Chapter 248 Test

Just as Li Chengqi was leaving, a sword light flew down and landed steadily in front of the Faceless Hall.

On the platform in front of the hall, the sword light dissipated, revealing Huo Qingkong's solemn face.

He looked up at the temple before him and strode inside.

"Teacher, I'm back."

Inside the hall, the Holy Spirit Daoist was still sitting cross-legged in place, motionless, with his eyes closed.

"You've worked hard, Qingkong," he replied softly. "This battle should lay the foundation for the future new structure of our four factions. In the future... when I pass the throne to you, everything will be set."

"When will Teacher pass the throne to me?" The cumbersome rules made Huo Qingkong feel like a fire was burning in his heart.

The fusion was still going on. If he succeeded, everything would be fine, but if he failed, he wouldn't have much time left.

He couldn't waste a single second.

"..." The Holy Spirit Daoist was silent for a moment, seemingly not expecting him to ask this question.

According to the progress, Huo Qingkong should still be in the process of fusion, but his strength probably already had the preliminary characteristics of a True Fire expert.

True Fire experts ignite their Seal Rings, bringing about a huge qualitative change.

Normally, taking oneself as kindling, burning everything, crossing everything, and stepping onto the highest peak to become a dazzling flame was extremely difficult.

But Huo Qingkong was different.

"The Qi of Tribulation... has become stronger and expanded again. This time, if you can destroy the newly emerged Qi Eye, along with the previous three, I will immediately pass the throne to you," the Holy Spirit Daoist said.

Huo Qingkong breathed a sigh of relief.

He could feel the increasingly vast evil aura from the outside world and knew that time was running out. If he was still bound by these formalities and rules, the future battle would be dangerous.

Now that his master had given him a test, as long as he completed it, he could break free from his restraints and soar into the sky.

"Teacher, please wait for my return!"

After saying this, he turned and strode out.

The sword light rose again, and Huo Qingkong had disappeared from the spot, flying towards the location of the internal Qi of Tribulation.

The Holy Spirit Daoist sat alone in front of the statue, raised his head, and looked at the faceless deity in front of him.

He suddenly sighed.

"Mingcong."

A Daoist child with golden scales on his face quickly entered from outside the door and respectfully saluted.

"Please gather the other elders here. Prepare to activate the Thousand-Faced Floating Sky Formation."

"Ah?? But... that formation indiscriminately attacks all living things inside the Qi of Tribulation cave..." Mingcong looked stunned.

The Thousand-Faced Floating Sky Formation was the Faceless Sword Sect's highest killing formation, a top-level formation that could only be activated in times of life and death. It was the last killing move that Old Ancestor Chi Yuan had left to future generations.

Each of the four factions had such a trump card that could gather the power of everyone, causing a qualitative change in an instant, thereby stepping into the Supreme True Fire Realm.

And if the Holy Spirit Daoist was the core leader, the power of the formation would be greatly enhanced.

"Go... don't ask why," the Holy Spirit Daoist said tiredly.

"But Qingkong has just gone inside," Mingcong hesitated.

"It's okay. I gave him a Transmission Induction Talisman. When the formation is activated, he can automatically teleport out. It's just that he may be teleported outside the station due to the influence of the formation," the Holy Spirit Daoist said.

"Alright..." Mingcong bowed slightly, turned, and left the door.

Before long, all the elders who had received the notification arrived at the hall one by one.

Except for Kui Ling, who was still outside, everyone else was here.

"Where is Kui Ling? Where has she gotten to?" The Holy Spirit Daoist scanned the crowd and said in a low voice.

"We have already sent a message via flying sword. Elder Kui Ling is on her way back," Elder Yun Ling replied.

"That's good... Qingkong has gone to deal with the enhanced Qi of Tribulation. After he finishes dealing with it, we will work together to activate the formation and completely suppress the Qi of Tribulation Qi Eyes. I hope everyone will lend me a hand," the Holy Spirit Daoist said sincerely.

"We respectfully obey the Sect Leader's decree," everyone responded.

The four Qi of Tribulation Qi Eyes were indeed much stronger than before. This level of strength was enough to weaken Huo Qingkong's state in a short period of time. Then, when he was exhausted, the Demon Emperor would judge whether to completely open the formation...

