Chapter 55

Jining fell to the ground in the corridor, but felt an eerie silence around him, a silence that was terrifying.

His ears could no longer hear.

At the same time, his entire body had no sensation, but the powerful vitality contained in his god-like body took effect, and divine power quickly restored everything. The muscles and skin that had been torn apart, as well as the ruptured internal organs and meridians, rapidly healed. Jining's ears could hear again, and his body regained sensation.

"Pain, it hurts so much." Jining looked into the distance; the complete loss of sensation and sound just now was truly terrifying.

"It's really too... really too terrifying." Jining looked at the black-furred monster hunched over, emitting a dense aura of death, "The speed of that slap was so fast I couldn't dodge it, and its strength far exceeded the combined strength of those nine alien giants before!"

The black-furred monster stood quietly, its green eyes looking at Jining, and let out a hoarse sigh. His sigh contained a sense of helplessness and disappointment: "I have waited for too long, so long that I have forgotten time. You just need to survive three trials. You don't need to kill me, just knock me down or injure me."

Jining struggled to get up, the ground covered in blood.

"Knock you down?" Jining stared at the hunched black-furred monster.

"No, more accurately, just injure me, break my skin, and make me bleed." The black-furred monster said slowly, "I will fall down on my own, and you will pass... Do you remember the time when Immortal Juhua was taking on disciples? At that time, over ten people reached me, it was quite lively. One of them, a young man, used a powerful Dao talisman to injure me. But I only took a step back and didn't fall down... If I had fallen down then, I wouldn't have to endure this endless loneliness. Loneliness is really terrifying, very terrifying..."

Jining listened, holding his breath.

The black-furred monster in front of him had existed since the time of Immortal Juhua, definitely not a cultivator, because normal cultivators couldn't live that long. Only Immortals could truly live forever, and Immortals couldn't possibly be like this. A breath from an Immortal would probably turn him into dust.

"The master only set the rule that if you injure or knock me down, you pass this trial." The black-furred monster said hoarsely, "Come, injure me. Just injure me, and I will fall down."

"Injure you?" Jining's divine consciousness directly picked up the two Beiming swords he had thrown, and his severed finger reconnected. The black-furred monster just watched silently, without interfering.

The black-furred monster looked at Jining and said slowly, "Give it your all. In the endless years, I have given everyone who reached me a chance. As long as you injure me, I will fall down. But... none of them could injure me. Not a single one!"

Jining was instantly startled.

"Only that one time, when Immortal Juhua was taking on disciples, that Dao talisman injured me. Why didn't I fall down then? Just that one time, I missed that opportunity, and there will never be another chance." The black-furred monster spoke very slowly, completely tormented by endless loneliness.

"Injure him?" Jining was shocked and fearful.

According to this monster, which had existed since the time of the gods and demons, only one person had ever injured him, and that was with a Dao talisman!

"Over the years, there have probably been geniuses who have reached the true meaning of the Dao." Jining also felt immense pressure, "How can I do it?"

"Come." The black-furred monster hunched over and walked step by step, "Come, injure me."

Jining held the Beiming sword.

Whoosh!

Jining instantly shot up to the top of the corridor, and then his feet kicked hard, using the Wind Wing Escape Technique to dive down from a height.

At this moment, his speed was at its peak.

"Die!"

Jining focused all his strength into the Beiming sword in his right hand and stabbed downward.

The hunched black-furred monster stopped and raised its head, its green eyes looking up at Jining diving down. It just watched, silently... its eyes were dull and numb, without any color.

"Drop of water!"

"Penetrate the stone!"

Jining dove down, the sword tip transforming into a drop of water, 'dropping' onto the black-furred monster's furry face. At this moment, both divine power and innate true essence were pushed to their limits, the extreme speed converted into piercing power, and the terrifying sword strike formed by the 'True Meaning of a Drop of Water'...

Swoosh!

The sword tip stabbed into the black-furred monster's face, but the monster continued to look up at Jining.

"Far from enough." The black-furred monster sighed, its green eyes filled with endless disappointment, "I have to continue waiting, continue waiting... You, I can only kill you."

