Lu Yu’s reminder immediately made King Wan She realize something.
He instantly understood and became clear about the purpose of this desert’s existence.
Soldiers who survive under the harshest conditions are always the elite in any era.
The King of Ten Thousand Snakes had once tested his subordinates in a similar environment.
However, such harsh conditions alone do not qualify as a real test.
The trials back then were deadly, and many people lost their lives.
Everything became clear.
The danger of this desert goes beyond its harsh surface environment!
The King of Ten Thousand Snakes said in a deep voice: “To engage in brutal combat under the worst conditions, without any supplies—that is the true purpose of this trial!”
“Boom!”
As soon as he finished speaking, it was as if he had activated some hidden mechanism. The entire desert began to stir, undulating like ocean waves.
The ground beneath the two people’s feet turned into quicksand, rapidly pulling their feet downward, threatening to swallow them both whole.
Bang!
Both individuals exerted force with their feet, unleashing a powerful gust of wind that surged outward like a violent wave.
The flowing sand around the two of them was shaken open to hundreds of zhang in depth, yet below, there was still an endless expanse of yellow sand.
Boom.
The yellow sand beneath their feet suddenly transformed into countless sand snakes, which opened their bloodthirsty mouths and lunged at the two men, tearing and biting.
Both of them flew into the air at the same time, dodging the sand serpent’s first attack.
Wan She Wang gritted his teeth and said, “If I hadn’t mentioned anything related to battle, perhaps this desert wouldn’t have begun to move. My words became the key that activated this desert. The desert itself is this trial—it will change according to our understanding of it, ultimately transforming into the harshest and most brutal war environment possible. It seems that unless we engage in battle under the most extreme conditions, we might as well consider ourselves defeated. This test isn’t merely about endurance and survival; it’s also a test of wisdom.”
“Fighting under the intense light of three suns, and in this scorching desert—that’s the real test for us!”
Lu Yu also guessed that this was the real beginning of this level.
If the people here can’t activate all the mechanisms in the desert within a certain period of time, they’ll probably be considered to have failed.
Therefore, this space only accommodated two people, with the number strictly limited to make the environment sufficiently harsh.
“Roar.”
Sand snakes became more numerous, emerging from sand dunes in all directions.
Millions of sand snakes transformed in midair into hundreds of colossal sand dragons, each hundreds of feet long, rolling toward them.
Lu Yu and the Wan She King attacked together.
The colliding forces of the two men shattered a great number of sand dunes.
More sand dragons surged forward; each one resembled a true dragon, emitting a dragon-like roar that increased the pressure around them.
“Lu Yu, let’s see who will fall first,” laughed the King of Snakes. “Since I set foot on the path to becoming king, I have never been defeated. It will still be me who stands victorious in the end today!”
“Do you think I’ve ever lost?” Lu Yu’s entire body surged with powerful energy, and with a thunderous boom, he shattered countless sand dragons into pieces.
He had once faced hundreds of millions of beasts at the first level, and none of them could even scratch him; so what were these formless desert creatures to him?
The hall shattered as the desert coalesced into massive hands, each dozens of feet long, crashing down toward the two figures.
Lu Yu lightly raised his eyebrows and threw a punch.
The power within him began to circulate, and his strength condensed.
Bang!
A punch was thrown like a cannonball flying through the air.
Dozens of giant hands made of yellow sand in front of him were shattered into pieces.
Vroom!
A crack opened beneath Lu Yu’s feet, and the yellow sand transformed into a giant mouth. This mouth was infinitely dark, like a massive bottomless abyss, swallowing Lu Yu in one bite.
Boom! Boom!
As soon as he closed his big mouth, a deafening roar erupted, and the surrounding yellow sands surged toward Lu Yu like the Milky Way cascading from the heavens, crashing down upon him with immense force.
“Is this really a matter of life and death?” Lu Yu was greatly shocked, staring down into the bottomless abyss below.
In that instant, millions of tons of yellow sand rushed in, pressing Lu Yu thousands, even tens of thousands, of meters deeper into the abyss.
Lu Yu swung one arm, thrusting an uppercut while shouting fiercely, “You think you can suppress me like this?”
Boom—
The punch’s force from his arm pierced through the desert, breaking through thousands of meters of sand.
Here, there’s no power to suppress, and all strength is unleashed.
In an instant, as Lu Yu was pierced through by the yellow sand, the Sky-Sundering Wings on his back flapped, carrying him out of the abyss.
When he appeared above the desert, he couldn’t help but feel greatly shocked, and sweat broke out on his back!
The yellow sand is no longer just yellow sand; each grain has taken form as towering giants made of yellow sand, filling the desert as an army.
The desert is endless, and so too is the legion upon these yellow sands.
You could see nothing but numerous sand warriors, each towering a zhang high. Clad in armor made of sand and wielding gigantic battle axes formed from yellow sand, they surged toward Lu Yu all at once.
Lu Yu’s Sky-Splitting Wings behind him trembled.
Bang!
It unfolded with lightning speed.
With divine speed, the whirlwind spiraled straight into the sky, crushing countless sand figures into pieces.
“Roar!”
A purple dragon rushed in and rammed into Lu Yu’s chest, and then the dragon itself shattered.
Lu Yu was engulfed by the swirling yellow sand.
When Lu Yu rushed out of the yellow sand, sand figures were leaping high from all directions and lunging toward him.
Each of these sand people has a cultivation level of around eight thousand zuns, striving to maintain a certain distance from Lu Yu’s strength.
Lu Yu could easily destroy an entire area with a single strike.
The problem is that after these sand people turn into yellow sand, they can re-form again, making them essentially immortal.
