Ku Qiong Three

The Trial Ground was a cave entrance close to the Black Mountain wall, with two black animal statues that resembled neither cats nor dogs guarding the front gate.

Embedded in the ground were black pearls the size of Dragon Eyes, and a Blue Light flashed from the ground from time to time, spreading into the depths of the cave.

The Blue Light illuminated the darkness inside the cave again and again, and then quickly disappeared.

Faintly, one could see many sharp white stalactites hanging everywhere inside. There also seemed to be many sculptures with mysterious outlines on both sides.

"This is the Trial Land."

Deputy City Lord Ye Zifeng stopped at the entrance of the cave and said.

"Crown Prince Your Highness, the content of the trial is to enter it and stay for three days and three nights."

"Stay for three days and three nights?" Lin Xin narrowed his eyes slightly. "So simple? What's inside?"

Ye Zifeng shook his head.

"We don't know either, Your Highness. This is the content of the trial that has been passed down from ancient times. Even if it is Elder Yuan Jing, if they enter with insufficient strength, they will surely die. It is said to be related to the key to the Thousand Prison City prison formation. Even as the Deputy City Lord, I am not very clear."

Nan Shunqing said coldly.

"Isn't this clearly an extremely strong Sealed Space? What if after the teacher goes in, the outer great formation is activated and the entrance is sealed? Who will guarantee the fairness and safety of the trial?"

What he asked was exactly what Lin Xin wanted to ask.

The formation on the ground in front of him was not just a simple sealing formation, but in fact a special Fifth Grade formation that connected to another space. If one was not careful and traveled too far with this kind of formation, it would probably be countless years before one could return.

Even if he was well versed in the Talismanship, he would not dare to lightly provoke its sharpness.

Standing in front of the cave entrance, he stopped at this moment.

How could Ye Zifeng not know that this concern would arise, but he also smiled wryly, not knowing how to answer.

Duan Chizi stood aside in silence. She had a deeper relationship with Yellow Ape True Lord and was very unfamiliar with this Junior Brother whom she had never had much contact with. With different degrees of closeness, she naturally hoped that Lin Xin would simply turn around and forget about it.

The group stood frozen at the entrance of the Trial Ground.

Lin Xin stood with his hands behind his back, silent, just squinting at the formation at the gate. No one knew what he was thinking.

The others knew that his emotions were a bit extreme and fluctuated greatly, so they didn't dare to make any noise. No one knew what the content of the trial was, and it was only natural to have concerns and hesitations. So everyone waited quietly.

Before long, half an hour passed.

In the distant mid-air, another black line shot over.

With a whoosh, it landed on the ground behind everyone.

"After a short separation, Junior Brother's strength has greatly improved, and he has actually reached this point. Congratulations!"

The person who came had a charming voice, and a close-fitting black dress could only cover one-third of her thighs. It seemed that as long as the breeze was slightly stronger, one could see the mysterious *********.

Her figure was even more curvy, and her appearance was delicate and charming, and it was Great Princess Inu-sha Ying whom Lin Xin had seen before.

"Greetings, Great Princess Your Highness!"

Ye Zifeng led everyone and quickly saluted again.

Inu-sha Ying's beautiful eyes fell straight on Lin Xin, and a trace of heat rose in her eyes. She walked closer gracefully.

"What? Is Junior Brother hesitating whether to enter the trial?"

Lin Xin smiled and glanced at her.

"Entering is a must, but how can we ensure that this Trial Ground is not controlled and sealed off by outsiders?"

Inu-sha Ying smiled. "That's simple. Only a small part of this array can be controlled. The rest are ancient arrays, designed by the founding ancestor to absorb the power of the Demon God. Junior Brother is a Talismanship Grandmaster, wouldn't turning it into your own control eliminate all doubts?"

Lin Xin knew that the Yuan Dou Demon Sect did not have a Grandmaster-level Array Talisman Master.

The materials and resources required for the Array Talismanship Dao are too terrifying. To reach the Grandmaster level, it would take at least a thousand years of full accumulation and supply, relying on massive resources to pile up, and even then, it would require a genius seed in Array Talismanship Dao to grow up safely.

If Lin Xin didn't have Skill Manifestation in hand, as long as he succeeded once, he could perfectly replicate the second success, the third success, and even the countless successes. Saving a huge amount of resources.

With his aptitude back then, wanting to reach the Grandmaster level was out of the question.

Hearing Inu-sha Ying's words, Duan Chizi's expression changed slightly.

"Senior Sister is wrong. This Second Trial is meant to test courage. Outsiders are not allowed to interfere. Are you actively revealing inside information, leading to the failure of the trial?"

"Junior Sister is too serious." Inu-sha Ying smiled, a hint of snow-white cleavage faintly visible from her black dress.

"Sect competition, if this little hint can affect success or failure, then the position of Sect Leader is too easy to obtain."

Duan Chizi stared at her coldly, without saying a word.

Inu-sha Ying didn't back down either.

The two women confronted each other inexplicably, it seems that they don't get along as harmoniously as rumored.

Lin Xin stood aside, and he was the only one present who could speak up, as the others were not high enough in cultivation or status.

"Did Teacher enter this trial back then?" he asked calmly.

"Of course, he entered." Duan Chizi nodded.

"Did someone control the array?"

"Of course!"

"Who?"

"It was City Lord Yin Pengzi."

"I don't have enough strength to trust the people controlling the array, nor do I trust everyone present, but I also want to enter the array. Can you teach me how?" Lin Xin said lightly.

