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The valley is quiet, and the trees are tall and terrifying, swaying like ghosts with the howling wind.

Xu Mu opened his eyes, and then found that he was already sitting cross-legged in this ghostly forest.

realm, has also become a stage of ability.

Xu Mu stood up, clenched his fist at the big tree hugged by the four people around him, and lightly threw a punch, and the latter suddenly shook violently, dropping many miscellaneous leaves.

The tree did not break.

Xu Mu was silent, if it was the previous body, the strength of his punch would be enough to smash through ten such thick trees, but now he could only make the latter shake.

As well as his weapons, Xu Mu found that whether it was the hunting knife transformed into the Demon God's Horn or the Fairy Bow, they had lost their spirituality here and turned into ordinary hunting knives and bows and arrows.

This is understandable, after all, this is just an illusion, and it is impossible to imitate the real holy relics.

And Xu Mu himself was also a little broken in the jungle that belonged to him, and he felt a little uncomfortable, because he was completely alone now.

In the past, he was used to Charles, but when Charles was away, he could occasionally talk to the remnants of the demon god, but if he couldn't, he could also make eye contact with the eyes of the fairy bow.

But now, he has nothing.

There is only one person.

…… There's also a monster.

"Whew!"

A tiger roared and shook the mountains and forests.

When Xu Mu heard this, he instantly came back to his senses from his thoughts, and then raised his head calmly.

The trees in the forest in front of him were shaking at this time because of the passage of something, startling a group of birds, and the earth trembled.

Xu Mu's face was solemn, and as the demonic aura approached, he soon saw that in the dense forest about two hundred meters in front of him, a huge tiger with two fangs hanging from its mouth came out.

This is a demon at the peak of the second stage.

Xu Mu clenched the hunting knife, did not retreat, but advanced, and subconsciously slashed forward, preparing to confront it head-on.

But just as the two were about to collide, Xu Mu reacted, his current strength was only a stage, and this tiger demon was a second-order.

How big the difference between these two realms was, Xu Mu actually didn't know very well, because he once broke two orders in one night.

But even so, Xu Mu still believed that with his current strength, he would definitely not be the opponent of this tiger demon.

Boom!

The hunting knife collided with the one-meter-long and wide tiger palm, and a spark burst out between the two in an instant, Xu Mu's arms bulged and tried to hold it with all his strength, but in the next second, he was still slapped away by the tiger demon with devastating power.

Boom!

Under the collision, Xu Mu flew out of dozens of meters like a kite with a broken string, and did not stop until he hit the big tree that he had smashed with his punch just now.

The corners of Xu Mu's mouth overflowed with blood, and he opened his mouth slightly, staring at the fierce tiger demon that then roared and rushed over, and there was a trace of long-lost battle intent in his eyes, so he immediately rushed forward again with a hunting knife regardless of the pain.

Clang!

Xu Mu pretended to attack head-on, but at the critical moment, he slid a shovel under the belly of the tiger demon, and the hunting knife in his hand was reversed, and a bloody mark was drawn.

The tiger demon was in pain, and got up and opened his mouth towards Xu Mu, but Xu Mu's left hand at this time had already grabbed the tiger demon's tail, and was dusted into the air by inertia, and at the same time clenched the hunting knife again and stabbed the tiger demon's eyes with all his strength.

"Whew!"

One eyeball was pierced, blood flowed sideways, and the tiger demon raised its front paws while screaming, and a strong demonic aura gathered in the process, which was so powerful that all the trees around it were as fragile as cold branches in winter, and they broke automatically.

Xu Mu still had no way to resist, so he could only put the hunting knife horizontally in front of him, and while kicking the tiger demon's ass and flying backwards, he took this palm, used inertia to unload the force, and then flew out of more than 100 meters, and rolled and rubbed on the ground for seven or eight laps before barely stopping.

In an instant, Xu Mu bounced off the ground.

His cheeks were bloodied by the rubbing of the sand, and his clothes were stained with dust, a little embarrassed, but not serious.

On the other hand, the tiger demon, although his strength and strength were much higher than Xu Mu's, was now blind in one eye, and his soft-armored belly was also bleeding.

