35 Trials (1/2)

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Kyle blacked out and felt his consciousness leaving him...

After an unknown of time passed...

Kyle woke up groggily in the middle of a room. This room was quite big since he cannot see the edges of it.

He only deduced that this was a room because of the ceilings above him, but the ground was nowhere to be seen.

Kyle looked down and he saw himself standing on a formation. This formation was laid out throughout the whole room.

Kyle wondered what this formation really is so he started to explore the room, but just as he took a step.

He suddenly heard a loud ringing on his head.

*RIIING!!!!*

The ringing was so loud and painful that it made Kyle stumble and fell on the formation while clutching his head in pain.

The ringing continued non-stop... It was getting louder by the second. This made Kyle hopeless and didn't know what to do.

He grits his teeth and did anything to stop the ringing inside his head, but it was fruitless.

The pain was so agonizing and painful that it made Kyle scream in pain.

It was even more painful than breaking through the Xiantian with his body.

The pain was now so powerful that it was starting to make kyle lose his consciousness, but just as he was about to become unconscious and faint.

Kyle felt a familiar sensation.

He felt some energy gushing out from inside him. It clashed against the source that was making the ringing in his head and repelled it away from him.

Sooner later, the pain and the ringing in his head finally stopped.

Now that the ringing has finally stopped, Kyle could finally stand up and think clearly. He could now realize that the familiar sensation that he felt was just like when he was using his HaoShoku.

”What the hell is that? Did someone just use HaoShoku on me? No, wait... That's not possible. If it was HaoShoku, I should've at least been able to sense and defend it for a bit before it hit me. Or could it be... soul attack? Ya, that's right, its possible that this might be a soul attack.” Kyle thought after he gained clarity.

He then embraced himself for another attack.

Kyle had read a lot about soul attacks, so he realized it fast just by experiencing it once.

There are some Xianxia stories that he had read where cultivators learned how to harness the power of their souls and used it for attacking or in any various means.

He doesn't know what him, so he just made a hunch.

He wasn't sure of his hunch, but it felt quite similar to the descriptions that he learned about soul attacks.

A worried expression has now escaped Kyle's face since he doesn't know how to defend or ward off against soul attacks.

He had never seen or heard anyone using a soul attack ever since he transmigrated in this world.

Fortunately... his HaoShoku protected him before he gave out, but Kyle wasn't exactly keen on depending his HaoShoku every time a soul attack hits him since he still doesn't know how to control it perfectly, and he wasn't sure if it really was his HaoShoku that protected him due to the lack of information.

Retreating was out of the question since he doesn't know the way out, but standing here like a sitting duck was a stupid decision.

So he can only move forward and get ready for the upcoming attacks.

Thankfully... There wasn't another soul attack after the former one, so Kyle continued to travel peacefully.

After walking for a few minutes... Kyle came to face a dead end, but he wasn't worried about it, because there is a door-like formation on this dead-end.

Kyle proceeded to place his palm on it, and he successfully got sucked inside.

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This time... When Kyle woke up, all he could see now was a fog. There were strange howling all over the place. It had a scary sensation all over it.

Kyle felt there were organisms flying through the fog and around him, unfortunately... The fog made it harder for him to see, preventing him from being able to see those organisms.

When Kyle was sucked by the formation again. He felt that this pagoda was like a dungeon.

Those gate/door formations were like portals that led him to advance a floor.

He deduced that the strange ringing on his head was a trial or requirement to pass the first floor.

Seeing that he successfully survived or passed the former floor, he dubbed this new area as the second floor.