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"Yes," the system's voice replied.

"The current level is only to help the host understand himself and estimate his current strength. The specific effect is equivalent to the 'level status assessment' function, not the actual state. The highest level is the strongest human strength."

"As a human being, the highest realm that the host can reach is the realm of Sword Saint."

"If you want to transcend this realm, you must transcend humanity, and in a human body, complete the sublimation of your life level and elevate your own status."

Morikawa Yu: "What are the conditions for me to undergo the Ascension Trial?"

"Sword Saint Realm." The system's voice sounded again: "The host has met the requirements and can now begin the Ascension Trial. Also, please note that each skin's corresponding Ascension Trial can only be challenged once. If you fail, you will not be able to embark on that trial path again."

"Please think carefully before deciding whether to start the Ascension Trial and take on the challenge."

Morikawa Yu nodded.

He mentally scanned the system panel, found the skin section, and sure enough, he saw that the "Ascension Trial" option next to [Nightbringer] and [True Damage] was clickable.

However, they were all marked with bright red lettering.

The [Night Messenger] Ascension Trial, once completed, will unlock the advancement path "Primordial Darkness," currently estimated to be "Extremely Dangerous."

[True Damage] Ascension Trial: Passing this trial will unlock the advancement path "Nature's Voice". The current difficulty is estimated to be "High Risk".

One is extremely dangerous, and the other is highly dangerous. Judging from the difficulty alone, Morikawa Yu felt that the advancement path called "Primordial Darkness" was more powerful than the advancement path called "Nature's Voice," but it also seemed to be more difficult.

He thought for a moment and asked, "System, does a higher difficulty level mean you become stronger after advancement?"

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The system's voice rang out: "That's not the case. The Ascension Trial is merely a challenge that the host needs to go through to improve their own life level. After completing the challenge, the host will embark on the path of self-completion."

"Whether it is dangerous or not depends solely on the objective difficulty of the host's current strength in completing this trial."

"However, it should be noted that each path a host can choose is unique, and the process of completing a path cannot be interrupted."

"If the host fails the challenge, the current pathway will be cut off."

"Some trials can be completed in the present world, while others require traveling to other worlds, completing the trials, and then returning to the present world to finish them."

"Besides the pathway 'Primordial Darkness' corresponding to [Nightbringer] and the pathway 'Nature's Voice' corresponding to [True Damage], the host has several skins that have not yet been unlocked. These skins also have corresponding pathways, such as the pathway 'Lord of the Crimson Moon' corresponding to [Crimson Moon] and the pathway 'Arcane Morning Star' corresponding to [Odyssey], etc."

"It is recommended that the host unlock other skins and obtain the corresponding methods for obtaining them."

"If the host wishes to challenge the trial path, please consider it carefully, or improve your own strength before deciding whether to proceed with the trial."

"However, given the host's current strength, it is not recommended to undertake the trial unless there is a life-or-death crisis."

"Mm." Morikawa Yu nodded.

He roughly understood what the system meant.

The trial path is a way for him to transcend the human life level and become stronger. If he doesn't change his own life level, he can only reach level eighteen at most.

Because level eighteen represents the limit and strongest martial power that humans can achieve in the present world.

To make it easier for him to understand his strength, the system marked this human limit as level eighteen.

If he can complete the trial, elevate his rank, sublimate his life level, and break through the limits of humanity, then he will naturally have more possibilities, be able to cross this limit, and no longer be measured by his rank.

Or rather, his strength will exceed the standards for level assessment, and the system will no longer be able to assess his strength using the level she initially set.

However, judging from the labels and prompts behind these methods, it is clearly not easy to achieve this.

He suddenly thought of Hisui and Ryoko.

Hiigetsu is a demon from the Age of Gods, capable of killing even gods at will. As for Ryoko, although she has a limited lifespan, her power is in no way inferior to Hiigetsu and the other demons from the Age of Gods.

They are all outside the system's rating system.

In other words, they are beings who surpass the strongest military power of humankind.

Moreover, Fei Yue also mentioned it.

