novelraw Chapter 2142: Someone Has Died!!
Chapter 2142: Someone Has Died!!
With the sound of drums resonating.
Inside the spacious stone cave, silhouettes appeared out of thin air.
These figures were very tall, and upon closer inspection, they were soldiers clad in armor, gripping long spears.
After these soldiers appeared, under each of them emerged a high-headed horse, transforming them from ’infantry’ to ’cavalry’.
Soon, a group of cavalry formed into neat vertical and horizontal formations, standing upright with spears, looking mighty and imposing.
Although they neither spoke nor moved, just standing there, they still brought an overwhelming sense of pressure on people.
"These cavalry... exactly one hundred of them!"
With just a glance, Wyatt Barnes accurately counted the number of cavalry when his gaze swept over the formation before him, exactly one hundred cavalry!
"Furthermore... the high-headed horses beneath them don’t seem simple either!"
Wyatt’s gaze fell on the one hundred high-headed horses under the cavalry, thinking to himself.
"Kill!!"
Accompanied by thunderous shouts of killing, a hundred cavalry charged towards Wyatt and the others, approaching them in an encircling formation, as if about to envelope them like dumplings.
And during this process, the running speed of the hundred high-headed horses validated Wyatt’s earlier ’guess’.
The speed of these high-headed horses could match that of an average ’Saint Immortal Second Layer practitioner’!
In the blink of an eye, the hundred cavalry, carried by the hundred high-headed horses, closed in on Wyatt and the others, with speed like lightning, barely tens of meters away in an instant.
At that moment, a slight tension arose in the hearts of Wyatt and many others.
Boom!!
As a loud explosion resounded from the void, Wyatt saw ’Larson Buckingham’ make his move.
Whoosh!
Larson Buckingham leaped into the air, transforming into an ’arrow’ soaring skyward, and in an instant appeared above the group, standing loftily, as mighty as an undefeated war god.
In the next moment, Wyatt saw Larson simply wave his hand.
Buzz!!
With a flash of lightning, the sound of a blade rang out for a fleeting moment, a beam of blade light shot with incredible speed, leaving no trace in Wyatt’s vision.
"So fast!"
Wyatt’s pupils contracted, his face showing a look of astonishment.
He understood clearly that the reason he saw no trace of Larson’s move was entirely due to the ’blade light’ emitted from Larson’s palm being too fast for his naked eye to capture.
Even though he had stepped into the ’Saint Immortal Realm’, he hadn’t officially entered the ’Saint Immortal Third Layer’, nor had he opened the pair of ’Spirit Eyes’, so his vision still lacked significantly.
Not to mention Larson being a ’Saint Immortal Eighth Layer practitioner’, even if Larson were only a ’Saint Immortal Seventh Layer practitioner’, Wyatt wouldn’t have caught a trace of his move.
Splat! Splat! Splat!
...
Almost simultaneously, a series of crisp sounds echoed in Wyatt’s ears, snapping him back to reality, instinctively looking towards the source of the sound.
In the next moment, where Wyatt’s gaze fell, the bodies of the hundred attacking cavalry were all sliced in half!
In the blink of an eye, the bodies of the sliced cavalry shattered into pieces, then vanished.
Seeing this, Wyatt was unsurprised, because during the ’First level of the test’, ’people’ or ’beasts’ appearing in these trials would generally disappear once killed.
And according to Elder Fire:
Those ’people’ or ’beasts’ were ’energy constructs’ formed by the formations within this false dimensional plane.
They possessed formidable strength, but if killed, they would dissipate without a trace, as if they’d never appeared.
"The strength of a Saint Immortal Eighth Layer practitioner is indeed extraordinary!"
Looking at Larson with a stunned expression, Wyatt was inwardly astir, "Each of those hundred cavalry emitted an aura that gave me a certain sense of oppression..."
"Which also indicates... each of those hundred cavalry was above ’Saint Immortal Second Layer’!"
This point, Wyatt was certain of.
If they were merely ’Saint Immortal First Layer’ cavalry, they wouldn’t have given him such an oppressive feeling.
After all, his cultivation remained at the ’pinnacle of the Saint Immortal First Layer’!
Moments later, the second wave of trials followed.
This time, the Mysterious Buddha Sect’s Green Bat King ’Mason Waddy’ acted before Larson could, effortlessly exterminating the group of giant beasts attacking in the second wave of trials.
From start to finish, it took only a few breaths of time.
The strength of a Saint Immortal Seventh Layer practitioner was on full display!
Immediately following, the third wave of trials arrived.
After successfully passing, the fourth wave came again...
Initially, only Mason Waddy took action.
But later, even Mason faced considerable pressure.
At this moment, Larson intervened.
With the two joining forces, it became effortless again.
Yet as they progressed further, even with the two joining forces, they struggled a bit.
"Alliance Leader Gemni, Sect Leader Frederick!"
At this moment, Mason Waddy also called out to the Thousand-Autumn Alliance Leader ’Righty East’ and the Ob-Dust Sect Leader ’Frederick Ho’, reminding them that it was time to act.
