Chapter 45: The Trial Begins
After coming to the back mountain, Yin Tianqiu said to Ye Chen: "This is where you have this trial, you must fight against the demonic beasts here, comprehend the sword technique with your heart, and strive to enter the realm of sword power as soon as possible!"
"Yes, Master. Disciple understood!" Ye Chen said honestly.
"Good. But as a teacher, I still have to remind you. There are fifteen fourth-level demonic beasts here, and their strength can be compared to the fighters of the Innate Mirror. With your current strength, it is still very difficult to defeat them, so in the early stage, you must try to avoid them. In addition, the number of demonic beasts below the third level is also very large. There is also a teacher who will send a puppet of the fifth layer of innate in order to increase the difficulty for you. It's a puppet that wields a long sword, and has comprehended the sword momentum, it will be the biggest threat to you here!" Yin Tianqiu said.
Hearing Yin Tianqiu's words, Ye Chen was stunned, oh my God! It seems that this time the master is really planning to play himself to death! Fifteen fourth-level demonic beasts are already a very big threat to themselves. What's more, there is also a puppet with the fifth layer of the Innate Mirror and also comprehends the sword momentum, and if he encounters it with his current strength, it will be dangerous!
Yin Tianqiu didn't care about Ye Chen's shocked expression at all, and continued: "Of course, considering that your current strength is still relatively weak, I have arranged a safe area for the division here for you, which is at our feet." If you are in danger, you can take refuge in this place. As long as you enter this area, all the monsters and puppets will no longer attack you!"
Ye Chen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there was a safe area for him to rest, which was relatively good. But then Yin Tianqiu said: "Don't be too happy, there is a limit to the number of times you can enter this safe area." More than three times this safe zone is invalid. And every time you enter this area, you can only stay for a maximum of one day, and beyond a day, this safe area will be invalid!"
"This ......" Ye Chen was speechless for a moment, it seemed that he still underestimated his master's IQ. Although a safe area is designed. But he didn't want to make himself too dependent here.
But this is also true, if every time you encounter danger, you want to take refuge here, then what kind of strength do you have to experience? Master said yesterday that as a swordsman, you must have the spirit of daring to fight and being unyielding. So he secretly made up his mind in his heart that unless he really encountered a force that he couldn't resist, he must not come to the safe area.
Ye Chen said firmly, "I know, Master!"
Seeing Ye Chen's firm expression, Yin Tianqiu smiled slightly, this apprentice is not bad, at least for the struggle. This is very much in line with the temperament of a swordsman. So he opened his mouth and said, "Okay, now the trial begins, you can do it yourself!" After finishing speaking, he disappeared directly in front of Ye Chen's eyes. Ye Chen didn't even see any movement in his body, and disappeared in front of Ye Chen, as if he had never come.
Ye Chen couldn't help but complain: "It's so mysterious every time, isn't it interesting? As if I'm afraid that others won't know how powerful you are!"
However, after complaining, Ye Chen didn't waste any time, he directly pulled out the Jinshui Yin and Yang Sword, held a long sword in one hand, and began to move towards the mountain. Ye Chen knew that at the foot of the mountain, there were generally first-class demonic beasts, and this time the demonic beasts were not much of a threat to Ye Chen. It's basically easy to ignore. And in the mountainside part, there are second- and third-level demonic beasts living there, which is also a guy that Ye Chen can deal with at this stage. And those fifteen fourth-level demonic beasts are estimated to live at the top of the mountain. As long as they don't go to that area, they generally don't come to the mountainside area. However, that swordsman puppet Ye Chen had no way to master its itinerary at all. However, the worst possible is that the swordsman puppet does not have a fixed area of activity. It is possible to encounter it yourself in every place in the back mountain.
So for the sake of caution, when Ye Chen came to the mountainside, he began to take steps and fight steadily. The spirit is highly concentrated, beware of being attacked by these demonic beasts, it is very fortunate that Ye Chen found the first demonic beast, the second-level demonic beast sawtooth mantis!
The serrated mantis was more than a meter tall. The two forelimbs are like two large knives, and they are also covered with sharp serrations. The triangular head, unusually flexible, plus huge chewing mouthparts. It looks very powerful and domineering.
When Ye Chen discovered it, this sawtooth mantis obviously also discovered Ye Chen's existence, and the sawtooth mantis was very angry at Ye Chen's intrusion into his territory. You must know that this sawtooth mantis is a very aggressive monster. Especially for humans and demonic beasts who dare to invade its territory, it will not hesitate to attack.
