Chapter 162 - 83: Jiang Xuan: You Mistook My Basic Attack for an All-Out Effort?

Chapter 162: Chapter 83: Jiang Xuan: You Mistook My Basic Attack for an All-Out Effort?

Jiang Xuan had already located all the acupoints connected to his Primordial Sea and was now in the process of tempering them, so he rarely used his Magical Power on a large scale.

He wasn’t sure if expending too much Magical Power on the Path of Trial would affect, or even slow down, the tempering and nurturing of his real-world acupoints.

In his effort to conserve Magical Power, Jiang Xuan had only unleashed a wave of Gravity once—at the very beginning, when provoked by Lin Yiyi’s fellow disciples.

At all other times, he kept his mobilization of Magical Power to a bare minimum.

Magical Power is the foundation for everything. Without enough of it, the Gravity he released would naturally feel unimpressive and lacking in force.

Ordinary students, with their low strength, couldn’t feel the difference.

The prodigies, however, all believed that this level of Gravity couldn’t possibly affect them.

Some of the elite students even noticed that Jiang Xuan had tried to save the few Cultivators who died earlier, but had failed due to a lack of strength.

—Those people were strangers to Jiang Xuan and hadn’t paid him any Spirit Stones; he certainly wasn’t going to let them interfere with the tempering of his acupoints.

But the prodigies didn’t know that!

Mistaking his casual attempts for his full effort, they simply concluded that Jiang Xuan wanted to perform a rescue but lacked the strength.

This scene, where his spirit was willing but his flesh was weak, caused their evaluation of Jiang Xuan to sink even lower.

’It’s just an unorthodox trick, after all. It only works for catching people off guard; it’s not something you can count on.’

Another point solidified their judgment of his strength beyond any doubt: ’To this day, he hasn’t directly crushed a single Demon Beast! Strength like that isn’t even worth mentioning!’

Believing that Jiang Xuan’s abilities posed no threat to the truly powerful, Qin Feng, Qiao Yue, and the others soon stopped paying him any attention.

Besides, they no longer had the luxury of being distracted.

The difficulty of the Road of Purgatory’s trial had increased again.

This time, the difficulty suddenly multiplied severalfold before Jiang Xuan and the others could even escape the Scorched Earth Purgatory Area.

RUMBLE!

As they reached the center of the Volcanic Area, several volcanoes began to tremble and erupt at once. In an instant, the entire Scorched Earth Purgatory was rocked by tremors as flames billowed to the sky.

And this time, what spewed forth from the volcanoes was not scalding lava, but several Demon Beasts exuding vast auras and terrifying might!

ROAR!

There was a crimson Flame Tiger nearly seven meters long, its body wreathed in fire, charging through the air on clouds of flame that billowed from beneath its paws.

There was a giant, eleven-meter-long flying serpent with wings sprouting from its sides, its body cloaked in venomous flames.

And there were Molten Rock Demons, their bodies the size of giants, capable of hurling lava.

Every one of these monsters had reached the Spirit Core Late Stage, and they were powerhouses even within that stage. They were a full two Realms higher than Jiang Xuan and the others, who had only been cultivating for a month.

At this moment, this horde of savage, blazing Demons, brimming with endless killing intent, completely blocked the only path forward for the students on the trial, eyeing them like tigers stalking prey.

At this sight, the students of the three academies, who were already scrambling to follow the Daoist while dodging spouts of lava and geysers of fire, all stopped dead in their tracks, their faces turning deathly pale.

The Demon Beasts were far too powerful, well beyond what any of them could currently handle. Even the prodigies like Qin Feng felt their pupils shrink at the sight, their expressions turning grave.

’Spirit Core Late Stage? Are you kidding me? How are we supposed to deal with monsters like that right now?’

’This trial’s difficulty is just absurd.’

Some were horrified, but soon, someone noticed something wasn’t right.

’They aren’t actively attacking, just blocking the way... This doesn’t mean we have to kill them. We just have to break through!’

Phew...

After realizing the objective wasn’t to kill the monsters by force, everyone let out a collective sigh of relief. But immediately after, they all tensed up again.

Even if they didn’t have to kill them, just slipping past monsters of the Spirit Core Late Stage was still incredibly dangerous.

The students exchanged glances, but no one dared to make a rash move.

At the same time, as they observed the monsters ahead and surveyed their surroundings, some people glanced in the direction of Jiang Xuan and his group, their gazes filled with amusement.

’This challenge isn’t something you can get past with cheap tricks. It tests pure, unadulterated power!’

’And that is precisely what you lack most!’