You definitely won’t get a chance to rest in the middle of a battle.
So—how long can you hold on?
“If I just stand still, can these sand people really hurt me?” Lu Yu considered giving up the attack and simply using his body to block.
After all, with a mere eighty thousand Zun-level strength, under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be enough to injure him.
Lu Yu thought, giving up resistance as a yellow sand battle axe struck his body.
Hum.
The axe burst into flames, and where it struck him, a large chunk of flesh was charred.
Lu Yu let out a muffled grunt and staggered backward, his eyes darting to the wound.
Not an illusion.
The flame on this axe is no less intense than the temperature at several thousand meters in the sky.
The Dragon Clan test has considered every possibility, ensuring that everyone must fight until the end.
“The sand creatures attacking me have such a capability; if their attack landed on someone else, it would be enough to burn a person to death.”
Lu Yu turned his head to look at the King of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The King of Ten Thousand Snakes was also struck by an axe, and flames from the axe scorched a large area of his skin and flesh.
However, Lu Yu could feel that the flames on it were countless times weaker than those directed at him.
“Ensuring that every injury sustained is fair play, with no room for cheating. Moreover, the sand warriors attacking the Wan She King have a combat strength of only four thousand, so it’s clear that this battlefield is divided according to the enemy’s strength.”
Lu Yu murmured to himself, knowing deep down that he couldn’t run away—he had no choice but to fight!
No supplies, no escape.
The ultimate goal of this level is to test the limits of a person’s survival capabilities!
Lu Yu didn’t know how others were doing; right now, he had no choice but to fight.
This is nothing like the Beast Plains.
You can also take a break after each wave there.
Here, he could only keep fighting until he was completely exhausted or collapsed.
Lu Yu forgot about time, devoting all his energy to the battle.
Through the battle, this is also a trial.
Once the golden beast blood within his body was completely refined, Lu Yu would immediately swallow another drop, allowing the beast blood to purify and be absorbed inside him.
The King of Ten Thousand Snakes didn’t have time to deal with Lu Yu anymore.
He is now also trapped in an endless sea of enemies.
Even the mightiest king, if fallen into such an undying legion, would be trapped.
Lu Yu did not resort to the blade of slaughter.
The Blade of Slaughter will consume his spiritual energy; the toll on his mental power from ten thousand blades of slaughter is immense.
Therefore, Lu Yu seemed to have returned to the Beast Plains, trying to minimize his physical exertion as much as possible.
That’s a pity, though.
This desert itself is a brutal battlefield.
It’s not noticeable when inactive in high temperatures.
Now, as soon as he started moving around, Lu Yu began to feel himself sweating. After an hour, his throat started to feel dry.
Lu Yu swallowed hard, sensing that there was a serious problem.
…
What exactly this trial is testing, only the one who created this space knows.
Once someone suspects that the desert is actually a battlefield, the trial begins.
Everything that occurred on every battlefield was perceived with utmost clarity by a life force dwelling in the darkness.
“Who knows who can last the longest!”
“The last one who lasted the longest was actually an inheritor of the Murderous Star Soul. I think this generation’s inheritor of the killing legacy is also very powerful. It might be him again.”
“The inheritor of the Murder Star Soul in this generation seems to have undergone some mutation. I feel as though his Murder Star Soul has already evolved into a God of Slaughter Star Soul.”
“This time is different. That woman is very powerful. At least when she was at her peak, none of us could defeat her easily.”
“I feel like I’ve seen that old man somewhere before,” a voice said, then fell silent.
“Hehe, King Jin, during your reign, there wasn’t a King Zun, right?”
A dull voice said, “Hmph, I’ve wiped out every human who dares to be arrogant in front of the dragons. This age should belong to the dragons. I despise all weaklings, except for the strong among humans! However, I’m certain I’ve seen this human somewhere before—I just can’t remember where.”
“Keep watching carefully. This is a trial to become a Dragon Knight.”
A rumbling sound echoed, and the darkness fell silent.
They were still attuned to every part of the trial.
The scorching sun never sets in the desert, with no night and no clouds.
There is no concept of time here at all.
Lu Yu didn’t know how much time had passed, and the Ten Thousand Snake King couldn’t calculate time either.
The two of them simply knew they could not afford to lose.
At the very least, neither of these two wanted to lose to the other.
Lu Yu laughed heartily and said, “Fighting alone is too boring. This battlefield has specially brought me an opponent so that we can settle our score in another way.”
The King of Ten Thousand Snakes scoffed arrogantly, “Lu Yu, I’ve encountered environments a hundred or even a thousand times worse than this. You’re no match for me.”
“Do you think you’ve already won? Let’s see who falls first,” Lu Yu said with equal arrogance.
Neither of the two gave way to the other, their eyes both red with intensity.
How many were killed, how many exactly—no one kept track anymore.
Even if I were to lose to someone else, I would never lose to the person standing before me.
One day or two days, time had long lost its meaning.
When Lu Yu felt his arms becoming heavy and his breathing turning labored, a thunderous roar suddenly echoed from the sky, announcing, “The first stage of the battlefield has ended; the second stage is beginning!”
“Au!”
The sand people roared, each of their figures growing half a zhang taller, their strength increasing to nine thousand juns.
The other party, King Wan She, faced a sand person whose strength had increased to five thousand.
“Roar!”
The sand dragons roared; each one transformed into a colossal creature two hundred zhang long, and flames began to spew from their dragon mouths.
Lu Yu felt that the pressure around him had increased by more than just a few times.
He gritted his teeth and said, “After fighting for such a long time, it’s only the end of the first-level battlefield? Are they really going to work a group to death before it’s over?”
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