Random Recommendation: The final trial of the Demonic Path.

A vibrant, bloody red filled Ning Zhuo’s vision.

In this final trial, the space was unexpectedly vast – the arena resembled a boundless grassland!

Clearly, some kind of spatial array had been laid during the construction of this trial.

The air within the trial was thick with blood essence, permeating the heavens and earth, forming massive swathes of bloody mist.

The bloody mist ceaselessly flowed, with a gust of wind constantly swirling, causing the mist to thicken and thin intermittently.

Ning Zhuo explored within the bloody mist, and after walking for some time, he noticed a faint glimmer of light emanating from it.

He moved towards the light and arrived at the center of the area. Here, he saw a lake of blood.

It was the surface of this blood lake that emitted the lustrous light.

Ning Zhuo stepped forward, and as soon as he reached the edge of the blood lake, the light on its surface abruptly receded.

On the lake’s surface, Ning Zhuo’s reflection appeared.

The lake water rapidly rippled, like boiling water, bubbling and gurgling.

A massive surge of blood essence, as if imbued with life, erupted upwards, bursting out of the lake surface, rushing towards Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo swiftly dodged.

The blood essence landed on a rock beside his feet, immediately enveloping it.

Quickly, it formed large patches of blood sinew on the rock’s surface.

The blood sinew was incredibly powerful, constantly molding the rock. A series of cracking sounds echoed as the rock was shaped into a puppet resembling Ning Zhuo.

Surprisingly, it looked quite similar.

Enveloped and manipulated by the blood sinew, the stone puppet silently charged towards Ning Zhuo.

The two engaged in a fierce battle on the edge of the blood lake.

Ning Zhuo quickly found himself at a disadvantage.

This was because the materials used for the stone puppet were far superior to his wooden body, reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.

Moreover, the stone puppet’s martial skills surpassed Ning Zhuo’s.

Ning Zhuo could only fight and retreat.

Just as he was probing his opponent’s limits, the blood lake stirred again.

Blood essence from the lake surged ashore, successively attaching to the soil and trees.

After a burst of molding by the blood sinew, earth puppets and tree puppets were formed.

In an instant, Ning Zhuo faced a one-versus-three predicament!

After a round of exchanges, Ning Zhuo discovered that each puppet surpassed him by a significant margin in terms of martial skills.

This filled Ning Zhuo with envy, but he also resolutely resolved to frantically stimulate his own blood essence.

The blood essence within him was incredibly abundant, and the blood circuit diagram within his wooden body was a Foundation Establishment version taken from Yuan Dasheng.

Ning Zhuo clapped his palms together, and blood essence poured out like a waterfall, directly engulfing the three puppets.

An hour later…

The battlefield was littered with countless puppet remnants, shattered limbs, and severed heads.

Ning Zhuo could barely stand, feeling extremely weak, but his heart was filled with joy and relief.

“Finally, I’ve won!”

The battle, lasting a full hour, had been long and arduous.

Each of Ning Zhuo’s puppet opponents was at the peak of the ninth level, just like him.

“This victory was somewhat dishonorable.”

Ning Zhuo knew that his victory was entirely due to the unrestrained release of blood essence, unreasonably crushing his opponents.

It was a perfect display of “brute force overcomes skill.”

He was able to achieve this thanks to Yuan Dasheng.

Yuan Dasheng had created a Foundation Establishment-level blood circuit diagram, and the scale of blood essence that could be released instantaneously far exceeded that of a Qi Refining-level diagram.

In the penultimate trial, the blood circuit diagram had absorbed a great deal of blood essence.

In this final trial, Ning Zhuo recklessly squandered blood essence, sparing no expense. In the mid-to-late stages, when his blood essence was depleted, Ning Zhuo would drain the blood circuit diagram, then use it to frantically absorb his opponents’ blood essence, sustaining the battle with each fight.

In this way, Ning Zhuo was almost equivalent to having infinite blood essence.

