's why he would choose to charge through directly," Qi Hai said.
Ren Xingchun nodded his head and rather approved of this notion as well.
It was true that Ye Yuan was impressive. But to let him perfectly cleared another three rounds again, that was virtually something impossible.
This fourth round already had close to a hu
ndred years since someone passed it. The level of difficulty could be imagined.
Even if Ye Yuan's strength stood head and shoulders above others, if he wanted to clear the rounds perfectly again like before, the likelihood was not big.
And truthfully, wanting to clear Kuai Liang this round was not something that easy.
If Ye Yuan did not glean tremendous harvests in the first three levels and in the inheritance space, it was also impossible for him to want to pass through this round so effortlessly.
Perhaps, he would have to employ the Myriad Rain Sword Blades.
But with Ye Yuan's present control over the Myriad Rain Sword Blades, unless he made use of the nameless essence energy, otherwise, Kuai Liang would not give him the time to execute the skill.
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In the fifth level, light flashed at the entrance area. Ye Yuan's silhouette appeared.
Not far away, three people were currently looking at the Liu Hong within the array formation with ghostly pale expressions.
Within the array formation, Liu Hong was teetering on his feet. How was there still any hint of the demeanor of an expert?
"He's about to die," Ye Yuan judged the outcome indifferently.
Qin Yan trio watched too nervously, so they did not notice Ye Yuan's appearance at all.
With Ye Yuan talking, the three of them were startled awake abruptly.
Turning around to look, Guo Taoqun said in astonishment, "Ye Yuan! You actually really made it here!"
The three of them were still unaware of the matter of Ye Yuan clearing the rounds perfectly. Although they heard the mysterious person said that Ye Yuan was different from them, but specifically in what way, they did not know.
Seeing Ye Yuan at this time, Guo Taoqun blurted it out right away.
Ye Yuan laughed in spite of himself and said, "You guys all made it over. Can't I make it through?"
Guo Taoqun was stunned, then he said with a forced smile, "Makes sense. It's just, why were you so slow? With your strength, you should have entered even earlier than us!"
Ye Yuan just smiled and did not answer, but looked at Liu Hong and said rather surprisedly, "Who is this person? To actually be able to make it here with you all?"