Chapter 378: The Special Training Begins

On the platform filled with cyan mist.

Li Luo held dual blades, with water-attribute light flowing rapidly across the blades; amidst the faint humming vibrations, it seemed as if even the air was being silently sliced apart.

At a certain moment, the cyan mist was suddenly torn asunder, and over a dozen cyan figures shot out from within. Their speed was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they appeared all around Li Luo. Cyan wooden spears whistled through the air, bringing with them sharp, wind-breaking sounds, pointing directly at Li Luo's vital points.

Facing such a fierce offensive, Li Luo suddenly took a step back, and starlight erupted from behind him. The next moment, as his body swayed, it actually transformed into several shadows, which then lunged toward the surrounding Cyan Spirit Puppets.

The Cyan Spirit Puppets possessed little intelligence; facing the charging Li Luo, they naturally could not distinguish the real from the fake, and could only quickly retract their spears and thrust them violently toward the Li Luo in front of them.

However, the spear shadows all pierced through, and Li Luo's figure dissipated along with them.

Swish!

But on the other side, a powerful resonance force erupted from one of Li Luo's figures. The blade light in his hand became instantly sharp; as the blade swept past, it looked like the light trails left by light refracting on the surface of water.

The blade light flowed, and within a few breaths, it had severed two Cyan Spirit Puppets.

But at the same time, three more Cyan Spirit Puppets arrived to provide support at high speed. On their cyan wooden spears, emerald resonance force rose up like green flames, stabbing lightning-fast toward Li Luo's vital points.

Whoosh!

However, just at this moment, the shadows beneath Li Luo's feet suddenly surged. Three shadow rays shot out, and like black chains, they directly bound the legs of those three Cyan Spirit Puppets.

The Cyan Spirit Puppets lost their balance and flew forward.

Li Luo tapped his toes, his figure darted out, and the blade light swept past, leaving three trails of light in the air.

By the time his figure landed, the three Cyan Spirit Puppets had fallen to the ground, their bodies shattered.

Xin Fu's figure appeared behind Li Luo, the short dagger in his hand flowing with an extremely sharp luster in the darkness. Black resonance force seemed to condense into liquid, slowly flowing on the blade, carrying a unique corrosive scent.

In just a short moment, five Cyan Spirit Puppets were dealt with, but the expressions of Li Luo and Xin Fu did not become relaxed, because over a dozen more Cyan Spirit Puppets continued to charge forward fearlessly, their emerald resonance force rising like clusters of green ghost fire.

"Mengmeng."

Li Luo took a deep breath and called out.

Starlight resonance force whistled past behind him, and their figures gradually became distorted, with phantom after phantom appearing beside them. At a rough glance, the number was even greater than these Cyan Spirit Puppets.

"Go!"

All the Li Luos and Xin Fus spoke at this moment, and then charged out with great momentum.

Two torrents collided on the platform, and phantoms were constantly being shattered, but the true bodies of Li Luo and Xin Fu were hidden within, methodically harvesting the Cyan Spirit Puppets at high speed. When the last phantom was shattered, Li Luo's dual blades and Xin Fu's short dagger stabbed one after the other into the body of the final Cyan Spirit Puppet.

As all the Cyan Spirit Puppets were slain, Li Luo and Xin Fu let out a heavy sigh of relief. The two sat down slowly, wiping the sweat from their foreheads, their faces unable to hide their exhaustion.

Bai Mengmeng's figure leaped to their side and said with some worry: "Shall we stop here for today?"

Li Luo shook his head and said: "We haven't reached our limit yet, and we are currently on the nineteenth floor. As long as we go up one more floor, we will reach the Elite Floor. This is a fat piece of meat, and I want to eat it today; otherwise, it would be a real waste."

This was their fourth day of training in the Holy Wood World Cave. During these four days, they entered this place every day, doing their utmost to clear the platforms floor by floor, constantly climbing upward.

Now, they were already on the nineteenth floor; this was the result of their efforts over these four days.

Li Luo glanced at the direction to the right of the platform. On the platform over there, a fierce battle was erupting. The other four Purple-Glory teams were also fighting with all their might, attempting to climb continuously.

On the first day the special training began, the five Purple-Glory teams were actually led most efficiently by the team of Wang Hejiu and Duze Beixuan. After all, looking at all the teams, only their team possessed two members with the strength of the Fourth Pattern. Although Li Luo and Qin Zhulu had reached the Fifth Pattern, their respective teammates were slightly behind in strength, so in the early stages, it was actually Wang Hejiu and his team who were in the lead.

