Chapter 1583: Wei Fuzi's Full-Powered Strike

“The demonic beasts appearing from the lamp wick on my side have also become somewhat frantic after the suppression of the wick was gone. It seems they have also been stimulated by something.”

Upon hearing this, a thought stirred in the middle-aged woman’s mind. She immediately thought that the abnormality on her side must have appeared after the cultivator on the north side took out a magical treasure.

She was just about to voice this matter and have the other three investigate when the cultivator opposite her spoke again.

“Is it a problem with Master Wei from the Bright Flame Sect? He’s disregarding everything in the final pass. He’s no longer fighting the demonic beasts inside, but is quickly dodging them and pulling them upwards. His actions have already made the few demonic beasts behind him extremely agitated. These are three demonic beasts equivalent to our cultivation level. Master Wei is trying to rush to the thousand-zhang mark as quickly as possible and then kill the great demon at the checkpoint… The great demon is out. The sea of fire here is indeed even more violent now!”

As he spoke, he also frowned. Master Wei wanted to finish the last hundred zhang in one go.

If it were him attempting the trial, he might have chosen to kill at least one or two before using this method. Although his own magical power would be consumed more, the chances might be a little greater.

However, this was just what he thought was a reliable method; it didn’t mean Master Wei was wrong. Everyone knew their own strength and would naturally formulate a method that suited them.

Moreover, Master Wei and Shangguan Tianque had also tried another method. After killing a demonic beast, they wanted to stay in place and rest for a while.

At first, they thought that a demonic beast would only appear every ten zhang later. So after killing one, could they stay there and refine some medicinal pills?

But it turned out to be impossible. If they stayed in one place for more than five breaths, a new demonic beast would appear at that location.

“Oh? A cultivator from the Bright Flame Sect wants to pass the trial in one go?”

“But in that case, he will have to face four demonic beasts!”

The middle-aged woman on the north side, after hearing the rapid exchange between the three, instantly closed her mouth and thought to herself.

‘Is this unease in the sea of fire caused by the simultaneous appearance of multiple late-stage fifth-rank demonic beasts? Master Wei is indeed a decisive person. His approach is actually correct! If he were to fight three demonic beasts of the same rank, how much magical power would he have left…’

At this moment, the middle-aged woman, on the contrary, agreed with Master Wei’s approach, feeling that if it were her, she might also adopt this method.

Save all your strength for the final blow, and kill the great demon in an instant!

At this moment, their attention was all focused on Master Wei, who was about to pass the trial.

The four of them had never driven the Blood Pagoda Lamp before. A magical treasure that was originally driven by one person, now being balanced by the four of them together, made it difficult to grasp the overall sense of it.

So for a time, they all thought that the abnormality on the middle-aged woman’s side was likely caused by Master Wei.

Although it seemed that the Bright Flame Sect and the Broken Army Sect were divided into two areas within the Blood Pagoda Lamp, they were actually still inside a single magical treasure.

The four of them could only balance and suppress the power of the Blood Pagoda Lamp; they could not stop the laws inside from operating according to the formation’s set path.

At this time, at the thousand-zhang mark on the north side, Master Wei had already arrived!

He was suppressed by an invisible membrane, but he could already see the exit of the lamp cover above.

But as soon as he arrived, a crocodile-shaped demonic beast appeared before his eyes. He immediately sensed the three demonic beasts below that were already fast approaching.

He was both thrilled and took a sharp breath!

He had finally pulled some distance from the three demonic beasts behind him. Although this distance, for Spirit Transformation realm demonic beasts, could be covered in an instant, it still gave him a fleeting moment to attack.

As long as he killed the great demon in front of him, the invisible membrane above would also disappear in an instant, and he could rush out without caring about the demonic beasts behind him.

He had started accumulating power as early as the nine-hundred-zhang mark. The divine ability he was using required three to five breaths of charging time, so he had to prepare early.

And at this moment, as the great demon appeared, he had completed his power accumulation. It was the perfect time for him to strike.

But just as this crocodile-shaped great demon had just emerged, a sudden change occurred. A faint force that made the demonic beasts here uneasy and frightened suddenly spread through the entire sea of fire.

This force, apart from the demonic beasts here being able to sense it, could only be detected by Wu Gouzi outside if he were to communicate with this treasure with his divine will at this time.

But since Wu Gouzi had handed over control of the Blood Pagoda Lamp, in front of Chongyangzi and the others, he had also temporarily severed his divine will connection with this treasure.

