Chapter 560

"Zhao Xing, take it off."

"Senior Huali, I have already taken it off."

"No, you still have one stuck to your back."

"Discovered by Senior? I feel like I have completely mastered this one—let go of me!"

"Don't move!"

"Get lost!"

Zhao Xing roared, and the wind and clouds changed in the inner world. General Huali was bounced away by a black-purple light ball, and she slammed heavily onto the boundless continent, looking at the sky in shock.

The influence of the Zheng was too great, completely exceeding expectations.

"True spirit as a ban, Dao cuts off the heart, law as a curse body, Golden Hoop, shrink."

General Huali had no choice but to chant the mantra of the Dao Golden Hoop.

Zhao Xing in the sky had a splitting headache, screamed, and then fell onto the boundless continent.

"Thump!" He fell beside General Huali's feet, his face ferocious and painful.

"Senior Huali, stop chanting, I beg you!"

"Ah—it hurts me to death!"

Zhao Xing rolled on the ground in pain, covering his head with both hands, trying to break the Dao Golden Hoop.

General Huali remained unmoved, chanting while going to take off the Zheng on Zhao Xing's back.

"Roar!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xing let out a beast roar and transformed into the Jiuze God again, punching General Huali away.

"Throat—"

General Huali sighed in her heart. In Zhao Xing's inner world, when Zhao Xing went crazy, even she found it difficult to restrain him.

Fortunately, the Dao Golden Hoop created by General Jieluo could even control Bowei, and Zhao Xing after transformation still couldn't get rid of it.

Before long, under the tightening of the Golden Hoop, he was beaten back to his original form, and this time the Zheng behind Zhao Xing was successfully taken off.

"Loosen!"

General Huali stopped chanting, and Zhao Xing immediately stopped struggling, embedded in the ground, constantly gasping for breath.

General Huali pressed the Zheng into a vessel, and after leaving the host, it had no attack power itself.

Before long, Zhao Xing's aura slowly stabilized, the ferocity in his eyes faded, and he sat up in a daze.

"Senior, how long did I persist this time?"

"Your fusion with the Zheng has improved by another grade." General Huali squatted down and took off the Dao Golden Hoop from his head: "According to my observation, you should have been normal for two years and one month, after which the mind began to have negative effects."

"An improvement over last time, persisting longer."

"Only two years? Less than I imagined."

"It's already very good." General Huali praised: "The Zheng makes your mind breed ferocity and killing intent, and you can control it for so long, it's really amazing."

"What did you feel this time?" General Huali recorded it in a small notebook.

Zhao Xing tilted his head and recalled, "I thought you were going to harm me, and I couldn't suppress the killing intent at all, because the feeling of taking it off was like cutting my own flesh to commit suicide."

"In addition, my temper also grew, which may be due to the expansion of my strength caused by the Zheng."

"Even now that it's taken off, I still hold a trace of desire, wanting to fuse with the Zheng again."

General Huali recorded Zhao Xing's words one by one.

At the end, Zhao Xing asked General Huali: "Have you made any new progress in researching its Life Dao Diagram?"

General Huali said: "This derivative species doesn't seem like it should exist in the world at all."

"No matter how you eliminate it, the negative effects it brings to people can always exist."

"I tried to fuse it with other native species, choosing many relatively gentle plant spirits."

"But in the end, they would all be covered."

General Huali unfolded multiple Life Dao Diagrams. The first one was the Life Dao Diagram of the Zheng, with dark and chaotic lines. The seven following it,

had relatively gentle lines, and the life forms presented were relatively stable.

Afterwards, when the Dao Diagrams were fused, it was discovered that no matter which diagram it was fused with, it could quickly become its original appearance, and the change was almost minimal.

Either it completely collapsed and couldn't form the shape of the Zheng at all.

In such a situation, it was equivalent to General Huali's research having no major progress.

The life structure of the Zheng was unshakable; this derivative species had a mysterious life origin structure inside.

