Chapter 235: Clearing the Demonic Path

The final level of the Demonic path.

What filled Unlike Ning Zhuo's vision was a vibrant blood-red color.

In the final level, the space was larger than Unlike Ning Zhuo had imagined—the venue was like a vast grassland!

Clearly, when this checkpoint was built, some kind of spatial array was laid out.

Inside the checkpoint, the blood qi was extremely dense, drifting between heaven and earth, forming large patches of blood mist.

The blood mist flowed constantly, and a wind kept rushing through, making the blood mist sometimes dense and sometimes thin.

Unlike Ning Zhuo explored in the blood mist, and after walking for a distance, he found a glimmer of light faintly showing through the blood mist.

He walked toward the light and arrived at the center of the room. Here, he saw a blood lake.

It was the lake light emitted from the surface of the blood lake.

Unlike Ning Zhuo stepped forward, and just as he arrived at the edge of the blood lake, the light on the surface of the lake suddenly converged.

On the surface of the lake, Unlike Ning Zhuo's shadow was reflected.

The lake water fluctuated rapidly, like boiling water, bubbling *gudugudu*.

A large amount of essence blood seemed to have life, spraying upward, rushing out of the lake surface, and rushing toward Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Unlike Ning Zhuo dodged hurriedly.

The essence blood landed on a rock at his feet, immediately wrapping around the rock.

Soon, it formed large patches of blood tendons on the surface of the rock.

The blood tendons were extremely powerful, constantly kneading the rock. Hearing a series of *kachakacha* sounds, the rock was kneaded into the image of Unlike Ning Zhuo's puppet.

Don't say, it really looked quite like him.

Under the wrapping and control of the blood tendons, the rock puppet rushed toward the puppet Unlike Ning Zhuo without a word.

The two engaged in a fierce battle by the blood lake.

Unlike Ning Zhuo soon fell into a disadvantage.

This was because the materials used for the rock puppet were far better than his wooden body, being materials that reached the Foundation Establishment level.

At the same time, the rock puppet possessed martial arts, which were also superior to Unlike Ning Zhuo's.

Unlike Ning Zhuo could only fight while retreating.

Just as he was testing the opponent's bottom line, the blood lake had movement again.

The essence blood in the lake sprayed onto the shore, successively attaching to mud and trees.

After a period of kneading by the blood tendons, mud puppets and tree puppets were formed.

In an instant, Unlike Ning Zhuo faced the predicament of one against three!

After a round of exchanges, Unlike Ning Zhuo tested the result—each puppet exceeded him by a large margin in martial arts.

While this made Unlike Ning Zhuo envious, he had to make up his mind and frantically urge his own blood qi.

The blood qi on his body was incomparably abundant, and the blood path circuit board carried in the puppet body was even a Foundation Establishment version dismantled from Yuan Dasheng.

Unlike Ning Zhuo clapped his palms together, and the blood qi poured out like a waterfall, directly submerging the three puppets.

One hour later...

On the battlefield, it was covered with countless puppet remains, broken limbs, severed heads, and so on.

Unlike Ning Zhuo could barely stand, extremely weak, but his heart was full of luck and joy.

"Finally won!"

A full hour of fighting was long and arduous.

Each of Unlike Ning Zhuo's puppet opponents was the same as him, at the peak of the ninth layer.

"This time, my victory was not honorable."

Unlike Ning Zhuo knew that the reason he won was entirely because he relied on the violent pouring of blood qi, unreasonably crushing his opponents.

This was the best manifestation of using force to overcome ten techniques.

The reason he could do this was thanks to Yuan Dasheng.

Yuan Dasheng manufactured a Foundation Establishment-level blood path circuit board, and the scale of its instantly surging blood qi far exceeded that of a Qi Condensation-level blood path circuit board.

In the penultimate level, the blood path circuit board absorbed a lot of blood qi.