Xu Mu hunched his body, clenched the hunting knife in one hand, and hooked his fingers towards the tiger demon with the other, full of provocation.

The latter let out an angry roar, and was about to rush over again, but he heard a roar of a demon beast that was more intimidating and powerful than him sounded in the mountains and forests in the distance.

Hearing this roar, the tiger demon's body immediately stiffened, and the hair on its tail stood up, as if sensing danger.

So, he took one last look at Xu Mu, as if he wanted to remember the human appearance that hurt him, and then turned around and left, not daring to stay here for too long.

Seeing this, Xu Mu also immediately relieved his hard breath, and a feeling of weakness suddenly came to his head, but he knew that now was not the time to rest, because in the distance, there seemed to be a more powerful demon.

There are trees all around, so where can he go?

Xu Mu thought about it for a moment, and then with a slight tap of his left foot, he stepped out of a gossip plate in the space.

Aligning with the direction of the Kun character, Xu Mu used all his strength to move the Dao plate on each layer, and it was not until the final ability was almost exhausted that he completed the final divination.

Guided by the guidance, Xu Mu decisively turned his head and ran, using all his strength, like a leopard shuttling through the jungle, and soon he arrived at a mountain cliff, and through the gap of this cliff, Xu Mu came to a hollow cave in the mountain.

Here, only a glimmer of light came, and the rest was pitch black.

Xu Mu closed his eyes with peace of mind, his face turned pale, and he began to meditate and breathe.

He knew that he had made a very serious mistake today, that is, he had misestimated his own strength and the strength of his opponent, and he almost lost his life.

In the final analysis, Xu Mu still underestimated the difficulty of the first round of the assessment of the Ten Thousand Clans Alliance, or that he had experienced too much suffering before, which caused him to look down on these "low-end" struggles.

But it wasn't until now that Xu Mu reacted, he has always been on the weak side, and he has no qualifications to look down on anyone at all, because most of his strength comes from others, not himself.

Xu Mupan sat in the cave, slowly closing his eyes, and his expression gradually became resolute.

Starting from scratch may be a test for others, but for him, it is a new beginning.

"That guy in retreat in the Heavenly Palace, it's time to prove that Lao Tzu is no worse than you!"

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Time flies.

These days, Xu Mupan has been sitting in the cave, and a strong will to die has emerged from his body, and at the same time, he has been swallowing and exhaling his abilities, squeezing his body, refining his muscles and blood, and breaking through the realm.

I don't know how long it lasted.

One day, the sun was blazing, through the gap in the mountains, and hit Xu Mu's eyes, so the breath on his body suddenly stagnated.

In the next second, Xu Mu opened his eyes, and the dust that had accumulated on his body was instantly shattered by a majestic blood qi, his clothes were as clean as new, and when he stood up, there was a crackling sound all over his body, which was the sound of joint and bone movement in various places.

"Whew~"

Xu Mu walked out of the cave, looked at the green forest in his eyes, and slowly exhaled a turbid breath, and a trace of a smile appeared on his face.

These days, he has been cultivating and enlightening day and night, and finally broke through the realm to the second stage.

Although he is only in the lower realm, he has also realized the first ability in his life that truly belongs to him, which can improve his perception of knives, and the light of the knife is stronger.

Xu Mu held the hunting knife in his hand, and then randomly slashed at the tree on his left, and the latter instantly broke his waist.

Looking at the fresh and sharp cuts, Xu Mu smiled slightly.

"These days of cultivation should have wasted a lot of time, and it is estimated that one-third of the time of this first round of competition has passed, and it is time for me to walk through this mountain forest and find the way out!"

Xu Mu thought in his heart, and left the cliff that had been staying for more than half a month without looking back.

Not long after, Xu Mu met a second-stage demon beast, the terrible giant snake swallowed venom, hidden in the bushes and attacked Xu Mu, Xu Mu, who broke through the double realm, was agile, and jumped into the air like a big peng spreading its wings in an instant, and at the same time that the snake's body chased to the limit distance, he smashed a punch downward, hitting seven inches above, tearing out a ball of flesh and blood.

