It took Ye Chen three months to pass the fifth underground level, guarded by Law of Wind guardians.
It took Ye Chen one year to pass the sixth underground level, guarded by Law of Poison guardians.
It took Ye Chen five years to pass the seventh underground level, guarded by Law of Bones guardians.
When he reached the eighth underground level, Ye Chen finally got stuck.
Although the deeper he went, the fewer Law guardians there were, usually resulting in one-on-one battles, the guardians on the eighth underground level wielded the Law of Shadow. Even one-on-one, Ye Chen found it difficult to defeat them.
The Law of Shadow guardian was a shadow. This shadow could become illusory, causing any attack to miss, or it could become corporeal and unleash fierce attacks. To defeat a Law of Shadow guardian, one had to attack while it was corporeal. Otherwise, even an attack ten times stronger would be useless.
Facing the elusive and unpredictable Law of Shadow guardians, Ye Chen did not dare relax in the slightest, remaining in his most cautious state at every moment.
Extreme pressure transformed into extreme motivation. Coupled with the numerous Divine Strength Crystals within him, Ye Chen's cultivation finally broke through to the Quasi-Demi-God level. His Martial Dao Avatar became a quasi-Golden Martial Dao Avatar, tinged with faint gold. At the instant of breakthrough, Ye Chen clearly sensed that his perception and reactions had risen by a great margin. The Law of Shadow guardians, once flickering in and out of sight, no longer seemed so elusive and unpredictable. It was as though he could grasp their every movement.
Ssh!
A sword flower flashed in the void, and Ye Chen's sword pierced through a Law of Shadow guardian's throat.
"How profound. As expected of a quasi-Golden Martial Dao