338: Chapter 348 The Limits of Pay-to-Win! Su Jin Understood!

As time passed, the hundred or so top Prodigies in the first tier had successively finished refining the Sword Intent of the first fifty levels and began to advance toward the fifty-first level.

However, the Heart Demon backlash on the fifty-first level ruthlessly separated the true peerless Geniuses from the ordinary Prodigies!

People kept screaming as they let go, some even vomiting blood from the backlash of the Sword Intent, falling off the stairs.

Meanwhile, at the very front, Mu Linglong had already changed her strategy.

She no longer pulled out a sword and immediately walked upward as she had at the beginning.

Instead, every time she pulled out a sword, she would pause in place, closing her eyes to comprehend the deeper Sword Intent within it.

Only after she had thoroughly mastered that sliver of Sword Intent would she open her eyes and continue to move toward the next level.

Although her speed had slowed down, her Sword Heart and Foundation were being consolidated at a terrifying speed!

Young Master Yifeng stood before the fifty-first level, looking at Mu Linglong's retreating back above, as well as the other Sect Prodigies gradually catching up from behind, and finally felt anxious in his heart.

"Damn it! This Young Lord must not fall behind this bunch of bumpkins, and even more so, I cannot lose face in front of Linglong!"

Young Master Yifeng gritted his teeth, as if he had made a decision.

He touched his storage ring, and a purple-gold jade box emitting a rich medicinal fragrance and Dao rhyme appeared in his hand.

Opening the jade box, a Medicinal Pill shimmering with seven-colored light lay quietly inside.

Without any hesitation, he tilted his head back and swallowed the Medicinal Pill!

"Hiss——!!!"

At this moment, the Saints, who had been watching the Trial of the Sword from the outside via the sky projection, couldn't help but gasp in cold air, their mouths twitching uncontrollably!

"A Saint-Grade Heart-Solidifying Pill?! This prodigal brat is actually using such a life-saving divine medicine in a place like this?!"

The Grand Elder of Spirit Sword Villa was so angry that his beard curled up.

This was a Saint-Grade Medicinal Pill!

Even for Saints like them, they would never bear to use it on a daily basis; only at critical moments like a Qi Deviation during a Breakthrough or when facing a life-and-death crisis would they take it out to save their lives!

Because the requirements for refining a Saint-Grade Medicinal Pill were simply too harsh.

Even a top-tier Alchemist at the Saint Realm would find it hard to guarantee a success rate.

Usually, it required a powerhouse at the Great Emperor Realm to personally take action, expending countless Saint-Grade Heaven And Earth Treasures, to refine just a few of them!

"Sigh, being born is a technical skill. Who told him to have a father at the Middle Stage of the Great Emperor Realm?"

Qing Feng also shook his head helplessly, "Young Master Yifeng is truly squandering heaven's gifts, using a Saint-Grade Medicinal Pill to cheat and pass the Heart Demon barrier, it's simply..."

The effect of the Medicinal Pill was remarkable.

After taking the Heart-Solidifying Pill, Young Master Yifeng felt his Sea of Consciousness enveloped by a layer of warm Holy Light, and his originally agitated and fearful state of mind became as calm and unruffled as a still lake.

He began to mobilize the majestic immortal power and Sword Intent within his body, and his hands lunged fiercely toward the sword hilt!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~!"

The powerful, violent lightning force arrived as expected, once again madly pouring into Young Master Yifeng's body.

But this time, protected by the potent medicinal power of the Saint-Grade Heart-Solidifying Pill, although Young Master Yifeng was convulsing from the electricity, the sense of fear in his heart was firmly suppressed.

"Rise for me!!!"

Young Master Yifeng let out a roar, and while enduring the biting of the lightning, he forcibly pulled out the long sword!

"Hahahaha! Is that all!"

Having pulled out the long sword, Young Master Yifeng laughed wildly. Then, without stopping to comprehend, he relied on the remaining medicinal power still in his body and began to sprint all the way!

The fifty-second level, the fifty-third level...

Those other Sect Prodigies who were struggling against their Heart Demons watched as Young Master Yifeng, covered in electric light and medicinal fragrance, rushed past them like a cheating pay-to-win player. They were all so angry that their teeth itched, their eyes filled with disdain and jealousy.

But they dared to be angry but dared not speak out.

Because Young Master Yifeng also had a Sword Emperor father! Who dared to provoke him?

With the help of the Medicinal Pill's power, Young Master Yifeng's speed was incredibly fast. He quickly overcame many obstacles and even caught up to Mu Linglong, who was steadily advancing!

"Sister Linglong, you need to step it up; I will be waiting for you at the peak."

