C16 Trial puppet

When Chen Xiao stepped through the stone door, she suddenly realized that her entire feeling was different.

It was not because of the concentration of spiritual energy in the area, but because of the feeling he got from the stone room. This was a very chaotic place.

The entire place was dark, gloomy, and stuffy. At the same time, it was accompanied by the shrieks of all sorts of souls. It was as though they had instantly arrived at an endless battlefield.

Under the influence of all these negative feelings, Chen Xiao realized that his spiritual sense had been forcefully suppressed. It could be said that he was not even able to exert half of his previous strength.

The seven Dharma treasures that had just been controlled were affected and began falling with a "pu pu pu" sound. Chen Xiao could only barely control the three Dharma treasures with her divine sense. If she wanted to control them more smoothly, she would need to reduce the number of Dharma treasures by one.

Chen Xiao could not help but be alarmed. In such a situation, how could one complete the trial through the puppet?

At this moment, the space within the stone room did not give Chen Xiao much time to think. The dark, uneven ground began to churn, and then arms with a strange metallic luster extended out, followed by heads, torsos, and other areas that began to climb out from underground.

Trial puppet! Chen Xiao immediately understood the use of these strange puppets.

These puppets were constantly emitting spirit energy fluctuations. They looked like stiff corpses. The moment they crawled out of the ground, they began attacking Chen Xiao.

A puppet of the trial taker, who was wiggling its incongruous body, quickly rushed in front of Chen Xiao. Raising its gigantic axe high up, it cleaved down viciously.

When Chen Xiao saw this, he immediately retreated. This slash had actually brought about a sharp gale, causing Chen Xiao's face to feel a burning pain.

Nascent Soul Stage! Chen Xiao immediately determined the strength behind a casual attack from the puppet.

At this moment, Chen Xiao's heart sank. He was still at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage. He was only one step away from the Nascent Soul Stage. However, the difference in strength between these two realms was difficult to overcome.

Originally, with the help of seven Dharma treasures, Chen Xiao had not been afraid of a Nascent Soul stage puppet. However, now that his divine intents were being suppressed, he was unable to fully utilize his full strength. Now, even if it was just an early Nascent Soul stage puppet, it was not something that Chen Xiao could easily deal with.

Not to mention that in this stone room, there was not only one puppet.

Chen Xiao gave a simple glance at the puppets that crawled out. She immediately understood the number of puppets she was facing. Twenty!

However, he did not know how many of these twenty puppets were at the Nascent Soul Stage.

Soon, a result that made Chen Xiao feel despair appeared. After a series of battles, Chen Xiao realized that the twenty puppets were all at the early Nascent Soul Stage!

Although there was a certain difference between these puppets and true cultivators and they didn't have such extreme IQ, but the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage was a real existence.

In order for a cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Cultivation stage to deal with twenty early Nascent Soul stage puppets, there were very few people who could do it.

The moment these puppets set their eyes on a target, there would be no end to their battles. Unless the enemy died or retreated from the trial, Chen Xiao would have already understood the situation through the trials.

"Could it be …" Do you really want to give up? " A deep sense of powerlessness spread through Chen Xiao's heart. With his current strength, he might have some chances of winning against a single puppet, but if he were to face twenty at the same time, he might not even have a chance of winning.

However, to make Chen Xiao give up so easily, he felt indignant in his heart. After all, such a chance was rare, and many people might not even be able to see it once in their lives.

Facing the twenty puppets charging at him, Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and struggled to dodge the attack. The benefits of his powerful spiritual sense immediately manifested in the battle.

Although he was suppressed now, his spiritual sense was still at the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage. Therefore, using his spiritual sense to compete in puppet refinement, Chen Xiao was able to easily grasp the entire situation of the battle in the stone room.

His deific consciousness spread out in a 360 degree radius without any blind spots. Although his deific consciousness could only spread out to a distance of a short distance of ten meters, it could be said to be Chen Xiao's absolute domain within this ten-meter radius. Everything that happened in this range appeared in Chen Xiao's mind.

Chen Xiao had a clear understanding of how the enemy attacked, how they were sealed, where they could dodge, and where they could retreat.

If it were a true cultivator, Chen Xiao would not be so relaxed. After all, everyone had different magical equipment and abilities, so without sufficient information, it was impossible to know where the enemy's trump card was.

However, although Chen Xiao was undefeated, he did not have any divine intents left to retaliate against the attacks of the twenty puppets. Furthermore, as time passed, when his spiritual energy ran out, he would also end up in failure.