He didn’t need any skill; he simply overwhelmed his opponents with ten times more blood essence from the start.

One puppet after another fell, and more puppets would rise from the blood lake.

The puppets pressed forward relentlessly, putting Ning Zhuo in a desperate situation.

“But in the end, I am still the victor!”

“When I have time to refine my martial skills in the future, I will attempt this trial again.”

Ning Zhuo opened the final door of the Demonic Path and entered the final reward room.

As soon as he stepped inside, he received the Foundation Establishment Method of the Demonic Path.

Corresponding to the Buddhist method, this Foundation Establishment Method focused primarily on the lower dantian essence sea, with the other two dantians as secondary.

Ning Zhuo didn’t delve into this Foundation Establishment Method. Instead, he immediately looked at the many duty tokens hanging on the wall.

He carefully selected, scrutinizing them repeatedly, and finally chose the Commander of the Pointing General Platform.

“Next, it’s the Daoist Path.”

Ning Zhuo’s soul force was currently abundant, and after passing the final trial of the Demonic Path, he still had strength to spare.

He used his Buddhist Demonic Heart Seal once again to retreat from the trial, returning to the third transfer hall.

Then, he pushed open the third Daoist door and went all out.

Molten Lava Immortal Palace, Main Hall.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit’s gaze pierced through the void as it fixed its complicated gaze on Ning Zhuo’s every action.

It had previously considered concealment and delay, but ultimately discovered that it could not stop Ning Zhuo from obtaining the three Foundation Establishment Methods with different emphases.

Therefore, it revealed the secret of the Foundation Establishment Methods in advance to gain Ning Zhuo’s trust.

“My previous interactions should have gone well!”

“Especially the last one.”

“Although the whip hurt me a lot, it was enough to earn Ning Zhuo’s trust and gratitude.”

“Hehe, everything will be fine.”

“I will definitely be free!”

As the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit cheered itself on, Ning Zhuo had already begun a new trial.

As the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit had explained to him, the purpose of the Daoist Path was to cultivate the trial disciples’ spellcasting abilities.

Ning Zhuo had obtained the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Disk in the previous reward trial. At this time, the Spirit Conversion Disk had become his main weapon.

Holding the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Disk in his hand, he continuously cast Five Elements spells, sometimes attacking, sometimes defending.

Every so often, a Five Elements spell would come at him in this trial.

Sometimes it was a metal-element blade, sometimes a water-element tide, and sometimes a fire-element blaze.

What Ning Zhuo needed to do was to resist the spells with spells.

To save more spiritual power, he would use the principles of mutual restraint.

He would use water-element spells to restrain fire-element flames, and wood-element spells to restrain earth-element flying sand and stones.
Doing so was undoubtedly the most economical in terms of spiritual energy and mental power.

The Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate could transform the spiritual energy within his body into Five Elements-related magic power.

Using this magic power to cast Five Elements spells was undoubtedly more efficient.

And that wasn’t all; the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate also had other uses.

It was essentially a formation disc. After Ning Zhuo used it, it would generate an invisible formation outward.

Within the range covered by this formation, the spiritual energy in the air would be affected by the formation. Ning Zhuo could change the attribute of the spiritual energy within the formation with just a thought.

In other words, the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate was a combat weapon capable of altering or setting up the battlefield.

“When I improve my mastery of the Five Elements Generation and Restraint technique in the future, the quality of the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate I can obtain will be higher.”

The method of obtaining the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate was similar to the Blood Path Board, mainly referencing a certain spell or cultivation method.

The reward level after the second Dao Gate was the Five Elements Spirit Conversion Plate.

The reward level after the third Demonic Gate was the Blood Path Board.

These two reward level items could be repeatedly claimed.

In fact, the same was true for the reward level after the first Buddhist Gate. It was just that Ning Zhuo used Yuan Dasheng’s corpse to refine the Golden Blood Battle Ape·Dasheng, which possessed immortal talent.