So after discovering Ye Chen, it immediately let out a sharp cry, and then quickly approached Ye Chen with its limbs. Seeing such a situation, Ye Chen couldn't help but show a hint of disdain, if it was about the level of fighting spirit, this sawtooth mantis was even stronger than himself, but after all, the sawtooth mantis was only a demonic beast of the Houtian Mirror, and it could only use violence to fight. And although this sawtooth mantis is very aggressive, its weakness is also very obvious. That's defense, especially its fat belly, which is its fatal injury. In addition, the speed of this sawtooth mantis is not fast, although it can fly, but it is a hard injury regardless of the height and distance of flight.
It's a pity that this sawtooth mantis didn't realize this, and at this time, in its eyes, there was only Ye Chen, the enemy. It waved the double knives in front of its abdomen and looked at Ye Chen from two angles, up and down, as if it wanted to directly cut Ye Chen into three pieces.
Ye Chen didn't panic, the yang sword in his right hand waved, directly blocking the double blades of the sawtooth mantis in the air, and then with a move, a beautiful turn came to the side of the sawtooth mantis, and the yin sword in his left hand drew a strange arc, straight to the weakest abdomen of the sawtooth mantis. I want to kill this jagged mantis with a sword.
In the face of such a crisis situation, the sawtooth mantis couldn't help but be startled, and its intuition told it that it must block this sword, otherwise it would be finished. But at this time, it is impossible to avoid it. Suddenly, the pair of wings on its back suddenly opened, like a thin knife, trying to block Ye Chen's backhand sword.
It's a pity that it still underestimated Ye Chen's strength and the power of the Yin Sword, this is a top-grade weapon at the ground level! So as soon as the servant fought, Ye Chen's Yin Sword directly cut off one of the thin wings of the Jagged Mantis, causing it to suffer a little injury.
After the injury the sawtooth mantis became even angrier. For Ye Chen hurting it, the Sawtooth Mantis was very angry. So its attacks have become even crazier. The twin knives in front of the abdomen swung more quickly and faster.
Seeing such a situation, Ye Chen was not in a hurry. He knew that an attack like this would actually be very serious for the sawtooth mantis. There was no need for him to go toe-to-toe with it at this time. Therefore, Ye Chen actually changed to holding the sword with both hands, almost giving up the attack, but he defended himself in front of him perfectly, and no matter how the sawtooth mantis attacked, it was never able to break through the defense of Ye Chen's double swords.
Sure enough, as Ye Chen expected, the mana consumption of the sawtooth mantis after the madness was very serious, and after more than ten minutes, it had almost no way to organize any effective attack. On the other hand, Ye Chen is waiting for work. Hardly much vindictiveness is consumed.
After seeing that the sawtooth mantis was powerless, Ye Chen showed a hearty smile on his face, and his left hand once again held the Yin Sword back. Then with a sword in his right hand, he blocked the twin blades of the Jagged Mantis. Stepping on the dragon body method, his body swayed, and he came to the back of the sawtooth mantis, at this time, Ye Chen was not polite, and shouted loudly: "The positive and negative sword formations - yin and yang are intertwined!"
I saw that the two swords in Ye Chen's hands were swinging continuously, and almost instantly, the wings behind the sawtooth mantis were slashed off. As a result, the sawtooth mantis has lost its last chance to escape. But Ye Chen's attack was not over yet. Before the sawtooth mantis could react, Ye Chen's two swords complemented each other, cutting off the sawtooth mantis's waist.
After losing its abdomen, the sawtooth mantis did not die, it screamed miserably, and reluctantly turned its head, wanting to continue attacking Ye Chen, at least hoping to die with Ye Chen.
It's a pity that Ye Chen won't give it such a chance. The moment it turned its head, a sword flash flashed. The triangular head of the jagged mantis rose with the sword light for a while. He then fell to the ground and died.
Seeing the three-section corpse of the sawtooth mantis sprinkled on the ground, Ye Chen didn't have any fluctuations in his heart. You must know that Ye Chen is a person who even the Great Elder of the Huang Family has killed, and Ye Chen of this sawtooth mantis doesn't care about it at all, not to mention that it attacked himself first.
However, seeing the two forelimbs in front of its abdomen that were like scimitars, Ye Chen did not waste them and cut them off. The demonic beast of this Heavenly Mirror has not yet been able to form a beast core. So the most valuable thing is their body. And these two scimitar-like forelimbs are the most precious parts of the sawtooth mantis's body, although they are not worth much, but with the idea that mosquitoes also have meat on their legs, they are still collected. These two forelimbs can be sold for at least a few taels of gold!
However, after killing the Sawtooth Mantis, Ye Cheng didn't stay in this area for long, and quickly left here, because he knew that this place was rampant with demonic beasts, and as demonic beasts, their sense of smell was very sensitive. The smell of blood here is believed to be a lot of demonic beasts soon. For the sake of safety, Ye Chen still decided to leave for the time being, not to fight against those hungry demonic beasts!
Of course, Ye Chen did not go down the mountain, but continued to walk up the mountain!