ryethenovel Chapter 211, Three Trials, Finally Reaching Tier 2
Chapter 211, Three Trials, Finally Reaching Tier 2
The Minotaur Knight Commander charged forward.
To be honest, that scene was quite frightening.
The behemoth, five meters tall, had hooves that turned the ground into glass, and its battle axe dragged behind it, carving a rut.
Its body was covered in black fire, and from a distance it looked like a fallen meteorite.
Anyone would have to avoid it.
Lu Yan did not dodge.
He absorbed all six illusory figures.
He took Zhao Leiguang's, Xiao Qianyu's, and Wen Yue's—all of them. The golden light points retreated from the battlefield and poured into his body. Not a single one was left.
The page watched from a distance, somewhat puzzled.
What is this kid doing? Six Dharma Forms could at least hold them off for a bit, but withdrawing them all is just asking for death, isn't it?
Lu Yan didn't think it was courting death.
He was thinking.
Three trials, three lessons. The first trial, the Black Stone Demon, taught him how to "analyze" the laws, finding loopholes to exploit. The second trial, the Crane Fairy, restored his "intuition" for fighting based on instinct. The third trial, the Knight Commander, made him understand that "belief" is the root of the halo.
The three things were swirling in his mind, but he just couldn't connect them.
The knight's axe was almost upon him. The heat made his eyelashes and hair curl up.
At this critical juncture, the three things clicked together.
Analysis is disassembly, intuition is capture, and belief is reshaping.
When these three things were put together, he realized that his relationship with the "laws" could be approached in a different way.
He used to be a man who followed the laws.
Now, he understands the law.
Once you understand it, you can make changes.
This isn't a minor revision. It's the kind of revision where someone draws a big X on the exam paper with a red pen and then creates a completely new set of questions.
He recalled what the treasury servant had said—that he had gained the qualification to modify a portion of the world's rules.
He got it now.
Just as the knight commander's red-hot battle axe was less than half a foot from his forehead.
Click.
The sound was very soft.
It was the invisible chain binding him, the level 49 shackle, that shattered.
All the experience points I had accumulated, all the insights I had gained from battles, and all the lessons I had learned from life-or-death situations were poured into me all at once.
pain.
It's the kind of pain that feels like being completely dismantled and reassembled, inside and out. Your bones are taken apart and replaced with harder ones. Your soul is dismantled and replaced with something more resilient.
Lu Yan gritted his teeth and remained silent.
He stood there without moving. The knight commander didn't move either.
It's not that the Knight Commander doesn't want to move. It's that it can't move.
The aura emanating from Lu Yan completely sealed off the surrounding space. The knight commander, standing five meters tall, was no different from someone crashing into a wall in the face of that force.
It paused for a moment.
Just like that.
But for Lu Youhao now, even a fraction of a second is enough.
He raised his right hand.
Something is growing in the palm of my hand.
This is a real lotus flower. It's substantial, has weight, and you can feel the veins.
A black lotus.
It's very small, about the size of a thumbnail. It has twelve petals, each covered with densely packed runes. These runes weren't carved on; they grew out of the petals and flowed slowly within them.
It neither emits light nor dims light.
It's right there.
But when you look at it, you feel like it's "eating." Eating light, eating sound, eating air, eating everything you can see with your eyes.
Lu Yan looked down at it.
"It's done."
The attribute panel popped up in front of him. In the class section, the words "[Aura Master]" were shattered, and new words were carved in stroke by stroke.
Black Lotus Zen Master
A new skill icon has appeared below. It's black, with just the outline of a lotus flower.
[Destruction Black Lotus]
The description consists of only one line: "Annihilation".
Lu Yan looked at the line of text and chuckled.
Simple and straightforward. He likes it.
The knight commander also came to his senses. It continued to charge forward, its axe bringing down the combined power of the five thousand souls gathered together.
Lu Yan did not dodge.
He raised his hand, his index and middle fingers holding the thumb-sized black lotus.
Then, it bounced out.
The movement was very casual, almost like flicking cigarette ash.
The black lotus floated away. Slowly, it circled twice in the air. The knight commander's axe blade arrived first.
The axe blade stopped half a meter in front of Lu Yan and couldn't be cut any further.
The axe blade itself vanished into thin air upon contact with that area. The knight commander's arm, which was holding the axe, disappeared along with it.
The knight commander looked down at his bare shoulders.
It felt no pain, but its instincts told it that something was drifting toward it.
That small, black thing that slowly turns.
It wanted to run away.
A five-meter-tall body and a weight of three thousand kilograms are no different from paper in front of this thing. It can't escape.
Black Lotus touched the Knight Commander's chest.
There was no explosion, no light effects, and no sound.
A black sphere with a diameter of one hundred meters appeared out of thin air.
There was nothing inside the ball.
The knight commander was gone. The undead remains within a hundred meters of him were gone too. The ground was gone. The air was gone.
All that's left is a black hole.
Three seconds later, the hole closed.
The place was completely clean, as if nothing had ever happened. Only a large chunk was missing from the ground, revealing the emptiness beneath.
The page stopped laughing.
He stood at a distance, his back ramrod straight. The leisurely gazing into the distance had vanished from his mature little eyes, replaced by an expression that was hard to decipher—a mixture of fear and respect.
A golden beam of light shot up from beneath Lu Yan's feet, solid and powerful, as if it could pierce a hole in the sky. The gloom of the entire trial space was dispelled by this light.
Lu Yan stood in the middle of the pillar of light.
All my wounds have healed. My clothes are still torn, and there's still blood on me, but none of that matters anymore.
The beam of light dissipated.
Lu Yan landed, his feet on the gravel. He looked down at his hands. White, clean, just like before. But he knew that what these hands could do now was on a completely different level than before.
The page boy came over.
The pace is different now. Before, I would stroll around with my hands behind my back, but now I walk briskly with small, quick steps.
He stopped in front of Lu Yan.
Then, he bent down and bowed deeply.
Bend your waist until it is parallel to the ground.
"Trial over."
His voice was respectful.
"Welcome back, Lord of the Divine Treasury."
Lu Yan looked at him. "The Lord of the Divine Treasury?"
"All the myriad divine weapons here are your private property." The page straightened up, but his head remained bowed. "The Three Gates Dharma Images are the keys. You have shattered them and obtained the keys. From this day forward, this treasure trove recognizes you as its master."
Lu Yan glanced back at the mountain of god-level equipment.
In the past, he would have been excited for a long time. Now, he just nodded.
"How's it going outside?"
The pageboy's expression changed. The respect was still there, but he was clearly a little troubled.
"Three days have passed outside during your trial."
Three days. Lu Yan frowned.
"Your true enemy has already noticed your rebirth." The page looked up at him, a little hesitant.
"explain."
"They have prepared a great gift for you and your companions."
The page paused.