Chapter 24: The First Journey into the Alley of Life and Death
There are a total of one hundred and eight war puppets in the Lane of Life and Death, which are divided into three levels: heaven, earth, and man, with thirty-six statues at each level, and their strength is different. According to the rules of breaking through the level, the human-level trial will only activate the thirty-six human-level battle puppets with the weakest strength at the very front, and the ground-level battle puppets in the middle and the heaven-level battle puppets at the end will not take any action.
Xiang Fang's previous reminder was still in his ears, Qi An believed in Xiang Fang's judgment, I am afraid that only the strength of the peak martial sect can break through the Alley of Life and Death, and it is still the lowest level of the Alley of Life and Death.
Of course, Qi An couldn't reach the level of the Peak Martial Sect, although a Peak Martial Sect had died in his hands, but it was not by his true ability, he was just in the case of obvious defeat, he took risks, showed the enemy weakness, and exchanged his own dying and serious injuries for Li Liuxian's relaxation of vigilance, and then gave an unexpected fatal blow.
Compared with Li Liuxian, Qi An's true strength is still far behind.
But a war puppet without a mind will not relax its vigilance like a human being, let alone show mercy to his subordinates, and the means of dealing with Li Liuxian will definitely not be repeated on the war puppet, not to mention, there is far more than one war puppet, but as many as thirty-six.
Although he knew that he didn't have what it took to succeed, Qi An still wanted to give it a try, and he wasn't afraid of a challenge of this level.
Qi An pulled out the long knife on his back, this knife was a reward from the imperial court, although the shape was ordinary, but it was forged from the above fine iron, which was enough to deal with the high-intensity battle between the martial sects.
Qi An clenched the handle of the knife, took a step, and stepped on the steps steadily, he knew that he couldn't pass the level, so he didn't care about the time, but moved forward step by step.
The first pair of battle golems were about fifteen zhang away from the starting steps, Qi An thought that he would only start when he got close to the war golems, but as soon as he stepped on the steps, the two war golems closest to him shook at the same time, and there was a slight metal friction sound on his body, and his hands and feet moved together, and Qi Qi raised the sword in his hand and rushed towards Qi An.
Qi An stood still, observing the movements of the war golems, and waited until the two war golems rushed to the front before stepping forward to meet them and swinging their swords.
The sword light is faster than the sword light, but the slash on the war puppet can only make the battle golem's movements pause slightly, at most for a moment, and then the battle puppet's sword stabbing action remains unchanged, and continues to attack Qi'an.
There is another sword-wielding battle puppet, which does not make any changes because of the attack on his "companion", and swings his sword without any emotion at all, and it is impossible to give up the attack and turn to the rescue.
Qi An had the intention to try the strength of these two war puppets, and did not pursue a quick victory, but cautiously passed a few moves, and roughly knew that even if the two war puppets joined forces, at most they could only be compared to an ordinary martial sect, which can be called the threshold combat power of the martial sect, that is, the strength of the weakest martial sect.
It is said that some martial arts sects are not made by their own asceticism, but by some drugs or little-known means, they are forcibly promoted to the innate realm, the combat power of this martial sect will be weaker than the normal breakthrough of the martial sect, and the foundation is damaged, it is almost difficult to improve the realm again, usually this kind of martial sect is regarded as the weakest martial sect, and its strength is the threshold level of the martial sect.
The human-level war puppet in the Lane of Life and Death is probably this kind of strength, which is not as good as the martial sect that breaks through with normal cultivation methods, but when the two join forces, it can be compared to the new martial sect that breaks through normally, not to mention that the war puppet also has an advantage, that is, the defense is super strong and will not be injured.
With the means of the Martial Sect, it was almost impossible to completely destroy the war puppet refined by the monk, even if it was a person like Qi An who was born with divine power.
Qi An originally thought that speed and dexterity would be weaknesses for something like a war puppet, but he soon found out that he was wrong, this kind of war puppet is something refined by a monk after all, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a magic weapon, there is no slowness and sluggishness as imagined at all, whether it is speed or agility, it is not much worse than Qi An, once engaged, it is difficult to get rid of it completely.
However, Qi An quickly discovered one of the weaknesses of the war puppet, that is, it was too stable, so it did not have the ability to explode.
In other words, if a war golem starts with ten, it will always be ten, very stable, and will not suddenly weaken to nine, nor will it suddenly strengthen to eleven, so there is no need to worry about the golem unleashing a killing move.
The most feared thing in the battle is that the opponent has a trick to press the bottom of the box, and once it is released, it may be able to completely rewrite the battle situation. And the war puppet does not have the ability to explode, so there is no need to deliberately watch out for this aspect, which makes the battle a lot easier.
The interception of the two war puppets was obviously not tight enough, Qi An quickly found a gap, suddenly withdrew his knife, dodged, and rushed out from the side of the war puppet.
The two war puppets chased after them from behind, and their speed was not much slower than Qi 'an.
But Qi An only took a few steps, and saw several war puppets at least ten zhang away in front of him suddenly activate continuously, and rushed towards him together, which immediately made his heart move, and he immediately stopped his steps.