As for the Transmission Talisman... the Holy Spirit Daoist didn't give him anything at all.

After confirming the activation of the formation, the elders left the hall, leaving the Holy Spirit Daoist standing alone.

He looked at the faces hanging on the surrounding walls, all of whom were former masters and seniors who had fallen in the sect.

"Please help your disciple, Ancestral Masters!"

He respectfully bowed to all the faces.

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More than ten minutes later.

Wuqu Mountain Range.

A sword light shot over and gently floated in the sky above the mountain range, looking down below.

The traces and scars left by the previous battle between the four factions had been partially covered by the sky-filled wind and snow.

"Disappeared? Left, or..." Li Chengqi frowned slightly.

The environment was getting colder and colder. If he didn't find Huo Qingkong in time, the whole world might be finished.

At that time, he wouldn't have time to take Kui Ling and the others away.

After all, there was only one known method of escape now, and that was to kill the original body.

Confirming that no one was here, Li Chengqi took out the communication flying sword used by the sect and gently wiped the blade of the small sword.

Chī!

The flying sword flew out of his hand and immediately flew towards the distant snow mountain.

Li Chengqi followed closely behind, using the flying sword to find the large group of the Faceless Sword Sect.

The large group, burdened by low-level disciples, was not moving fast. However, Li Chengqi caught up with them in a few minutes.

On a huge flying sword shrouded in a blue halo, the people of the Faceless Sword Sect were heading towards the Years Gate.

Leading the way was Elder Long of the Years Gate.

Sensing the communication flying sword from afar, Elder Long turned back and looked behind him, seeing Li Chengqi approaching, controlling his sword light.

"Bai Lu of the Faceless Sword Sect?"

"Bai Lu greets Elder Long. Has Elder Huo Qingkong of my sect been seen? This junior has something to ask him," Li Chengqi clasped his fists and asked from afar.

"He has already returned, and Elder Kui Ling of your sect has also returned later," Elder Long replied.

"Thank you." Li Chengqi quickly turned his sword light and returned towards the sect.

His speed had now been further enhanced after entering the Seventeenth Seal. This time, it wasn't a simple increase in speed, but an overall comprehensive speed increase passively enhanced due to the fusion of the Flower God's Garment.

After all, among the Flower Language abilities, there was also a type that amplified the strength of the entire body.

At this time, the air on both sides was like silk threads under the full-speed blessing, disappearing in an instant.

Twenty times the speed of sound, this was Li Chengqi's fastest speed under normal circumstances.

'Everything here should end...'

Feeling the gradually increasing chill around him, the chill in Li Chengqi's eyes deepened as well.

On the other side.

Inside the Faceless Sword Sect's station.

Kui Ling and the other five elders had already stood in the open space in front of the main hall. Everyone sat cross-legged in a circle, with their own nourishing secret swords placed flat on their knees.

Streams of blue sword light bloomed from their bodies and converged on the Holy Spirit Daoist in the center.

The blue light became thicker and thicker, continuously.

This was the gathered power of the same attribute from six Seal Ring experts, all fused together and injected into the True Fire expert, the Holy Spirit Daoist.

The power of the Holy Spirit Technique was essentially a qualitative change in consciousness.

A large amount of consciousness almost materialized, wrapping around him like flowing water.

The gathered consciousness was guided by him and, with a flick of his hand, transformed into a blue beam of light, flying into the Faceless Hall.

It landed on the faceless statue.

Immediately, layers of wave-like white light spread out and exploded from the statue.

As if transmitting energy, the white light from the statue rapidly covered the entire sword sect station in circles, enveloping all the disciples.

The disciples' consciousness was also drawn away by half at this moment, merging into the white light.

The white light covered the sky above the sword sect, as if waiting for something, stagnant, but rippling like water.

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Inside the Qi of Tribulation Cave.

Wherever Huo Qingkong's gaze pointed, the Qi of Tribulation in the air was instantly killed and crushed by his Wisdom Sword.

Nothing could stop him from advancing.

Streams of Qi of Tribulation, equivalent to the power of Seal Rings, crashed into his body surface, but had no effect, like a gentle breeze.

These weaker Qi of Tribulation couldn't even penetrate the filaments of love that surrounded him.

