Chapter 83 (1/2)

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Chapter 83

Clever Manipulation

Li Chengfeng's face changed immediately. He kicked the ground under his feet, backing up as far as he could. This magical beast, Grim Stork, chased Li Chengfeng as it tried to tear and bite him to pieces.  Li Chengfeng ran for his life, swearing in his mind, 'Is this an illusion? But this illusion doesn't make sense! How can such a beautiful woman just turn into a Grim Stork in an instance?! How will I view beautiful women from now on? Also, why didn't they give me a weapon? How could they possibly ask me to fight with this beast with just my fists?'

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt something in his hands. As he looked down, he realised he was unknowingly holding the sharp bone spear he had previously gotten from the Grim Stork.

Li Chengfeng was elated! 'With a celestial weapon that slices through metal like b.u.t.ter, you think I'd still be afraid of a magical beast?' he thought to himself.

Li Chengfeng felt a gush of wind behind him. As if he had eyes on the back of his head, his feet immediately jumped off from the ground. His body propelled up to the sky like a human cannonball. He somersaulted in the middle of the air and dodged the Grim Stork's claws just by a hair's breadth.  While he somersaulted, both of his legs perfectly landed on the firm and thick forelimbs of the Grim Stork. Using his martial arts skills that he had been practising since childhood, Chengfeng twisted his body and jumped on top of the beast's forelimbs with his legs. Utilising the momentum to climb up the body of the creature.

With little effort, Li Chengfeng successfully climbed onto the Grim Stork's back. He held up his sharp bone spear and slammed it down into its spinal cord. The Grim Stork let out a painful shriek as its spine started gus.h.i.+ng out with blood. Li Chengfeng continuously stabbed the Grim Stork non-stop as he screamed, “How dare you hit my father! How dare you kill people from my family! I let you get away last time, but this time, I'll make sure I take your last breath!”

Li Chengfeng stabbed it three times more, and the Grim Stork fell onto the ground, its body trembling all over. Just as Li Chengfeng was about to deliver his final blow, the gigantic Grim Stork suddenly shrunk smaller and smaller. It morphed into Li Chengfeng's own mother – Madam Xie!

“My dear son, please, don't kill me!” Madam Xie begged as she was covered in blood.

Li Chengfeng had not expected this. He was so shocked that all he could do was stand and stare.  He knew that this was fake, but she looked just like his dear mother. How could he possibly kill this creature that looked like an exact replica of his mother?!

Using Li Chengfeng's distraction to its advantage, the morphed Madam Xie's face suddenly turned menacing. Her fingers twisted into long sharp claws and her arms grew tremendously larger. In a split second, she managed to pierce through Li Chengfeng's heart. Blood immediately came spewing out of Li Chengfeng's mouth, splattering across Madam Xie's face, a horrifying sight to behold.

Li Chengfeng let out a scream in agony. He grabbed Madam Xie's arm, and frantically tried to pull out her claws as hard as he could. But at this moment, Li Chengfeng had already let his guard down. In front of his eyes, Madam Xie's form started to morph rapidly, turning more ma.s.sive and enormous, until it morphed into the Grim Stork once more. It opened its mouth wide and devoured Li Chengfeng in one gulp.

Li Chengfeng's body had disappeared into the mouth of the Grim Stork. This enormous magical beast held its head up and grunted as its throat swallowed him whole. After it was sure that Li Chengfeng had been consumed in its stomach, it glanced up and made a deafening roar.

The roar was so loud that even the earth shook!

Su Yuehan, who was just outside the third test, was resting in the s.p.a.cious court with the crowd when she suddenly felt her body tremble.  A glimmer of shock flashed by her eyes. She cautiously looked left and right and quietly changed the location she was resting at, carefully merging herself into the crowd to hide. Then, she laid by the stone column in the Court and closed her eyes, as if she had drifted to sleep.

Meanwhile at the top of Ling Bridge, increasing cries of agony resonated through the skies as more people fell from the clouds. The clouds were so thick they blurred any sight after only ten meters. It wouldn't matter where one was in the crowd when they heard those screams of pain, it would no doubt freeze them to their cores. But the more they feared, the weaker and unsteady their hearts became, hence many had fallen from the clouds.

Those who had fallen from the clouds were caught one by one by flying cultivators mid-air and brought safely back to land. Most of them were bawling their eyes out, while some of them were scared sh*tless and some were just glad they were still alive.

This test may look straightforward and dull, but in all honesty,  it was dangerous and terrifying. Once your heart's defences had been destroyed by the illusions— the best-case scenario would be to fall from the clouds, the worst-case scenario would have your heart's defences forever broken, to be left with an everlasting trauma forever. And in turn, it becomes a weakness. In the future, if this weakness had been found out during combat, the enemy could exploit and violently attack it! Then the consequences would be unimaginable!