The divine succession elevates and solidifies the recipient's status, grants them powerful divine strength, keeps them eternally young, and significantly elevates their status above that of humans.

From this perspective, the inheritance of the divine master can be considered a path to advancement, but it has the drawback of a lifespan limitation.

If he cannot change his lifespan before receiving the inheritance, then he will never have the chance to change his lifespan again after receiving the divine inheritance.

He was right not to accept Ryoko's succession; let Ryoko continue as the head priest.

When Ryoko grows from a 'little loli' back into a 'big sister' and faces lifespan issues again in sixty or seventy years, he will exchange for shrinking pills to help her prolong her life.

As he was thinking, he suddenly thought of Inari, the god of ini.

When he helped Mitsuko kill Inari, Inari said, "Humans who kill gods will be cursed by the gods," but he himself was fine and said, "He is the same as Hitsuki and the others."

Looking back now, he probably thought that it was because he had the [Nightbringer] skin, which gave him a way to become a higher level of life, and his body became different from that of a human, which is why the curse was ineffective.

Therefore, He said that He was the same as Scarlet Moon and the others.

But he is actually different from Fei Yue, because he only had the possibility of embarking on this path, but did not actually go through the path and complete the sublimation of his life level.

Only by completing the path can he become a super strong person like Fei Yue and the others, exceeding the level assessment.

But he has only just entered the realm of Sword Saint, so to say this now would be a bit greedy and unrealistic.

He looked at the red danger markers next to "Primordial Darkness" and "Sounds of Nature," as well as the skins he hadn't unlocked yet, and then at his current level before finally closing the system interface.

Forget it, let's stabilize our current level first.

Then improve your strength, and when you reach the maximum level, that is, when you reach the "strongest human strength", it is not too late to challenge these trials.

Moreover, he still has so many skins that he hasn't unlocked, and each of these skins has a corresponding upgrade path.

It would be a waste not to unlock it.

At the very least, you should choose which approach is better and more suitable for you.

He came to his senses.

On the other side, Asaka finally rushed back from the distant street corner.

She stood a dozen meters away from Morikawa Yu, watching him cautiously, and then walked over step by step, looking at him suspiciously.

"Human, you've succeeded?"

Morikawa Yu glanced at her and chuckled softly, "What do you think?"

Asaka hesitated for a moment: "I feel like you've succeeded. If you were still a great swordsman, you wouldn't have been able to unleash the power of that move just now."

"But how did you manage to succeed?"

Asaka looked at him suspiciously: "How long have you been practicing kendo? How did you become so strong?"

"The Sword Saint realm... should only be entered by those who, with a human body, control the might of heaven, or merge with the energy of heaven and earth, achieving the unity of mind, skill, and strength, and merging with the Dao through the sword."

"There has only been one swordsman in history who has reached this level, so he is called the Sword Saint."

"You've reached such a level so quickly...?"

"Is that so?" Morikawa Yu thought for a moment.

He remembered that the Sword Saint in his previous life didn't mean it that way, but since Asaka had said so, he would take the present life's interpretation as the standard.

Asaka approached him and sniffed him: "This scent... it's definitely you. You haven't been switched, and we can basically rule out the possibility of someone impersonating you."

"But you've reached the Sword Saint realm so quickly? That doesn't make sense..."

Morikawa Yu chuckled: "Whether it's reasonable or not, I'm standing here, isn't that right?"

"Come, Asaka, fight me."

"Hmph." Asaka pouted, "Even if you succeed, you'll only have just entered this realm."

"I'm not afraid of you."

That's what she said, but when she thought about what she had just said to Morikawa Yu, and Morikawa Yu's sword strike, she felt a little scared.

If Morikawa Yu is still a great swordsman, then she has nothing to fear from Morikawa Yu.

Because she is a top-tier high-ranking demon, she is not on the same level as ordinary high-ranking demons at all.

Although she lost to Morikawa Yu in her human form, that was because she was in human form, and the demonic power that a human can mobilize is inherently less.

If she reverts to her demon form and transforms back into her original nine-tailed cat form, she can use her true power.

In this situation, she is confident of defeating Morikawa Yu.

