Ascension

Chapter 247 Trial of Night·End

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, summer is passing and autumn is coming.

On this day, a white light suddenly lit up on a steep mountain peak about [-] miles away, south of Giant Frog Pond.

In just an instant, the mountain peak was cut off at the waist and fell downwards, making a loud noise that shook the sky and the earth.

"Roar……"

The wild spirits all over the mountains and plains jumped to their feet.

Regardless of whether they are big or small, old or young, they all run away in a hurry, fearing that if they are too late, their lives will be in danger.

"Well, this damn compass is malfunctioning again!"

"Those old men at Gongdao Yuan get so much salary every year, but they give us some defective products!"

In the void, the three figures gradually solidified.

They were at least tens of thousands of meters in the air, without any buoyancy, and fell completely freely.

If you look carefully, you can see that the person on the far left is wearing a magic blue robe, a pair of black sunglasses that cover half of his face, and is holding a dark blue staff in his hand. He is cursing at this time.

The man on the far right wears a purple trench coat. You can't see his hands, but you can see that he has his eyes closed tightly, as if talking in sleep.

Only the man in the middle was wearing a sinister aura and tight-fitting black clothes, which made his thin and old body even more shriveled.

"Xuyan, is this your first mission?"

"The old guy from the Gongdaoyuan likes to steal spiritual stones."

"The spirit stones that have been seized are either used to drink or to fill gaps in other projects. This is not the first time you know this, right?"

The man in the purple windbreaker was talking in a daze, as if he was talking in his sleep.

The man in robes wearing cool sunglasses snorted coldly and stared at the disc-shaped luminous object in his hand again and again:
  "Fortunately, it's only a few tens of thousands of miles away, so we will definitely arrive within a day."

"Speaking of which, this is His Highness's trial area. We are already close to the trial location. How can we open the sealed scroll and pry out a little bit of information?"

Whoosh whoosh—

During the conversation, the three of them were still falling crazily.

Approaching the ground, the man in the center snapped his fingers, and a mark on his neck glowed.

Quietly, a behemoth fifty meters tall appeared at his feet.

It has a head like a mouse and a body like a giant. It has wings on its back and a long tail on the back of its butt. It flaps its wings and flies.

The terrifying power of darkness, wrapped in the cold metallic aura, radiates in all directions.

Along the way, all the wild spirits running wild suddenly fell to the ground.

They seemed to have been drained of blood, and the corpses were white without a trace of blood.

"vomit!"

The ancient golden ghost grinned its fangs and spat out a stream of colorful blood like excrement.

It stared at the corpses on the ground with disgust, suddenly flapped its wings, first stretched its height, and then flew forward with all its strength.

"What do you think? These despicable clay sculptures and Xia Zhao's fetuses are not even qualified to be reduced to food. How dare you taste their blood?"

The man in robes named "Xu Yan" stood on the shoulders of the ancient golden ghost and laughed.

The ancient golden ghost seemed to be angry and roared, and the sound waves turned into air waves, almost overturning the entire cloud and mist in the sky.

"Quiet!"

The old man in the middle lit up the ring in his hand and took out a long box as thick as an arm.

His face was full of solemnity, and the man beside him who had been talking in his sleep suddenly closed his mouth and stopped making any sound.

Xuyan, who had always been cursing and irritable, suddenly became silent and looked straight at him with his eyes.

"Zi!"

Bite your finger and the long box opens smoothly.

In an instant, three black shadows flashed, and a flower suddenly appeared on the shoulders of the three people.

The appearance of this flower is extremely ferocious. There is a luminous gem inside the bud, but the petals are tooth-shaped, and blood will flow out.

"Zizzizi!!"

The rhizomes extended, actually pierced the clothes of the three people and penetrated into the flesh and blood, easily inhabiting the human body.

"When will this "Soul Blood Shadow Flower" be improved? It feeds on human blood every time and has to be carefully protected. Why is it so delicate! "

Xuyan cursed in a low voice, and the flower on his shoulder seemed to sense it. He immediately turned his head and pointed the gem at his face.

Xuyan stopped talking and just bared his teeth, trying to ease the stinging feeling at the soul level.

"Flowers exist when people exist, but when flowers die, people die."

"This is an important medium to witness the entire assessment process. If we dare to harm the Soul Blood Shadow Flower, or fail to protect it and let it be damaged, none of the three of us will be able to come back alive."

The man named "Ten Hands" who was talking in his sleep bit his lip, squeezed out a drop of purple blood, and smeared it on the petals.

With a flash of fluorescence, the petals on the shoulders were dyed with a hint of purple, seeming to become even more evil.

