“Elite passage, huh…” Luo Feng’s mind moved, and 365 blade fragments immediately flew out along the deliberately left gap in the backpack opening, quickly assembling into the Shuttle of Sky.
Luo Feng leapt up and stepped onto the Shuttle of Sky. Once he stood on it, his speed and agility became much greater.
“Go!”
Whoosh!
At a speed comparable to a car driving on the road, he flew into the black passage. The passage was extremely deep. After flying more than 500 metres, Luo Feng finally saw a series of branching paths ahead.
“Nine branches? A maze?” Luo Feng frowned. He also understood clearly that, according to the personal guard Yao Rao and his previous experience, this No. 9 ancient civilization relic was definitely a trial ground used to eliminate the weak and select the strong, and there would be all kinds of trial content.
“What is the point of a maze appearing here?” Luo Feng thought in confusion. “Fine, I will pick a road first.”
He flew into the first branch on the left.
In just a moment, another nine branches appeared at the end of this branch.
“Damn, nine branches after nine branches. At this rate, even a top expert would get lost.” Luo Feng carefully observed his surroundings. Every side around him was just one ancient passage after another, formed by intertwined black tree roots, with no distinguishing features at all.
About 300 metres away from Luo Feng, on one of the branch passage walls made of intertwined black tree roots, a vague black shadow seeped out. A moment later, as if a droplet had fallen, the shadow also dropped down, landing on the floor of the passage and gradually solidifying into a black robed man wearing a silver grey mask.
The same thing happened in the other branches too. In the nine branches ahead of Luo Feng and the nine branches behind him, each branch ‘gave birth’ to a black robed man wearing a silver mask.
A total of 18 black robed men began gathering toward Luo Feng along the branches.
“Hm? A person?” Luo Feng saw a black robed man walking out from a branch in the distance. He wore a silver grey mask, his pupils were green, and his eyes were filled with undisguised killing intent as he looked at Luo Feng.
“Another one!”
Another black robed man emerged from a different branch entrance, then three, four, five, six, eight, nine.
Nine black robed men stood at the entrances of the nine branches ahead, their green pupils full of murderous intent as they stared at Luo Feng.
“Roar~~” A roar came from behind Luo Feng.
“There are nine behind me too!” Luo Feng’s spiritual power clearly sensed that there were a full nine black robed men walking step by step toward him from the rear of the passage, all of them letting out low growls.
Suddenly.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The nine black robed men behind him charged at Luo Feng along the passage like lightning, and the nine black robed men in front did the same. Every single one of them was filled with killing intent.
“If I get blocked inside the passage, then I will be attacked from both front and back, and that would be a huge problem.”
“Charge!”
Boom!
Stepping on the Shuttle of Sky, holding a hexagonal shield in one hand and the Blood Shadow Battle Blade in the other, Luo Feng shot forward like a streak of blood red light.
“Break for me!” Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
The six curved blade fragments danced through the air like graceful butterflies, drawing streaks of light as they slammed directly into the first black robed man charging into the passage. That black robed man gave a low roar, and with both hands wearing silver grey gloves, he actually tried to meet the blade fragments head on and block them.
Bang.
A dull impact sound rang out. Each blade fragment carried more than 500,000 kilograms of force. All six blade fragments struck that black robed man at the same moment.
The black robed man was blasted backward like a cannonball, and as he flew out of the passage, he knocked away another black robed man as well.
“Roar~~ Roar~~” The nine black robed men from the rear passage were clearly not as fast as Luo Feng.
However, the other eight black robed men at the front passage entrance did not rush in alone. Instead, they blocked the entrance.
“Anyone who stands in my way dies!”
“Break, break, break!!!” Luo Feng’s speed had already surged to the limit, over 1000 metres per second. That terrifying speed produced sonic booms, and the air itself was compressed and twisted into ripples by such extreme velocity. The six blade fragments flew in front of Luo Feng, clearing obstacles for him.
The eight black robed men outside the front passage entrance roared madly at the same time and swung their right fists, each wearing a silver grey glove.
“Better to break one finger than injure ten!” Luo Feng’s eyes turned cold.
Whoosh!
The moment he burst out of the entrance, the Shuttle of Sky suddenly swept in an arc and shot to the right, aiming at only one target, the black robed man on the far right. At the same time, Luo Feng braced his left hand against the shield, ready to withstand any possible attack.
Bang, thud.
Three heavy punches smashed onto the shield Luo Feng was holding. Each punch was as heavy as a mountain, over a million kilograms in force.
Fortunately, the three punches came one after another. If they had all landed at the exact same moment without any buffer, Luo Feng would have been shaken to death on the spot.
Pfft.
Blood spurted out, and his left arm was completely broken.
“Die!” Luo Feng did not even look at the other black robed men. He only stared at the black robed man on the far right.
The six blade fragments were like lightning, slashing violently at the head and neck of that black robed man.
“Roar~~” That black robed man on the far right roared furiously and swung his hands like lightning. Unfortunately, Luo Feng’s flying blades were too fast, too fast. Flying blades moving at more than ten times the speed of sound, two of them successfully cut into the black robed man’s neck. Pfft, the first blade only cut in by less than a centimetre. Pfft, the second blade had already cut nearly half of the neck in one stroke.