On the first day, the Wang Hejiu team broke through a full six floors of platforms.

Meanwhile, Li Luo and Qin Zhulu's side only had five floors, and Bai Doudou and Yi Lisha were both at four floors.

However, this lead was only temporary. As Li Luo and Qin Zhulu gradually adapted to the rhythm of this place, they began to display their Fifth Pattern strength, which allowed them to lead their respective teams to overtake Wang Hejiu and the others.

Now, among the five Purple-Glory teams, it was Li Luo's team and Qin Zhulu's team that had reached the nineteenth floor first, while Wang Hejiu's team was on the seventeenth floor, and Bai Doudou's team and Yi Lisha's team were on the sixteenth floor.

Of course, for Li Luo and Qin Zhulu's teams to be able to overtake them, the two strongest members undoubtedly bore immense pressure, but the current training required this kind of pressure to hone themselves.

As for the "Elite Floor" Li Luo mentioned earlier, it was a change that occurred every ten floors. On every tenth-floor platform, the Cyan Spirit energy would become exceptionally thick. This energy would condense into an exceptionally powerful "Cyan Spirit Puppet." Only by defeating it could one pass the platform and continue climbing, and defeating this high-level "Cyan Spirit Puppet" would also yield exceptionally thick Cyan Spirit energy.

This was a rare gift.

Back on the tenth floor, Li Luo and the others had encountered one once, but that Cyan Spirit Puppet's strength was only equivalent to the First Transformation of the Resonance-Transforming Stage, so the difficulty was not too high.

But the high-level Cyan Spirit Puppet that would appear on the upcoming twentieth floor would inevitably be stronger.

Of course, most importantly, after a full day of high-intensity fierce fighting, let alone Li Luo and Xin Fu, even Bai Mengmeng, who had always stayed in the back providing support, was somewhat exhausted.

Facing the high-level Cyan Spirit Puppet of the twentieth floor in this state would surely not be easy.

But they had no other choice, because the daily Cyan Spirit energy was limited. In the previous days of training, Li Luo and the others would only finish after absorbing the very last bit of Cyan Spirit energy each day. If they didn't take the chance to defeat and absorb this high-level Cyan Spirit Puppet before the Cyan Spirit energy was exhausted today, they would have to consume tomorrow's quota.

Moreover, if they chose to give up here, Qin Zhulu's side would definitely go for it. Li Luo understood that guy's competitive personality quite well. Although their relationship with each other was quite good, it was still a competition after all. If he slacked off here, it would not only be disrespectful to himself and his teammates, but Qin Zhulu would surely be unhappy if he found out.

"Finish today's business today; break through it early, and continue to climb higher floors tomorrow." Li Luo rested for a moment, then stood up, his gaze looking toward the front of the platform. He saw mist condensing there, as if forming a mist ladder, and the mist ladder extended, connecting to the platform on the higher floor.

He waved his hand, his figure darted out, heading straight for the twentieth floor.

Bai Mengmeng and Xin Fu immediately followed.

And while Li Luo's team headed straight for the twentieth floor, on a high platform, Xi Chan, Shen Jinxiao, and the other five Purple-Glory mentors were also watching everyone's training.

"I really didn't expect that the first to challenge the twentieth floor would actually be Li Luo and his team." Mentor Mi Er, with his disheveled hair and uninhibited appearance, smiled and said.

"This kid is not the same as when he first entered the academy; now, even Qin Zhulu might not be able to beat him." Mentor Cao Sheng, with his rugged face, sighed.

"The advantage of dual resonances is gradually emerging."

Mentor Chu Zi nodded and said: "A month from now, I'm afraid the representative for the First Star Academy will have to be chosen between Li Luo and Qin Zhulu."

Facing the praise from the other Purple-Glory mentors, although Mentor Xi Chan did not speak, there was a hint of gratification in her eyes.

Shen Jinxiao's expression was indifferent, and he said blandly: "Being the first to challenge the twentieth floor does not necessarily mean being the first to pass the twentieth floor. After all, the difficulty of the twentieth floor is far from comparable to the tenth floor. Although Li Luo has dual resonances, I think it might still be insufficient to pass it on the first try."

The other Purple-Glory mentors did not refute this, while Mentor Xi Chan completely ignored Shen Jinxiao. All of their gazes were cast upon Li Luo and the two others as they gradually climbed the twentieth-floor platform along the mist stairs.

After all, whether it's enough... in the end, one still has to try to know.