Either it exists, or it doesn't; there is no room for change at all.

"It seems it's impossible to comprehend the structure of the Zheng." Zhao Xing was not too disappointed.

If the derivative species created by God King Yuheng could be easily decrypted by him and General Huali, then others wouldn't need to mix in the world.

"Not much time left for me." Zhao Xing glanced at the Sun Star and immediately deduced that eleven years had passed in the outside world.

"Senior, I must go out and engage in real combat."

The Dou Shen trial only gave him thirty years, and he still had to leave time to practice controlling the Dou Shen in the outside world.

Fusing with the Zheng was just a means; controlling the Dou Shen to defeat the other one was the goal.

"Put this on." General Huali picked up the Dao Golden Hoop again, "I will chant it every two years to prevent you from sinking."

"Good." Zhao Xing nodded and put the Dao Golden Hoop on his head.

Coming out of the inner world, Zhao Xing immediately entered the metal giant gemstone space.

"Gurgle~"

Countless gray mist-like tentacles stuck over, and soon they melted into Zhao Xing's limbs and bones.

They were more powerful than those propagated by General Huali, and Zhao Xing immediately felt his entire soul power exploding, as if no one in the world was his opponent.

He even had the illusion that he could fight a God King.

"This is really outrageous."

Zhao Xing shook his head and moved these distracting thoughts to the corner of his life palace.

This time, fully fitting his whole body, Zhao Xing also controlled the entire body of the Dou Shen, not just one arm.

"Boom~"

The Dou Shen started, and the giant's feet were pulled out from the ground.

Zhao Xing challenged the other metal giant.

"Black Death Fist!"

The feet squatted slightly, the right fist slammed into the other giant's head, black light flickered, and a whirlwind broke through the air.

But the giant opposite suddenly shrank, leaving less than half its height, causing Zhao Xing's punch to miss.

"Swish~"

After the giant shrank, its feet ejected, like a dragon out of the sea, turning into a stream of light and appearing behind Zhao Xing.

It bent its index finger and tapped lightly on the back of Zhao Xing's knee.

"Thump!"

The Dou Shen controlled by Zhao Xing immediately fell face-first.

"Yu~"

Finally, the giant suddenly grew larger, twice as big as the Dou Shen controlled by Zhao Xing, and stepped on Zhao Xing's back.

"Thump!" The big foot was incredibly heavy, like a mountain pressing down, the stream of light and aura covered Zhao Xing's whole body, and countless tiny blood lights were pushing down.

"You disappeared for a full eleven years, I thought you had thought of some way to pass the trial, but I didn't expect you to be so vulnerable."

On top of the metal giant's head, a youth appeared, shaking his head constantly.

"Becoming a god is not easy, it's better to retreat now, you can still save your life."

Seeing that Zhao Xing was unable to control the Dou Shen to get up, the consciousness body also retracted its foot and returned to its original position.

After Zhao Xing got up, he pondered for a moment, and then launched a challenge again.

"Come again!"

It was still the Black Death Fist start, straight and direct.

The consciousness body curled its lips and shrank again.

But this time Zhao Xing also shrank along with it.

"!"

The Black Death Fist missed again, because the consciousness body's reaction speed was faster, and it took the lead in controlling the Dou Shen to perform martial arts.

Swish~

Being bypassed to the back again, Zhao Xing was still defeated by the same set of techniques, and finally was stepped on the ground by the trial guardian, unable to move.

"It's just futile."

The consciousness body saw that Zhao Xing couldn't struggle up, and returned to its original position.

Zhao Xing got up and pondered for a moment again.

"Come again!"

He launched an attack for the third time.

Still the Martial God technique "Black Death Fist" start.

"Thump!"

Screech screech screech~~~

The metal giant controlled by the guardian and Zhao Xing both retreated two steps, their soles making a sharp friction sound against the ground.

"Hmm?"

The guardian couldn't help but raise his head, and the youth in the gemstone on his forehead was somewhat surprised.

