Chapter 8: Long Xingyu: You kid, you're a freak, aren't you?

"Welcome to the Apocalypse!"

Long Xingyu said slowly.

Hearing this, Ye Ling originally wanted to say something.

But just at this moment, he saw a strange light flashing on Long Xingyu's body, constantly pressing toward Ye Ling's position.

At this moment, Ye Ling only felt that he had entered a strange state, was instantly blasted away, and arrived in a specially excavated cave.

He slowly opened his eyes.

"This is? What is this for?" After Ye Ling opened his eyes and looked at everything in front of him, a look of confusion flashed in his eyes.

This old guy Long Xingyu, why does he never give a heads-up before every training session? Instead, he always likes to just take action directly? Ye Ling's contemplation did not last long; soon, a hint of light aura appeared before him, and after a moment, it condensed into shape: these were some special Puppet Knights holding twin swords.

"These are the Light Soldiers I have condensed through the Divine Seal Throne of Apocalypse and Slaughter and my own Spiritual Power."

"Their cultivation is at the same level as you, two hundred points of External Spiritual Power, without triggering Internal Spiritual Power, about ten in total. I will give you one month to find a way to defeat them all at once!"

"If you fail, then next time it will still be ten; don't even think about playing a war of attrition."

Long Xingyu said straightforwardly.

The time limit he gave Ye Ling was one month.

If he couldn't even pass this kind of test in one month, then it could only be said that Long Xingyu was blind.

Ye Ling didn't say anything; his equipment had all been taken away by Long Xingyu beforehand, and now he only had a bamboo sword in his hand.

For geniuses accustomed to using Magic Grade equipment and above, this change was indeed the greatest, but for Ye Ling, it didn't matter.

"One month?"

"More than enough."

"Let's test the depth of these guys first."

Ye Ling did not hesitate; he instantly stepped forward, charging toward those Punishment Knight Puppets, and at this moment, the bamboo sword in his hand did not hesitate in the slightest as he thrust it toward one of the Puppet Punishment Knights! How could these dead objects possibly be his opponents under the circumstance of Ye Ling's sudden attack? In an instant, one was pierced through.

But at this moment, the remaining nine Puppet Knights also did not hesitate in the slightest; they were all aggregates of light, so they had no thoughts to speak of, and everything was based on Long Xingyu's assessment method. In an instant, the nine great knights thrust toward Ye Ling's position together! Even if Ye Ling were stronger, he could not possibly have a chance to block when more than nine existences with the same level of External Spiritual Power attacked him simultaneously.

He was instantly blasted back and quickly retreated to look for an opportunity.

While circling with these Puppet Knights, he observed their situation.

Above.

Watching this scene, Long Xingyu couldn't help but smile.

"I didn't misjudge him; this child's temperament and combat experience are much stronger than his peers."

"I have used this method to assess many juniors before; at the beginning, they didn't choose to consider these things, but instead chose to meet force with force, even the relatively steady child Yang Wenzhao was the same."

"However, this kid Ye Ling, although his talent and temperament are strong, has experienced too little in the past. If he continues like this, I estimate it will take three to five days to complete this training before proceeding to the next step."

Long Xingyu thought to himself.

He had tested quite a few people before.

A knight with decent talent and fifty points of Innate Internal Spiritual Power took more than half a month to clear the level, but it was too messy.

The others are not worth mentioning; there was also Yang Wenzhao, this genius Punishment Knight who, in Long Xingyu's view, had talent even surpassing his own, who also took a full week to succeed.

And in Long Xingyu's view, Ye Ling was bound to be above Yang Wenzhao.

However, it was impossible to pass simply; this first time, he was bound to suffer! At least that was what Long Xingyu thought.

His gaze gradually moved downward.

It landed on Ye Ling. Ye Ling had just pondered for so long, and now he had quite straightforwardly reached a result.

"This battle should be an assessment given to me by Long Xingyu, an assessment that my current ability can complete."

"But if it's just meeting force with force, even I would absolutely be unable to defeat these nine Light Quasi-Knights of the same level, and might even be directly suppressed; that would be embarrassing."

"I can only choose to fight by attacking the side; however, these things are like playing a game, they are pure NPCs that will only act according to set actions. So, it's quite straightforward now; there are a few ways to solve them all at once."

Ye Ling slowly opened his eyes, his gaze carrying layers of bright, brilliant Spiritual Power as he looked at everything before him.

The first method: circle them and defeat them one by one, but the speed is too slow; the second method: force a battle and defeat them instantly with a speed faster than theirs.

Both of these methods could allow him to reach a perfect state through constant attempts.

However, it was too slow.

Ye Ling chose the third method! In an instant, he charged toward these Puppet Knights, exposing everything of his heart and soul, only with golden light faintly flashing on his body.

Seeing this, Long Xingyu was stunned.

"This kid, it looks like he intends to use this failure to understand the habits of these Puppet Knights, and then wait until he has rested to fight again? However, this kind of head-on battle is indeed the best way to understand them."

"It's too risky; even I, a Punishment Divine Throne Knight, feel he is too 'punishing'."

Long Xingyu muttered.

As a Divine Seal Knight, he considered himself very knowledgeable about these ordinary quasi-knights.

It was just that he only considered himself so; after all, Ye Ling's situation could not be described in normal terms.

However, what happened next made Long Xingyu somewhat surprised.

It even exceeded the common sense he believed in.

When Ye Ling approached those Puppet Knights, those Puppet Knights didn't even move a bit; instead, they timidly stalled in place.

The pressure of the Child of Light brought by the Six-Winged Angel on Ye Ling's body, although not awakened, had not changed in its absolute mastery and suppression of light.

These Puppet Knights were unable to resist at all.

They were instantly wiped out by Ye Ling, one sword per knight, causing them to turn into pure light energy and return to this space.

"Not bad, sure enough, I didn't guess wrong."

"If they were living people, then even with suppression, it wouldn't be too terrifying, but these light puppets made of pure light will completely submit just by sensing a portion of the aura belonging to the Child of Light!"

Ye Ling thought to himself.

It seemed that this gamble of his, which didn't count as a gamble, was one he had guessed correctly! And just as he finally ended all of this, a trace of strange light emerged on his body, and he left this place, returning to another location.

It was the position where he had just been speaking with Long Xingyu.

Looking at Ye Ling before him, who was uninjured and not even the slightest bit disheveled, Long Xingyu only felt a bit of a stomachache; he looked at Ye Ling with a complex expression, not knowing what to say.

"Teacher Xingyu, how was it? Can I be considered to have passed?" Ye Ling smiled slightly and asked.

"Passed?" Hearing this, Long Xingyu once again wore a complex expression: "What kind of passing is this? You have directly advanced; there is no test left."

"The tests I arranged are mostly trials using the power of light; they work well on others, but you—you actually have no reaction, so this segment can be ended directly."

Having said that, he paused, looked at Ye Ling, and said speechlessly: "As expected, I didn't misjudge you; you kid, are you a freak?"

Ye Ling: "???"

(End of this chapter)