Chapter 307
Chapter 307. This One Must Not Be Allowed to Live
Fulan looked at the cyan palace before her, as well as the small depression on the palace gate.
According to Zari, this depression was the trace left behind when Sunflame techniques were used.
Fulan did not hesitate. She directly made red light attach itself to her bat. Because of Zari’s help, the red glow on Fulan’s bat was now deeper in color, and the red light on it seemed to breathe, turning darker and lighter from one moment to the next.
With Fulan’s Proficient-level Sunflame techniques, as well as the environment Zari had deliberately adjusted, the moment Fulan inserted the red-glowing bat into the depression, a reaction occurred.
Substantial flames emerged around the depression, and those flames began spreading across the door, dyeing the entire gate red.
Without expending much effort, Fulan saw that after the whole gate turned red, a muffled bang came from behind it.
Then the gate before Fulan began to disassemble. Around the depression where the bat had been inserted, the door split into four sections from above, below, left, and right, then shrank back into the doorframe.
After seeing the gate open, Fulan walked straight inside.
She knew what this test was meant to examine. It tested the trial participant’s mastery of Sunflame techniques. Only someone who had skillfully mastered them could dye the gate red and open this place.
For Fulan, this was the simplest possible matter, because with the panel’s support, she had satisfied this condition a long time ago.
After entering the cyan palace, Fulan saw a massive stone stele at the center of the palace, with many names carved upon it.
From the upper portion of this stele down to about twenty percent of its height, it was densely covered with names.
On the side of the stele, Fulan saw a row where the names had not yet filled the space completely.
She did not hesitate and directly used Sunflame to sign her own name.
At the end, as she looked at the names on this stele that had also been carved with Sunflame, she could feel how difficult it was to pass this trial.
At the top five percent of the stele, the names Fulan saw were all red like burning flames, and among them, Fulan saw the name “Zari.”
According to Fulan’s guess, these people should have been the ones who had truly passed the Trial of the Sun.
Below these names were names interwoven with purple and cyan.
Fulan saw the name she had just written with Sunflame fade from red and turn cyan at its base.
She immediately understood that the cyan names symbolized those who had passed the first trial, while the purple names might represent those who had passed the second trial.
Just from the names above, Fulan could tell that after the Gods interfered with this trial, very few people had managed to pass it.
She turned around, walked to the entrance, glanced back one more time, then stepped directly outside.
After Fulan walked out, the gate closed, looking exactly as it had when Fulan first arrived. Only a few red sparks remained within the depression at the center.
Fulan raised her head but did not look toward the direction of the second trial, because on that route, Fulan would not be able to conveniently deal with several Emissaries along the way.
She looked toward the direction from which she had come. The three yellow dots there were somewhat closer together, but they had not yet converged. She had to deal with these three small yellow dots first.
After confirming the direction, Fulan directly ran at full speed toward the small yellow dot closest to her.
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“Are we not all Emissaries? Why are you attacking me?”
An Emissary asked Fulan in confusion when she pierced through his back with her bat.
He truly could not understand why Fulan had the fluctuations of an Emissary on her body, yet had attacked him the moment they met.
And...
He looked toward his own chest. Two large holes had been torn open there. Facing the other party’s attack, he had not had the slightest ability to fight back.
Filled with unwillingness and confusion, he could only watch his body turn illusory and return to the Material Realm.
Fulan pulled the bat out of the corpse, then dispersed the Sunflame on it. She calmly looked toward the sky, but what she saw made her frown sharply.
“How is it that I only killed one Emissary, yet another one came? And why have those three Emissaries gathered together?”
Fulan looked at the Sky-Screen. Around the area where Fulan was currently located, there were three yellow dots closest to her. It was just that these three yellow dots had already drawn together.
Fulan did not quite understand what had happened. Why had another Emissary suddenly appeared and rushed into this area just after she killed one? And why had the original two Emissaries also gathered together?
Based on the current positions of these yellow dots, Fulan inferred that the yellow dot which had suddenly appeared had come from a relatively distant location.
“The other party is that fast?”
Fulan compared the speed at which she had run from the first trial to this place with the speed at which that distant Emissary had reached the other two Emissaries.
“This Emissary’s speed is more than twice mine...”
Fulan obtained a startling fact, which made her even more wary of that Emissary.
“This one must not be allowed to live. No matter what, I have to kill that person first, and it must be a fatal strike.”
Fulan made up her mind. She knew that a high-mobility unit like this absolutely could not be left alive, because they might reveal the fact that she was hunting these Emissaries.
