Chapter 724 (1/2)

Chapter 724: 724

The mountain valley appeared both real and illusory at the same time . It seemed like a painting that was constantly fluctuating . It was clearly there, yet it somehow felt unreal .

Mist filled the valley, making it impossible to see what was inside . But it somehow felt like endless mysteries were waiting to be explored inside .

“This is the Nine Netherworld Path . It is different from the first trial . This trial is focused on a person’s soul and will . Furthermore, there is great danger inside, and there is the possibility of dying at any time . So I would advise people with weak Spiritual Strength to not partic.i.p.ate . ”

Hearing the vice sect master’s words, the Dragonblood warriors all looked at Gu Yang . Gu Yang sighed . It seemed this trial had no affinity with him .

His Spiritual Strength was too lacking . To avoid him being instantly killed by even an ordinary soul cultivator, Guo Ran had made him a protective soul item, and Meng Qi had personally poured her soul energy into it .

The vice sect master continued, “The Nine Netherworld Path is filled with countless dangers . Illusions appear at every corner . If you can’t distinguish between what is real and what is an illusion, you will lose your life . Don’t think that this trial is the same as the Xuantian Sea . This trial is created from Spiritual Strength . I’m sure you can imagine just how many souls are required to activate such a huge trial!”

Even Long Chen’s heart shook . This trial required souls to activate? Could it be that they had gathered the Spiritual Strength left by dying experts?

“I’m sure you all remember that the final trial to enter your monasteries was battling those Corrupt corpses . Those corpses are gathered from the battlefields of the Righteous and Corrupt paths . The souls that are comparatively complete are sealed in the corpses and used as a trial .

“But on the battlefields of the true experts, the majority of the experts have their souls extinguished in the battle . Their leftover Spiritual Strength is then gathered to activate the Nine Netherworld Path .

“So the Nine Netherworld Path contains endless grievance and resentment in it . You’ll run into all kinds of dangers . If you sense a danger to your life, you can crush the jade plates that were distributed to you previously . Then you’ll be automatically transported out .

“However, you absolutely cannot a.s.sume that this jade plate will save your life . The majority of the dangers inside are targeted toward the soul . It’s very likely that you won’t even have a chance to crush the jade before dying!” warned the vice sect master .

Everyone’s hearts felt heavy, especially those people without powerful Spiritual Strength .

But the Nine Netherworld Path was one of the Xuantian Dao Sect’s trials . The benefits inside had to be immense . Although the vice sect master had only mentioned the dangers, opportunity and risk existed together . This was definitely an opportunity that couldn’t be missed .

“Finally, let me warn you about one last thing . You absolutely, absolutely cannot try to see your future in the trial . ” The vice sect master’s gaze roved across Long Chen and the Four Heavenly Geniuses .

Zhong Wuyan and the others’ hearts trembled . To make the vice sect master warn them so solemnly, this matter had to be incredibly important . They firmly remembered his warning .

After a couple of hours, the mountain valley in front of them stopped fluctuating . The vice sect master waved his hand . “The trial of the Nine Netherworld Path begins now!”

But this time, people were clearly much more cautious . There weren’t any fools who charged in . The Xuantian Dao Sect’s trials were kept as a secret from the disciples, and none of them wanted to be the tester for others .

“Long Chen, let’s go . I can sense there’s something I want inside . ” Meng Qi pulled Long Chen and Tang Wan-er toward the valley .

Long Chen gave the others a warning before the three of them entered . The valley entrance wasn’t huge, being only a hundred meters wide . The heavy mist inside possessed powerful spiritual fluctuations .

Meng Qi, Tang Wan-er, and Long Chen entered the mist together . The other disciples were constantly paying close attention to them, so they were all shocked once they entered . At that moment, their three spiritual fluctuations completely disappeared, almost as if a monster had swallowed them . They felt a chill as this was too strange . But seeing the vice sect master’s expressionless face, they could only summon their courage and walk in as well .

Long Chen had been holding their hands the whole time, but when he entered the mist, he suddenly felt his hands become empty . At the same time, the mist faded to reveal a mountain path .

The mist was still extremely heavy, and he could only see a few meters in front of himself . This mist was extremely strange . His Spiritual Strength was unable to go through it . There was no way for him to activate his divine sense .

Suddenly, a roar came from behind him . Long Chen hastily turned back to see a thirty-meter flame leopard attack him .

Long Chen was startled . How was it that he hadn’t sensed this leopard approaching him? He hastily punched out .

But his fist went straight through the leopard’s body .

“It’s a spiritual attack!” As expected, this leopard was nothing more than soul energy, and it directly attacked his soul . Long Chen snorted . Forming a hand seal, a spiritual arrow shot out of his forehead and struck the leopard .

The leopard immediately transformed into incredibly pure Spiritual Strength and surged toward Long Chen . He was somewhat startled, and he cautiously absorbed a strand of that Spiritual Strength .

“How pure!” Long Chen was shocked . The leopard had actually transformed into pure Spiritual Strength when it was killed, and it was the kind of Spiritual Strength that could be absorbed to strengthen a person’s soul .

“Unfortunately, this thing is useless to me,” he sighed .