The original normal reward of the first Buddhist Gate was the Spiritual Machine Construct, but the distance to complete spirituality was too great, destined to eventually deplete its spirituality. Ning Zhuo obtained the Golden Blood Battle Ape·Dasheng, which he has been using until now.

Under normal circumstances, the trial disciples’ Spiritual Machine Constructs would be consumed after a period of use. The trial disciples would then venture through the Buddhist Path again to claim the next construct.

Ning Zhuo struggled to pass the penultimate level of the Dao Path, and then found it difficult to continue.

The spiritual energy within him was less than thirty percent.

“The difficulty of the penultimate level is still very high for me.”

“I have spent too much time, energy, and spiritual power here.”

Ning Zhuo didn’t have much confidence in the last level of the Dao Gate.

After all, he had just cleared the Demonic Path, and his condition wasn’t complete to begin with.

But to see what it was like, Ning Zhuo still pushed open the last door.

He failed as expected.

After his soul returned to his body, Ning Zhuo returned to reality.

He was in the floating clouds, his closed eyes not opening for a long time.

He recalled his conversation with the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit and comprehensively considered his current situation.

The exchange with the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit was extremely rewarding.

Ning Zhuo verified the Foundation Establishment method and reached a deeper level of cooperation with the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit.

Most importantly, he figured out the main mechanism of the Palace Trial.

“To participate in the Palace Trial as soon as possible, I don’t actually need to accumulate my merits to the standard required for a first-rank position.”

“After all, my merits are negative, and it would take too long to accumulate to the standard of a first-rank position.”

Mainly because he had previously blown up the Immortal Palace, his merits were too negative. This pit was a bit too big and not easy to fill.

Ning Zhuo calculated in his mind.

In fact, he only needed the qualification to participate in the Palace Trial.

This meant that he didn’t need to strive for the first place in merits. He only needed to be within the top thirty-two.

Lava Immortal Palace, Infirmary.

Ning Xiaohui’s heart stirred, and she discovered a new repair mission.

“It’s that mechanical ape.” Ning Xiaohui’s eyes lit up immediately.

Ning Zhuo continuously闯关闯关 Demonic Path and reached the last level of the Dao Path, and Yuan Dasheng was injured as a result.

Without hesitation, Ning Zhuo immediately issued the Golden Blood Battle Ape as a mission to Ning Xiaohui.

Ning Xiaohui immediately accepted this repair mission.

The transmission circle pulsed, placing the Golden Blood Battle Ape on the workbench.

After Ning Xiaohui’s inspection, she happily discovered that this time the Golden Blood Battle Ape’s injuries were much lighter than the last time.

After all, the Golden Blood Battle Ape’s previous injuries had been accumulated by Ning Zhuo for a long time.

During the process of using the Golden Blood Battle Ape·Dasheng, Ning Zhuo only patched it up and didn’t figure out the mechanical structure of the Golden Blood Battle Ape. It could only be regarded as a makeshift patch.

Ning Xiaohui saw the Golden Blood Battle Ape’s injuries and couldn’t help but curl the corners of her mouth slightly.

In her opinion, the Golden Blood Battle Ape was less damaged, which meant that it had the upper hand in the battle, and the injuries it inflicted on its opponent must have been much more severe than its own.

“You should show your divine power more often!”

Ning Xiaohui became more and more fond of the Golden Blood Battle Ape, and the more she looked at it, the more domineering she thought it was.

Previously, the Golden Blood Battle Ape had brought her quite a few nightmares and countless embarrassing experiences, but now Ning Xiaohui had figured it out, and her feelings were completely different from before.

“After I repair you, I’ll go and inquire to see who is suffering.”

“It’s good to make things difficult for these trial disciples and make them suffer a little, as it will help their growth.”

When Ning Xiaohui said this, she couldn’t help but giggle.

(End of this chapter)