202: Fight, truth

“I understand. Do you want me to guard this place?”

“No need.” Su Lei turned to look at the stone tablet.

A white rune condensed on his fingertip, its light flowing.

The rune merged into the stone tablet, and the entire Trial Tower subtly vibrated.

“With this, I truly have the authority to activate all functions of the Trial Tower.”

“Not only can I freely adjust the floors and perfectly replicate the real world’s state one-to-one in the illusion,”

“but I can also activate the tower’s early warning and defense mechanisms.”

“If anything happens outside, I can leave at any time.”

Li Xue凝 breathed a sigh of relief: “Then I…”

Su Lei gently stroked her hair, “Come in with me, let’s get stronger together.”

“Okay.” Li Xue凝 nodded vigorously, “I’ll listen to you.”

“Then let’s start from the 101st floor.”

Su Lei took Li Xue凝’s hand and stepped into the Trial Teleportation Gate together.

The moment they entered, the surrounding space began to twist.

Like all trial participants, Li Xue凝 immediately lost consciousness.

Amidst the twisting and shifting scenery, Su Lei could vaguely sense an unimaginably vast power constantly reshaping everything around them.

It was like creating a world… After a few seconds, the surrounding environment gradually stabilized.

The two appeared in a ruin.

Collapsed tall buildings, shattered streets, charred remnants of walls—

The architectural style of this city was very similar to Xinghui City and Tianyuan City, but it was permeated with a heavy dark aura and a rotten stench.

Three hundred meters away, five hyena-like Demonic Beasts were tearing at a corpse, their blood staining the ground red.

“Is this… the ancient era from thirty thousand years ago?”

Su Lei’s gaze sharpened.

He vaguely had a guess in his heart.

“Only by passing a hundred floors and becoming a Great Grandmaster are you qualified to face these…”

“And the ultimate goal of the Trial Tower is probably to find a way to solve the Demonic Beast catastrophe and break this destined Reincarnation!”

Mental Energy spread out like a tide, and the entire city’s landscape appeared in his mind—

Tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts were scattered within a hundred-kilometer radius,

and the stairs to the next floor were right in the center of the city!

He looked at Li Xue凝.

Although she was a Grandmaster Peak, facing a Demonic Beast tide of this scale was still extremely dangerous.

If he used Mental Energy to camouflage, perhaps they could silently sneak to the next floor… “Don’t worry about me.”

Li Xue凝 suddenly gripped his hand, her eyes sparkling with firm resolve, “Even if we fail, it’s not true death.”

She looked at the roaring Demonic Beasts in the distance, and the power of ice slowly condensed in her palm.

“Breaking through oneself in a desperate situation, that’s the meaning of the trial.”

The memory of the last Eastern operation still made her feel uneasy.

The overwhelming beast tide, the terrifying pressure when the Demonic Beast consciousness descended… At that time, she couldn’t even Move!

She no longer wanted to just watch Su Lei fight alone; she wanted to become stronger!

“Good.” Su Lei stroked her cheek, chuckling, “I won’t make a Move until Fourth-Order Demonic Beasts appear.”

“You can do it.”

Before his words finished, the five Demonic Beasts had already discovered them and charged over, roaring!

Li Xue凝 flipped her wrist, and an ice-frost longsword condensed, its blade bringing a bone-chilling cold as it cut through the air.

She lightly tapped her foot, her figure like a phantom as she met them, the ice-frost longsword drawing sharp cold light through the air.

“Swish! Swish! Swish!”

The five Demonic Beasts were decapitated almost simultaneously; their black blood had not yet fallen to the ground when it was frozen into ice crystals, falling with a rustle.

Su Lei watched the battle from the side, a look of approval flashing in his eyes.

“Her Sword Qi has reached Major Achievement, having entered the ‘Dao’ Realm.”

Just like when he challenged the hundredth floor,

her sword was no longer just a simple Move, but a Fusion of countless martial arts essentials, each sword strike carrying a unique rhythm, as if resonating with heaven and earth.