Duan Chizi was stunned when she heard this, and carefully looked at Lin Xin.

"Martial Uncle Bai Suozi has always been at odds with Teacher, and failed in the competition for the position of Sect Leader back then. You can ask her to be the one controlling the array."

"That won't be necessary." Lin Xin smiled. He reached out and gently tapped the array on the ground with his finger.

Chi!

An invisible finger force shot out, instantly breaking open a tiny trace in the ground array.

Silently, the array quickly dimmed, and the originally flashing Blue Light disappeared instantly. The entire ground was completely transformed into an ordinary pattern of runes, with no other use.

"I will temporarily control the array. Does anyone have any objections?"

Lin Xin watched for a long while, his purpose being to decipher this array.

With his Grandmaster Array Dao, slightly modifying and controlling this grand array was something he could accomplish.

If the Yuan Dou Demon Sect didn't have an Array Talisman Master capable of controlling the ancient array, and he still didn't dare to enter, he would truly be looked down upon.

"Junior Brother, please proceed." Duan Chizi's pupils contracted slightly, but she replied without any change in expression.

What shocked her was that such an ancient array, even if it wasn't the grand array designed by the founding ancestor, the Trial Ground part was still integrated as part of the ancient array. Yet, he could so quickly find a way to control it and rapidly seize partial control.

This level of Talismanship attainment was truly terrifying.

If Fifth Grade Grandmasters were all this terrifying, wouldn't the mountain protection arrays of the various Sects and great factions be practically useless?!

Lin Xin reached out and pointed at the key points of the array, then nodded and strode towards the cave entrance.

The array was disabled, but after entering the black hole for only a few breaths, he felt his surroundings turn upside down and become chaotic. His entire being was instantly twisted and teleported to another location.

"As expected, it's a teleportation!"

Lin Xin's heart settled slightly.

Only after the teleportation was complete did he look around to examine his surroundings.

He had only entered the cave entrance for a dozen meters, but he had already arrived above an extremely vast black plain.

Below was an endless, flat, giant wasteland, without trees, without lakes or streams, and even without grass.

There was only a patch of black soil.

In the sky, countless thread-like, extremely long black tendrils floated and danced everywhere, almost occupying the entire surrounding sky's field of vision.

Some of these black lines were very short, only a few meters long, while others were extremely long, with many reaching hundreds or even thousands of meters.

And occasionally, they would wriggle from time to time, like living worms, arching up and even crawling in the air.

Just like green worms crawling on solid ground.

"This is the content of the trial? To stay for three days and three nights?"

Lin Xin's heart was vigilant. Since it was just a matter of staying for the full time, there was obviously an unknown mysterious danger here. Otherwise, the trial content wouldn't just be the so-called staying for the full time.

Sure enough!

In the blink of an eye, above the sky, a black line as long as tens of thousands of meters suddenly pounced down.

That black line seemed to have a specific purpose, directly flying towards Lin Xin.

Its speed was extremely fast, and the distance of dozens of miles was covered in the blink of an eye.

Lin Xin's eyebrows twitched, and he circulated his Demon Body. The Ku Qiong phantom appeared behind him, fiercely condensing a sword light and slashing towards the black line.

Clang!

Amidst the clash of metal.

The black line was actually fearless, only vibrating slightly, without the slightest pause, continuing to pounce straight towards Lin Xin.

"Interesting!"

Even with fifty percent of his strength, he couldn't stop its momentum, so Lin Xin knew he couldn't fight it head-on.

He dodged and retreated, his Evasion stat reaching a staggering two thousand points, granting him incredibly powerful danger prediction abilities. Even among Yuan Jing cultivators, with their numerous innate divine abilities from Divine Beast bloodlines, few could match his miraculous senses.

The black line grazed past him by a hair's breadth, its momentum carrying it to shoot fiercely into the distance.

Chi!

Suddenly, Lin Xin's expression changed. He abruptly noticed something on the surface of the black line and instantly flashed to the left.

The head of a segment of the black line pierced through his original position, actually penetrating space and directlyescapeout!

"This is...!!"

He dodged to the right again, and another segment of the black line pierced through space, erupting from his previous location.

For a time, he dodged repeatedly. The black line's speed was terrifying, almost like breathing as it traversed space, piercing the surrounding space rules into a riddled mess.

Its speed was lightning-fast, almost immediately continuing its traversal after each failed attempt.

Now that Lin Xin recognized what it was, he no longer intended to confront it head-on.

"Nine Twists Worm! I didn't expect to find a Demon insect here that was thought to be extinct since ancient times!"

"But... the Nine Twists Worm can freely traverse space and devour Yin energy. How can it have array patterns appearing on its body? Those array patterns are clearly carved on later..."

Lin Xin was puzzled.

His figure moved like lightning, constantly dodging the Nine Twists Worm's attacks by a hair's breadth each time.

Its precision was no less than that of the most top-tier Evasion techniques.

He knew the trouble this kind of worm could cause.

Its body was incredibly sturdy, capable of freely gnawing through space, creating hollows for traversal, and feeding on the most Yin energy.

Most importantly, this worm was a creature that had to be introduced into the body after the Ku Qiong Demon Body was formed.

To break through the ninth level, one needed a sufficiently strong Ku Qiong Demon Body, and then introduce this worm to reside within as a parasite, devouring the Demon Body's impurities and transforming them into a special substance that could further nourish the Demon Body, making it more complete and advanced. (To be continued ~^~)