181 Stone Statues (2/2)

Kick of Forgotten Kings!

Xue Wei released one attack after the other upon the formation engraved on the statue's chest.

The first attack, the Azure Light Finger, was not able to do much damage to the formation itself, but it left a small mark on the engraving that made the statue stagger.

The Shattering Mountain Palm descended onto the mark that had been made, and half the formation was shattered.

Following the Shattering Mountain Palm came the Kick of Forgotten Kings. This kick was able to shatter the remaining part of the formation and even managed to break the statue into two halves.

Before Xue Wei had the time to rejoice, an acute sense of crisis came over him, and he retreated fast as the wind.

The place where he had been standing moments before was now a crater on the ground, the remaining stone statue tightly clenching its hands together and using them as a blunt weapon to smash anything that came into reach.

The remaining statue seemed almost berserk because its companion had been destroyed. It flailed its arms about wildly and made it impossible to safely approach it.

Azure Light Finger!

Inner Might!

Xue Wei knew better than to get close to the stone statue when it was in a frenzy so he released a beam of green azure light from his finger. It managed to perfectly wipe out one of the runes in the formation that was engraved on the chest.

After that, he used Inner Might to create a zither. He was not the most skilled zither player, but he was not terrible either.

Waves of violent zither music spread out from the strings plucked by his hands. There was a clear killing intent and a domineering aura that came from being a sovereign above others within this music.

Xue Wei did not know why, but he felt like he had undergone a fundamental, existential change ever since his core had hatched a dragon spirit. He truly felt above all others, in the objective sense. He felt that he had the right to look down upon them even if he was still weak, and this feeling was reflected in the music he played.

Although Xue Wei felt superior to others, he was adamant in opposing the absoluteness of the feeling lest he slip into a spell of arrogance.

He was a mere warrior-realm expert. He had not even stepped into the Heavenly Warrior stage yet, so he needed more strength to actually back up this peculiar change to the composition of his demeanor.

The waves from the violent zither music instantly diced up the statue into multiple layers of saucers from head to toe the very moment they reached it.

The formation on the statue's chest naturally collapsed as a result.

Xue Wei looked at the two statues with a few mixed emotions in his eyes. Although the fight had not been too complicated, this was after all only the second test out of ten, but it had already made him feel danger a few times.

He shook his head. Xue Wei's blood was boiling. These were true trials, trials that might end in life-and-death situations. He had not felt this alive for a long time.

Even more exciting were the rewards at the end of the trials. He was already looking forward to it.

However, his confidence did not mean complacency. He was very much on alert. These trials were not simple.

When he entered the third room, he spotted a snow jade bottle on the table in the middle. This was the reward for finishing the second room.

Xue Wei walked to the table and slowly opened the snow jade bottle. Inside it sat a pill of unknown origin. No smell was emitted, so it was evidently a pill of highest purity.

Pausing for a moment, Xue Wei considered what to do. There had been no explanation as to what kind of pill he had been given, but he had an urge to eat this one right away.

Without hesitating, Xue Wei sat down on the floor in the third trial room and consumed it.

The moment it entered his mouth, it turned into Qi that started to pour into his body. He flinched when this happened. An enormous, shocking amount of Qi had suddenly been released from that one small little pill.

And it continued endlessly like a flood that crashed into and passed right through his body with hitherto unknown force.He felt like a small boat in the middle of a storming ocean. The Qi crashed about and caused havoc within his body, and he had no way of controlling it.

However, the Azure Dragon Spirit within his core slowly awakened and opened its eyes. A roar emerged from deep within his body, and the thousands upon thousands of small dragons in his meridians suddenly sprang into action and started consuming the flood-like Qi that was pouring into his body.

These dragons were multiplying at an unbelievable speed. They grew larger, reached a certain size, and split into two – repeatedly. It was an exponential increase in amount.

It got to a point where his meridians were on the verge of bursting from the sudden overload of tiny Qi-dragons flooding them.

The pain wrecked his body. Xue Wei could sense how his meridians were being forced to expand, which he recognized as a disaster. If the meridians were severed, it would cripple him, but fortunately his meridians were incredibly tough.

Rather than break, they widened to adapt to the overflow. The downside was that Xue Wei had to experience mind-shattering pain in the process. He started sweating bullets and groaned loudly with every deep breath he took.