His seven-colored thunder Protective Aura was an overbearing power that nurtured life within destruction.

Li Xue凝’s ice-frost Protective Aura was the ultimate cold that froze all things.

Moreover, she had already consciously begun to integrate Mental Energy into her Protective Aura, making each sword strike carry a chill that froze the Soul.

Su Lei commented: “Not bad, you can Breakthrough to the Great Grandmaster Realm at any time.”

“And… your future path is very broad.”

Li Xue凝’s lips curved slightly when she heard his affirmation, her eyes sparkling with joy.

Su Lei: “Continue, this floor is no longer difficult for you.”

The two advanced towards the city center.

Initially, only scattered groups of three to five Demonic Beasts launched attacks.

Li Xue凝’s Sword Qi was like snow; wherever it passed, Demonic Beasts all turned into ice sculptures, then shattered into dust.

But as they delved deeper into the city, the number of Demonic Beasts began to surge—

Ten! Twenty! Thirty!

They poured out of the ruins, burrowed up from underground, and even swooped down from high in the sky!

However, Li Xue凝’s sword momentum became even more fierce.

“Ice Seal · Thousand Snow!”

She spun, her sword blade drawing a perfect arc,

and in an instant, countless ice crystal Sword Qi erupted.

All Demonic Beasts within a ten-meter radius were frozen, then pulverized by the Protective Aura’s shock!

Half an hour later, the two finally arrived at the city center square.

The square was completely corrupted, the ground covered with a viscous black substance that creeping like a living thing.

And at the entrance to the stairs—

Thousands of low-level Demonic Beasts were densely packed together, their crimson eyes all staring at the two!

Li Xue凝 gripped her ice-frost longsword, exhaled a puff of white air, her expression solemn.

“Do I have to deal with so many at once…”

Su Lei stood with his arms crossed and said calmly, “These are the guardians of this floor.”

“Either you cut through them, or you get overwhelmed by them.”

Li Xue凝 took a deep breath, ice-frost Protective Aura circulated around her, and the coldness on her sword blade grew even more intense.

“Then—”

“Cut through them!”

Before her words finished, her figure was already like an ice-blue lightning bolt, charging into the Demonic Beast tide!

...Ten minutes later, the entire square had turned into a hell of ice and snow.

Shattered ice sculptures covered the ground, and thousands of Demonic Beasts were all turned into ice shards under Li Xue凝’s sword.

She panted slightly, her ice-frost longsword pointed diagonally at the ground, the coldness on its blade still not dispersed.

The two ascended the stairs and stepped onto the next floor.

The scene before them was similar to the previous floor, still a dilapidated city ruin,

but the air was no longer filled with a pure dark aura, but rather a distorted Protective Aura fluctuation.

“Roar—!”

A dark shadow rushed out from the ruins, moving at an astonishing speed!

It was a human, or rather, it used to be a human.

His skin was half-demonized, showing a strange greenish-black color, his eyes crimson, and a violent Protective Aura entanglement around him.

Su Lei looked to his side.

“A Grandmaster corrupted by dark aura…”

“Like you, Grandmaster Peak level strength.”

Li Xue凝 wasted no words, her ice-frost longsword vibrated, her figure like lightning, instantly clashing with the opponent!

“Clang! Clang! Clang!”

Sword Qi and Protective Aura collided, erupting in dazzling sparks.

The mutated entity’s combat instincts were extremely strong, and its Moves were ruthless,

but Li Xue凝’s swordsmanship had long reached the Major Achievement Realm; each sword strike was incredibly precise, and her ice-frost Protective Aura continuously eroded the opponent’s body.

After thirty Moves—

“It’s over.”

Li Xue凝’s figure flashed, her sword blade drawing a perfect arc, directly severing the mutated entity’s head!

The corpse fell to the ground, but no blood flowed out; instead, it turned into specks of starlight and dissipated.

“Challenge successful.”

A deep voice echoed in the space, followed by the slow emergence of three illusory figures.

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