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“Oh dear, Ning Zhuo, what are you doing?”

“What time is it? And you’re still exploring the Immortal Palace!”

“Don’t you know what’s important?”

The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit had been watching Ning Zhuo’s every move, pacing back and forth in the main hall anxiously.

“Hurry up and get rid of Ning Xiaohui!”

“Dragging it out, dragging it out, she’s going to discover our secret.”

“I’m so anxious, I’m getting hot-headed!”

The Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit roared, and a ball of flame indeed sprouted on its head.

When it became anxious and angry to a certain degree, flames would erupt from parts of its body.

If the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit were Ning Zhuo, it would immediately use the Life-Hanging Thread to deal with Ning Xiaohui! But now, Ning Zhuo was acting as if nothing was wrong, leisurely exploring the Lava Immortal Palace!

This made the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit extremely anxious, and it wanted to grab Ning Zhuo by the ears and loudly question him – are you dragging your feet on purpose to die?!

But in the end, it still didn’t dare to do so.

In fact, it even lacked the courage to talk to Ning Zhuo again.

It was quite worried that it might accidentally slip up and be seen through by Ning Zhuo!

While the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit was anxious and hesitant, Ning Zhuo had already reached out and touched the entrance to the next room.

There was no reward for passing this entrance, nor any reward of blood qi.

This was somewhat unexpected for Ning Zhuo: “Without blood qi, how do I use the Blood Path Diagram?”

In the next moment, he stepped into the second-to-last level of the entire Demonic Path, accompanied by Yuan Dasheng.

Thousands of eyes, glowing with blood, all stared at the two of them at once!

Ning Zhuo was astonished. He had never seen so many Kung Fu puppets before.

Hundreds upon thousands of puppets stood neatly, all drawn to the movement at the entrance.

This was an army of mechanical puppets!

The puppets each had glowing red eyes, or were shrouded in a layer of blood qi, revealing Qi Refining auras ranging from the first to the ninth layer.

Ning Zhuo’s eyes also lit up: “So the source of blood qi for this level isn’t the entrance, but these puppets.”

Seeing the appearance of Ning Zhuo and the Golden Blood War Ape Dasheng, the mechanical puppets all activated and pounced towards them.

Hundreds of puppets moved together, swarming like a tide, bringing Ning Zhuo a strong sense of oppression.

“My Lord, please retreat, this humble general will protect your safety.” Yuan Dasheng stepped forward, like a city gate, blocking in front of Ning Zhuo.

Its body was sturdy, and the materials had been enhanced by the Buddhist Path, far exceeding its original state.

Most importantly, it had been painstakingly repaired by Ning Xiaohui, looking brand new, with red muscles and exposed golden bones, appearing exceptionally imposing and reliable.

The Kung Fu puppets rushed closer, and were all knocked away by Yuan Dasheng one by one.

Yuan Dasheng was skilled in martial arts, using both fists and feet, and its strength alone made it invincible.

Bang bang bang.

A large number of Kung Fu puppets were knocked away by it, some flung far away, some directly falling apart, and some flying backwards and knocking down a group of allies.

However, there were truly too many Kung Fu puppets.

Yuan Dasheng only had spiritual power, but no blood qi, and was not in its optimal state.

Concerned for Ning Zhuo’s safety behind it, it could only retreat slowly step by step in the face of the tide of enemies.

Seeing this, Ning Zhuo immediately cast spells.

Flames and frost descended, and rock plates and rolling logs were launched, but they instead aroused the blood qi defenses of the Kung Fu puppets.

They were each covered with blood-vein armor. To a great extent, it resisted the damage from the spells.

“Terrible.” Ning Zhuo’s heart sank, realizing that his actions had backfired, and stimulated the puppets to become even stronger.

“Yuan Dasheng has been using its fists and feet, defeating many puppets, without letting them use their own blood qi.”

“This level perhaps doesn’t encourage the use of spells at all. Is pure melee combat the right way to pass through?”

Ning Zhuo immediately had many guesses in his mind.

And in terms of melee combat, this was Ning Zhuo’s weakness.

When he first broke through to the third level, he was soundly taught a lesson by a Kung Fu puppet. In the end, he relied on the Ice Holding Technique to extricate himself and successfully pass through.

Ning Zhuo had always wanted to hone his melee skills, but unfortunately, he was too busy and couldn’t spare the time at all.

Ning Zhuo stopped using spells, and the demonic Kung Fu puppets also stopped using blood qi.

Yuan Dasheng was only one puppet after all, and a large number of puppets surrounded it from all directions.

Ning Zhuo also had no choice but to engage in combat.