"Roar!" With a roar, the giant snake roared, and the scale armor on his body was as hard as steel, and he was smashed to seven inches, and he could still move his body to slap at Xu Mu, Xu Mu's fist changed, and the ability was blessed in the blood, and he kept smashing a terrifying fist at the body of the giant python, and the power of the 10,000-pound sledgehammer smashed down, and the giant python was smashed to death.

In the end, Xu Mu took out the hunting knife, took out the demon pill of the giant python, and then absorbed the demon power in his body, and used the Dao source to purify it and transform it into an ability to absorb.

His physical body is strong, his blood is like glass, and he is not afraid of the risk of mutation, so he can absorb it in this way.

After leaving the territory of the giant python, Xu Mu continued to walk in the forest, and soon encountered a group of second-stage peak ground bee swarms, these bee colonies have tail needle stingers, extremely fast, difficult to deal with, but Xu Mu just used the newly comprehended ability, with the hunting knife, this group of bee demons was solved in an instant, and then absorbed their demon pills.

In this way, Xu Mu killed demons all the way to get pills, his strength grew extremely rapidly, and his sword skills and physical body were getting closer and closer to his strength in the outside world, and even he met the tiger demon who was at the peak of the second stage before, and he also had his head cut off.

And at this time, in the sky above the Holy City in the outside world, in the Cloud Realm, all the people can see everything that is happening in the illusion.

It turns out that this first round of illusion is divided into three areas, the first area is the forest that Xu Mu is experiencing, which is full of many crises and beasts, and the strongest demon is the peak of the second stage, only through this forest can you reach the second area and meet other strangers who have also walked out of the forest.

The second area is a random fantasy battlefield, where they may encounter all kinds of scenes, towns, mountains, forests, fields, and even the bottom of the sea, etc., the highest level of the big demon here is the peak of the three stages, and the other demons are also good, and the single person with the ability to meet it, it is basically a dead end.

Therefore, many of the talented players who participated in the competition chose to form an alliance at this level, and they were all the leaders who passed the first area, and their strength was around the second stage, and there was basically no danger in forming an alliance of about ten people.

At this time, Xu Mu in the illusion also joined a team, and their team had a total of seven people, including a support ability type, two agility types, a meat shield type, and three main attackers including him.

Their squad has a clear tactical division of labor, and they can easily solve it except for the three-stage demons, and even ordinary three-stage demons can't do anything about them.

This situation continued until the middle of the second area, and the scene in front of Xu Mu's team was constantly changing, and they were lost in a labyrinth.

"Be careful, I have a hunch that there should be very powerful demon beasts in this labyrinth."

At this time, a person spoke, his name is Situ Zhen, he is extraordinary and handsome, thin, his eyes are extremely sharp and sharp, and he seems to be extraordinary, he is the captain of this team, and he also invited Xu Mu to join this team.

"Haishan, you go ahead, Yeluo and Xing Lu give us the blessing of moving speed, and the remaining three of us are guarding your side, always beware of sneak attacks by demon beasts."

"Okay, so be it, I'll take the lead."

Situ Zhen opened his mouth to command, so in the team, a tall and burly man stood out, and I saw that he was holding a two-person shield in his hand, which was very heavy, as if he could withstand a million catties of heavy blows.

But his speed of action was not slow, because in the team, with the blessing of the auxiliary ability, everyone walked quickly, and after a while, they walked far in this labyrinth.

"There seems to be no end to how we can solve this labyrinth." Xu Mu asked.

"I don't know, I can only take one step at a time." Situ Zhen shook his head, and was about to say something, but suddenly heard an unusually sparse sound from the corner of the maze in front of him.

Everyone stopped at the same time, staring solemnly ahead, and soon after, they saw a skeleton.

The skeleton was eight feet tall, holding a drumstick made of human heads, its eyes were full of ghostly fire, and a powerful corpse aura was surrounding its body.

It's a three-stage skeleton.

And it's the pinnacle of three stages.

A solemn look appeared in Xu Mu's eyes, but before he could say anything, the skeleton had already rushed up.

As the captain, Situ Zhen swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then turned around and threw everyone here directly.

"Run!"

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