lcionline Chapter 196 The Trial Begins
Chapter 196 The Trial Begins
Ye Shuli and Jiang Ye disappeared into the night. The next second, she felt a blur before her eyes, as if she had passed through an invisible barrier, and the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.
The pitch-black night was replaced by a hazy, pale blue light, and a thick psionic mist filled the surroundings, making it feel like a dream.
The ground beneath my feet was no longer solid earth, but a soft yet powerful substance. Every step felt like walking on cotton, yet I could faintly feel the ground vibrating.
"Is this the Spirit King Trial?" Ye Shuli felt the unusual spiritual energy fluctuations around her, feeling both nervous and excited.
This unknown challenge was a stage tailor-made for her!
She rubbed her hands together, her eyes gleaming with a wild light. "Come on, let me see what this Spirit King Trial is all about!"
Just then, a deafening roar shattered the tranquility of the space, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, making people's eardrums ache.
Immediately afterwards, a massive figure burst out of the mist, carrying a world-destroying aura, and headed straight for Ye Shuli.
It was a colossal psionic beast radiating a pale blue light. Its enormous claws carved deep furrows into the ground, causing the earth to tremble violently with every step.
It opened its blood-red maw, revealing sharp fangs, and the breath it exhaled was scorching hot.
"Holy crap! What the hell is this?" Ye Shuli instantly switched into battle mode, dodging the giant beast's attacks with agility while complaining.
This thing is practically a mobile "natural disaster"!
The behemoth's attacks came like a storm, its huge claws falling like mountains, each strike cracking the ground around it, sending rocks flying, and the deafening sound almost tearing eardrums apart.
With her amazing reaction speed and agile movements, Ye Shuli constantly weaved through the gaps in the giant beast's attacks, like a nimble butterfly.
While dodging, Ye Shuli calmly observed the giant beast's attack patterns. She discovered that although the beast's attacks were fierce, they were not invincible.
During a brief pause after an attack, a glint flashed in Ye Shuli's eyes. She leaped backward, dodging another sweeping attack from the giant beast.
"The opportunity has come!" Ye Shuli thought to herself. Her spiritual power surged like a volcanic eruption. She concentrated her spiritual power at her fingertips, transforming it into several sharp blades, and thrust them fiercely at the giant beast's weak points.
The sword blade sliced through the air like lightning, leaving a sharp whistling sound, and struck the giant beast's vital spot with pinpoint accuracy.
The behemoth seemed to have not expected Ye Shuli to suddenly retaliate. Its massive body shuddered violently, and it let out a painful roar.
The surrounding psionic energy seemed to pause for a moment, and even the joint trial participants who were watching the spectacle showed expressions of surprise.
Ye Shuli's lips curled slightly. "It seems this trial is quite interesting." She looked at the giant beast she had struck.
Ye Shuli formed hand seals, and a mysterious power began to surge around her. The spiritual energy in the air became unusually active, as if something was about to break free from its cocoon.
Ye Shuli's hand seals moved with lightning speed, and the spiritual energy in the air seemed to be attracted by a magnet, frantically converging towards her.
A strange energy fluctuation gradually emerged around her, a marvelous fusion of modern technology and mystical spiritual arts.
With a soft shout, countless transparent threads shot out from her fingertips, weaving together like a spider web into a giant grid that instantly enveloped the psionic behemoth.
"Hey, this is my own creation, 'Data Flow Binding'!" Ye Shuli raised her eyebrows proudly. This move combines modern quantum entanglement theory with spiritual techniques. As for the effect, you'll know once you use it!
The psionic behemoth was entangled in the threads, as if its operating instructions were locked by a program. Its movements became sluggish, and its original ferocious aura dissipated considerably, leaving it only able to utter impotent rage roars.
Ye Shuli wouldn't let this opportunity slip by. She flashed and appeared on the side of the giant beast like a ghost.
Spiritual energy gathered at his fingertips once more. This time, it was no longer a probing attack, but a beam of spiritual energy containing destructive power.
"Let me show you the power of my 'laser cannon'!" The beam shot out like lightning, accurately hitting the giant beast's weak point.
With a loud "bang," the massive body of the psionic beast was forced back repeatedly, its howls echoing throughout the entire trial space.
It struggled to break free of its constraints, but the "data stream constraint" was like a leech, making every movement more painful.
"Awooo—" The psionic behemoth's roar was filled with resentment, but it was powerless to resist and could only watch helplessly as Ye Shuli devoured it bit by bit.
This scene left the surrounding joint trial participants, who had been watching the spectacle, completely dumbfounded. They gaped, their faces filled with disbelief.
"Holy crap, is this girl cheating?" "Is she even human?!" Exclamations of amazement rose and fell, and their eyes were filled with fear and apprehension as they looked at Ye Shuli.
Feeling the malicious gazes around her, Ye Shuli sneered inwardly.
Hmph, trying to take advantage of me?
How naive!
She pretended not to know, a slight upturn of her lips, but a sly glint flashed in her eyes.
Do these guys really think they can get a bargain?
As Ye Shuli felt the encirclement tightening around her, she thought to herself that this group of people looked just like those newbies in the game who wanted to ambush her, but their tricks were too old-fashioned!
She quickly analyzed her surroundings and soon discovered the traps hidden in the shadows.
"Oh? You want to play dirty tricks?" Ye Shuli raised an eyebrow and said to herself, "Then I'll play along with you." She deliberately slowed down her movements, as if she had really fallen into the trap of the joint trial participants, and a meaningful smile appeared on her lips.
Ye Shuli smiled coldly and deliberately slowed her pace, pretending not to notice the tightening encirclement around her.
She "accidentally" tripped over a "stone," staggered, and was about to fall into a hidden trap.
