Chapter 233

"Ouch, Ning Zhuo, what are you guys doing?"

"What time is it, and you're still exploring the Immortal Palace!"

"Do you know what's important and what's urgent?"

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit had been paying attention to every move of Ning Zhuo and was pacing around in the main hall in a hurry.

"Hurry up, solve Ning Xiaohui quickly!"

"Dragging, dragging, if you keep dragging, she will discover the secret between the two of us."

"I'm so anxious, I'm burning with anxiety!"

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit roared, and sure enough, a ball of flame appeared on its head.

When it is anxious or angry to a certain extent, flames will appear on some parts of its body.

If the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit were Ning Zhuo, it would immediately use "Human Life Hanging by a Thread" to deal with Ning Xiaohui! As a result, Ning Zhuo is like a person with nothing to do, still leisurely exploring the Magma Immortal Palace!

This made the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit extremely anxious; it really wanted to grab Ning Zhuo by the ears and ask him loudly—you are dragging your feet, do you want to die?!

However, it ultimately dared not do so.

In fact, it lacked the courage to communicate with Ning Zhuo again.

It was quite worried that it would accidentally let something slip and be seen through by Ning Zhuo!

While the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit was anxious and hesitant, Ning Zhuo had already reached out and touched the portal of the next room.

There was no reward for passing the level on the portal, nor was there any blood energy reward.

This was somewhat beyond Ning Zhuo's expectations: "No blood energy, how can I use the blood path plate?"

The next moment, he took Yuan Da Sheng and officially stepped into the second-to-last level of the entire Demon Gate path.

Thousands of eyes, glowing with blood, stared at them together!

Ning Zhuo was astonished. He had never seen so many demon art puppets.

Hundreds or thousands of puppets stood in an orderly manner, all attracted by the movement at the door.

This is an army of mechanical puppets!

The puppets all had red light in their eyes, or their bodies were shrouded in a layer of blood energy, revealing Qi Refining auras ranging from one to nine layers.

Ning Zhuo's eyes also lit up: "So the source of blood energy set up in the level is not the portal, but these puppets."

Seeing the appearance of Ning Zhuo and the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, the mechanical puppets launched one after another and pounced on them.

Hundreds of puppets acted together, swarming like a tide, bringing a strong sense of oppression to Ning Zhuo.

"Master, retreat, the subordinate will protect your safety." Yuan Da Sheng stepped forward, like a city gate, blocking in front of Ning Zhuo.

Its body is sturdy, and the materials have been replaced by the Buddha Gate path, far exceeding what it was before.

The most critical thing is that it was repaired with great effort by Ning Xiaohui, as bright as new, with red skin and exposed gold bones, exceptionally domineering and reliable.

The demon art puppets pounced to the front, but were all knocked away by Yuan Da Sheng one by one.

Yuan Da Sheng has superb martial arts, using both fists and feet, and with the strength of one person, it fought off ten thousand.

Bang, bang, bang.

A large number of demon art puppets were knocked away by it, some thrown far away, some directly fell apart, and some flew back and knocked down a group of friendly forces.

However, the number of demon art puppets is really too many.

Yuan Da Sheng only has spiritual power, no blood energy, and is not in the best state.

It was worried about Ning Zhuo's safety behind it, and facing the enemies coming like a tide, it could only retreat slowly step by step.

Seeing this, Ning Zhuo immediately cast spells.

Fire and frost descended, and rock slabs and rolling logs covered them, but instead, it stimulated the blood energy defense of the demon art puppets.

They each covered themselves with blood tendon armor. To a large extent, they resisted the damage of the spells.

"Bad." Ning Zhuo's heart sank, discovering that his own actions had instead made things worse, stimulating the puppets' stronger strength.

"Yuan Da Sheng has been using fists and feet, defeating many puppets, without letting them use their own blood energy."

"This level, perhaps, does not encourage the use of spells at all. Is melee combat the right way to pass the level?"

Ning Zhuo immediately had many guesses in his heart.

And when it comes to melee combat, this is Ning Zhuo's weakness.

When he first broke into the third level before, he was taught a lesson by a demon art puppet. In the end, he relied on the Ice-Holding Technique to relieve himself and pass the level smoothly.

Ning Zhuo had always wanted to hone his melee skills, but unfortunately, he was too busy and couldn't find time at all.

Ning Zhuo stopped using spells, and the demon art puppets also stopped using blood energy.

