Perfect World: Devil Slayer

Chapter 22: Be the First to Pass
For Ling Feng, it is not worthwhile to spend a lot of time to comprehend some truths that are not of much use to himself. No one can practice all the truths together. Only practicing one's own truth is true.

"No wonder so many people have been inside for so many days, but there is no news at all, not even one has come out!"

Ling Feng looked at these steps emitting the aura of Tao and guessed that many people were probably trapped on these steps trying to attain enlightenment, and some might not even make it through the first two levels and died on them.

"This is too slow. I don't want to be trapped here for a year. It would be a waste of time for cultivation. I must find a way to pass it quickly!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Ling Feng continuously struck at the barrier to enter the next level, constantly attacking with brute force. Although he was able to shake it and cause cracks to appear, they were immediately repaired and he was never able to break into the next level.

"It won't work if I use brute force. Is it true that I can only comprehend the essence of each step before I can use its own method to attack it?" Ling Feng raised the question.

"Only by learning its way can one break it with its way..."

"Everyone should firmly believe that their own way is the strongest. If one can suppress all other ways with one's own way, why bother to learn other ways?"

"Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die. Other ways are just references, just nutrients, used to achieve one's own goals. Even if it is the same way, different people will practice it differently!"

……

At this time, Ling Feng began to no longer focus on comprehending the Dao on the steps, but to understand himself and transform other Daos into nourishment, keeping what was useful and discarding what was useless, to nourish his own Dao.

"boom!"

In just half a day, Ling Feng broke through the next barrier and entered the next step. The time was twice as fast. He did not use all the Tao he had comprehended from the steps to break in. He just added a small part and integrated it into his own Tao to break through.

"It is true. The real purpose of this level is not to comprehend the Dao on these steps, but to develop the prototype of my own Dao!" Ling Feng was delighted.

Then he sped up, only comprehending the Dao essence that was useful to him, and even discarded some of the Dao essence directly.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Ling Feng climbed the remaining steps faster and faster, from two to three steps a day to ten steps a day, and sometimes even thirty or forty steps a day.

Because the prototype of his Tao was about to take shape, the Tao contained in some steps could be completely ignored. More than ten days later, Ling Feng successfully reached the top and walked through all 990 steps.

"Huh, I finally passed the test. In the end, my Dao form still devoured everything, but I want to devour everything in this world, not just living beings!"

At this moment, Ling Feng felt that his path had become wider. As long as he continued along this path, he would find a road to heaven that belonged to him.

I can swallow the heavens and the earth. Everything in the world is my nourishment. There is nothing that cannot be swallowed.

Then, Ling Feng looked around and the scene became clear as the fog dissipated. He found himself on a huge platform, and this platform was connected to countless jade steps. There was a living being passing through on each step.

Some of them were still standing at the first level, meaning they had already given up, but they couldn’t move and thus saved their lives, while others took this opportunity to practice on the steps and then try to pass the level again.

However, some had already died in the first and second levels, and even the life-replacing bone talisman had not been triggered. Ling Feng saw the corpses of the geniuses of the Roaring Clan, the Luan Bird Clan, and the Feather Clan.

There are fewer people at the third level. Those who can reach this level are all top geniuses. They are currently comprehending the essence of the Tao. It seems that he is still the one who reached the top the fastest, and he is the one who came from behind.

"Senior Sister Fengwu," Ling Feng saw Fengwu, who was gaining enlightenment at the third level. "Luckily, I have passed the first and second levels of life and death!"

Ling Feng saw some of the people who came out of the academy together this time. Several of them had already died. He just shook his head and sighed. This is how spiritual practice is. If you want to reach the top, you must be prepared for death.

After that, he no longer paid attention to it and continued to look for opportunities.

The platform was empty and there were no treasures, but Ling Feng found an altar in the center and he didn't know where it led to.

"There's no other way out here. Instead of being stuck here, we might as well see where it leads!"

Ling Feng walked into the teleportation array and activated it. He was instantly teleported away from this place. When he came back to his senses, he had been teleported to a place that was still shrouded in thick fog.

The whole place was pitch black, and one could not even put one's hand in front of one's face. Fortunately, this time the fog did not prevent the detection of spiritual sense, nor did it restrict movement.

Just when Ling Feng was wondering why it was still like this, a loud voice rang out, spreading throughout the fog, and even the people who were passing through the level could hear it.

"Someone will be the first to pass through and enter the final inheritance site. Whoever finds the inheritance first will own it. When the inheritance is given to them, this place will be closed and everyone will be expelled!"

At the same time, those who were trying to pass the level started to get anxious. They didn't expect that someone could pass the level so quickly. Some people had just started to find the tricks to pass the level. This was not good news for them.

Once the inheritance is obtained by others, everything they have done will be in vain.

But some people were happy. Those who could not pass the level only needed to wait where they were and would be eliminated when the time came, and they would not die here.

"No, we have to speed up. We can't let the inheritance path fall into the hands of others!"

Those who were about to pass the level said that they sped up their process. They had a feeling that this inheritance would not be simple and might be a magical technique.

"It seems that the person who left this secret place behind is someone who values ​​fate!"

Although Ling Feng had the advantage of entering here first, it would be useless if he didn't find it.

After searching for three days, Ling Feng did not find any inheritance, but he did find a sacred pool. He did not force it and decided to use the pool to improve his strength.

"Such a rich essence of heaven and earth, and it even contains divine substances!" Ling Feng took a deep breath and scooped up the pool water with both hands. It was as clear as jade, with auspicious mist rising from it, making people feel like they were floating in the air. All of his cells were opened, wanting to absorb the essence of the water.

"What a divine pool! I can use it to practice and advance to a higher level!" Ling Feng took off his clothes in surprise and jumped into it.

To practice the formation realm, one needs to engrave the formation in the body, and the more powerful the formation, the more powerful this realm will be, especially the peerless and fierce formations born from the ancient innate nature, but Ling Feng has none of these.

"Since there isn't one, I will cultivate a formation of my own in my body. As my strength increases, it will definitely not be weaker than those fierce formations created from the sky!" Ling Feng said proudly.

He also had an idea about what kind of formation to nurture in his body. According to the novels he read in his previous life, the most powerful killing formations ever recorded were the Zhoutian Xingdou Formation, the Shensha Formation, and the Zhuxian Sword Formation that could not be broken by anyone except the Four Saints.

He had no idea how the latter two were arranged, but he knew something about the first one.

By combining the power of 365 stars in the sky, with the Sun and the Moon as the main eyes of the star array, and coordinating with 14,800 secondary stars, the Star Banner is refined. It can be used to fight against saints. It is extremely profound and filled with murderous aura, and it is the protective array of the ancient demon court.

(End of this chapter)