180 Thousand Illusion Formation (2/2)
Xue Wei's eyes widened until they could go no further. His head started throbbing, and he could not understand what was going on.
His father's face was frozen in a rictus of surprise and agony. At that exact moment, the young Xue Wei had walked out of his room and appeared in the shop, before witnessing the scene of his father being killed right in front of him.
The world turned blurry, and Xue Wei opened his eyes to the sight of the stone room. He was shaken to the core. His heart beat rapidly, and he felt like screaming out loud.
Why would Xiao Lei kill his father? He did not doubt that Xiao Lei doted on him the most and cared for him more than he did himself, but he had killed his father!
Xue Wei could feel nothing but coldness wash over him. His father had been killed by the person he trusted the most, and this person whom he trusted the most seemed to be an acquaintance of Chu Huiyin, the one who had played him like a fool back in the Heping Kingdom.
How much of it had been Xiao Lei's plan? What was Xiao Lei's plan? Xue Wei was unsure and felt more terrified the more he thought about it. His heart started to throb wildly, and he felt as if he had lost something valuable. Yet the world seemed clearer than before.
Many things suddenly made sense, for one why Primordial Beasts had destroyed his hometown.
Xue Wei could not make heads or tails of his feelings. He did not exactly hate Xiao Lei, but he no longer trusted him either. Why would a notorious Primordial Beast Hunter travel together with a specimen of the very creatures he hunts? Furthermore, it seemed as though he was much stronger than Chu Huiyin considering the manner in which he slapped her earlier
If he were a true Primordial Beast hunter, then she should have been kill on sight for him, but that was not the case. Rather, it almost looked like a subordinate-superior relationship.
”I will get an answer when I speak with him face to face,” Xue Wei muttered to calm himself down. His unsettled heart slowly relaxed.
Had this been before his core had hatched, Xue Wei was certain that he would have most likely gone insane from losing himself in his emotions due to his odd proclivity for violence.
But his temperament had changed and gone through a thorough metamorphosis because of the hatching of the infant Azure Dragon inside him. Now he could stay calm no matter what he faced. Even this kind of typically soul-rattling news at most made him feel uneasy, but it did not take long at all for him to calm down.
”I've changed quite a lot...” Xue Wei muttered to himself, but he was grateful for this. As he calmed down and felt that his rigid body finally relaxed, the formation that was locking him in place also deactivated.
”Congratulations,” the voice of the Moon Prince reemerged in the room, with the oscillation of Qi in the same spot. ”This test of the heart was to make you relive the most impactful memory of your life. If you could calm yourself and take control of your 'heart' within the time it takes an incense stick to burn, then you would be considered passed. You passed and can now claim the reward. It is in the room of the second trial.”
Xue Wei was excited and hurried towards the door that led to the next trial. This kind of challenge was harder for him because of the tragedy he had experienced in the past, but the thought of this made him recall Wang Xiaoyun and her family's downfall. What she had gone through was in no way easier. He feared that she might not be able to beat the first trial.
Still, right now he had no time to think about how the others were doing. He needed to clear the ten trials and get his hands on the inheritance and the treasures from the treasury.
As long as one of them managed to succeed, all of them would benefit, but Xue Wei was competitive. He would not give up before he had given it his all.
As he entered the second chamber, he found that this one looked the exact same as the previous one. Inside the chamber, there was a small stone table with a jade bottle on top of it.
Xue Wei stepped towards it and picked up the bottle. There were three pearl-like medicinal pills inside. All of them had a milky-white luster, and they looked exactly like pearls.
There was no medicinal scent; it was clear that the pills were of highest purity and that no smell could escape because the properties were perfectly concentrated within.
Xue Wei did not know what kind of pills they were, but he quickly placed them into his storage ring. He proceeded to curiously scan the room.
There were two stone statues in the room, and they seemed to each have a formation of runes inscribed upon their chests. Xue Wei wondered if they would suddenly start moving for some reason
Stone was a hard matter, but considering that they were cultivators, destroying rocks was not difficult.
Xue Wei approached the statues and began studying the formations on their chests.
The runes were somewhat familiar; some of them he had seen before, but they were intertwined differently than they had been before, and there were a couple new ones he had not seen before.
”Intriguing.” Xue Wei nodded his head. He was quite interested in these formations, but he did not even know the basics of how formations worked.
”Welcome to my second test. Insert your Qi into the chests of these two stone statues and fight them head-on. Their strength will be adjusted to suit yours.”
Xue Wei wanted to know how they work. He placed a hand on their chests and inserted a strand of Qi that had the appearance of an azure dragon into each one.
A rumbling sounded out from within them. They started to move slightly, before they suddenly woke up from their inanimate state and took a step out from where they stood. They began walking towards Xue Wei on unsteady legs.
The more they walked, the more they regained their motor skills. The heaven-and-earth essence around them churned and was sucked into the stone statues, charging up their previously empty energy reservoirs for the upcoming battle.