Yuan Da Sheng was only one, and a large number of puppets surrounded it from all directions.

Ning Zhuo also had to join the battle.

He still had the basic skills of melee combat, and they were very solid; at the same time, dealing with two or three puppets was still possible.

However, now it was a dozen puppets launching attacks on him from all directions.

Ning Zhuo was forced to move constantly, relying on mobile warfare to delay time.

Seeing that there were more and more demon blood puppets around, the enemy lineup was getting thicker, and the space for Ning Zhuo to break through and maneuver was getting smaller, Ning Zhuo also felt more chill in his heart.

"This time, is the level going to fail?"

Ning Zhuo had a premonition of defeat, but also felt quite confused.

He is someone who has passed the Buddha Gate path and completely cleared the level.

"Compared with the second level of the Buddha Gate, the difficulty of the level here in the Demon Gate far exceeds the Buddha Gate, by more than a hundred times!"

"This is clearly unreasonable."

At this time, a large group of mechanical puppets pounced on the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, one after another.

The mechanical puppets were all covered in blood energy, which formed blood tendons, reinforcing their whole bodies and bringing greater strength.

They were like an arhat formation, pressing Yuan Da Sheng underneath.

Then, the blood tendon armor on them merged into one, forming a majestic blood energy, gathering from many to few, sealing Yuan Da Sheng from head to toe, and condensing huge blood tendon shackles.

"Bad!" Ning Zhuo shouted, about to cast a spell to relieve the situation.

Just at this moment, a mutation occurred.

The blood tendon shackles applied to Yuan Da Sheng lasted only for a short moment before turning back into a stream of blood energy, which was swallowed and absorbed into Yuan Da Sheng's body by an invisible force.

To be precise, it was swallowed into the blood path plate inside Yuan Da Sheng's body.

In an instant, Ning Zhuo understood!

"Understood, this is the correct way to pass the level!"

"This is how the blood path plate is used!"

When the blood path plate has blood energy, it can allow the mechanical creation to display the Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Art of the corresponding level.

When the blood path plate has no blood energy, if it encounters external Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Qi, it can directly absorb it!

These demon blood puppets originally wanted to imprison Yuan Da Sheng, but instead, they sent a big gift.

Yuan Da Sheng had previously suffered from having no blood energy to use, but now that it had received such a large gift, its combat power immediately soared.

It roared, its arms shook, and blood energy surged, forming a blood-colored ball of light, rapidly expanding and spreading to the surroundings.

The layers of mechanical puppets pressing on it were all knocked away, collided, and then fell to the ground.

Many mechanical puppets could not withstand the strong impact of the blood energy and fell apart directly in mid-air.

Yuan Da Sheng roared, clenched its fists like two war hammers, and danced like the wind. It charged and crashed, invincible, and with the help of blood energy, no mechanical puppet was its opponent.

A large number of demon blood puppets collapsed and perished under its fists and feet.

However, good times did not last long, and Yuan Da Sheng's combat power gradually weakened.

There were too many enemies.

Yuan Da Sheng's attacks were constantly consuming blood energy violently. Insufficient blood energy significantly affected its combat power!

There were enemies everywhere, one after another, wave after wave.

Ning Zhuo reminded it to let Yuan Da Sheng continue to absorb blood energy.

Yuan Da Sheng obeyed the order, reached out and grabbed a head.

It activated the blood path plate, and the plate erupted with strong suction, making the demon art puppet in Yuan Da Sheng's hand tremble.

A stream of blood energy was thus absorbed from the demon art puppet's body, through the head, along the palm and arm, and finally into Yuan Da Sheng's blood path plate.

The demon art puppet had no support of blood energy and immediately withered, becoming very weak.

Bang.

Yuan Da Sheng used both hands to directly crush the demon art puppet's head.

Its attacks were reflected in many aspects on its pair of palms!

Yuan Da Sheng grabbed and squeezed continuously, absorbing the blood energy of the demon art puppets, and then crushed them one by one.

Although these demon blood puppets were numerous, they lacked intelligence and had no targeted counter-measures against Yuan Da Sheng's actions.

In contrast, Yuan Da Sheng itself had reached the intelligence stage, and at this moment, it learned knowledge from the battle and began to pay attention to the reserve of blood energy.

It would rather be beaten than let the blood energy on the demon blood puppets be absorbed into its blood path plate.