"Hey, you have a "dream barrier," but I don't. "

Xuyan took out a stack of dominoes and threw them next to the flowers.

With a bang, the dominoes flew up on their own, spinning around like guards.

"Although the golden statue is in a corner, don't be careless."

The old man's name was "Ye Ji". After giving instructions to his contracted spirits, he slowly opened the scroll, his black pupils filled with seriousness.

A strange light suddenly flashed in Xuyan's eyes.

Jushou, who had always kept his eyes closed, suddenly opened them and carefully checked the contents on the scroll.

"what?"

"This ghost place called Giant Frog Pond is actually the trial area for that Highness?"

Xuyan took a breath, and the airflow around his body was completely disordered.

His mind definitely lost control for a moment, causing the galloping ancient golden ghost to be suddenly stared at by eyes of all sizes growing in the void.

The next second, all these eyes were closed, as if they had never appeared, without a trace of existence.

On the other side, Shishou was also thinking, and purple mist kept rising, soft and hazy, making his figure become more illusory:
  "This name caused quite a stir at first."

"Misplaced summons, sleeping for four years..."

"His Highness has been standing at the forefront of the storm. After losing these four years, will he be unable to recover?"

"Be careful."

Yeji pointed to the Soul Blood Shadow Flower on his shoulder, closed the scroll, and carefully put the ring away:

"You elders with foreign surnames are really not afraid of death?"

"Even my family members don't dare to comment casually on what happened."

"If you continue to discuss it, you will be wiped out one day. You can't blame others."

"But this one...is different after all."

Xuyan hesitated for a moment, then said bravely:
  "How many other trialists can have his experience?"

"Dual authority, misplaced summons, these are nothing."

"I heard that he once..."

Yeji's eyes suddenly glowed with murderous intent.

The ancient golden ghost roared wildly and suddenly hovered. The golden blades gathered together and were faintly placed on Xuyan's neck.

"Okay, okay, don't say, don't say."

Xuyan stretched out his hands in a gesture of surrender:
  "I am a man of few words and it is not suitable for me to say this."

"But when I returned to the family, there was a lot of criticism, and it was impossible to suppress it."

The murderous intent in Ye Ji's eyes slowly subsided.

He clapped his palms, and the ancient golden ghost flapped its wings again.

"Hang on as an evaluator, focus on your duties as an evaluator, and don't worry about anything else, so as not to get into trouble."

"You don't even have this awareness. After I go back, I will report it to the great elder who is responsible for the trial and will not form any further teams with you."

"As you go."

He raised his hands and said, "I have been doing this boring job for a hundred years. I should take a vacation and relax."

Yeji glanced at him, turned his head, and remained silent.

Jushou returned to his sleepy state, mumbling in a trance. Outsiders could neither hear clearly what he was saying, nor did they want to hear what he was saying.

……

Half a day later, a city gradually came into view.

Yeji didn't even turn his head. The empty eyes and ten hands standing on his left and right started to move consciously.

"Shhhh~"

Three identical spirits emerged from the summoning formation.

Their main bodies are eyeballs with a diameter of more than twenty meters, and root-like organs grow under the eyeballs, like centipede legs.

After Xuyan summoned them, he suddenly closed his eyes.

The next moment, at least a hundred eyes appeared, like scattered birds, flying quickly over the city.

As for the Infinite Fetus named "Giant Eyed Beast", various images flashed in its pupils one after another, as if it was suspended in mid-air, overlooking every move of the entire city.

"It's interesting. This city has a population of about [-]. Although it looks very simple and backward, there is a statue on every street."

"Looking at that appearance, His Highness doesn't seem to have changed his appearance or name. He just concealed his last name in accordance with the rules and appeared in front of the public as 'Mr. Han'."

Xuyan shook his head, even with his eyes closed, he kept introducing:

"There is no doubt that His Highness's popularity has reached its peak."

"Outstanding, he has never failed to recover in the past five years."

Ula~~Ula~~
  Jushou also summoned his own contracted spirit.

But he only summoned one, which was a hundred meters long and turned out to be far larger than the ancient golden ghost.

"Yan—"

The "Ten-Handed Dream Dragon", which looks like a giant dragon but has no wings behind its back, instead waves ten ferocious giant hands, roars silently, and dives towards the city.

The humans and spirits walking on the street seemed to be unable to see it, but they were still talking and laughing.

The next second, all the creatures seemed to be frozen, their eyes instantly blurred, and they were empty like two holes.

"Well……"

"The Giant Frog Pond used to be the Giant Frog Dynasty, but later it split and became the Three Frog Kingdom."