It was not that Chen Xiao had not considered this, but he did not have any extra mental strength to think of a solution. It was not that Chen Xiao had not considered this, but he did not have any additional mental strength to think of a solution.

"We can't continue like this anymore!" Chen Xiao knew that regardless of whether he could do it or not, he would have to start attempting to change it. If he was forced to continue avoiding it, he would end up as a failure in the end.

Chen Xiao waved his hand and two flying swords immediately flew out from his side. They were naturally Five-Colored Spirit Swords.

"Kacha!" Chen Xiao bellowed as his flying sword shot out like a bolt of lightning towards the closest puppet.

Chen Xiao wanted to use the Rainbow Spirit Sword's sharpness to cut off the puppet's arms.

However, although the flying sword was fast, it could not stop the large number of puppets. Just as the flying sword was about to cut through the arms of the puppet, it suddenly stabbed a giant axe into the side.

With two "ding, ding" sounds, two flying swords flew across the surface of the giant axe.

Chen Xiao was immediately dumbfounded. He never expected that the puppets would know how to coordinate with each other. There was no choice but to recall the two flying swords and retreat quickly once again.

The location where he had just been standing was immediately blasted open by a few puppets.

Wiping the sweat on his forehead in a slightly apprehensive manner, Chen Xiao knew that he had nearly suffered a grievous injury. The fact that the trial puppets were able to coordinate with each other made the pressure on Chen Xiao increase.

The other side had teammates to coordinate with, but he was alone. How could he fight?

With one versus many, Chen Xiao immediately thought of multiple energies. However, with his strength being limited, how could he use the original seventh level of energy?

"It seems that I can only think of a way to obtain more spiritual power!" Chen Xiao thought to himself.

In order to fight them one-on-one, he could only rely on his multiple energies. The problem that lay in front of Chen Xiao was how to utilize the strength that he should have.

Take your time, don't worry. Chen Xiao secretly reminded himself. Right now, his greatest control over the three Dharma treasures was his control over them. And what he needed to do was to restore his control over the seven Dharma treasures in such an environment.

The soul in the stone room was screaming as it constantly attacked Chen Xiao's mind. It made Chen Xiao have no choice but to retract his divine sense to defend against the mental attack.

This was the real reason why Chen Xiao's strength fell!

Generally speaking, in order to defend against soul attacks, one could only use divine sense to defend, or else one would have to rely on soul-type magic treasures.

The method Chen Xiao was currently using was the first choice. However, by doing so, his spiritual sense was limited and his strength plummeted. And although the second choice was not bad, Chen Xiao did not have any soul-protecting magical equipment. Therefore, the second choice could only be considered.

Isn't there a third way? Chen Xiao could not help but ask himself. He definitely had an answer, but to do this in front of an enemy was simply a fantasy.

The third method was to have the soul's strength surpass the enemy's. This way, the soul would be suppressed to less than one's own soul strength.

The reason why this method was considered a fantasy was because it was impossible to achieve in theory. No one knew how to increase the strength of the first soul; secondly, there was no space or time needed to increase the strength of the soul in battle; thirdly, it was even more impossible to do so in such a short period of time.

Chen Xiao knew of the three impossible conditions, but at this moment, he no longer had any other choice.

Although he did not know how to increase the strength of his soul, his previous increase in spiritual sense had given Chen Xiao a great deal of inspiration.

Since he couldn't increase his strength in the beginning, he had to first adapt to the strength of the enemy's soul attack. As long as he could adapt to the strength of the soul attack, then the suppression on his soul wouldn't be that strong, no matter if he increased it or not.

It had to be said that Chen Xiao's line of thinking was rather correct. The strength of the soul could indeed gradually become stronger under repeated attacks, and when it became stronger, it was naturally necessary to adapt to the strength of the attack. If it could not even adapt to the strength above one's own, how could it improve?

At this moment, not only did Chen Xiao not give up on controlling the Dharma treasure, she had instead pushed the limits of the Dharma treasure's control to the maximum.

With the help of his spiritual sense, the three flying swords blocked the puppets' attacks in disorder. Chen Xiao tried her best to control the three flying swords more smoothly and freely under the interference of the soul cry.

Although his entire body was trembling, he did not give up on controlling the three flying swords.

Gradually, Chen Xiao entered a strange state. In this state, he felt as though the interference from the screeching of souls had lessened somewhat.

Although it had only been that short a moment, the feeling had already disappeared, but Chen Xiao seemed to have grasped something.