He had basic melee skills, and they were solid. He could deal with two or three puppets at the same time.

But now, there were more than a dozen puppets launching attacks on him from all directions.

Ning Zhuo was forced to constantly move, relying on mobile warfare to buy time.

As the surrounding demonic blood puppets increased in number, the enemy formation grew thicker, and the space available for Ning Zhuo to break through and maneuver became smaller, a greater sense of coldness arose in Ning Zhuo’s heart.

“Is this breakthrough going to fail this time?”

Ning Zhuo sensed defeat, but at the same time, he felt quite puzzled.

He was someone who had broken through the Buddhist Path and completed it.

“Compared to the second level of the Buddhist Path, the difficulty of the levels here in the Demonic Path far exceeds the Buddhist Path, by more than a hundred times!”

“This is clearly unreasonable.”

At this time, a large group of mechanical puppets pounced on the Golden Blood War Ape Dasheng one after another.

The mechanical puppets were each covered in blood qi, and the blood qi formed blood veins, reinforcing their bodies while bringing greater strength.

They piled on top of Yuan Dasheng like a stack of arhats.

Then, the blood-vein armor on their bodies merged into one, forming a vast amount of blood qi, accumulating into a greater force, sealing Yuan Dasheng up and down, and condensing huge blood-vein shackles.

“Terrible!” Ning Zhuo cried out in alarm, and was about to cast a spell to break the siege.

Just at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The blood-vein shackles applied to Yuan Dasheng only lasted for a brief moment, before transforming back into blood qi, which was swallowed up by an invisible force into Yuan Dasheng’s body.

To be precise, it was swallowed into the Blood Path Diagram within Yuan Dasheng’s body.

In an instant, Ning Zhuo understood!

“I understand, this is the correct way to break through!”

“This is how the Blood Path Diagram is used!”

When the Blood Path Diagram possessed blood qi, it could allow the mechanical constructs to display demonic stained blood-vein techniques of the corresponding layer.

When the Blood Path Diagram had no blood qi, if it encountered external demonic stained blood-vein qi, it could directly absorb it!
These demonic blood puppets originally intended to imprison Yuan Dasheng, but instead delivered a great gift.

Yuan Dasheng was previously troubled by the lack of blood qi, but now, receiving such a large gift, his combat strength immediately soared.

He roared softly, his arms shaking, and his blood qi surged, forming a blood-colored ball of light that rapidly expanded and expanded around him.

The layers upon layers of mechanical puppets pressing down on him were all lifted, knocked open, and then fell to the ground.

Many mechanical puppets could not withstand the intense impact of the blood qi and fell apart directly in mid-air.

Yuan Dasheng roared softly, his fists clenched, like two war hammers, swinging like the wind. He charged straight ahead, invincible, and with the help of blood qi, no mechanical puppet was his match.

A large number of demonic blood puppets shattered and disintegrated under his fists and feet.

However, this good fortune did not last long, and Yuan Dasheng’s combat strength gradually weakened.

There were too many enemies.

Yuan Dasheng’s attacks were constantly consuming blood qi. Insufficient blood qi greatly affected his combat strength!

Enemies were everywhere, endless, advancing wave after wave.

Ning Zhuo reminded him to continue absorbing blood qi.

Yuan Dasheng obeyed the order, reached out and grabbed a head.

He activated the Blood Path Diagram, and the diagram burst out with strong suction, causing the puppet in Yuan Dasheng’s hand to tremble.

A stream of blood qi was thus drawn from the puppet’s body, through the head, along the palm, the arm, and finally absorbed into Yuan Dasheng’s Blood Path Diagram.

Without the support of blood qi, the puppet immediately withered, extremely weak.

Yuan Dasheng used force with both hands and directly crushed the puppet’s head.

Much of his attack power manifested in his pair of hands!

Yuan Dasheng continuously grabbed and pinched, absorbing the blood qi of the puppets, and then crushed them one by one.

Although these demonic blood puppets were numerous, they lacked intelligence and had no targeted counterattack against Yuan Dasheng’s actions.

In contrast, Yuan Dasheng himself had reached the Spirit Wisdom stage, and at this moment, he learned knowledge from the battle and began to focus on the storage of blood qi.

He was willing to take a beating in order to absorb all the blood qi from the demonic blood puppets, sucking it all into his Blood Path Diagram.

The more blood qi Yuan Dasheng absorbed, the stronger he became, and the stronger he became, the more blood qi he absorbed…

Under this positive cycle, Yuan Dasheng stabilized his position and gradually became invincible.

Ning Zhuo was pleased to see this, but also somewhat puzzled.

“Having found the correct way to pass the level, the second level of the Demonic Path becomes very simple. The real difficulty is much smaller than on the Buddhist side.”