Even if she can't win, she's confident she'll remain undefeated.

But now that Morikawa Yu has reached the level of a sword saint and unleashed that astonishing and bewildering strike, she finds that her confidence has vanished.

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But she was too embarrassed to say it.

"Yes, of course Lady Asaka isn't afraid of me. After all, I'm just a human who has just entered the realm of Sword Saint. I can't compare to a great demon like Lady Asaka at all." Morikawa Yu leaned down, looked down at Asaka, and smiled.

"Hmph." Asaka raised her chin: "You don't need to provoke me."

She stretched out her hand, and sharp claws immediately extended from her fingertips: "Let's compete then."

"Okay." Morikawa Yu took two steps back.

He and Asaka exchanged a glance, then vanished from their spots, preparing to begin the battle.

A breath later, Asaka appeared, her tail glowing with a black light, while Morikawa Yu's figure appeared more than thirty meters away, his eyes blank.

Asaka's expression was serious.

Morikawa Yu was under her illusion.

The Transformed Cats are skilled in transformation and most of them know illusion magic. She is a superior member of the Transformed Cats clan and the Lord of the Transformed Cats, so of course she also knows it. Moreover, her illusion magic is considered the strongest among the Transformed Cats clan.

Last time, Morikawa Yu fought her for a long time before realizing that she was using illusion magic.

She used illusion magic again this time.

Since she had already used it last time, she didn't expect to trap Morikawa Yu for long. She just wanted to give her some time to turn back into her demon form.

Soon, in the blink of an eye, Morikawa Yu's eyes regained their clarity.

He had fallen for Asaka's illusion last time, so this time he specifically changed his Summoner Spell to Purify to guard against Asaka's trick.

To his surprise, he discovered the flaw in Asaka's illusion technique using only his own senses this time, and broke free from it without even using the [Purify] skill.

He dispersed the wind to find Asaka's direction and discovered her on a street not far from him at the street corner.

Asaka stood by the street, surrounded by black light and thick, grayish-white mist, in which a huge phantom could be faintly seen.

Her figure gradually blurred, then slowly solidified, eventually transforming into a giant black cat with nine tails.

I've seen this giant cat before, Morikawa Yu.

After he killed Inari, he was exhausted and lost consciousness. He stayed in the hospital for two days. Asaka came to see him in the form of a giant cat demon. Her body was taller than the twelve-story hospital building and she almost crashed into the hospital building.

Finally, having no other choice, she reluctantly transformed into human form and entered his hospital room.

Now Asaka has once again regained her enormous demon form.

It slowly rose into the mist. The six- or seven-story buildings on the street were less than half the height of its legs. Nine giant black cat tails, like pythons, stretched out in all directions, as if blotting out the sky and casting a huge shadow on the ground.

Morikawa Yu stood in the shadows, drawing his swords with both hands and gripping the hilts of Tsurumaru and Mikazuki.

Because of the slash he unleashed when he ascended to Sword Saint, nearly a thousand meters of the golden domain was reduced to ruins.

Because he dispersed the wind, it is relatively well preserved.

The streets were not affected much.

Now that Asaka has returned to her original form, the street has also suffered. The buildings on both sides of the street were pushed open by her giant cat demon form and collapsed to both sides.

"Human, don't accuse me of bullying you with my size." Asaka raised her head and looked down at Morikawa Yu.

Normally, she's a nine-tailed cat-eared loli who's not even as tall as Morikawa Yu's waistline, but now she's a monster-like nine-tailed giant cat.

She swung her cat paw, slapping a building to the side, breaking it in two and causing it to tilt and collapse. A tail then wrapped around the collapsing building and tossed it towards Morikawa Yu's location.

Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of concrete stones rained down on us like a meteor shower.

If you were hit by it, it would be like being buried alive by a collapsing building, or even more dangerous than being buried alive by a collapsing building, because these floor slabs and stones have flown such a long distance, and the inertia brought by their weight and distance is terrifying.

Morikawa Yu looked up at the concrete blocks looming down like dark clouds, with the ceiling and walls still visible in the shadows.