“Get lost!”
Luo Feng, moving at more than 1000 metres per second, let out a furious roar. His eyes were red, and the Blood Shadow Battle Blade in his right hand instantly turned into a streak of thunderous light.
Thunderbolt, the ultimate speed.
When Luo Feng stood on the Shuttle of Sky and his movement speed exceeded 1000 metres per second, the full爆发 of the fourth level of the Ninefold Thunder Blade, carrying the meaning of thunderbolt, made this blade Luo Feng’s strongest attack ever. The blade edge swept directly across the black robed man who was already heavily injured and almost dead. With a boom, the battle blade struck first, then Luo Feng’s entire body smashed through.
The black robed man exploded.
“Roar~”“Roar~~” The other black robed men all charged over furiously like lightning. Each of their running speeds reached around 800 metres per second, much faster than Li Yao by a large margin. Every one of them was comparable to Phantom Demon Katerlan.
Including the black robed man that Luo Feng had just knocked away, he too resumed the chase.
A full 17 black robed men were madly pursuing him.
“You are too late.” Luo Feng shot forward like lightning along the rightmost passage.
Whoosh!
With a sonic boom, he streaked forward like a phantom. Standing on the shield, Luo Feng was moving at 1300 metres per second, 500 metres per second faster than those black robed men. So in just a few seconds, Luo Feng had already left them completely out of sight. However, he still kept flying along one branch after another for half a minute before stopping.
“Nine branches, then another nine branches, then another nine branches, endless and continuous…”
“If they can still find me, that would be strange,” Luo Feng said in amazement at the design of this maze.
In terms of intricacy, the maze was not really that intricate. It was actually very simple.
It was just that the maze was so huge, how had it been built?
“I have run so far. In the short term, I probably will not even be able to find my way back.” Luo Feng shook his head and smiled. “Still, I escaped that crisis. Those eighteen black robed men were too troublesome, each one comparable to a peak God of War level expert, and the gloves they wore were also strange.”
If he were surrounded and killed by the 17 surviving black robed men…
Without the Black God Set, Luo Feng would not have been confident of surviving either.
…
At the previous battlefield, all 17 black robed men were there. The corpse fragments of the dead black robed man were scattered on the passage floor. Suddenly, as if melting, the fragments slowly sank into the ground and disappeared.
The bodies of the 17 black robed men became虚化, turning into vague black shadows and融入 the ground.
…
In some core area of the No. 9 ancient civilization relic, crystal clear crystal ropes extended in all directions, thousands upon thousands of them all stretching toward one direction, while streams of light were transmitted through them from the inside, converging toward the core position.
At a junction where dark brown tree roots were intertwined into branches, there was a wide intersection ahead, and in front of it were nine branches.
“Another nine branches. When will this ever end?” Even Luo Feng’s temper could not help but stop him.
Every junction looked exactly the same.
“Pass successfully, and you can obtain a Black God Set. But what counts as passing successfully?” Luo Feng looked at the nine forks ahead, feeling somewhat helpless. If someone had just told him directly, for example, defeat a few black robed men and that counts as passing, then he could still try his best. But now there was no hint at all.
Luo Feng could not help shaking his head.
…
At the quiet junction, Luo Feng was still thinking about what to do, when without any warning…
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Like falling rain, streaks of transparent light shot down from high above. In an instant, these transparent streams of light formed a crystal room, five metres high and eight metres long and wide, covering Luo Feng inside.
“What is going on?”
“I did not even have time to react, and it formed a crystal room to trap me?” Luo Feng looked at the crystal room. With a thought, six flying blades immediately shot out with sharp whistles, and at more than ten times the speed of sound, they all bombarded the same circular area of a crystal wall with a diameter of five centimetres.
The crystal room only trembled slightly. Unfortunately, there was not even a single crack on the crystal wall.
“What is this room made of?”
“Even diamond would have been turned to powder by that strike of mine.” Luo Feng felt a chill in his heart. That full force impact of over 3 million kilograms, applied within a circular area five centimetres in diameter, had actually not left even the slightest crack. How was he supposed to get out?
“xxxxxx…” A mysterious voice echoed inside the crystal room for a long time.
Luo Feng was overjoyed. At last, this ancient civilization relic had spoken. He quickly lowered his head to look at his communication watch, and the translation software immediately translated that long message into Chinese.
“Elite student Luo Feng, your assessment death mission has officially begun!”
“During this period, you will be supplied with food and water.”
“On the walls of the assessment chamber are engraved the foundational 312 moves of the spiritual念师 technique, the ‘Master Controller’ inheritance. By learning these 312 moves, you will have a chance to break open this assessment chamber.”
Luo Feng looked toward the walls of the crystal room. On the semi transparent crystal walls, there were many complex carvings of all kinds, more than 300 human figure diagrams, together with text explanations from the ancient relic. Just looking with his eyes, Luo Feng already felt it was extremely complicated.
But this seemed to be the foundational inheritance of the spiritual念师, the ‘Master Controller’? And it was only the foundation?
“Assessment death mission requirement, break the assessment chamber within three years!”
“If the chamber is not broken within three years, it counts as failure.”
“Failure means death!”