Liu Lie was covered in wounds, embarrassingly pursued by a Ferocious Beast with a strength of one and a half Half-step Celestial beings.
Wu Yang and Qin Wu encountered the obstruction of the third trial’s monster and were also fleeing in panic.
Initially, they were controlled by the Black Spirits and planned to seek out Ling Xiao, but after Ling Xiao left the third trial, the terrifying dragon’s might also disappeared instantly, causing the eighth-level Dangerous Beasts and Level 9 Fierce Beasts, which had not dared to move before, to act one after another.
For a time, the third trial truly became a paradise for monsters, a purgatory for the trial disciples.
What was more terrifying was that with the passing of time, there appeared Ferocious Beasts with two, three, even four times the strength of Half-step Celestials.
Even Tantai Lingzi was in imminent danger.
The entrance leading to the fourth trial had already been sealed, and these people essentially had no chance of reaching the fourth trial. They could only run for their lives in the third trial until they were eliminated.
However, the longer they could hold out, the more rewards they would receive; even Liu Lie was devising ways to dodge attacks.
Thank goodness these monsters were set to be quite foolish, otherwise, they might have already died.
Back to the fourth trial.
When Ling Xiao was being chased by the Heavenly Man Realm guardian of the third trial, Dai Yuling, Leng Hao, and Shangguan Lei also encountered trouble at the same time.
However, at that moment, Ling Xiao was too far stretched to help, and whether they could turn misfortune into a blessing depended on their own abilities.
Ling Xiao himself was now too busy to care.
Watching the guardian rapidly closing in from behind, his eyes flashed with a fierce determination.
"Rather than being chased by this guy all this way, I might as well find a way to take him down!"
Once this thought emerged, it could not be stopped.
Being pursued by this guy meant that Ling Xiao simply could not calmly check the situation of the fourth trial; this desperate fleeing was not his original plan.
However, relying solely on his strength, even with the addition of the Book of Seals, it was not possible.
Perhaps he could find an opportunity within the fourth trial, an opportunity to completely annihilate the guardian!
If it were anyone else, facing the pursuit of an expert from the Heavenly Man Realm, they definitely would not entertain such a thought.
For a Transcendent Realm being, no matter how strong, facing a Heavenly Man Realm was still only a path to being killed.
The Five-faced Monster could be considered the strongest among the Transcendent Realm, but faced with this Crescent Blade guardian, it lasted only sixty breaths before being dismembered and destroyed.
The others probably fare even worse.
However, Ling Xiao’s way of thinking differed from ordinary people.
This was not a duel on a platform; they were in an unfamiliar environment, and using the environment to fight was also a choice.
Moreover, if Ling Xiao did not eradicate this guardian, he himself would inevitably be in dire straits, possibly getting eliminated before the others, which would be a loss far outweighing the gain.
With the thought of killing the guardian in mind, Ling Xiao no longer fled aimlessly, but released his True Essence Ball, sensing the surrounding environment.
The sensing effect of the True Essence Ball could now reach about a hundred meters, and this was not affected in the fourth trial.
Combined with the Mountain and River Martial Soul, he could extend the range of a ten-meter map to a hundred meters.
With this ability, he would be able to detect in time if there was anywhere in the fourth trial he could utilize.
After a full shichen, a look of joy appeared on his face.
"What a good location!"
Ling Xiao sensed, at a distance of a hundred meters away, a mountain where it was not rain that poured down incessantly, but thunder and lightning!
Thunder and lightning poured down, directly shattering anything and everything that dared to intrude.
"This is a ’Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts’!"
The Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts is a naturally formed place akin to an Array Formation, where the ceaseless thunderbolts won’t harm anything on the mountain, but outsiders will be targeted.
Moreover, the power of this lightning is incredibly terrifying and not something Ling Xiao’s Thunder and Lightning Sky Phenomenon from the Twelve Golden Lotus Art can compare with.
Let alone the guardian, even killing a more powerful expert from the Heavenly Man Realm would be no problem at all.
Through the previous tests, Ling Xiao had realized that the guardian wasn’t very intelligent, and as long as the method was right, it was absolutely possible to lure this fellow into the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts.
Thinking of this, Ling Xiao revealed a hint of a smile, then sped up and rushed toward the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts.
Behind him, fearing that he might lose track of Ling Xiao, the guardian also increased his speed.
Moments later, a small mountain surrounded by thundering flashes of lightning appeared ahead.
Around the mountain, lightning flickered and thunder roared, creating an eerily bizarre scene.
As Ling Xiao approached the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts, he could clearly sense a terrifying aura, as if it wanted to destroy him completely.
He didn’t dare to risk entering directly. During his flight, he had already cleverly evaded, and now, without looking back, he charged toward the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts; not him, but his Sword Soul Clone.
The distance was simply too close.
With the guardian’s speed, it would be virtually impossible for him to stop before reaching the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts.
The biggest problem with this fourth challenge was that it was shrouded in a thick fog, and with the guardian’s vision, it probably couldn’t see beyond ten meters.
Stopping within that range of ten meters was practically impossible.
The Sword Soul Clone instantly crashed into the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts, and Ling Xiao could feel that the clone was instantly obliterated by the lightning, not even sparing that trace of Soul Power.
The guardian also closely followed to the edge of the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts.
However, to Ling Xiao’s astonishment, at the critical moment, the guardian fiercely stabbed his Crescent Blade into the ground, and after sliding a distance, stopped.
Just perfectly at the edge of the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts.
Ling Xiao wasn’t going to stand there in shock.
The instant he saw the scene, Ling Xiao immediately took action, his body transforming into a huge Ancient Golden Dragon, then opening his massive jaws, a black energy surged forth, striking the guardian’s back.
The guardian, already on the edge of the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts, was knocked into it headlong due to this strike.
Terrifying thunder roared, and lightning poured down like a torrential downpour.
The poor guardian, from beginning to end, had never managed to attack Ling Xiao and was pulverized by the dreadful lightning, leaving not even a trace of his soul.
Ling Xiao tried to use a Sealed Card to seal it, but it wasn’t successful. It seems that this lightning must also have a purification ability, directly wiping away everything.
The Sealed Card couldn’t seal anything.
Ling Xiao sat down on the ground with a thud.
Although he hadn’t managed to seal the guardian into the card, by using the Land of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts to eliminate the brute, what followed would be much easier. He could now leisurely search the fourth level, looking for the secrets of this floor.
But before that, he needed to rest for a while first, as he was quite exhausted.
What he didn’t know was that when he killed the third-level guardian, the monster from the third challenge went berserk.
Regardless of what level the monsters were, they surged out as if injected with adrenaline, not even sparing the Steel Battleship of the Black Spirits; they all swarmed over.