Seeing this, the joint trial participants were secretly delighted, each one rubbing their hands together, ready to swarm Ye Shuli and capture her once she fell into the trap.
"Heh heh, this chick's pretty green, she fell for it so easily," a burly man with a face full of scars muttered.
“That’s right, they don’t even know who we are. They’re too green to fight us!” another skinny man chimed in.
Just when they thought victory was in their grasp, Ye Shuli suddenly steadied herself, a mocking smile curving her lips.
"That's it? Your trap is way too simplistic! Do you think I'm stupid?"
Before she finished speaking, a powerful surge of spiritual energy erupted from Ye Shuli's center.
This spiritual energy surged like a tidal wave, impacting the joint trial participants in reverse.
Before they could even react, they were trapped in their own snare, falling to the ground in a disheveled state.
The trap originally intended to imprison Ye Shuli has now become their cage.
"Ouch, my old waist!"
"What the hell, what's going on?"
"This girl is pretending to be weak while actually being strong!"
The joint trial participants wailed, their faces filled with shock and frustration.
They never imagined that the trap they had carefully set would turn around and trap them instead.
Ye Shuli stood before the trapped joint trial participants, looking at them coldly, like a queen looking down upon her subjects.
"You think you can outsmart me with such petty tricks? You're really overestimating yourselves!"
She glanced around, her eyes sharp as knives.
"I warn you, don't try to scheme against me again, or you'll face the consequences!"
The participants in the joint trials were all terrified and dared not speak out against their anger.
They originally thought they could easily deal with Ye Shuli, but they didn't expect to run into a brick wall.
They were like tigers with their teeth pulled, forced to watch helplessly as Ye Shuli swaggered around.
Ye Shuli was in a great mood when she saw their disheveled appearance.
The surrounding psychic energy seemed to sense her joy and became cheerful, as if celebrating her victory.
She stretched and continued walking forward with light steps.
"Next, it's time to find those hidden puzzles..." Ye Shuli muttered to herself, a sly glint in her eyes. "Let me see what other fun things await me in this Spirit King Trial..."
Suddenly, a gentle breeze blew by, bringing with it a strange fragrance...
Ye Shuli put away her playful expression and continued to delve deeper into the trial space.
The pale blue light around us grew stronger, as if we were inside a giant blue crystal ball.
A faint, pleasant fragrance filled the air, refreshing yet carrying a hint of mystery that made one feel slightly uneasy.
She discovered an area ahead emitting a strange light, where psionic fluctuations were unusually active, like a giant vortex, drawing her closer and closer.
The psionic particles in the air, like leaping sprites, swirled and danced around that area, emitting a faint hum, as if whispering ancient secrets.
Ye Shuli's pace gradually slowed down, and she felt her heartbeat quicken with the fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual energy.
Every step was taken with utmost care, for fear of triggering some trap or mechanism.
She held her breath, gathering spiritual energy at her fingertips, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.
The moment she stepped into the area of light, a petite figure appeared out of thin air.
It was a transparent elf radiating a soft light, with a pair of bright, watery eyes that curiously observed Ye Shuli.
It has a pair of wings as thin as cicada wings, which flutter gently in the air, and a long tail trailing behind it, with starlight-like sparkles at the tip of the tail.
"Hey, newbie, are you here to challenge the Spirit King's Trial?" The riddle sprite's voice was clear and melodious, with a touch of childishness, echoing in the air like a wind chime.
Ye Shuli was slightly taken aback, not expecting the elf to take the initiative to speak to her.
She raised an eyebrow and replied, "That's right, it's me!"
The puzzle sprite tilted its head, seemingly puzzled by Ye Shuli's self-address, but it didn't seem to care. Instead, it chuckled and said, "Alright, if you want to get through here, you'll have to answer my questions first!"
It stretched out its little hand, and an ancient rune slowly emerged in its palm, radiating a mysterious light that distorted the surrounding space.
Immediately afterwards, a passage of obscure and difficult-to-understand text entered Ye Shuli's mind.
"Listen carefully, my riddle is: 'Spiritual energy flows backward, time and space reverse, yin and yang intertwine, life and death cycle. Only by solving this riddle can you move forward.' Think about it carefully, little girl!" After the riddle spirit finished speaking, it floated in mid-air, crossed its arms, and looked like it was watching a good show.
Ye Shuli's head was buzzing. The puzzle sounded incredibly mysterious, even more difficult than advanced mathematics!
She rubbed her temples and began to carefully analyze every word in the riddle.
Spiritual energy backflow?
Time reversal?
Yin and Yang intertwined?
The cycle of life and death?
What the hell is this?
Did people in ancient times always like to talk about supernatural things?
The air around her seemed to freeze, with only the puzzle sprite's large eyes staring unblinkingly at her.
Ye Shuli felt a headache coming on, as if she were trapped in a complex maze and couldn't find a way out.
Just as she was deep in thought, she suddenly sensed that the psychic energy around her seemed to be changing.
The previously calm psionic particles became restless, as if some powerful force was awakening.
A sense of danger welled up in Ye Shuli's heart, and she instantly became alert.
She suddenly raised her head and looked around. The blue light around her had become even more intense, and the psionic fluctuations in the air were even more violent, as if something terrifying was about to appear.
Ye Shuli's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that a new trial was about to begin?
Or is the riddle itself a trap?
She gripped the spiritual power in her hands tightly, ready to face new challenges at any moment.
"Damn, this Spirit King Trial is so exciting! It's all about the thrill!" she muttered under her breath, but her eyes sparkled with excitement.
Ye Shuli took a deep breath, her eyes becoming firm and sharp.
No matter what happens next, she will be fearless and forge ahead!