“This doesn’t make sense.”

Ning Zhuo fell into thought.

Soon, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility.

He personally practiced in battle, actively choosing demonic blood puppets as opponents, and after many trials, his understanding of the operation mechanism of the level became deeper.

It turned out that the swallowing and absorption ability of the Blood Path Diagram was limited.

The Blood Path Diagram that Ning Zhuo possessed, which only recorded the Eight Layers of Demonic Blood Meridian Art, could at most swallow and absorb the Demonic Blood Meridian Qi of the Refining Essence Eight Layers level.

There was nothing he could do about the higher Nine Layers of Blood Meridian.

In fact, it was already very difficult to swallow and absorb the Eight Layers of Blood Meridian.

“The three Sects Supreme designed this level to allow cultivators to focus on the application of the Blood Path Diagram.”

“In the early stage of passing the level, first delay time through mobile warfare, lengthen the battle line, and choose puppets with lower cultivation levels to swallow and absorb their blood qi.”

“In the middle stage of passing the level, use the blood qi swallowed to enhance your own combat strength, while destroying puppets and fighting to sustain the battle.”

“In the later stage of passing the level, deal with those hard bones, and after fierce fighting, finally break through the blood path and pass this level!”

Spells could not be used.

Once used, they would stimulate a large number of puppets to use Blood Meridians, causing the puppets’ combat strength to soar.

This would not only increase the pressure on the cultivators passing the level, but also drastically reduce the blood qi they obtained.

“So, the difficulty of this level is related to the Blood Path Diagram.”

“The Nine Layers Demonic Art Blood Path Diagram has the smallest difficulty in passing the level. Eight Layers, Seven Layers, the lower the cultivation level, the greater the difficulty in passing the level!”

“However…”

“I have Yuan Dasheng. When refining it, I used the true scripture of the Demonic Blood Meridian Art as raw material. This caused it to refine a Foundation Establishment level Blood Path Diagram in the previous level.”

“This diagram, in the second level, restrains all Demonic Blood Puppets and is an supreme weapon!”

This was the main reason why Ning Zhuo found the difficulty of passing the level to be so pitifully low.

In a nutshell, he was cheating again.

The trial level set up by the three Sects Supreme was for cultivators in the Refining Qi stage.

Normal Refining Qi stage cultivators would only obtain the Demonic Blood Meridian Art at the Refining Qi stage level, and they simply did not have the ability to make a Foundation Establishment level Blood Path Diagram.

Yuan Dasheng’s existence exceeded the upper limit of the level design.

Under Yuan Dasheng’s performance, Ning Zhuo smoothly cleared the second level.

Seeing that Ning Zhuo obviously still wanted to take Yuan Dasheng to continue to the last level, Long Yuan Fire Spirit felt worried.

“Oh no, oh no!”

“You can’t do that, you can’t take the Golden Blood Battle Ape Dasheng in, it’s very easy for it to get trapped inside and not be able to come back.”

Long Yuan Fire Spirit knew the mechanism of the last level and was extremely worried about Ning Zhuo.

If Ning Zhuo really took Yuan Dasheng in, the loss would be great, and it would be difficult to rescue Yuan Dasheng for a while.

In normal times, Long Yuan Fire Spirit couldn’t wait for Ning Zhuo to do this.

Long Yuan Fire Spirit really wanted to see Ning Zhuo fall, but now, if something happened to Ning Zhuo and his strength was weakened, who would it find to deal with Ning Xiaohui?

Ning Xiaohui only had Refining Qi stage cultivation, and Golden Blood Battle Ape Dasheng was definitely enough to eliminate her.

Long Yuan Fire Spirit knew that Golden Blood Battle Ape Dasheng was very practical and did not want this weapon to be damaged.

At the same time, it was also quite worried that Ning Zhuo would get confused. Once Golden Blood Battle Ape Dasheng was detained in the last level, he would spend too much time and energy trying to clear the last level to rescue Golden Blood Battle Ape Dasheng!

“Young Master, Master.” Seeing that Ning Zhuo was about to push the door in, Long Yuan Fire Spirit had no choice but to contact him again.

“Stop, please stop first, don’t rush to enter.” Long Yuan Fire Spirit reminded him.

Then, in the next moment, a flame whip condensed above its head.

With a crisp sound, the whip struck Long Yuan Fire Spirit’s body.
Draconic Turtle Fire Spirit: ……

It never anticipated this day would arrive, where it would break the rules, all to remind Ning Zhuo!

It would be flogged, all for Ning Zhuo!

Where could it even go to voice its grievances?

(End of Chapter)