Nobilis of War novel Chapter 1116

The result troubled Darren.

He was uneasy at the thought that even if dozens of his copies fought together, they'd still collectively be no match for the first fiend ancestor. This was assuming they were all at the top level of the Emperor Realm.

What was more, when Darren used the Nine Changes of the Demon skill, he was just imitating the first fiend ancestor. Because of the different rules or laws they comprehended, the real first fiend ancestor would still come out much stronger than he was.

In conclusion, even if Darren succeeded in passing three tests, he could only reach the top level of the Emperor Realm at most. This was far from enough.

Darren had to face not only the first fiend ancestor, but also the Shura who had already inherited the God Character of his ancestor. What worried him the most was the mysterious man who had unsettlingly told him he would kill him.

With the need to face those powerful destroyers, the top level of the Emperor Realm was simply not enough.

"Alas," Darren sighed. He was still left with no other choice but to pass three tests first, even if the situation seemed hopeless.

He was barely surviving the first test. How much more difficult could it be to pass the test of the second and third mountains?

As overwhelming as everything was, there were a total of nine tests in the Desolate Burning Mountain. It was hard to imagine the difficulty of passing the fourth to the ninth test. The mere thought exhausted Darren.

'I think only people like my master would dare take part in the test of the ninth mountain, ' thought Darren.

He decided to give his muddled thoughts a rest and flew over to the other side of the river.

Darren's heartbeat was rising with nervousness. He feared dozens of his replicas would appear again. At this point he was much too weak to handle another wave of replicas.

Luckily, Darren landed safely on the other side of the river.

He immediately began to absorb the remaining spiritual energy of the divine crystal after landing. Some of the energy was used to heal his wounds, and the other to improve his cultivation level.

Presently, he was in no rush to go to the big tree. Since his talent had been promoted, he naturally had to comprehend first and improve his level.

He practiced in that area for three months with no stops.

In the Desolate Burning Mountain, Darren didn't worry about wasting time because there was no concept of time to begin with. Even if he stayed there for three years, the time outside would not change too much. The message from the Space Spirit made this clear enough.

In the past three months, Darren's cultivation base had managed to almost reach the Super Emperor Realm.

'It's a pity that I don't have any more divine crystals. Otherwise, I'd surely break through to the Super Emperor Realm.'

Although Darren couldn't make any further improvements without the divine crystals, he used the rest of his time to comprehend the Void Penetration skill. His talent was already at the top level of the Spiritual Domain Degree, so he managed to comprehend one hundred and eight moves of the Void Penetration skill.

He then integrated the one hundred and eight moves into his blade and sword intents.

From this, his blade and sword intents reached a terrifyingly strong level.

As for the remaining moves, Darren's talent in Spiritual Domain Degree was still not enough to master it. He decided to stop there.

In fact, his original plan was to keep improving his talent by absorbing the talent crystals. This plan was hindered once he entered a bottleneck at the top level of the Spiritual Domain Degree. Even if he absorbed tons of talent crystals, no obvious improvements would be made.

After his cultivation base, skills, and talent had reached their highest potential, Darren decided to set out.

Darren left a mighty gust of wind in his trail as he swiftly flew to the huge tree.

There was a branch extending upward from the middle of the trunk, and a mountain was connected at the end. He would pass the first test as long as he passed through this branch.

Darren took a deep breath, ready to face the unknown.

He flew up the branch and felt as if he had stepped on a winding wooden road.

Darren immediately understood the contents of the test.

He was facing the Restriction Array.

The branch seemed to extend dozens of kilometers. Amidst trying with all his might to fly to the end, he seemed to end up at exactly the same place.

'What do I do now?'

Darren thought in frustration.

From his several experiences with different arrays, he could tell the Restriction Array must have been merged with some kind of distance rule or law. It seemed to warp the space, since no matter how far he seemed to fly, he wasn't actually moving forward.

'If only my avatar was here. With his powerful Spirit Power, he could definitely figure out the solution to this.'

As a martial artist, breaking arrays wasn't exactly Darren's strong point.

After several months, Darren was still in that same spot. His sanity was just about ready to snap. There was no way through and no way back. At this point, he was at wit's end in annoyance.

"What should I do? What the fuck should I do?" Darren paced around frantically.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Darren released his blade and sword intents in utter frustration.

"Huh?"

It was because of this wild attack that Darren started to notice something.

"Haha!"

Darren laughed in manic relief.

'Why did I waste my time trying to use the rule cultivation to break the Restriction Array? As long as the force is strong enough, there is no rule that can't be penetrated!' thought Darren excitedly.

He finally realized that he had been doing everything wrong for months.

All he had focused on doing was to find the rules and break them. These were the usual methods for rule cultivators to cope with arrays. He completely forgot that no matter what kind of rules, as long as the person was strong enough, he could just break through with force.

For example, countless rule threads were hidden in the outside space. When two powerful people were fighting against each other, they would naturally be able to tear them into pieces.

Meaning, it didn't have to break an array by a rule cultivation skill. A martial artist could easily do that as well.

'As long as I manage to cut off this branch, the Restriction Array will definitely disappear!'

Darren thought as he gathered all his strength to hit the branch beneath his feet.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Throwing all kinds of powerful skills, Darren used all his strength to break the branch.

At the start, Darren's attacks seemed useless since the bark was holding him off. However, after a barrage of relentless attacks, the bark began to crack, and a satisfying crunch rang through as the branches began to break as well.

Finding an opening at last, Darren quickly transformed himself into a fiend and dealt even more powerful blows on the branches.

It didn't even matter that his fiend arm was broken again and again, he hastily continued after healing the wound.

After some time had passed, Darren finally broke the branches.

The satisfying last cracks of the branches were then followed by wild explosions.

Once the branches finally broke all the way, a multitude of rule runes exploded and the space around Darren seemed to be on the verge of a collapse.

After some time of these violent rumbles, a door of space suddenly appeared in front of Darren.

"Haha!"

Darren stopped in front of the door and ripped out triumphant laughter.

It turned out that the branch leading to the second mountain was just an illusion. If he forced himself to try and break the Restriction Array, he would have been trapped for an entire lifetime until he died of exhaustion.

The only way to pass the test was to attack with strength!

"That was close! If I didn't do some quick thinking, I would have never been able to walk out of the first mountain," Darren exclaimed in relief.

"Congratulations! You have passed the test of the first mountain. Here are four divine crystals and a legendary martial skill."

The Space Spirit's chipper tone echoed through the space.

As the voice sounded, four divine crystals fell into Darren's hands, and the memory of the legendary martial skill was merged into his mind.

"You are truly a legend. I really hope you can pass the next test,"

the Space Spirit said encouragingly to Darren.

"I sure hope so. Space Spirit, what is the test rule of the second mountain?" Darren asked quite straightforwardly.

"In the second test, you only need to fight with your own strength. Now, once you enter, you won't have any time for comprehension or cultivation. Remember, before you enter, you must use the resources I gave you to practice as much as you can," the Space Spirit said.

"Of course I get that. Anyway, how long will you give me?" Darren asked.

"Three days. After these three days have passed, you will enter the second mountain. This is a rule even I can't change. Come on! This'll be a piece of cake for you. You just have to kill the three fiend gods from the abyss, and then you pass the test."

Darren's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. 'I can't even break through to the Super Emperor Realm. Am I really going to fight three fiend gods in the next test?' he thought, as a cold sweat came over him.