The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

The last thing left was a smaller stone monster holding a huge sword.

Although the stone monster was in a state of slow reaction at the moment, every move it made with its heavy sword was enough for Hu Xingtong to study carefully. Therefore, Hu Xingtong did not rush to deal with it. Instead, he used the scanning eye to analyze its sword-wielding state and the state of its body strength use in each move, so as to improve his own sword-wielding movement.

After repeated practice, Hu Xingtong understood from its sword moves a momentum of defeating everything with force, and gradually evolved it into his own moves.

They say that teaching an apprentice will starve the master to death. Now that Hu Xingtong had obtained what she sought to understand, there was no point in keeping the stone monster. So, she channeled her spiritual energy, condensed the strange fire at the tip of her sword, and launched a fierce attack on the stone monster. Using the moves she had just learned, combining the fire with the moves, the strange fire instantly spread and engulfed the stone monster, causing it to let out a shrill wail. After a struggle, the stone monster finally collapsed into the flames.

After everything was over, she put away the Qing Huan Sword, looked at the mess on the ground and the fallen stone monster, and an indescribable sense of accomplishment surged in her heart.

It has to be said that the two trials had a huge impact on her. It would not be an exaggeration to say that she went crazy with killing. However, she also learned a footwork and obtained a lot of materials suitable for refining equipment, so it was not in vain.

After a brief rest, Hu Xingtong began collecting the remains and weapons of the stone monsters. She discovered that the weapons were made of a special stone material, perfect for refining. Their remains could be used to craft special talismans or magic arrays.

All in all, the second trial still yielded considerable gains.

After a short rest, Hu Xingtong set out again to explore the secret realm. In the following time, the trial and rest went back and forth. After breaking through four levels in a row, there was still no sign of the end. Hu Xingtong was a little annoyed and simply sat down to study the formation used in the trial secret realm.

According to the design of ordinary secret realms, it should be divided into teleportation arrays and isolation arrays. However, for some reason, the trial secret realm where Hu Xingtong is currently located is indeed that rare space array, which uses multiple spaces to fold together to form one killing array after another, and then form a life and death trial array.

Hu Xingtong's understanding of spatial formations wasn't profound, but she had a powerful cheat: a system. She decided to start with the most basic knowledge of formations, gradually unraveling the mysteries of this trial realm. Using the refining materials and talismans she'd acquired from previous trials, she began experimenting with constructing a simple teleportation model, attempting to understand the fundamental principles of spatial folding.

It just so happened that the complete collection of formations that the system had rewarded her with came in handy at this moment. Fortunately, she didn't want to fight recently and had nothing to do. Although Hu Xingtong encountered many difficulties, fortunately there were cases for reference all around. If she really didn't understand something, she would take the Qing Huan Sword and walk forward for a while, fight for a while, and then study it again.

Sometimes, she would return to the previous trial site, looking for inspiration by observing the fighting styles of monsters or drawing inspiration from the spatial changes in nature. She discovered that the space here was not static, but rather flowed like water, and the formations were like ditches guiding this flow.

After several days of intense contemplation and practice, Hu Xingtong finally gained a preliminary understanding of spatial formations. She began to simulate the spatial structure of the Trial Secret Realm in her mind, gradually figuring out the connections between the various spatial nodes. This discovery excited her, as she realized that once she mastered the patterns of these nodes, she would be able to freely travel through the various Trial Spaces, perhaps even finding the key to leaving the secret realm and possibly finding Sun Ze and the others during her attempts.

So, Hu Xingtong began to study more deeply. She used her understanding of the formation to cleverly avoid traps and at the same time collected more clues about the space formation.

When she took the space exchange array she had just refined, she was surprised to find that she was teleported back to the starting point, and in front of her were the dozen or so red-snake demon wolves from before.

"That's not right. How could it refresh? Is the game's program code involved here?" Hu Xingtong looked at the magic wolves in front of him, then at the formation plate in his hand, unable to figure out why.

Is it possible that this formation is actually an illusion, or that it utilizes boundaries? Some monsters possess the innate ability to reset their codes, as you mentioned. Is it also possible that there is a controller behind this secret realm?

"If you say so, then hypothetically, what about the monster in this world that possesses this ability to reset time? As far as I know, in the original game settings, besides the Four Seasons Monster, only mythical beasts possess this ability. And on top of this volcano, the Flame Monster is still reviving, so it's not certain whether it's awake or not. The only creatures that correspond to the fire element are the Vermillion Bird and the Qilin. It's possible that the Qilin does have this ability. So the question is, are there really Qilins in this world?"

[I don't know if there is any, but I know that you need to refresh the dungeon now. ]

Hearing this, Hu Xingtong looked at the several red-banded demon wolves in front of him and felt a headache and irritation. If he had known earlier, he would not have been so curious to activate the formation. Now, everything he did was in vain.

There was no other way but to accept his fate and continue to brush the dungeon, looking for loopholes in the formation over and over again. So, after practicing swordsmanship for a whole year, Hu Xingtong had even mastered the first volume of the Floating Heart Sutra, but he still couldn't crack the formation.

After being teleported to the first level countless times, Hu Xingtong finally couldn't help himself and cursed, "I'm so dang convinced. You've been playing tricks on me for a whole year. Who the hell are you? I've always done the right research, so why do you insist on teleporting me back to the beginning? I don't want to study anymore and practice the trial properly, but you're sending me back too. Don't you like me?"

"Come on, come on, if you don't agree, come out and fight me, don't do these little tricks!"

【Xingxing, you are so irritable.】

"What good person can stand being teleported back and forth like this? I've fought here many times, many times! Tell me how many times I've fought, and how long I've been fighting, but I just can't pass it. I just want to study your formation. If you think I'm stealing your skills and you're unhappy, why don't you come out and teach me directly? Or if you don't want to, just say it directly. Is it reasonable for me to be trapped here without saying anything?"

Hu Xingtong didn't care how much she had fleeced in this secret realm. Even if she had, she was tired of it. Who would be so kind as to accept her? She just had to go through the same few levels every day, doing the same thing day after day. She was treated like a beast of burden in the real world, and it was the same here. It wasn't that she was complaining, but this secret realm was really making things difficult for her.

"No matter what, if you have a temper, just vent it now and we can discuss it. I will start the trial soon, and you are not allowed to cause trouble again." Hu Xingtong didn't know where the other party was, so he just pointed to a place and warned.

Afterwards, he took out the Qing Huan Sword once again and rushed into the trial.