Under everyone's nervous gazes, the door of the tunnel that hid the steel puppets gradually opened.
In front of everyone's eyes, a dark hole appeared. It was filled with a murderous aura, causing everyone to suck in a breath of cold air.
Seeing the pale faces of these rookies, Huang Feiyang smiled coldly and said in a clear voice, "Remember this clearly. You can only stay here for an hour at most. After an hour, if you haven't come out, no matter how many steel hearts you obtain, it won't count because you won't be able to come out!
"After an hour, we will close the metal door. At that time, regardless of whether you are dead or not, we will think that you have died inside!
If you want to come out, wait for the Lingwu family's next selection! "
Huang Feiyang smiled coldly and thought to himself, "Wait for the next selection, you will all become skeletons."
At this time, Long Chen's gaze was focused on the tunnel. There was indeed no aura of life inside, but there was a murderous aura. There was a faint sound of metal colliding. Just from the sound alone, Long Chen could hear how sturdy these steel puppets were!
"Under normal circumstances, an hour's time is more than enough to pass 500 meters. But with these steel puppets blocking the way, it looks like it won't be easy to kill as many steel puppets as possible and obtain more steel hearts within the allotted time …"
While Long Chen was thinking, Huang Feiyang had already announced the start of the test.
The fifty people with Long Chen all rushed into the tunnel to avoid wasting time.
"Little Xi, what do you know about these steel puppets?"
"These puppets are unique martial artist craftsmen. They use talisman arrays to accelerate their growth and divine jade as energy supply. You don't have to worry, these steel puppets are only the lowest level of puppets. In this round, you still have a great advantage."
Long Chen revealed a puzzled expression and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"These are simple steel puppets. Although they have strong bodies, they can't use any battle skills. The main problem is that there are so many of them. If you use battle skills to deal with them, you'll exhaust your true energy sooner or later. But if you have some physical strength to support you, you can save a lot of energy.
You've cultivated the Star Battle Body before, and now that your body has been tempered by one-thousandth of the dragon blood, your Dragon Soul Transformation is almost equivalent to a high-level yellow-class body refining technique, or even stronger! "
Long Chen's eyes lit up with joy, "Xiao Xi, are you saying that as long as I obtain more blood essence, my body will become infinitely stronger?"
"Theoretically, yes. When you can fully utilize all the essence blood of inheritance, your strength in this aspect will be a bonus. Of course, there will be many unexpected benefits, just like the Blood and Qi Refinement and Dragon Soul Transformation!"
In Long Chen's Sea of Knowledge, there was still nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine percent of the essence blood of inheritance that was being suppressed by the mysterious dragon jade. Long Chen knew that in the process of becoming stronger, he would certainly explore the effects of the essence blood of inheritance step by step.
"After obtaining all the essence blood of inheritance and cultivating to the extreme, I can transform into an Ancient Divine Dragon. Will I transform into one of the ten ancient Ancestral Dragons, the Ancient Blood Spiritual Dragon?"
While such thoughts were swirling in his mind, Long Chen had already entered thirty meters into the tunnel.
At this point, his vision was already a little dim, but fortunately, the range of the tunnel was several times wider, just right for fighting.
Long Chen vaguely felt that the killing intent was approaching him.
"Ten meters in front of you, there are already four steel puppets awakening because of your approach. They're coming!"
With Lingxi's reminder, several forces suddenly burst out from the dark tunnel and stabbed toward Long Chen.
Long Chen was already ready. At this moment, he had completely transformed into the Dragon Soul Transformation. The fine and complete blood-colored dragon scales were used for defense, while the bone spurs on the elbows, knees, shoulders, and spine, as well as the sharp claws were all means of attack!
Sharp claws nearly ten centimeters long had appeared on Long Chen's fingers. Each of them was like a blood-colored dagger. If he were to fight against a human, he could directly stab it into the chest and pull out the heart!
"In a moment, I will directly enter the second stage. Many people will fight with these steel puppets. In order to obtain more steel hearts, they will consume a lot of vital energy, which will lead to a great loss in the second stage!
But I have Lingxi, so I will try my best to use my strength. I don't believe that I can't deal with a few iron lumps after being tempered by the essence blood of inheritance! "
In the blink of an eye, Long Chen was engaged in close combat with a steel puppet!
In the process of fighting, Long Chen quickly saw the appearance of this steel puppet. It was a humanoid puppet made entirely of steel. Of course, Long Chen didn't know what kind of metal it was made of, but it was abnormally hard.
This steel puppet was more than two meters tall, and its arms and legs were very thick and strong. It possessed great strength. There were also several black runes on its body. When it attacked, the runes gradually flashed. From what Long Chen could see, the center of the runes was its heart!
Clang!
An ear-piercing sound of metal rubbing against metal rang out in the tunnel. At this moment, Long Chen had already exchanged blows with a steel puppet. He was secretly shocked!
"The strength of this steel puppet seems to be between the seventh and eighth tier of the Dragon Vein Realm. There are at least a hundred steel puppets in this tunnel. No wonder they said that someone would die inside!"