"Until two years ago, there were still wars between the Three Frog Kingdoms, especially between the Grass Frog Kingdom and the Blue Frog Kingdom, where many people died."

Shishou murmured, and his voice could finally be heard clearly:

"With the strong suppression of the "Han Emperor", the civil strife in the three countries has ceased..."

"Today, this place is called the "Guagua Dynasty", named after one of the contracted spirits of Emperor Han..."

Ye Ji nodded slightly, and the soul blood shadow flower on his shoulder kept flashing with light, seeming to record and imprint everything.

"It seems that your Highness has developed quite smoothly in the past five years." "Being the only recognized emperor in the Trial Land is worthy of being distinguished in any case."

"But... for the sake of rigor, we need to go around the Giant Frog Pond to confirm whether this is a local status quo or whether it is really something that no one knows about or knows about."

"Yes."

Xuyan and Tenshou, one puts on his sunglasses again, and the other wakes up from the dreamland of traveling.

Under their feet, the newly frozen humans and spirits suddenly woke up again.

They didn't seem to notice anything, and continued the conversation while talking and laughing.

……

One day later, the ancient golden ghost appeared in the absolute center of the Giant Frog Pond.

It had just arrived. Lord Yehan, who was sitting cross-legged under the shade of the tree, immediately opened his eyes.

He looked up at the sky, and what he saw were stretches of virgin forest.

Because the branches are too dense, the thick leaves almost block all the sunlight, and only a little golden light falls on the ground along the gaps.

"coming."

"I've been waiting for this day for five years."

Ye Hanjun stood up, and Yu Ruxin, who was sitting under the tree and dozing off, woke up in a daze.

"What? Have new seeds been sent?"

"Leave it to me. I like planting trees the most. I will make them white and plump!"

Yu Ruxin rubbed her eyes and patted her cheeks, feeling instantly energetic.

Then...she turned around and saw three figures appearing in front of her out of thin air.

"what!!!"

Yu Ruxin screamed and fell to the ground, clutching her chest in fear.

She turns on "Endless Favor" all the time. Over the past two years, she has been exploring and basically understands it.

Maybe the field is too peripheral, which will lead to blurred perception.

But the closer the distance, the sharper the perception. She will be able to detect any wild spirit approaching her immediately.

How did these three people get here?
  And that fifty-meter-tall golden monster, how come it looks like a lump of metal, so scary and scary!

"Your Highness, I have official duties and it is inconvenient for me to be polite."

Ye Ji smiled, starting from his lips and teeth and ending at his skin.

Ye Hanjun glanced at him, expressionless.

The Ye family has been inherited for twelve epochs, and the derived branches, collateral lines, vassals... cannot be summarized simply by numbers.

Even among the young people of a similar age, he did not recognize most of them.

When meeting an older person, it is normal for his eyes to darken.

"I'm Yeji, these two are Xuyan and Jushou, B-level eye warlocks and A-level dream walkers, that's all."

Ye Hanjun raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly in response.

In the night trial, three people are usually used as evaluators.

Among them, at least one of the head family needs to be the chief official, and the other two are deputies. They can be selected from collaterals, branches, and vassals.

Of course, both the master and the vassal have a set of extremely strict rules.

Trouble can occur at any time, and nails can be buried at any time.

Only in this night trial, if someone bends the law for personal gain, or gives a failing evaluation despite being obviously outstanding - there will definitely be review examiners who will peel off his skin, take his soul, and send him to hell with all kinds of torture.

"what……"

Yu Ruxin forced herself to calm down, but her heart was still beating fast.

Obviously, Master Han had already warned him that the deadline was approaching and clan members might come looking for him at any time.

But this aura is a bit too terrifying, and the strands of it that escape seem to be able to break trees and collapse rock.

If all of this were released without any cover-up, God knows how terrifying it would be!
  "Xuyan, do you want to go back and recreate it?"

Ye Hanjun looked at the man in robe wearing sunglasses.

He didn't recognize any of them, whether it was Yeji, Xuyan or Shishou.

The examiner will not select someone who is too weak, nor will he send a wasteful combat unit that is too strong, so the ranks of these three people are easy to confirm - they are all in the 7th rank.

And that ancient golden ghost must be the corresponding "infinite fetus".

A strong man of this level could kill the entire Guagua Dynasty by himself.

But Lord Ye Han had no intention of being afraid, and stared at Xu Yan with cold and stern eyes.

Yeji, Jushou - Condensing all the aura.

Only Xuyan deliberately leaked a trace to test his own strength, not caring whether Yu Ruxin could bear it.

"Ah, the workload has exceeded the standard recently, I am a little mentally exhausted, and I have been negligent. Don't blame me, Your Highness."