By the final level, Unlike Ning Zhuo squandered the blood qi wantonly, without any stinginess. In the middle and late stages, when the blood qi consumption hit the bottom, Unlike Ning Zhuo emptied the blood path circuit board and then used it to frantically absorb the opponent's blood qi, nourishing the battle with the battle.

In this way, Unlike Ning Zhuo was almost equivalent to possessing infinite blood qi.

He didn't use any techniques; he just came up with ten times the blood qi to smear on their faces.

As one puppet fell, more puppets would stand up in the blood lake.

The puppets rushed forward one after another, causing Unlike Ning Zhuo to fall into a bitter battle for a time.

"But in the end, I am still the winner!"

"When I have time to refine my martial arts in the future, I will come to try this level again."

Unlike Ning Zhuo opened the final door of the Demonic path and entered the final reward room.

Just as he stepped in, he obtained the Foundation Establishment method of the Demonic path.

Corresponding to the Buddhist side, the Foundation Establishment method here was based on the lower dantian essence sea, with the other two dantian as supplements.

Unlike Ning Zhuo did not delve into this Foundation Establishment method but immediately went to look at the many duty badges hanging on the wall.

After picking and choosing and browsing carefully several times, he chose the General Platform Chief.

"Next, it's the Daoist path."

Unlike Ning Zhuo now had a strong soul power, and after clearing the final level of the Demonic path, he still had spare energy.

He used the Buddha Heart Demonic Seal to retreat from the level again and returned to the third transit hall.

Then he pushed open the third Daoist door and cleared the level with all his might.

Lava Xian Gong, Main Hall.

The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit's gaze penetrated the void, its expression complex, staring at every move of Unlike Ning Zhuo.

It had thought about hiding and delaying before, but ultimately found: it could not stop Unlike Ning Zhuo from taking the three Foundation Establishment methods with different focuses.

Thus, it told the secret of the Foundation Establishment method in advance to exchange for Unlike Ning Zhuo's trust.

"The previous exchanges, I should have done well!"

"Especially the last time."

"Although the whip hurt me a lot, it was enough to gain Unlike Ning Zhuo's trust and gratitude."

"Hehe, everything will get better."

"I will definitely gain freedom!"

While the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit was cheering itself up, Unlike Ning Zhuo had already started a new level clearing.

Just as the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit introduced to him, the intention of the Daoist path was to cultivate the spellcasting talent of the trial disciples.

Unlike Ning Zhuo obtained the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk in the previous reward checkpoint. At this time, the Spirit Turning Disk became the main weapon in his hand.

He held the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk, constantly casting Five Elements spells, sometimes attacking and sometimes defending.

Every once in a while, in this checkpoint, a Five Elements spell would attack him.

Sometimes it was a blade of Metal, sometimes a tide of Water, and sometimes hot flames of Fire.

What Unlike Ning Zhuo needed to do was to use spells to resist spells.

In order to save more spiritual power, he would adopt the law of mutual restraint.

He used Water spells to restrain Fire flames, and Wood spells to restrain Earth's flying sand and moving stones.

Doing this was undoubtedly the most saving of spiritual power and spirit.

The Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk could allow the spiritual power in his body to change and produce Five Elements-related magic power.

Using this kind of magic power to cast Five Elements spells was undoubtedly more efficient.

This was not all; the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk also had other uses.

It was essentially an array disk. After Unlike Ning Zhuo used it, it would derive an invisible array outward.

Within the coverage of this array, the spiritual energy in the air would be affected by the array, and Unlike Ning Zhuo only needed a single thought to change the attribute of the spiritual energy within the array.

In other words, the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk was a combat weapon that could change or set up the battlefield.

"When my attainment in the Five Elements Mutual Generation and Restraint Technique improves in the future, the quality of the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk I can obtain will be higher."

The way to claim the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk was similar to the blood path circuit board, mainly referring to a certain spell or technique.

The reward checkpoint after the second Daoist door was the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk.

The reward checkpoint after the third Demonic door was the blood path circuit board.

The items in these two reward checkpoints could be claimed repeatedly.