Because for the third time, Zhao Xing kept up with his movements.

"This is an improvement?"

Zhao Xing grinned, controlled the leg divine bones of the Dou Shen, activated the bacterial colony, and the leg divine skill immediately exploded, stabbing at the opponent with one foot.

Flames suddenly emerged from the toe, the space seemed to be burning, and the layers of mountains were distorted, forming obstacles, making it difficult for the opponent to dodge left, right, up, or down, forcing them to either advance or retreat.

"!"

The guardian's hands suddenly exploded with a large amount of blue aura, clasping Zhao Xing's right leg.

Sift sift sift, a large amount of snowflakes fell, the flames were extinguished, and a large amount of frost origin fell like snowflakes. Zhao Xing felt his lower body stiffen.

"Thump!"

He was defeated again.

This time, the guardian did not speak to persuade him to retreat or mock him, but quietly waited for Zhao Xing to ponder.

"Come again."

Zhao Xing quickly lifted the freezing and stood up again.

"Good, come."

The guardian looked on with slight anticipation.

Time passed, and soon it was twenty-one years later.

At this time, Zhao Xing came out of the inner world, having fought with the guardian for nearly ten years.

During these ten years, every two years, Zhao Xing would lift the fusion with the Zheng and drill out of the gemstone space to calm his mind.

But after resting for only half a month, he would throw himself into battle again.

In ten years, Zhao Xing had fully mastered the 108,000 divine bones and could mobilize any combination of martial arts.

In the last year, the number of times Zhao Xing fell to the ground was already very, very few.

Usually, it would take two or three months for him to be knocked down once.

"Thump!"

Knocked down again, Zhao Xing returned to his original position, did not challenge immediately, but was pondering.

"What is your name?"

The guardian took the initiative to speak, asking for Zhao Xing's name.

It had been twenty-one years, and this was the first time he had asked for Zhao Xing's name; before, he hadn't even bothered to ask.

"Zhao Xing."

"Your learning talent is very good." The guardian nodded slightly: "Much stronger than the rascal who came to challenge last time."

Last time? Rascal? Could it be referring to Old Qing?

Zhao Xing's expression was a bit strange, and he didn't know what Qing Yuzi had done to get such an evaluation from the guardian.

However, he had no mind for small talk and seized the time to brush up on proficiency.

"In the first few years, I controlled the Dou Shen, whether it was array diagram triggering, divine bone control, or fusion level, the proficiency gained was fast, and the progress was great."

"However, I still had to lift the fusion with the Zheng every two years or so."

The negative effects of the Zheng fusion on the mind could not be solved.

Zhao Xing's "Seven Luminaries Boundless Heaven" could not go any further; it was already the limit that could be reached at present.

"Because it is only a Dou Shen at the divine general level, the martial arts attached to the divine bones are relatively simple, and they are all the same moves. Fighting with the guardian, there is actually not much difference."

"The key lies in the level of fusion and the degree of control over the 【Chaos Demon Fungus】."

Controlling the Dou Shen does not require Zhao Xing to experience the mysteries of martial arts, nor does it require him to continue practicing himself. Fusion naturally allows for release, like a talent secret skill.

Besides the Zheng, another plant life, 【Chaos Demon Fungus】, also determines the upper limit of the Dou Shen's combat power explosion.

"Let me remind you." The youth's phantom stared at the pondering Zhao Xing.

"In terms of the degree of fusion with the Zheng, you are already on par with me, the guardian."

"In terms of combat experience, you are still a distance away from me."

"The permutations and combinations of martial arts attached to more than 100,000 divine bones have too many attack modes. In this regard, you cannot possibly be better than me, who is the guardian himself."

"In terms of control over the Chaos Demon Fungus, you are far behind."

Far behind? Zhao Xing looked up at the guardian.

"Please enlighten me, Senior."

