Three-Colored Armor

Lu Chen's heart stirred. From his Sumeru Ring, he took out the eight "Dragon Soul Crystals" he had obtained not long ago after slaying the bone dragon guards.

These Dragon Soul Crystals varied in size, irregular dark-gold polyhedrons containing pure fragments of dragon souls and Killing Intent. They were the guards' core energy sources.

He tried placing one Dragon Soul Crystal into the nearest formation recess.

Bzzzz—!

The Dragon Soul Crystal fitted perfectly into the recess.

The recess lit up with a dark-gold glow. On the corresponding rock wall, a dark-green crystal also lit up, shooting out a thin strand of green light that connected to the dark-gray vortex at the center.

The vortex's rotation seemed to... slow by the tiniest fraction.

"As expected!" A sharp gleam flashed through Lu Chen's eyes.

This second trial was not about forcibly breaking through the eye of the wind. It required deciphering the formation and using Dragon Soul Crystals as "keys" to temporarily calm it or open up a safe passage!

Without further hesitation, he flickered through the air and placed the remaining seven Dragon Soul Crystals into the other seven recesses in turn.

Bzz! Bzz! Bzz...!

Seven light hums rang out in succession. The seven recesses lit up one after another, and the corresponding seven dark-green crystals shot out green strands of light that connected to the vortex.

The eight strands intertwined across the vortex's surface, forming a simple eight-pointed star.

As the pattern took shape, the center of the slowly rotating dark-gray vortex began to cave inward and contract. As though an invisible hand had forced it open from within, it gradually formed a hollow passage roughly ten feet wide, leading straight through to the other side of the vortex!

The passage walls were held firm by eight green strands of