“After I go over, I will first find this high-mobility Emissary, then deal with the other two Emissaries. Or I can directly face all three Emissaries and launch a frontal attack.”
Fulan headed toward those three yellow dots, walking in that direction at a pace that was neither fast nor slow.
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At the same time, in an area where the earth had turned yellow, three people were moving forward while chatting.
The three were not all walking on the ground. One of them had a pair of dragon wings extending from his body.
The dragon wings did not flap, yet the person still moved through the air alongside the two people on the ground.
“This trial is truly strange. I have only encountered one trial participant. How many people have you encountered?”
“One.”
“Two.”
“How strange. I found records inside my faith’s internal texts about past attempts to obstruct this kind of trial.”
“According to those records, every time the Emissaries arrived at the trial, although one or two Emissaries would be thrown into corners, most Emissaries would be surrounded by those trial participants.”
“Sometimes, if their luck was bad, two Emissaries really were killed by those trial participants and returned to the Material Realm.”
“There are three of us here. Surely all three of us were not thrown into corners, right? And Harrison can fly. After searching for this long, he should not have found only two...”
As he spoke, Cyril looked toward Harrison, who was flying in the sky. According to what Harrison had said earlier, he had already flown for a long time, yet had only found two people.
Even they were the same. The two of them had not found many people either. Everywhere they could see was barren.
At that moment, Matthew, who had been silent beside them, suddenly spoke.
“Perhaps the trial participant who truly wants to pass this trial deliberately arranged it this way. The other party can ask the Domain Lord here to do this.”
These words aroused Cyril’s interest. He agreed strongly with this guess.
“Perhaps that really is the case. But if so, what is the other party’s goal...”
“If the other party only wanted to avoid us, then the best method would be to place those trial participants on the routes we must take, using them to hinder our steps.”
“That way, we would have no choice but to clear out those trial participants blocking the road, buying time for the person who truly wants to pass the trial.”
“But there is a pillar of light on the final arena. He must face us, and it is absolutely impossible for him to defeat us. There are more than a hundred years of records proving this...”
“But under the current circumstances, it is not easy for us to find those trial participants, and those trial participants will not easily run into us either. The other party is trying to...”
“There is no need to think so much. In the end, he must face us directly anyway. As long as the pillar of light appears, we can simply head there.”
Just as Cyril wanted to discuss these questions with his companions, Harrison, flying in the sky, interrupted him.
Cyril curled his lips and sighed. He knew that aside from himself, the others here probably had no interest in this unusual situation at all.
“Why are all my dragonkind companions like this? Can I not have one companion who is not dragonkind?”
The reason these three Emissaries of different gods had gathered together was that all of them were Emissaries of dragon gods.
Harrison, who was flying in the sky, was the Emissary of the famous Sky Dragon Faith in the Material Realm.
Cyril himself was also the Emissary of the somewhat well-known Scroll Dragon Faith in the Material Realm.
As for the taciturn Matthew beside him, he was the Emissary of a dragon god in the Spirit Realm. Cyril had not managed to ask exactly who it was.
And even after observing him, Cyril still had not determined which god the other party belonged to.
Matthew wore a black robe that wrapped around his entire body. Beneath the black robe, at his back, one could faintly see a protruding tail. This was a rather prominent feature.
Moreover, judging from the fact that Matthew still maintained a human form, the other party’s god was probably not a god with a pure dragon form, but a god with a human form.
However, Cyril had never found such features in the books of his faith. He could only assume this was a god who had recently come from the Astral Realm to the Spirit Realm.
Because of the environment of his own Scroll Dragon Faith, Cyril was filled with curiosity toward these two dragon Emissaries.
However, the faith of the Scroll Dragon seemed to be an outlier among all dragonkind.
Harrison, flying in the sky, was full of arrogance. Every time, he answered Cyril’s questions with a disdainful snort, while Matthew turned a blind eye to his questions and responded with silence.
This made Cyril feel very uncomfortable. He wanted to find someone to discuss what he had discovered, only to find that these two people had no desire to pay him any attention.
Just as Cyril was still thinking of starting a topic, he suddenly saw a figure in a white robe appear on the distant ground. This made him extremely pleasantly surprised.
“Look, that seems to be an Emissary too.”
At this moment, the one with the greatest reaction was not Cyril, but Matthew beside him. He looked at the fluctuation belonging to the Lord of Radiance on Fulan’s body and murmured silently in his heart.
“I found her.”
His hand trembled so badly that he could not lift it. Fortunately, his hand was hidden beneath the black robe, so no one noticed anything unusual about him.