The terrifying Qi completely disappeared.

Xuyan grinned innocently.

Yeji stared at the back of his head for a while, then silently took back the ancient golden statue.

As a result, the three of them were like three mortals, without any otherworldly aura.

"No need to say goodbye, just announce the results directly."

Ye Hanjun stood there with his hands behind his back, not moving a step.

Yeji nodded slowly, took out the secret scroll again, and handed it forward.

Ye Hanjun glanced at it, bit his finger, and dripped his own blood on it.

"Buzzing—"

Boundless darkness gushes out from the secret volume and then covers all directions.

Even the three of them, Yeji, Xuyan and Jushou, felt stiff and their backs felt cold.

The soul blood shadow flowers on the shoulders of the three people bloomed with blood and moved overclocking in a way that squeezed their vitality.

"The tester...the 1114th biological son of the Uncrowned Shura King, Lord Yehan."

"The extracted trial location... Giant Frog Pond."

"The five-year period has passed. The three evaluators will tell you your evaluation results."

The majestic voice was like the ringing of a bell, ringing in the hearts of everyone.

Yeji, Xuyan, and Shishou suddenly tensed their bodies and stood up straight.

They looked at each other and said in unison:

“Meets outstanding standards!”

The majestic voice did not pause and continued to ask:

"Three people gave it outstanding evaluations and passed the test."

"What if we give a public judging scale of passing, superior, excellent, and perfect?"

Yeji took a breath and replied firmly:

"To become the master of a dynasty on your own, not only will your battle prowess be great, but the people will also be convinced. I will give you a 'perfect' evaluation and end with a perfect score."

"Perfect!"

Jushou nodded solemnly and said only two words.

Xu looked at the blood on his shoulders, lowered his head, and said hesitantly:
  "Perfect."

The majestic voice did not have any emotional fluctuations, and continued to read like a machine:

"The three evaluators all gave the highest evaluation. It is tentatively determined that this is a full-score test."

"After returning to the family for review and verification, the tester can perform the ancestor worship ceremony and officially take charge of the surname of Night."

"Yes."

Yeji, Shishou, Xuyan, and Yehanjun all responded in unison.

Yu Ruxin was extremely frightened, her skin tightened and trembling all the time.

Finally, the darkness retreated like a tide, and the world opened up again.

Ye Hanjun took the ring handed over by Ye Ji, put it on his left index finger, and once again shed blood to identify its owner.

Immediately, his soul penetrated the ring and found a suit as black as ink.

This suit of clothes was like a curtain in the dark night. Just touching it with blood-stained fingers, it came to life and was worn gently on his body.

Ye Hanjun's temperament - changed drastically.

He seemed to be more in tune with the darkness. Whether it was black hair or black eyes, they were so deep that it was shocking.

"There are still some trivial matters that need to be dealt with. Wait for me here for three days without disturbing the creatures in the city."

"Okay." Ye Ji bowed and gave a brief salute.

It was obvious that he had the surname of Ye for a long time, and he was obviously from the master's family.

But facing Lord Ye Han, who had just passed the trial without any review and without undergoing the ancestor worship ceremony, his attitude was particularly low.

With Xu Yan and Ten Hands, one stared at the towering trees around him and frowned, while the other stared at Yu Ruxin again and again.

Yu Ruxin shrank her neck, immediately picked up the shovel, and followed Lord Ye Han out of the woods.

"Pass my order, Emperor Han will abdicate immediately."

"The new emperor, Tang Qingling."

"Tang Gu and Tang Zheng do not recognize each other, but they only recognize Tang Qingling, who has been inherited by Emperor Tang."

"Then he will follow his wishes and return this giant frog pond to the descendants of the Tang family."

Lord Ye Han sent orders, one after another, spreading from the old imperial city as prepared in advance.

"Yeji, I know you can hear me."

"When I return to my family, I will dispatch an elite team to help me guard the borders of the Giant Frog Pond."

"I want to protect the peace of the Guagua Dynasty for at least three hundred years. If I neglect my duty, I will tell them to bring it up."

"Besides, this is still my territory, with my label on it."

"I need to build a remote teleportation array, the smallest model is enough, and it will be maintained for at least three hundred years, so that my cronies can go home to visit relatives."

"Your Highness, these are very simple."

Ye Ji's voice came into his ears, "Even if you don't give orders, someone will help you handle the follow-up matters properly."

"But you, have you really adjusted your mentality and prepared to face the storm?"

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Volume One: Giant Frog Pond, end.

Volume [-]: The Lord of the Abyss is about to start a new journey.

(End of this chapter)