When passing by Linglong, Young Master Yifeng proudly raised his chin.

He was just that kind of annoying character; relying on his power, extremely narrow-minded, he simply could not accept any peer being stronger than him.

Linglong didn't even open her eyes, too lazy to pay any attention to this second-generation rich kid who relied on taking pills to take shortcuts.

However, a Medicinal Pill is ultimately an external object.

When Young Master Yifeng cheated his way to the seventieth level and wanted to pull out the seventy-first sword, he was finally dumbfounded.

Although the effect of the Saint-Grade Medicinal Pill was still protecting his state of mind, this seventy-first level was no longer a contest of Heart Demons and Sword Intent, but of true comprehension ability regarding the Dao of the Sword!

The Dao of the Sword has tens of thousands of variations!

That Sword Emperor who was number one in slaughter, although he had not comprehended all the Sword Daos in the world, by relying on his extreme comprehension of "sword" as a medium, he could forcibly imitate over ninety percent of the power of other Sword Dao schools!

The sword on this seventy-first level was not only as heavy as a star, but it also required the trial-taker to use their own Sword Dao to collide with, analyze, and comprehend it!

Stuck, Young Master Yifeng frowned tightly, his face flushed red.

He knew that from now on, shortcuts relying on external forces would not work.

"This Young Lord does not believe it! Open for me!"

Young Master Yifeng frantically adjusted his aura, even using a secret technique of Sword Emperor Mountain to burn his blood essence, and his hands gripped the hilt tightly!

"Hum——!"

At the moment of contact, Young Master Yifeng felt his vision go black, and he was forcibly pulled into an alien space filled with endless slaughter!

Before he could even react, a torrential rain of swords condensed from the power of Law began to fall from the sky!

Countless sharp sword beams, carrying the Laws of destroying heaven and earth, slashed at him crazily like a meat grinder!

"Block it! Block it for me!"

Young Master Yifeng was scared out of his wits and subconsciously began to frantically brandish his immortal sword to resist.

But his Sword Dao, which was built up by resources, was simply vulnerable before this slaughter that pointed directly at the Origin!

Even though he tried his best to block most of them, quite a few sword beams still pierced through his defense and fiercely stabbed into his limbs and bones!

"Pain!! Ahhh!!! It hurts so much!"

Young Master Yifeng wailed miserably in the alien space, rolling on the ground in pain.

But he had only gritted his teeth and persisted for a mere few dozen breaths before he was kicked out of the space by the omnipresent Sword Dao Laws, just like kicking trash!

"Pfft——!"

On the stairs in reality.

Young Master Yifeng, with his Divine Sense returned to his body, spat out a large mouthful of blood, staggered back a few steps, and actually rolled all the way back to the sixtieth level before barely stabilizing his figure!

"No! Impossible! How could it be like this!"

Young Master Yifeng's face was as pale as paper, clutching his head that felt like it was about to split open, his eyes filled with unacceptable humiliation.

As the only heir of the Sword Emperor, he had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth; when had he ever suffered such inhuman pain?

The women he took a fancy to, he only needed to wave his hand, he didn't even need to speak, and by night they would be washed clean and lying on his soft couch.

The treasures he took a fancy to, no one else in the entire Sword Domain dared to argue with him over them!

But now, this Trial of the Sword left behind by the ancient Sword Emperor was like a loud slap, hitting him hard on the head!

"My father is a Great Emperor! I am even a natural sword body! How can I not pass this mere trial!" Young Master Yifeng's expression was ugly to the extreme.

Meanwhile, the same batch of peerless Prodigies he had just shaken off by relying on the Medicinal Pill had already steadily caught up, getting closer and closer to him, and even began to gradually launch an assault toward the seventieth level.

However, none of the passing Prodigies went to mock Young Master Yifeng.

Because they knew very well in their hearts that the seventieth level had always been the watershed for the "top ten" in all previous trials!

Being able to step over the seventieth level and pull out the seventy-first sword meant that one would be able to obtain the admission ticket to enter the Divine Sword Domain!

This was simply not something that could be achieved by taking pills!

...

Just as the peerless Prodigies on the high stairs were stuck on the seventieth level struggling bitterly for the qualification to enter the Divine Domain.

At the very bottom of the stairs.

Su Jin was still sitting on the seventh level, holding that rusty iron sword.

The look of confusion that had been in his eyes for a long time, at this very moment, became clear, as if the clouds had parted to reveal the sun!

It was as if stars were flickering and vanishing in Su Jin's gaze.

He looked at the ordinary iron in his hand, and a smile of sudden enlightenment curled at the corner of his mouth.

"So that's how it is..."

"Simplifying the complex, returning to the basics... so that's how it is!!!"