Chapter 401: Unexpectedly Having to Serve as a Healer, Jiang Chen

Dense fog swirls over the hanging bridge.

Jiang Chen has just defeated another puppet, with one archer among every three puppets.

This time, he spent a little more time, about three minutes.

The third puppet added 1,500 attribute points, bringing Jiang Chen's total attributes to 13,000.

After defeating the puppet, a ray of light fell upon Jiang Chen again, the warm airflow intensifying, and his whole body seemed enveloped by a sphere of white light.

From a distance, Jiang Chen looks like a Light Orb crossing the hanging bridge.

Within the fog, his figure appears even more mysterious.

"Platforms are paired; learn the Skill first, then complete the challenge—victory grants passage," a voice echoes in the air, reiterating the rules.

"Skills become harder to learn, puppets grow stronger, and the challenge difficulty keeps rising," another voice agrees, conveying the trial's severity.

"It tests not only comprehension but also real combat ability," a third voice sounds, emphasizing the substance of the Trial.

Jiang Chen realizes that the Forest Orchard should count as the First Stage, learning Skills for the challenge as the Second Stage, which is the proper order.

For many years, people have gotten it wrong.

He guesses it must be related to memory confusion after leaving.

Everyone can't recall this stage, so they treat it as the Third Stage.

Eventually, this version has been passed down for thousands of years.

At this point, Jiang Chen feels deep gratitude toward Hong Jishi, Ao Hongchen, and Li Xueru.

If they hadn't let him assume a puppet for the Trial, he wouldn't have mastered every profession so thoroughly.

Clearing the challenge on his own would certainly not be so easy.

"I wonder what profession's Skill the next platform will have."

Swordsmen, mages, and Archer have all appeared.

The remaining ones should be Knight, Assassin, Summoner, and Fist Master types.

He reaches the seventh platform and sees a stone tablet.

"Is there only one?"

One stone tablet represents a Skill.

It looks exceedingly simple, yet the simpler it appears, the more Jiang Chen feels something's off.

He walks over and glances, surprise flashing in Jiang Chen's eyes.

"Skill: Healing Gleam"

"Healing Gleam: a basic healing Skill that can treat a target, restoring the target's vitality."

It turns out to be a healing Skill.

Jiang Chen can't help but imagine the upcoming challenge.

He and a puppet that only heals stare each other down, seeing who will milk the other to death first...

Just thinking about the scene is somewhat funny.

Anyway, let's learn it first.

Jiang Chen begins learning the Skill.

He has never dealt with healing-type Skills; even when he assumed a puppet in Shenlong Tower, they were all Main Combat Type professions.

But this still doesn't defeat him; Jiang Chen imagines himself as a healer.

On the battlefield and in Instance, a healer's duty is to treat teammates.

Healing wounds restores vitality, removes Control, lifts Curse, and clears abnormal states.

That is the healer's core job.

Half an hour later, a faint glow emerges from Jiang Chen's hands.

Healing Gleam, the Skill is successfully mastered.

Having mastered a healer's Skill for the first time, Jiang Chen feels a bit novel.

He releases Healing Gleam, but with no target, the glow quickly dissipates into the air.

This Skill requires a locked target to be effective.

After mastering the Skill, he waits another half hour or so, the stone tablet vanishes, and a new hanging bridge appears.

On another platform, Jiang Ruo has just mastered Healing Gleam, and the stone tablet disappears.

Jiang Ruo smiles, "Xiao Chen's speed is truly fast."

Jiang Ruo knows the most about the ancestral land, even surpassing Divine Level figures like Yi Qianfan.

Jiang Ruo is fully aware of some rules within the ancestral land.

Jiang Ruo entered the platform, and after only half an hour the stone tablet vanished.

This indicates Jiang Chen was about half an hour ahead of Jiang Ruo.

Jiang Ruo knows only Jiang Chen could achieve this; others certainly couldn't.

Yi Ning and Lin Caier both knit their brows at this moment.

They just stepped onto the platform and didn't have time to glance at the stone tablet before it vanished.

Lin Caier stomps her foot, "What shall we do for the next level?"

Jiang Chen doesn't know any of this; Jiang Ruo is deliberately not telling Jiang Chen the rule.

Jiang Ruo knows that, given Jiang Chen's nature, once he learns the rule he would surely slow down to wait for them.

So she purposely stays silent, allowing Jiang Chen to press forward at full speed.

He steps onto the eighth platform.

Jiang Chen sees a puppet again.

This trial has changed; it is no longer combat.

