The Trial of Death

"Then let's start the next trial."-the man said, without further explanation. At that moment, Warren felt the energy of death surging from all sides, and terrible images of death began to flash through his mind. He had seen millions of people die, everyone, he had ever loved die, and he had even seen the universe die, and in the end he had seen images of himself dying in all sorts of ways. Warren, still using the "Hundred Hearts Mantra", realized that he was in the grip of illusions. He understood that he had to overcome these illusions, and to do this, he had to overcome the fear of death, both for himself and for others.

After that, all the images were replaced by a scene of him dying cornered by the Emperor of Terror, repeating over and over again. But this scene was different from what he remembered, now he felt a suffocating sense of fear."I've already died once, I wasn't afraid of death at that moment, why would I be afraid of it now?!"

After thousands of deaths, Warren already began to think that he was in hell, and not passing the test and was ready to give in to despair, but in his next death, he noticed on his hand a rune that looked like this "Œ", he knew this rune, it was called the rune of terror, it was because of this rune that the Emperor of Terror was awarded his title. No one knew where this rune came from, but sometimes the Emperor of Terror used it, after which the victim began to feel uncontrollable fear and panic. Warren knew that of all the beings in the Divine Realm of the Stars, only Adrian Weitz could use this rune, yet the others who tried to repeat the rune of terror, without understanding the principles underlying it, could not endow the rune with power. But he used the rune of terror extremely rarely and when Warren died, he did not use the rune, this fact seemed a little strange to the guy, where in his memories this rune came from, although it could still be part of the illusion, however, Warren began to remember some more clues-"This guy said that I was the second one who passes the tests, Adrian Weitz came from this plane of being."

Perhaps all this is coincidence and speculation, but uncontrolled anger began to rise in Warren's soul and from his demonic heart began to pour out a huge amount of chaotic energy, even Warren himself did not imagine that he had so much of it. Under the influence of this chaotic energy, his plate armor began to change, it no longer looked like armor, but rather began to merge with Warren's body, horns appeared on his head, and demonic wings appeared on his back, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hair lost its color, becoming completely colorless, and began to rise up, as if some force was pulling them up.

The man who had been sitting on his throne in a detached manner at that moment turned his attention to the guy - " Unexpectedly..."- he murmured, and smiled mysteriously.

"EMPEROR OF TERROR, WAIT A BIT AND I'LL KILL YOU, I SWEAR!!!"- yelled Warren, who by this point looked like a demonic god. He had already left the land of illusions and felt an immense rage, and at that moment he heard a measured clap. He turned and looked at the clapping man, who said with a smile- " Congratulations on passing the Death Test!"

" I only overcame the illusion, didn't I?!"-said Warren, subduing his raging rage and returning to his former self.

"Yes, you overcame the illusion, and what else did you want?"- the man was even surprised by the question.

"Well, judging by the first test, I should understand the principles of energ~" -Warren wanted to explain the essence of his question, but was interrupted by the man- "But you already understood the principles...? "

" That is, how did you understand?"- he did not understand the man and began to try to feel the surrounding energy and suddenly realized that he could really use this energy, which made him understand what was happening even less.

"Haha, this is a way to convey the understanding of concepts and, at the same time, to temper the will. All that is required of the subject is to hold out for a certain time in the illusion and not lose his mind. But you were able to complete the test ahead of schedule, even though there were only 13 seconds left, but it's still commendable. The fact is that when you succumbed to your rage, you lost control of your body, and it began to automatically absorb the surrounding energy, which accelerated the process."-The man explained with a laugh and rolled up the surrounding death energy, returning the natural energy environment, " You can rest for a while, and if you want, we'll continue."

Warren really felt like a squeezed lemon, he had spent all his strength in these two trials. He sat down and began to cultivate, as it didn't need the energy from your body, it is cultivated only to recover mentally,instead of sleeping, but suddenly felt that his body began to break through to the stage of Laying the Foundations, he tried to suppress his breakthrough, but there came a voice-"Why are you trying to suppress your breakthrough?"

"I want to reach the 15th level of Qi Condensation before to break through to the stage of Laying the Foundations."-muttered the boy, still trying to suppress a breakthrough.

"So you're already at the 15th stage of Qi Condensation! Or how do you think you got the 'Perfect Physique of the Elements'? " -The man dumbfounded him.

"What?.."-Warren was surprised, but he remembered that he didn't know much about the 15th step, and the ancient manuscript only said that the practitioner would understand everything when he reached the 15th step, besides, his breakthrough to the 14th step was quite strange. Now the puzzle began to form a complete picture.

"You don't have time to count the crows, or you'll suffer from the recoil! Stop suppressing the breakthrough and move on to the Foundation Stage! "- the man said.

Warren nodded and began to make a breakthrough. The Foundation Stage was so called because ordinary practitioners at this stage primarily expressed their affinity with the elements with which they went on in life, but for Warren, the Foundation Stage was essentially useless. When he reached the 15th stage of Qi Condensation, he had already reached the goal of the Foundation stage, and with the absence of Dantian and infinite qi, he could even skip the entire stage and directly reach the Earth Enlightenment Stage. But he did not plan to do this, as he needed some time to assimilate the energy. It will not be a problem to overcome two or three steps, but if there is a breakthrough of a large number of steps, then unstable concentrated energy can lead to problems with the foundation in the future.

Although Warren had enough experience, but he broke through slowly, because in this life, he did not have a Dantian and did not know what problems might arise, and he was walking on a path that he did not know anything about. Better slower, but better quality. If you hurry, you'll make people laugh.

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A few hours later, strong energy fluctuations began to emanate from Warren, and he was completing his breakthrough. When the process was completed, multicolored lightning bolts passed through his entire body, each of which represented a certain element.

Warren stood up and felt every part of his body literally overwhelmed with a power that he had not possessed since he had appeared in this world.