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Chapter 35: Chapter 35: The Void Illusion Realm
Mechanical Beasts are divided into Four-Armed Mechanism Beasts and Eight-Armed Mechanism Beasts. As the name implies, one has four arms, each holding weapons like knives, spears, clubs, and staves; the other has eight arms, equipped with an assortment of weapons, making their lethality more than double as powerful, enough to threaten a martial master.
This disciple of the Shi Family is just at the Eighth Layer Martial Apprentice, yet he could confront a Mechanical Beast head-on, which shows his defensive power is indeed far beyond ordinary people.
"Also, I’ve forgotten that there are other people here. The things I can’t find, maybe they have them. I can just rob them directly."
Having realized this, Lin Feng took advantage of the Shi Family disciple’s fierce battle with the Mechanical Beast and charged towards them.
"Haha, come on! What can a mere Four-Armed Mechanism Beast do to me?"
A punch repelled the great sword slashed by the Mechanical Beast. The Shi Family disciple was knocked back a step, and the Mechanical Beast was pushed back as well. Seeing his own valor, the Shi Family disciple laughed loudly, full of boldness. 𝚗ov𝚙𝚞𝚋.c𝚘m
Thunder Tribulation Seal!
Crackling!
The next instant, thunder and lightning suddenly flashed behind him, zigzagging across the sky, startling him.
"Damn it, a disciple of the Lei Family?"
However, his vision was already filled with blinding light, he couldn’t see anything, and then he was enveloped by a powerful attack. Instantly his shield burst, and together with the Mechanical Beast, they were both blown away. His eyes rolled back, and he fainted, while the Mechanical Beast was also directly blown to pieces.
Lin Feng walked over to the Shi Family disciple, fumbled around his body for a while, and pulled out four keys, among which were the ones Lin Feng needed.
"Not bad, in appreciation of your assistance, I’ll send you on your way."
Lin Feng crushed his Waist Token, and in an instant, the person turned into a stream of light and disappeared.
Outside the tower.
The Shi Family Elder had a big smile on his face. They were meritorious. Right now, at this moment, their Shi Family disciples performed brilliantly, just look at the expressions of those from the Lin Family and the Lei Family.
Thrilling! Extremely thrilling!
Whoosh!
The next moment, a figure appeared before them. The Shi Family Elder was taken aback, then said incredulously: "Shi Potian?"
At this point, Shi Potian was already unconscious. The Shi Family Elder saw him battered and smoking in places, many areas of his skin also scorched, as if he had just been struck by lightning. The elder stuffed an Elixir into his mouth. Before long, Shi Potian came to and immediately spit out a mouthful of clotted blood.
"Shi Potian, what happened? You are a Sixth Grade Star, with your defensive tactics, you shouldn’t have failed on the second level."
Thinking of this made Shi Potian angry, and immediately, he glanced at the Lei Family Elder, "Disciple was ambushed by the Lei Family. I was fighting with a Four-Armed Mechanism Beast, then a Lei Family disciple attacked me from behind and I had no time to react. Moreover, that Lei Family disciple’s destructive power was very strong, and then I knew nothing."
"The Lei Family disciple ambushed?"
The Shi Family Elder was furious, staring fiercely at the Lei Family Elder.
The Lei Family Elder was unconcerned and spoke indifferently: "A loss is a loss; there’s no need for such worthless excuses. You wouldn’t be so naïve as to think that combat is just two people facing each other, exchanging blows with fair turns, would you?"
The Shi Family Elder was immediately unable to refute this. Indeed, in battle, it’s a matter of life and death, inevitably pushing limits to extremes, with no set rules on the methods to be used.
Victory belongs to the conquerors, killing the opponent means success.
The Lei Family Elder gazed upon the screen, their Lei Family already has three disciples who entered the Third Layer, they looked at the same for the Lin Family and the Shi Family, it was almost similar, clearly, the top seeds among the three clans have already found the method to enter the Third Layer.
Lin Feng stepped out of the Light Gate; the Third Layer was a different world altogether, a desert lay before him, with sandstorms blanketing the skies and a scorching sun beating down from above, parching the throat and tongue, everything felt so utterly real.
Lin Feng stepped onto the sandy grounds, which felt loose and soft, even scaldingly hot underfoot. Every sensation was incredibly lifelike, as if he had actually arrived in a desert.
Yet Lin Feng knew that all of this was an illusion, nothing but deceiving apparitions.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Suddenly, two enormous desert lizards leapt towards the sky and lunged at Lin Feng, aiming to bite him.
Lin Feng, however, proceeded forward without the slightest fear or concern, as if he hadn’t seen them at all, utterly indifferent.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The desert lizards passed right through him, and the corners of Lin Feng’s mouth curled up slightly.
Everything was mere illusion. The Third Layer could be considered the most difficult, or it could also be seen as the simplest.
...
"This Star Tower, my biggest fear is them encountering trials that test their mental fortitude. Whenever such trials appear in the past, they stumped many people."
The Lei Family Elder looked at the point of light that had not moved for a while and frowned. Half an hour ago, there were six from the Lei Family on the Third Layer and four on the Second Layer, but now, all ten were on the Third Layer. Those who were previously on the Third Layer hadn’t moved; there hadn’t been any progress at all.
The Shi Family was in a similar situation, evidently facing a very difficult challenge.
"Ha ha!"
It was at this moment that hearty laughter rang out. It made the Elders of both the Lei and Shi Families look over, turning their heads to see what had happened, and their expressions changed instantaneously.
Because someone from the Lin Family had made it to the Fourth Layer. Although one was still on the First Layer, this was no longer important, for they all knew that, with Lin Feng’s talent, it was quite normal for him to remain on the First Layer. It was just unclear what he was still persisting with on the First Layer.
Their gazes were fixated on the red dot that had entered the Fourth Layer.
How could this be.
The Elders of both the Lei and Shi Families clenched their fists tightly.
"Lin Zihua has indeed not disappointed me, very good! Lei Ming and Shi Gandang, you must work harder!" Lin Dong burst forth with a robust laughter, looking skyward in joy. This was well-deserved for their Lin Family’s number one genius.
"Damn it!!"
The faces of the Elders of the Lei and Shi Families turned ashen. Their three families had been openly and secretly competing for many years and could not afford to be outdone in any respect, let alone with the Star Tower, which was no small matter.
If Lin Zihua were to obtain the baptism qualification, wouldn’t that mean he could potentially become a Ninth Grade Star? In the future, wouldn’t the Lin Family hold sway over them?
...
On the Fourth Layer, the scenery changed again to a jungle. What met Lin Feng’s eyes were towering trees, their canopies so expansive they blotted out the sun. All around, the silence was eerie, enough to make one’s skin crawl.
Lin Feng glanced around, a very familiar setting. Jungles were what he saw most often, but they were also the most dangerous places.
Just now, he had simply walked until reaching the end, where a cliff loomed ahead. If an ordinary person were there, they’d likely rein in their horse at the cliff’s edge, retreating immediately for fear of falling, but few knew that this cliff was also an illusion, in reality, an entrance to the Fourth Layer.
But who could have thought of that?
If it weren’t for the time when Lin Feng, as the Demon Dragon Emperor, had heard some people mention these things over tea, he himself wouldn’t have known. However, jumping off the cliff, that sensation of dropping, the onrush of fierce wind, had almost driven him to crush his Waist Token. But in the end, he forcefully suppressed that urge, and as the scenery changed before him, he arrived at the Fourth Layer—proving that everything was indeed as he had anticipated.