In fact, the reward checkpoint after the first Buddhist door was also like this. It was just that Unlike Ning Zhuo used Yuan Dasheng's corpse to refine the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, which possessed immortal potential.

In the first Buddhist door, the originally rewarded spiritual mechanism had too big a gap from ten-tenths spirituality, destined to eventually exhaust its spirituality. Unlike Ning Zhuo obtained the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, but he had used it until now.

Under normal circumstances, the trial disciples' spiritual mechanisms would be consumed after being used for a period of time. The trial disciples would then re-clear the Buddhist path to claim the next mechanism.

After Unlike Ning Zhuo arduously cleared the penultimate level of the Daoist path, he could no longer continue.

The spiritual energy on his body was less than thirty percent.

"The difficulty of the penultimate level is still very great for me."

"I spent too much time, spirit, and spiritual power in it."

Unlike Ning Zhuo did not have much confidence in the final level of the Daoist path.

After all, he had just cleared the Demonic path, and his own state was not complete.

But in order to see it, Unlike Ning Zhuo still pushed open the final door.

He indeed failed.

After his soul returned to his body, Unlike Ning Zhuo returned to reality.

He was in the Floating Cloud, his closed eyes not opening for a long time.

He recalled his conversation with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit and comprehensively thought about his current situation.

The exchange with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit gave him a huge harvest.

Unlike Ning Zhuo verified the Foundation Establishment method and reached a deeper cooperation with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit.

Most importantly, he figured out what the main mechanism of the Palace Examination was.

"To participate in the Palace Examination as soon as possible, I actually don't need to accumulate my contribution to the standard required for a first-grade position."

"After all, my contribution is negative, and accumulating it to the standard of a first-grade position is still too long."

Mainly because he had blown up the Xian Gong before, his contribution was too negative, and this pit was a bit big, not easy to fill.

Unlike Ning Zhuo calculated in his heart.

Actually, he only needed the qualification to participate in the Palace Examination.

This meant that he didn't need to compete for the first place in contribution; he just needed to be within the last thirty-two, and that would be enough.

Lava Xian Gong, Medical Hall.

Ning Xiaohui's heart moved, and she discovered a new maintenance task.

"It's that mechanical ape." Ning Xiaohui's eyes lit up immediately.

Unlike Ning Zhuo cleared the Demonic path continuously and then cleared to the final level of the Daoist path, so Yuan Dasheng was also injured because of this.

Without hesitation, Unlike Ning Zhuo immediately issued the Golden Blood Battle Ape as a task to Ning Xiaohui.

Ning Xiaohui immediately claimed this maintenance task.

The teleportation aperture spat out, placing the Golden Blood Battle Ape on the manual table.

After an inspection, Ning Xiaohui happily discovered: this time, the Golden Blood Battle Ape's injuries were much lighter than the last time.

After all, the Golden Blood Battle Ape's previous injuries were accumulated by Unlike Ning Zhuo for a long time.

In the process of using the Golden Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, Unlike Ning Zhuo only patched it up and did not figure out the mechanical structure of the Golden Blood Battle Ape, so it could only be considered barely patching.

Seeing the Golden Blood Battle Ape's injuries, Ning Xiaohui couldn't help but curl her lips.

In her view, the Golden Blood Battle Ape suffered less damage, which meant that it occupied the upper hand in the battle, and the injuries it brought to its opponent must be much more severe than its own.

"You should show your divine power more often!"

Ning Xiaohui liked the Golden Blood Battle Ape more and more as she looked at it, feeling that it was very domineering.

Before, the Golden Blood Battle Ape brought her quite a lot of nightmares and countless embarrassing experiences, but now Ning Xiaohui had figured it out, and her feelings were completely different from before.

"After I fix you, I will go and inquire to see who is suffering."

"Giving these trial disciples a hard time and letting them suffer a little will help their growth."

When Ning Xiaohui said this, she couldn't help but giggle. ===== CHAPTER 236 =====