Chapter 22: Hold On Tight, I'll Make You Fly! Cleared! Hell Difficulty Dungeon!

In Mu Yunlan's understanding, an ordinary summoner, before their first class advancement, would at most have one elite-quality summoned beast; even with great luck, a rare-level summoned beast would be the absolute ceiling—yet the two giant beasts before her, from every perspective, did not seem like ordinary summoned beasts.

This aura was incomparably powerful, carrying a kind of soul-level oppressive force.

So much so that the ten Demon Shadow Panther Fiends that had aggressively closed in just now all stopped in unison, not daring to advance.

But while they stopped, Lu Zheng did not let his two summoned beasts hold back.

From the eyes of the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent, two beams of blood-red light shot forth and struck a Demon Shadow Panther Fiend, which had no time to dodge at all, and without even letting out a single cry of agony, it collapsed directly.

This was the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent's skill 【Blood Phantom Divine Light】.

【Skill: Blood Phantom Divine Light】

【Effect: Minimum cost of 500 mana, releases a beam of Blood Phantom Divine Light; targets hit by Blood Phantom Divine Light with no mental defense whose mental stat is below 1500 suffer mental collapse, judged as death; if not killed, deals 1500 mental damage in a single instance, plus an additional 100 mental damage per second for 5 seconds】

This skill was overbearing—in short, without mental defense skills, anyone with mental power below 2000 would undoubtedly die, and below 1500 would die instantly! The level-52 Demon Shadow Panther Fiend before her only had 750 mental stat, completely unable to withstand this skill's attack.

On the other side, the Howling Moon Azure Wolf also launched its attack—it too released a skill, a conventional attack skill: Sky-Rending Claw! Suddenly, a massive silver-white claw formed in midair, attaching to the Howling Moon Azure Wolf's right front paw, and upon descending, it directly tore a Demon Shadow Panther Fiend into seven or eight pieces.

【Skill: Sky-Rending Claw】

【Effect: Minimum cost of 200 mana, releases a Sky-Rending Claw, dealing a minimum of 4000 physical damage; 1 point of Strength adds 10 physical damage】

The Howling Moon Azure Wolf was also a melee strength-type summoned beast; at level 46 it possessed 2850 Strength, and under this skill, converted into damage plus the base skill damage, that was a full 32500 damage! This Demon Shadow Panther Fiend only had 13500 HP—destroying it with one claw was perfectly reasonable.

Under the slaughter of the two immortal-grade spirit pets, in less than half a minute, the ten Demon Shadow Panther Fiends were wiped out completely, and a panel prompt appeared before Lu Zheng and Mu Yunlan.

【Notice: Nine-Layer Demon Tower Trial, Hell difficulty, Layer 1 cleared. Please choose whether to end this trial. If no choice is made, the second layer trial will begin after 30 seconds. Countdown: 29, 28, 27...】

Before Mu Yunlan could even collect herself, she found that Lu Zheng had once again chosen to begin the trial.

Immediately after, the two appeared on the second layer.

Seeing the newly appeared monsters outside the barrier, Mu Yunlan finally steadied her mind, looked at Lu Zheng with a complicated gaze, and asked, "So you're confident you can carry me through the Hell difficulty trial, right?"

Lu Zheng directly wrapped his arm around Mu Yunlan's waist again and laughed:

"Hold on tight—I'll make you fly!"

This time Mu Yunlan tangibly felt Lu Zheng's hand on her waist, felt the sense of strength and security from his arm, and two patches of crimson involuntarily appeared on her face; just as she was about to say something, the barrier vanished, the two flew up into the air, and ten monsters outside pounced at them.

Hell difficulty trial, Layer 2: kill ten LV. 54 Demon Scale Poison Pythons—still ordinary-quality monsters.

Without question, the battle still ended in half a minute.

Layer 3: ten LV. 56 Demon Eye Thunder Hawks—flying-type monsters this time, but that was no issue either; the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent had the 'Sky Spirit Wings' skill and the Howling Moon Azure Wolf had the 'Moon Treading' skill, both could fly, and they still swept through everything.