With the addition of Righty East and Frederick Ho, the situation on the scene improved significantly.
One challenge after another was successfully passed with the combined efforts of the four, without any pressure for half a day.
One Eighth Transformation Saint Immortal, one Seventh Transformation Saint Immortal, plus two Sixth Transformation Saint Immortals... Even the challenges that appeared later were no match for their unstoppable momentum!
Time quietly passed by.
Gradually, even with the combined forces of Larson Buckingham, Mason Waddy, Righty East, and Frederick Ho, there was a certain amount of pressure.
Occasionally, one or two ’slip-through-the-cracks’ would rush toward Wyatt Barnes and the others.
At this point, the rest had to step in as well.
Of course, in such a situation, Wyatt Barnes was inconvenient to make a move, as only by relying on the ’Splendid Fairy Sword’ could he display strength surpassing most ’Fourth Transformation Saint Immortals’.
At first, it didn’t matter that he wasn’t acting.
However, as time passed, the pressure on the group continued to increase...
"Are the other two groups still without any casualties at this point?"
Standing not far from Wyatt Barnes, a loose cultivator expert said with a sullen face, hoping that the other two groups would soon have casualties.
This way, their group could also smoothly pass the Second Layer of the trial and advance successfully.
Whoosh!!
Suddenly, a gust of wind darted toward Wyatt Barnes, and the others had no time to assist him.
Rushing toward Wyatt Barnes was a relatively weaker ’giant beast’.
Of course, calling it weaker was only relative to the group of giant beasts present... Its strength was still comparable to a ’Fourth Transformation Saint Immortal’!
"This giant beast is a bit stronger than the Thousand-Autumn Alliance elder I previously killed, ’Tristian King’!"
Facing the menacing giant beast, Wyatt Barnes’s expression turned serious.
He immediately raised his hand, the long-prepared celestial treasure ’Heaven and Earth Ruler’, along with the flick of his sleeve, was suddenly activated.
As the giant beast approached Wyatt Barnes, the void around him twisted and folded violently, looking from afar like ripples caused by stones cast into a calm lake.
"Heaven and Earth Shift!"
Without any hesitation, Wyatt Barnes directly employed the divine ability contained within the Heaven and Earth Ruler, slightly slowing the giant beast’s ’pace’.
However, it was only slightly slowed.
"Minor Devouring Technique!"
In a flash, Wyatt Barnes used an auxiliary divine ability to enhance his ’Solar Saint Origin’, pushing it to its current maximum within a short time.
Of course, even at its peak, Solar Saint Origin was only comparable to the ’Saint Origin’ in a Third Transformation Saint Immortal’s body.
Due to the special environment of the ’False Dimensional Plane’, coupled with the concealment of Heaven and Earth Shift and others’ preoccupations, no one noticed Wyatt Barnes using the auxiliary divine ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’.
In an instant, the giant beast broke free from the ’bind’ of Heaven and Earth Shift and continued to pounce toward Wyatt Barnes.
Its jaws opened wide, as if to swallow Wyatt Barnes whole!
Whoosh!!
In a flash of lightning, another celestial treasure, the ’Splendid Fairy Sword’, appeared in Wyatt Barnes’s hand. As he executed the ’Sword Mastery’ granted by the third realm of the ’Supreme Heart Sword’, the ’Splendid Fairy Sword’ pierced the air!
With a swing of the celestial sword, it seemed as if it could cleave through the vibrant cosmos!
Though the giant beast was strong, under Wyatt Barnes’s sword, it was instantly sliced into two, then shattered and disappeared without a trace.
As if it never existed.
One sword strike, and the world chilled...
Nothing more, nothing less!
"With the remaining Solar Saint Origin in me, I can at most replicate that sword strike once more... However, executing another sword strike like that will exhaust my Solar Saint Origin completely! If danger arises again, I am certainly doomed!!"
Thinking this, Wyatt Barnes’s mood grew heavier.
Suddenly.
"No!!"
A heartbreaking cry pierced the air, sending a chill through Wyatt Barnes’s heart. Looking over instinctively, he found the voice came from the Ob-Dust Sect Leader, ’Frederick Ho’.
At that moment, Frederick Ho was gazing in one direction as he let out the cry.
"Something’s wrong!"
As Wyatt Barnes felt trepidation in his heart, the atmosphere among the other attendees mirrored his apprehension. They all followed Frederick Ho’s gaze, looking toward the same place.
There, one of their loose cultivators had just been pounced upon by a giant beast!
Just killed!
"Someone’s dead!!"
Larson Buckingham’s face changed drastically, as did Mason Waddy’s.
Even as strong as they were, there was no time to save them now!
"Damn it!"
The Thousand-Autumn Alliance Leader ’Righty East’ turned pale, his eyes filled with despair.
The ’rule’ of the Second Layer’s trial was that among any of the three groups, if even one person died, the rest would be implicated!