Jining's sword stabbed into the black-furred monster's face without any damage. Unwilling to give up, he used both swords to perform the 'Silk Rain into a Line' and 'Moths Rushing to the Flame' techniques, stabbing its chest and face, but neither could penetrate.

"Retreat." Jining retreated dozens of feet.

The hunched black-furred monster advanced, walking slowly, but each step covered dozens of feet. In terms of speed, it was actually faster than Jining! Whether it was the speed of its movement or its attacks, it was faster than Jining. This was the first time Jining had encountered something faster than himself in the corridor.

Previously, he could always use the Wind Wing Escape Technique to escape and delay, but now he couldn't delay.

"How can its skin be so tough?" Jining was extremely anxious. Although the fallen divine beings and innate lifeforms had proven that injuring this black-furred monster was extremely difficult, when his full-strength sword strike couldn't even pierce its face, Jining felt a sense of despair.

"Die, stop struggling." A hoarse voice sounded, and the hunched black-furred monster appeared beside Jining.

Three water lotus leaves and three fire lotus leaves immediately appeared around Jining's body, rotating in opposite directions, stirring. But to the black-furred monster, the stirring force of the water and fire lotus leaves was like walking through small ripples, unable to affect its body.

Jining's two swords once again performed the 'Drop of Water Penetrates the Stone' technique, stabbing at the black-furred monster's lower abdomen and legs.

"Escape is impossible, defense is useless, I must find a glimmer of hope. Kill, kill, kill! Perhaps different parts of its body have weak spots that I can pierce." Jining refused to give up.

"Stop struggling."

The black-furred monster sighed, and its large palm, like a fan, slapped Jining again. It didn't care about Jining's swords, letting them stab its body, and its palm landed on Jining.

"Bang!!!"

The magical armor Jining was wearing instantly tore apart, and the palm filled with dense death aura penetrated Jining's chest, sending him flying far away.

Bang.

Jining lay on the ground, a large hole in his chest, almost splitting his body in two. Lying there, he couldn't move at all; the large hole in his chest had paralyzed his entire body. He could only wait for his body's vitality to start recovering, but this would take time, probably about half a minute to regain the ability to move.

The black-furred monster was already approaching from a distance, likely to reach him in a second.

"Die." The hunched black-furred monster took a step forward.

"No!" Jining's heart was filled with an endless desire for life. He had died before, even gone to the underworld and seen Lady Meng. So he desired life even more... He didn't want to drink the Lady Meng's soup. "What can I do? How can I survive? I can't even move... The only thing I can use now is my divine consciousness. Can I use it to pick up the Beiming sword and injure the black-furred monster?"

Jining felt despair.

Jining was very clear about the power of divine consciousness. After killing Tumu Zhan, he had investigated and found that divine consciousness could lift trees and rocks, with a power comparable to a late-stage innate lifeform's divine body! The ability to materialize thoughts was very powerful, but what use was this power?

...

"I still have them." As the black-furred monster approached, Jining suddenly thought of something and howled, "All come out!"

Swish, swish, swish~~~

Suddenly, numerous magical treasures appeared around Jining, including knives, swords, and spears, totaling thousands of magical treasures, all floating around him. Each was controlled by his divine consciousness, and all their tips were pointed at the black-furred monster.

"All my innate true essence, go!" Jining went completely mad, and the innate true essence in his dantian instantly rushed into each magical treasure.

These were substandard magical treasures left by dead innate lifeforms over the endless years. Jining had easily refined them after obtaining them. These were magical treasures that innate lifeforms could drive, but generally, innate lifeforms held them in their hands. However, Jining, with his divine consciousness, could control them with his mind.

It was as if thousands of hands suddenly grabbed each magical treasure, aiming at the black-furred monster.

The innate true essence was divided and rushed into each magical treasure, even tearing Jining's meridians. An innate lifeform could usually fight for a long time, but Jining's innate true essence, divided among thousands of magical treasures, was not much.

"Kill!"

Jining, with his broken body unable to move, had a fierce expression and howled.

The howl was filled with an endless desire for life!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Countless sword beams, knife beams, and spear beams shot out, instantly making the entire corridor shine white, all hitting the black-furred monster, which had spread its arms and closed its eyes, at the same moment!

"Bang~~~"

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