Long Chen let out a roar and didn't stop at all. After he blasted the steel puppet away with a punch, he relied on his speed, which far surpassed the steel puppet's, to suddenly press forward and crash into the steel puppet's body, instantly causing it to be thrown off its feet!
"My guess was right. This steel puppet's defense and strength are among the best, but its speed and agility aren't very good!"
After refining the body, one's agility was greatly increased. When his shoulder slammed into the steel puppet, Long Chen discovered that the bone spurs on his shoulder had already pierced several large holes in the opponent's body. However, this did not affect the movement of the steel puppet at all!
However, this was not Long Chen's main attack method. After knocking the steel puppet over, Long Chen's claws suddenly stabbed into the center of the rune. Long Chen's claws erupted with all his strength and pierced deeply into the heart of the steel puppet!
"Yes, hold that hot thing and pull it out!"
Following Lingxi's instructions, after Long Chen's claws pierced into the heart of the steel puppet, he quickly felt a hot stone inside and pulled it out without hesitation!
In the process of twitching, the originally ferocious steel puppet suddenly let out a human-like scream and begged.
Long Chen had hit its Achilles' heel. He would not show any mercy to such a lifeless thing. He immediately withdrew and flew away. At this moment, the steel puppet suddenly fell to the ground powerlessly, motionless!
"One Heart of Steel!"
Long Chen roughly glanced at the Heart of Steel in his hand. He could only find that it was a warm, jade-like stone that contained extremely rich Heaven and Earth aura.
However, the Heaven and Earth aura of this Heart of Steel also carried some other aura!
He immediately put the Heart of Steel into his Cosmos Sack. At this time, the remaining three steel puppets had already made clanking sounds and rushed toward Long Chen!
"You have great strength, but your movements are so stiff. How can you be a match for me?"
Based on the experience of killing the first steel puppet, Long Chen faced these steel puppets!
"Three of them attacking me at the same time is indeed a bit of a hindrance. I can't display my full strength, but …"
In a flash, Long Chen appeared behind one of the steel puppets. The steel puppet suddenly turned around and punched at him. However, Long Chen was like a gecko that stuck to its body. His claws directly pierced the steel puppet's back and grabbed a piece of Heart of Steel. At this time, the other two steel puppets had just turned around!
"Lingxi is right. I have a strong and flexible body and sharp claws. In this stage, I will have a great advantage. As for the others, they don't have a tempered body, so they don't dare to rashly clash with the steel puppets. They can only attack with combat skills!
However, it's very difficult to hit the steel puppet's only vital point!
So they can't be faster than me! "
Thinking of Huang Xiang, Long Chen's eyes turned cold.
"This Huang Xiang has cultivated an advanced yellow-class body tempering combat skill. As long as he has a sharp blade, it will be very easy for him to kill this steel puppet!
No wonder he would spend time practicing body tempering combat skills. So it turns out that he has someone in the Lingwu family who knows how to take advantage of them! "
Using the same method, the other two steel puppets also fell at Long Chen's feet. At this time, the sound of the fight had already alerted the other steel puppets.
"Be careful, all the steel puppets nearby are coming towards you!"
Long Chen nodded and said, "I have to run to the other end of the passage in half an hour. It seems that it's more suitable for me to kill over there. When it's about time, it'll be convenient for me to go out!"
Thinking up to this point, Long Chen had already begun to rapidly advance towards the depths of the tunnel. After killing a few Steel Puppets, Long Chen had gradually grasped the knack of dealing with them. He knew how to deal with the Steel Puppets more efficiently, especially when he rammed and clawed at the beginning and circled and clawed at the second time. Both were extremely successful!
Just by relying on these two moves, Long Chen was able to deal with the increasing number of steel puppets that appeared along the way with ease!
When he walked into a vast hemispherical space, Long Chen already saw a similar steel door. However, this space was filled with steel puppets!
Long Chen's eyes swept across and found that there were at least a hundred of them!
"The Lingwu family is really generous, using so many steel puppets to entertain one person. There are more than 50 of us here, so how many steel puppets will there be?"
"On the way here, I've already obtained 28 steel hearts. There's still about half an hour left. There's more than enough time. I'll go on a killing spree among these steel puppets and also train my close combat skills!"
In the battle with the steel puppets, Long Chen also realized that he was still lacking in close combat.
On the path of cultivation, he could be considered to have become a monk halfway through. When he was young, he had participated in body-honing and practiced body-honing boxing every day. However, he had put it aside for a long time, so he had forgotten some basic movements. Now that there were so many steel puppets, it was the perfect target for him to practice!
Therefore, Long Chen was like a wolf in a flock of sheep. He turned into a red phantom and killed crazily among the steel puppets!
Long Chen was so excited that he did not pay attention to the time until Lingxi suddenly said, "Hey, there's not much time left. Do you want to go out?"
Long Chen stopped and checked his Qiankun bag. He smiled bitterly and said, "There are a total of 105 steel hearts. I wonder if I can make it into the top ten?"
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