A puppet stands in the center, being besieged by five other puppets.

Jiang Chen instantly sees that it is about to fail.

In that instant, Jiang Chen understands the requirement of this stage's assessment.

He must not let it die...

He immediately locks onto the target and fires a Healing Light.

A faint light instantly shines on its body, seeming to recover a little.

The Healing Light is only a basic skill, with average healing effect.

It could even be called poor.

Jiang Chen can only use it continuously, healing nonstop.

Even so, he often feels a sense of being unable to keep up.

The puppet he must protect and heal is far too weak in combat power.

In a one‑against‑five situation, defeating the opponent is impossible.

Jiang Chen gradually realizes a problem: the difficulty of this stage is not the skill but Spiritual Power.

During healing, Spiritual Power is constantly consumed, and even abundant Spiritual Power can be exhausted.

Thus the issue is clear: to pass this stage, he must join the fight to aid the puppet.

The various weapons scattered on the ground also indicate this.

But now he has no combat skills at all; the previous ones have long been completely forgotten.

He can only employ some combat techniques, fighting while simultaneously healing the puppet.

Playing both a Main Combat Type and a Support role at once makes the difficulty quite high.

Jiang Chen, while casting Healing Light, approaches the puppet and picks up a Long Sword from the ground.

To him, all weapons are roughly the same; he just picks one up as it comes.

He lets out a light shout, joins the battle, and thrusts the Long Sword, helping the puppet take on one of the opponents.

Ding!

The two swords clash, and Jiang Chen discovers the opponent's power attribute is strong, about 5.

This attribute is already enough to surpass other practitioners, but for him it is far insufficient.

His current strength has reached 13,000, far exceeding the opponent.

Jiang Chen heals the puppet while battling his opponent.

Multitasking is just routine for Jiang Chen, not difficult.

Although Jiang Chen lacks skills, his combat techniques are nearly perfect.

Moreover, he isn't afraid of the opponent's attacks at all.

Damage Transfer redirects all damage to the Skeleton.

This lets Jiang Chen attack recklessly.

All attack, no defense; that's how Jiang Chen is doing it now.

Each strike looks like a suicidal tactic.

Only Jiang Chen knows that this style is the most rational and fastest.

He rationally exploits every advantage to eliminate enemies at top speed.

Strength crushes!

Technique crushes!

Ignore attacks!

With threefold advantage, Jiang Chen almost forces his opponent into a corner in the blink of an eye.

The opponent uses a skill, but Jiang Chen ignores it.

The Long Sword, bearing sharp light, cuts it into fragments.

Its body bursts with a bang, turning into countless specks of starlight that merge into Jiang Chen's body.

The attribute does not change, because this assessment is not over yet.

Jiang Chen continues to cast Healing Light, sending away another opponent.

The puppet's combat style is very simple, already mastered by Jiang Chen.

This time faster, in a few strokes he already eliminates the opponent.

Then the third...

In an instant, there are no opponents left in front of the puppet Jiang Chen is protecting.

A gust of wind blows, and the platform becomes empty.

Only the Long Sword in his hand still remains.

The attribute increases again.

All attributes increase by 3,000.

Another beam of light enters Jiang Chen's body from the distant sky.

This is the third light since the challenge began.

The warm current inside strengthens again.

Beyond the ancestral land, the glow flickers faintly.

Lin Caier and Yi Ning are almost one after another teleported out.

The two look bewildered, unable to recall anything about the platform's assessment.

All the memories stopped at the moment I stepped onto the platform; I vaguely recall that I seemed to need to study and comprehend something, and everything else was forgotten.

Lin Zhenzi and Yi Qianfan, seeing that the two were fine, both breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Zhenzi asked, "Cai Er, check what changes there are in the attributes."

Lin Caier examined her own attributes and couldn't help letting out a gasp.

"My attributes have increased."

The increase in attributes is natural, Lin Zhenzi asked, "By how much?"

Lin Caier said, "Strength, Agility, Spirit have each increased by 3000, Constitution by 7000, and there is an extra trait. Vitality has been enhanced by 20%."

Hearing these numbers, Lin Zhenzi breathed a sigh of relief.

According to past experience, these numbers are normal.

Yi Ning also increased by the same amount as Lin Caier.

In total there were 30 people, 1 died, 26 emerged.

Logically, now only three people remain in the ancestral land.

The three are Jiang Chen, Jiang Ruo, and Sha Jin of the Sha family.

The Sha family's elder's mouth was already smiling so wide it couldn't close.