He didn’t want them to sense that he could still control the Blood Pagoda Lamp. Anyway, if something happened, he could re-establish contact with the Blood Pagoda Lamp with just a thought.

Therefore, no one outside was aware of the sudden appearance of that heart-pounding and unsettling aura within the sea of fire.

When the crocodile-shaped demonic beast first appeared, its bloodthirsty eyes were staring as if at a dead man.

Master Wei’s accumulated power had already erupted, but almost at the same moment he launched his attack, this crocodile-shaped demonic beast suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something.

Instantly, flames shot out from its eyes, and then its entire aura erupted like a volcano.

At the same moment that the power on the surface of this demonic beast erupted, a ball of white flame also appeared instantly above its head.

The white flame, like a shooting star, struck the head of this demonic beast, causing the crocodile-shaped demonic beast’s body to stiffen slightly.

Because at this moment, it felt a slight suppression from the laws of fire, but this suppressive force did not affect it much, and it could easily break free.

Just as the crocodile-shaped demonic beast’s body stiffened slightly, a sky-piercing flame giant sword suddenly appeared above its head.

“Buzz buzz buzz…”

The moment the flame giant sword appeared, the sea of fire around Master Wei, amidst violent tremors, had completely stirred up the world.

The sea of fire surged up, rolling and churning, like waves of anger crashing against the sky…

“Swish!”

Master Wei had long planned this strike, which was filled with his entire body’s power. It was too late for the crocodile-shaped demonic beast to dodge.

The flame giant sword, with boundless momentum, directly chopped at the head of this demonic beast, striking right between its eyebrows!

Master Wei saw that his planned sneak attack had succeeded, and he was just about to relax.

But a scene that Master Wei had not expected appeared. The crocodile-shaped demonic beast, due to feeling the stimulating, heart-pounding aura from the surrounding sea of fire a step earlier, had been stimulated.

So, in its fear, it subconsciously released all its power for protection a step earlier.

Thus, when Master Wei’s sword struck, with a soft sound, the giant sword body directly split the fire wave on the surface of the crocodile-shaped demonic beast into two.

Then it chopped straight into the opponent’s head, but it only went in a few inches before being firmly stuck there!

“Roar!”

At this moment, the crocodile-shaped demonic beast suddenly let out a furious roar. A string of golden-yellow liquid instantly flowed from the wound on its head.

The flames on the head of this demonic beast also rose dozens of zhang high, like a raging fire in the wind, as if its hair was standing on end in anger.

At this moment, even that giant flame sword was submerged by more than half its length in an instant.

“Hmm?”

Master Wei, in mid-air, his expression changed dramatically.

This was his full-powered strike after a long period of accumulating power and having activated a secret art. At this time, his combat power was more than double his normal peak state.

He wanted to catch the opponent off guard and kill it in one blow. The invisible membrane above would instantly disappear, and he could then rush out.

And the initial plan had been carried out very smoothly.

The Exotic Fire of Heaven and Earth he suddenly summoned, when it released its final power, caused the crocodile-shaped demonic beast to pause for an extremely brief moment.

This allowed his subsequent earth-shattering strike to smoothly break through the opponent’s protective flames! But… but how did it only cut a few inches into the head?

It actually failed to chop off the opponent’s head in one blow. This gave Master Wei the feeling that this demonic beast seemed to have been prepared, unleashing its full strength from the very beginning.

This made his carefully planned sneak attack lose its effect…

And at this time in the outside world, the cultivators in the plaza all had expressions of astonishment.

Due to Master Wei’s final earth-shattering strike, the flames around him were stirred up, turning into a giant mountain of flames, instantly submerging the scene around him.

This made it so that although everyone saw Master Wei rush to the thousand-zhang mark of the lamp cover and saw the final great demon emerge, and even saw Master Wei immobilize the opponent and launch an earth-shattering strike, after the giant sword came down, they could no longer see the situation inside.

However, at this moment, they all understood the method Master Wei was going to use to pass the trial!

“The Bright Flame Sect has indeed been preparing for a long time. Their strength is truly formidable!”

“Yes, it’s only the first person to attempt the trial, and it looks like he’s about to pass!”

“Hmph! This is of course not something that the Broken Army Sect, with its shallow foundation, can compare to. Just a few initial-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators, and they don’t know who they are anymore!”

“This time, the Bright Flame Sect will pass in one strike, and as for the Broken Army Sect… hahaha, maybe even if all their cultivators go up one by one, all they’ll have left is unwillingness!”

For a time, various discussions erupted in the plaza.