Even if the density was occasionally too high, and one or two escaped the net, they seemed to be weakened invisibly when they hit him. The remaining power was scattered by a gentle blow from the protective Wisdom Sword.

The first Qi of Tribulation Qi Eye, a swirling dark red vortex, soon appeared in front of Huo Qingkong.

Sure enough, with a huge roar, the dark red Qi Eye was much more powerful than the last time he saw it.

Huo Qingkong frowned, waved his hand to condense the Wisdom Sword, and unleashed a Instant Prison, bursting out to crush the Qi Eye.

Only then did he realize that his usual blue sword light had actually turned black-red.

It was a color similar to the Qi of Tribulation. If he didn't look closely, he wouldn't be able to recognize it at all.

But this thought only flashed through his mind.

After easily expending some power to crush the first Qi Eye, he continued to go deeper without stopping, arriving at the second Qi Eye.

The black-red sword light transformed into a giant sword, and with a single slash, fiercely crushed the gray-black Qi Eye in mid-air.

But the giant sword itself also consumed most of its power, and its volume shrank a lot.

Huo Qingkong retracted the Wisdom Sword and merged it into his body.

'I knew that the test given by Teacher wouldn't be so easy to pass. It's really starting to get difficult.'

The strength of this Qi Eye was more than ten times stronger than the previous one. Even for him, it was a bit difficult to crush.

Continuing deeper, the third Qi Eye was even stronger, skyrocketing by another large margin.

Huo Qingkong continuously slashed more than ten times with the Wisdom Sword, and cooperated with the filaments of love to suppress and weaken it, spending more than two minutes before finally crushing it.

The fourth Qi Eye, also the last Qi Eye.

Its strength had reached the sum of all the previous Qi Eyes combined, doubled.

'Must hurry! Time is running out... the yin and evil aura outside is getting stronger and stronger,' the Demon Emperor said in his mind.

'I know!' Huo Qingkong said in a low voice.

The pain of fusion was still continuing, but with this fusion, his strength, speed, and physique were all rapidly improving.

And with the act of crushing the Qi of Tribulation, it seemed to stimulate the acceleration of the fusion.

The fusion of good and evil became more and more intense.

At this time, within the Sword Palace of his primordial spirit deep in his consciousness, his black primordial spirit and the surrounding blood-red beams had already fused more than ninety percent.

The color of the blood-red beams was fading almost indistinguishably.

And within the black primordial spirit, there seemed to be a hint of deep dark red.

Huo Qingkong looked at the last, fourth Qi Eye, took a deep breath, and suddenly raised his hand.

Boom!!

All the Wisdom Swords condensed on the secret sword, and at this moment, suddenly shot out from his sword-nourishing pouch.

'Instant Prison!'

'Thousand Blades!'

The secret sword, condensed with Wisdom Swords, suddenly stabbed towards the Qi Eye at this moment.

One thousand swords were stabbed in one-thousandth of a second!

The black-red sword light pierced back and forth through the last Qi Eye. The vast, solidified Qi of Tribulation and the Wisdom Sword and secret sword frantically rubbed, collided, and consumed each other.

At the same time, Huo Qingkong's entire body's fusion further accelerated, reaching the end.

Bēng!

A Wisdom Sword was shattered by the Qi of Tribulation collision.

Then came the second one.

The third one...

He had only condensed nine in total, and three were broken in a short period of time.

And it was at this moment that the fusion of good and evil finally came to an end.

The black primordial spirit and the dark red blood light merged into one, and the blood eyes on the walls of the Sword Palace disappeared automatically.

The entire humanoid primordial spirit was black and red in turn, the evil belonging to the Faceless Scholar and the good belonging to Huo Qingkong were frantically vying for the dominance of the body and power.

At this time, the Demon Emperor lurking deep in his consciousness was nervously staring at the changes in the primordial spirit.

Once the dark red occupied the primordial spirit, it would mean that they had failed, and the cultivated good side of Huo Qingkong would be completely swallowed, becoming nourishment for the Faceless Scholar.

And once the black took the upper hand, it would mean that they had successfully weakened the Faceless Scholar's power.

At that time, they would join forces to kill and resolve it by taking advantage of the opportunity. Only by dissolving its power after it completely appeared could they delay it for a longer time.

It also represented that this method was feasible! There would be a glimmer of hope in the future.

(End of this chapter)