Obviously, the golem has a certain range of enemies, and stepping into this range will activate the stationary golem and launch an active attack.
Now it seems that this distance is not short, it should be fourteen or fifteen zhang, if Qi An does not stop and rushes forward in one go, it is likely that more than a dozen war puppets will be activated in an instant, so he has to stop immediately.
However, as Qi An rushed forward a few steps, four war puppets had already been killed, two holding long knives and two holding spears, and the two sword puppets behind caught up with him the moment Qi An stopped, and the two sword shadows attacked from behind.
Qi An didn't dare to move, waved his sword to open the sword shadow, and when the four war puppets in front of him were killed, he fought with these six war puppets.
He quickly judged that although the weapons used were different, there was almost no difference in the strength of these six battle puppets, and they were all martial arts at the threshold level of the Martial Sect.
The sum of the six battle puppets has already surpassed the strength of ordinary martial sects, and is even comparable to two ordinary martial sects, but Qi An is completely able to deal with it, and he doesn't feel that difficult.
Although Qi An is young, whether it is strength, speed, endurance, or dexterity, all of them are above the average level, although the overall strength is far from the standard of the peak martial sect, but he is definitely not a weak person in the ordinary martial sect, and it is obviously not difficult to deal with the puppets of the six statues who are just the threshold of the martial sect.
Qi An probably figured out the strength and attack range of the war golems, so he continued to fight as he went, and soon attracted four more war golems to join the siege, plus the previous six, for a total of ten.
At this time, Qi An felt a lot of pressure, although he could still cope with it, and he did not show his defeat, but he was no longer easy, and he had to use almost all his means to be able to fight with the ten war puppets.
However, Qi An did not stop, but pulled the battle circle forward again, and two more war puppets joined the siege, but the battle situation did not change significantly, and it was still equal.
Qi An continued to advance, and the number of war puppets increased and increased.
Fourteen.
Sixteen.
Eighteen statues.
When the number of war puppets increased to eighteen, Qi An no longer had the ability to move forward, and he was completely overwhelmed by the eighteen war puppets, and he was only barely able to protect his body from being injured by them, and it was simply wishful thinking to break through.
"Alas!" Qi An sighed, knowing that it could only be stopped, so he no longer insisted on moving forward, but retreated as far as he could towards the entrance.
But the pressure of the eighteen war puppets joining forces was very huge, and it was impossible for Qi An to retreat, and in the end, he fought hard for nearly a quarter of an hour before withdrawing from a distance. However, this alone was out of the attack range of the last two war golems, so the eighteen war golems retreated to two, leaving only sixteen.
Without the pressure of the two war puppets, Qi An felt a little more relaxed, and soon retreated a step back in the parry and dodge, and the number of war puppets decreased again.
In the end, Qi An retreated to the vicinity of the entrance unharmed.
When the soles of his feet left the starting steps, the last two war golems suddenly stopped moving, and then returned to the place where they had stood, and the entire Lane of Life and Death returned to its original appearance, as if nothing had happened.
Qi An turned to leave, and when he appeared outside the entrance, he shook his head at Ji Zhengyue and the others who were waiting, and said with a smile: "Failed." ”
Ji Zhengyue rolled her eyes and said, "We never thought you would succeed!"
Xiang Fang followed and said, "Unless it is a peak martial sect, it is almost impossible to pass." ”
Qu Han also nodded: "Indeed, with the strength of a few of us, there is still a lot of difference. ”
Ji Zhengyue is an optimist, and he doesn't care if he doesn't pass the trial, and laughs: "As far as I know, there are a total of one hundred and seventy-nine students in the entire Backing Mountain Branch, and there are only thirty of them who can pass the human-level Life and Death Alley, so you don't have to be depressed, I think one day, we will have the opportunity to be on the list." ”
Qu Han retorted angrily: "Which eye of yours saw me hanging my head?"
Ji Zhengyue was about to say more, but was pushed by Xiang Fang and said, "Let's go!
The next day, the four of them went to the Magnetic Meteor Platform again, used up the rest of the month, and began their own retreat.
According to the plan formulated by Qi An, the most important thing at present is to practice the Vajra not bad technique, and strive to become an "iron body" as soon as possible, followed by the moon chasing star body method and melee martial arts such as fists, feet, and palms.
In addition to eating and sleeping, Qi An devoted all his time to cultivation, spending six hours a day meditating and breathing, cultivating Vajra is not bad, and then spending two to three hours practicing his body and fists and feet, and finally the rest of the time was spent eating and sleeping.
And at the beginning of every month, Ji Zhengyue would come and call all the brothers to go to the Magnetic Meteor Platform and the Random Arrow Field together, as well as to break into the Alley of Life and Death.
The exercise opportunity given away for free must be cherished, Qi An can clearly feel that these three places are indeed useful, and after each exercise, the corresponding ability attributes will be improved. The Magnetic Meteor increases strength and endurance, the Arrow Range improves agility and reflexes, and the Alley of Life and Death increases combat experience and actual combat ability, none of which are superfluous.