The skeleton brandished its enormous, scythe-like claws and lunged at Lu Chen.
"So fast!"
Lu Chen was startled and a top-grade spirit sword appeared in his hand, which he used to block in front of him.
Bang!
A loud bang.
Lu Chen was sent flying by this claw, crashing into the invisible wall of energy around him before falling to the ground.
"The real feast is here. This monster must have been a demon king in its previous life, right?"
Lu Chen suddenly jumped up and flew into the air.
At the same time, a tailbone whip came crashing down, hitting the spot where Lu Chen had just been standing. If Lu Chen had reacted slower, he would have been hit squarely.
"very good!"
A faint smile appeared on Lu Chen's lips. He sheathed his sword, took a step into the air, and instantly appeared beside the monster skeleton, delivering a powerful punch to the joint between the skeleton's legs.
Click!
With a crisp crack, the bones broke. The huge monster skeleton felt no pain, but it lost its balance and fell to one side.
The skull's tail swept over quickly.
Lu Chen simply vanished.
When it reappeared, it was in another place, and the same method was used to dismantle its other leg bone.
The skeleton immediately knelt down.
However, the attacks have not stopped.
Lu Chen kept circling the skeleton, swinging his fists and smashing it desperately, occasionally taking out his longsword and directly chopping at the bone joints.
It took Lu Chen quite a while to dismantle the entire skeleton into a pile of broken bones.
Finally, the skeleton stopped moving completely.
The two red lights in his eyes gradually faded away.
"Done!"
Lu Chen smiled.
Just then, everything spun around, and Lu Chen was sucked into another place by a vortex that suddenly appeared in the sky.
"Could this be the third floor?"
Lu Chen looked around. It was an ancient temple with rows of huge statues on it, which looked extremely strange and terrifying.
Suddenly, Lu Chen turned around and looked at the somewhat unusual statue in the center. The statue was of a woman, a pure white jade statue, so beautiful that one could not take their eyes off her once they looked at it.
Whether it was his imagination or not, Lu Chen felt as if the statue had blinked just now.
"Did I see wrong?"
Lu Chen suspected that perhaps the statue was so lifelike that it created an illusion.
suddenly.
A flash of light.
Situ Jing appeared beside Lu Chen with a blank expression. Upon seeing Lu Chen, she was startled and immediately became wary.
"Jingjing, you passed too?"
Lu Chen smiled.
Situ Jing felt extremely uncomfortable whenever she heard the name "Jingjing," and instinctively reached for her sword. However, she forcibly restrained herself when she thought that she might not be able to defeat this guy.
Just as I was about to say something, suddenly, another light shone.
The Demon King Ye Sang appeared in the temple, but at this moment, Ye Sang was covered in wounds, and there was a terrible wound on his face, making him look ferocious and terrifying.
Then Elder Shi appeared, also severely injured and pale-faced, as if he had used some secret technique and suffered considerable damage.
Upon entering the temple, Elder Shi immediately sat down cross-legged, took out a pill from his ring, and put it in his mouth.
"Huh? Elder Yunfeng hasn't passed the test yet? Has something happened?"
Lu Chen was puzzled, wondering what kind of opponent Elder Yunfeng had encountered. Among the people present, Yunfeng was the weakest. It wouldn't be surprising if he failed to pass the test and died on the second level.
Sure enough, after waiting for a while, no more light came on.
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang in everyone's minds. The voice was elusive and could not be felt to come from anywhere, yet it seemed to be everywhere.
"Congratulations on successfully passing the second level of the Trial Tower and reaching the third level, the Divine Temple. From this moment on, you are disciples of my Heavenly Demon Palace. You will be taught the supreme secret manual of the Heavenly Demon Palace, the 'Heavenly Demon Strategy.' Those who can successfully cultivate it will become the masters of my Heavenly Demon Palace!"
After this sound rang out, four large doors suddenly appeared around the temple.
The door opened directly.
An ancient aura emanated from it.
"These four secret chambers are where you will cultivate. You may leave the chambers only if you successfully cultivate the first level of the 'Heavenly Demon Strategy' within three months! If you fail, you will be killed on the spot!"
"Anyone who refuses to enter the secret room will be killed on the spot!"
This voice kept echoing in Lu Chen and the others' minds.
Everyone's expression changed.
Lu Chen's heart sank. He realized that he had to successfully cultivate the Heavenly Demon Strategy, or he really wouldn't be able to get out.
The four of them exchanged glances, all sensing that they were in trouble.
Unexpectedly, they were now in dire straits. The methods used by the Heavenly Demon Palace to select disciples were indeed extremely cruel. Even disciples who had passed two trials were directly killed if they failed to complete the final trial.
"I wonder if that voice just now was from a living person, or something else?"
Lu Chen was pondering in his heart.
"Three months? Ha! I'm off!"
Elder Shi was the first to walk into one of the secret chambers. He had a confident expression on his face. With his knowledge and understanding of the demonic sect's techniques, he was confident that he would be the first to successfully cultivate them.
If he were to truly master the "Heavenly Demon Strategy" and become the master of the Heavenly Demon Palace, his future would be limitless, and he would not simply be a demonic elder.
Situ Jing hesitated for a moment before walking into the first secret room.
Her biggest goal on this trip was to obtain the Blood Soul Curse, a secret technique inherited by the Heavenly Demon Palace. Now it seems that the Blood Soul Curse is just one of the secret techniques of the Heavenly Demon Strategy.
Since this is the rule of the Heavenly Demon Palace, what's the point of struggling?
No matter what, I need to master the first level first and save my life.
The Demon King Ye Sang's face was extremely ugly; he had truly failed this time.
In terms of cultivation, even beings like the Demon King, who can compare to these humans? The cultivation methods of demon beasts are also quite different from those of humans, not to mention, there are now two members of the Demonic Sect.
As the Demon King, he was the strongest among the four, yet he was still being manipulated by the Trial Tower of the Heavenly Demon Palace.
"Hmph!" Ye Sang walked reluctantly into another secret room.
He needs to hurry and successfully complete the first level of cultivation.
Otherwise, your life will be in danger.
Lu Chen smiled and walked towards the last secret room.
As soon as we entered, the door slammed shut with a loud bang.
Now it's impossible to get out even if you want to. Lu Chen looked around and found that in the middle of the secret room, there was a circular pool of blood, which was surrounded by a layer of light.
After Lu Chen entered the secret room, the light screen disappeared immediately.
A terrifying, bloody aura instantly sent a shiver down Lu Chen's spine.
"This is... the blood of a divine beast?"
Lu Chen was startled. He had previously obtained a drop of divine beast blood, specifically the heart blood of the Jade Kirin, fresh divine beast blood, so he recognized it at a glance.
On the walls of the secret room, words gleaming with golden light appeared.
The Heavenly Demon Strategy
First level: Dragon Blood Tempering.
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