Chen Lin looked at the Golden Giant standing motionless in the Martial Practice Ground, then at the Wordless Celestial Book lying open on the table.
For a moment, he could not decide.
Shortcuts were probably no longer an option if he wanted to complete this trial. The trial keeper was a puppet, devoid of emotions and desires. There was no way around a head-on battle.
That meant...
What he needed to do now was use the Truth-Preserving Ink as a medium to manifest a being with the combat strength of a Rank Three Dominator.
That was far too difficult.
For a start, there were very few candidates.
To manifest a living being and reproduce as much of its strength as possible, he had to know something about that being.
Knowing only a name would not suffice.
That left him with very limited choices. After much thought, he could come up with only three.
The first was Bai Yujing.
The man was immensely powerful and might even have reached the level of a High-tier Dominator. If the replica possessed just ten or twenty percent of his strength, defeating this Golden-Armored Giant would be no problem.
The drawback was...
He had had too little contact with Bai Yujing. They had met only twice, and he had never even seen the man fight.
There was little hope of reproducing ten or twenty percent of his strength.
The second candidate was Wen Ruyu.
She was a Rank Four Dominator. Although she was only one realm above the giant puppet, that was the difference between the initial and middle stages. Reproducing thirty percent of her strength would be enough to pass the trial.
Moreover...
He had seen her fight during the Life Ferry mission. Although he had only watched, he did have some understanding of