Moreover, after this battle, having slain thirty monsters above level 50 in total, both the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent and the Howling Moon Azure Wolf leveled up to 47, their combat power rose again, and their consumed mana was directly restored. Layer 4 was ten LV. 58 Demon Tusk Steel Pigs, and Layer 5 was ten LV. 60 Four-Armed Demon Apes.

Up to this point, the first five layers all only contained ordinary-quality monsters—even the LV. 60 Four-Armed Demon Ape was still merely a high-end ordinary-level monster.

Layer 6 still had ten ordinary-quality level-60 Four-Armed Demon Apes, but at the same time, there was also one low-grade boss-quality LV. 60 Six-Armed Demon Ape!

The difference between a Six-Armed Demon Ape and a Four-Armed Demon Ape was not simply a matter of two extra arms; in terms of size, a level-60 Four-Armed Demon Ape was only ten meters tall, while the Six-Armed Demon Ape reached twelve meters; this kind of monster could form demonic explosive fireballs through its palms, and with two extra arms, its attack frequency increased by half, and its destructive power also broke through a limit.

Without question, although they were the same level, the Six-Armed Demon Ape's combat power was a full tier above the Four-Armed Demon Ape's.

Of course, the result was still the same.

After all, even the LV. 60 Six-Armed Demon Ape only had 1200 mental power—completely unable to withstand a single Blood Phantom Divine Light! Sweeping through, still sweeping through! Layer 7: ten LV. 60 Six-Armed Demon Apes, once again wiped out by the Howling Moon Azure Wolf and the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent.

Immortal-grade spirit pets corresponded to at least King-tier wild monsters; mere boss-tier monsters, even with a level difference of more than 10, were nothing but a mantis trying to stop a chariot before these two immortal-grade spirit pets!

Layer 8: ten LV. 60 Six-Armed Demon Apes, plus one LV. 60 Eight-Armed Demon Ape; the Eight-Armed Demon Ape's size directly reached twenty meters tall—it was unmistakably a Lord-tier monster.

Lord-tier quality monsters were already very strong, and at level 60, for other professionals below second class advancement and under level 60, this was absolutely a situation where they would need to risk their lives for even a sliver of hope.

The level-60 Dark Demon Dragon Vix that Lu Zheng had killed back then was only Overlord-tier quality—merely one tier above the Eight-Armed Demon Ape!

Yet it too was instantly killed.

The current Lu Zheng was different from when he had fought Vix; although this Eight-Armed Demon Ape possessed a full 1600 mental power and the same 'Demonic Spirit Shield' skill as the Dark Demon Dragon Vix, with the Howling Moon Azure Wolf using the skill 'Moon Pulse Sky Charge' in coordination, it was still instantly killed!

They saw a silver-white pillar of light suddenly erupt beneath the Eight-Armed Demon Ape, launching it into the air; its Demonic Spirit Shield shattered in an instant, and then the Blood Phantom Divine Light struck; by the time it fell to the ground, the Eight-Armed Demon Ape was already dead.

Next, Layer 9—the final layer—the objective was to kill ten LV. 60 Eight-Armed Demon Apes! Ten first-class-advancement peak Lord-tier monsters, each with 33000 HP, for a total of 330,000—even if they stood still and let you hit them, it would still take quite a lot of time.

But with the Howling Moon Azure Wolf and the Cave Phantom Azure Serpent working together, it still didn't take much effort; this dungeon that reached Hell-tier for other professionals was cleared in a total of less than fifteen minutes—complete!

Moreover, both summoned beasts leveled up to 48 from the massive amount of experience.

【You have cleared the Nine-Layer Demon Tower Trial · Hell Tier, obtaining the title 'Demon Nemesis', and obtained one treasure chest】

【Title: Demon Nemesis】

【Effect: You can accurately identify demonized targets; deals 5% additional damage to demonized or fiendized targets; Spirit +200, Constitution +100】

In the vast white space, Mu Yunlan stared blankly at the gleaming golden treasure chest before her; the scene just now felt like a dream, leaving her still somewhat unable to believe it.

"We've already cleared the Hell difficulty trial!?"

Lu Zheng said excitedly, "Of course! Next comes the most thrilling moment—opening the treasure chest!" — Coming soon to shelves, please follow and read, please vote with recommendation tickets, please vote with monthly tickets! (End of this chapter)