"【Chaos Demon Fungus】 is hidden inside the Dou Shen. Its quantity is countless. You should be able to feel that many times when you make a move, there are still many Chaos Demon Fungus in various parts of the Dou Shen's body that are in a dormant state."

"For the same move, mine is stronger than yours. Why? Mainly because the Chaos Demon Fungus is activated, able to recruit more divine power to explode."

"In my opinion, your control of the Dou Shen can at most exert a nine-fold standard divine general amplification."

"But the amplification multiple I can explode is... 1200 times!"

The number the youth said stunned Zhao Xing.

It is also controlling the Dou Shen; he only let this body exert a 9-fold amplification, while the opponent can exert 1200 times. How can this be fought?

"Don't worry." The guardian smiled: "I can exert such a high amplification, but it doesn't mean you have to reach my level to pass the trial."

"When the Dou Shen was born, I was born. How can you compare with me? The Master is not that harsh."

"So, in the battle nine years later, I will at most exert a hundred-fold combat power amplification."

"Knock me down once, and you pass the trial."

One hundred times? This number is still somewhat desperate, knowing that Zhao Xing can only exert a 9-fold combat power amplification now.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. You can resist the mental burden for two years. The next nine years are the stage where you make the most progress, and there is still hope to reach the conditions for passing the trial."

"I understand." Zhao Xing cupped his hands: "Thank you for the reminder, Senior."

This rest lasted for a long time, and Zhao Xing did not launch a challenge.

After fusing, his soul consciousness began to explore every part of the Dou Shen's body.

The inside of the Dou Shen is simply a micro-universe. Those light spots are the Chaos Demon Fungus. Zhao Xing needs to discover more Chaos Demon Fungus to mobilize more power from this small universe to defeat the guardian.

"The Dou Shen created by God King Yuheng is simply incredibly mysterious."

Zhao Xing has been studying it for twenty-one years, but he still feels he has only learned a little bit.

God King Yuheng integrated too many Daos and methods into it. The more he looked, the more incredible he felt, and he felt he knew very little.

"The one now is only the standard of the early divine general. Among the 108,000 divine bones, there are only three divine bones of divine generals."

"I can only exert a nine-fold amplification now."

"Only by mastering the Chaos Demon Fungus can I improve."

"I cannot bring the Dou Shen into the inner world to study. Now it depends on the comprehension of these nine years."

Zhao Xing was completely immersed in comprehension.

Just as the guardian said, everything is difficult at the beginning.

After focusing his comprehension on the Chaos Demon Fungus, Zhao Xing entered a period of rapid rise.

In the challenge a year later, the guardian evaluated that Zhao Xing was already able to control the Dou Shen and explode with thirty times the power of a divine general.

At the end of the second year, the improvement reached forty-eight times.

At the end of the third year, it reached sixty-four times.

Such a rapid climb also surprised the guardian.

"I really didn't misjudge him; his comprehension is amazing."

"But this person is also very strange. With such amazing comprehension, he has cultivated the Origin to become a Free God, and he is already in the late stage of the Divine Soldier, yet he is only a mediocre 'Earth-Hidden Divine Body'? He hasn't even activated the Divine Treasure."

The artifact spirit didn't know at all that Zhao Xing's "Free God" was completely disguised by the Ancestral Dynasty, which was equivalent to a "minimum subsistence" divine position, so of course it looked a bit mediocre.

"I even have an illusion that it's as if he hasn't become a god at all." The guardian secretly thought, "But his mediocre divine body and divine sense can cultivate not-weak soul secret techniques, and his comprehension is so amazing."

"Could it be that his life pattern is innately flawed?"

The guardian had also fought with Zhao Xing for many years, a comprehensive battle, which made him feel strange.

But soon he ignored this point, because no matter how he looked at it, Zhao Xing was a genuine Free God.

"At least he is better than that rascal."

"I hope he can pass."

Waiting like this, the thirty years of preparation time passed quickly.

Zhao Xing also ended his last practice and launched a real challenge to the guardian.