The more Yuan Da Sheng absorbed, the more blood energy it had; the more blood energy it had, the stronger it became; the stronger it became, the more blood energy it absorbed...

Under such a positive cycle, Yuan Da Sheng stabilized its position and gradually became invincible.

Seeing this scene, Ning Zhuo felt gratified, but also somewhat puzzled.

"Having found the correct way to pass the level, the second level of the Demon Gate path has become very simple. The real difficulty is many times smaller than that of the Buddha Gate."

"This is also unreasonable."

Ning Zhuo fell into thought.

Soon, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility.

He practiced in the battle himself, actively chose demon blood puppets as opponents, and after many tests, his understanding of the level's operation mechanism became profound.

So, the absorption capacity of the blood path plate is limited.

Like the blood path plate Ning Zhuo possessed, it only recorded the eight-layer Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Art, so it could at most absorb the Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Qi of the eight-layer Essence Refining level.

It could do nothing about the higher nine-layer blood tendons.

In fact, absorbing the eight-layer blood tendons was already very difficult.

"The Three Sects' Supreme Masters designed this level to focus cultivators on the application of the blood path plate."

"In the early stage of passing the level, first delay time through mobile warfare, lengthen the battle line, and choose puppets with lower cultivation levels to absorb their blood energy."

"In the middle stage of passing the level, use the absorbed blood energy to enhance one's own combat power, while annihilating puppets, and fighting to support the battle."

"In the late stage of passing the level, deal with those tough bones, and after fierce fighting, finally break out of the blood path and pass this level!"

Spells cannot be used.

Once used, it stimulates a large number of demon art puppets to use blood tendons, leading to a great increase in the puppets' combat power.

This will not only increase the pressure on the cultivators passing the level but also cause the blood energy they harvest to decrease sharply.

"So, the difficulty of this level is related to the blood path plate."

"The nine-layer demon art blood path plate has the lowest difficulty in passing the level. Eight layers, seven layers, the lower the cultivation, the greater the difficulty in passing the level!"

"However..."

"I have Yuan Da Sheng, and when I refined it, I used the True Scripture of the Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Art as raw material. This led it to refine a Foundation Establishment-level blood path plate in the previous level."

"This plate, in the second level, restrains all demon blood puppets and is a supreme weapon!"

This is the main reason why Ning Zhuo found the difficulty of passing the level pitifully low.

In a word, he cheated again.

The trial level set up by the Three Sects' Supreme Masters is for cultivators at the Qi Refining stage.

Normal Qi Refining stage cultivators will only obtain the Demon-Dyed Blood Tendon Art at the Qi Refining stage level and have no ability at all to make a Foundation Establishment-level blood path plate.

The existence of Yuan Da Sheng exceeded the upper limit of the level design.

Under the performance of Yuan Da Sheng, Ning Zhuo very smoothly cleared this second level.

Seeing that Ning Zhuo obviously still wanted to take Yuan Da Sheng to continue to the last level, the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit felt worried.

"Oh my, oh my!"

"You can't do this, you can't take the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, it's very easy for it to get stuck in there and not be able to get it back."

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit knew the mechanism of the last level and felt extremely worried about Ning Zhuo.

If Ning Zhuo really takes Yuan Da Sheng in, the loss will be great, and it will be difficult to rescue Yuan Da Sheng for a while.

In normal times, the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit would wish for Ning Zhuo to do this.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit would love to see Ning Zhuo take a big tumble. But now, if Ning Zhuo has an accident and his strength is weakened, who can it find to deal with Ning Xiaohui?

Ning Xiaohui only has Qi Refining stage cultivation, and the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, is definitely enough to eradicate her.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit knows that the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, is very practical and does not want such a sharp weapon to be damaged.

At the same time, it is also quite worried that Ning Zhuo will be confused. Once the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng, is detained in the last level, he will spend too much time and energy trying to clear the last level to rescue the Gold Blood Battle Ape, Da Sheng!

"Little Ma, Master." Seeing that Ning Zhuo was about to push the door and enter, the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit was forced to contact him again.

"Stop, please stop first, absolutely do not rush to enter the door." The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit reminded.

Then, the next moment, above its head, a long flame whip condensed and emerged.

Crack.

With a crisp sound, the long whip lashed onto the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit's body.

Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit:...

It never expected that there would come a day when it would violate the rules to remind Ning Zhuo!

It was actually whipped for Ning Zhuo!

Where can one go to reason about this?