A magical journey of a sharp-tongued woman and a goofy man

Before the aftershocks of the spatial tremor had dissipated, the illusory bronze door emitted a buzzing sound simultaneously in all 360 prisms.

Ye Shuli's right fingernails dug deeply into her palm, the pain snapping her out of her daze from the cracking of her bones.

The sound of a glacier exploding in the distance, accompanied by a foul wind, rushed towards her. Instinctively, she rolled to the left of the stone pillar, and a five-meter-deep claw mark instantly appeared where she had been standing.

"Spirit King level pressure?" Ye Shuli wiped away the blood that had spilled from her lips, the life-protecting talisman burning hot against her chest.

Through her bangs, which were whipped up by the strong wind, she saw the six pairs of bony wings of the new trial creature severing the prism array formed by stardust—it was a two-headed monster with its entire body covered in dark gold patterns, each head with three spiral horns, and the barbs at the end of its tailbone dripping corrosive mucus.

The leader of the Jealous Ones' sinister laughter mingled with the sound of bone armor scraping against each other: "Honorable Guardian, the trial rules allow bystanders to witness death, right?" Suddenly, the seven fangs on his chest burst forth with ghostly blue flames, scorching the dark golden substance that was seeping into the battlefield into wisps of smoke.

The God Guardian's fingertips lit up with starlight again, and the sixty-four prisms suddenly changed direction: "Interference is prohibited during the reorganization of the trial field." As soon as he finished speaking, the left head of the two-headed monster suddenly spewed out a purple-black poisonous mist, while the sharp horn of the right head condensed into a ball of lightning.

As Ye Shuli retreated, she stepped on a warm pebble and looked down to find it was a fragment of the spirit stone inscribed with Jiang Ye's inscription of a broken poem. "Unchanged through a thousand tribulations..." she murmured, reading the words embedded in the crack. Suddenly, she noticed the arrangement of the three floating giant rocks on the west side of the trial ground—it was clearly the golden triangle proportion studied by ancient Greek mathematicians.

The two-headed beast's bone wings unleashed a second wave of attacks, and the lightning orb curved out of shape at an angle that defied the laws of physics.

Ye Shuli gritted her teeth and enveloped her entire body in spiritual energy to withstand the shockwave, but it sent her flying twenty meters away, her back slamming heavily against the light screen projected by the illusory bronze door.

She forced down the metallic taste rising in her throat, but the blood seeping from the crack in her right arm armor condensed into a strange mist in the air.

"Kinetic energy conversion rate 37%, attack interval 9.2 seconds." Ye Shuli analyzed the monster's attack pattern using modern mental arithmetic.

As the sixth bolt of lightning whizzed past her ear, she suddenly noticed that before each time the Twin-Headed Serpent spewed poisonous mist, there was a 0.3-second delay in the right bony wing.

The starlight in the God Guardian's hand suddenly surged: "Trial Creature Energy Overflow Warning!"

As if to prove this statement, the two-headed monster's barbed tail suddenly plunged into the ground.

The ground on the west side of the entire trial ground began to crack, and two of the three floating giant rocks crashed down.

Ye Shuli's pupils contracted sharply—wasn't that last basalt rock, tilted at 35 degrees, just like the fulcrum of a giant seesaw?

“Jiang Ye explained the principle of spirit core resonance…” She suddenly tore off the brocade pouch at her waist and scattered all the remaining spirit stones in the southeast corner.

As expected, the two-headed monster was attracted by the psionic energy fluctuations, and its left head turned around to spew out poisonous mist.

The moment the corrosive liquid came into contact with the spirit stones, the pre-placed spiritual energy threads were triggered, and hundreds of fragments of stone were precisely embedded into the joints of the demon beast's bone wings as if controlled by an invisible hand.

As the two-headed beast furiously flapped its bone wings to break free of its restraints, Ye Shuli had already leaped into the air, stepping on the light screen projected by the bronze gate.

She deliberately used her psionic sword to strike the lightning horn on the right side of the monster's head, which indeed caused the monster to condense an extraordinary lightning ball.

Just as the ball of light broke free of its horn, she suddenly sheathed her sword and swooped down, rolling along the edge of the training ground into the shadow of the giant rock.

The moment the lightning ball struck the last piece of suspended basalt, Ye Shuli detonated all the spirit cores hidden in the crevice.

The balance of the golden triangle structure was broken, and the 400-ton boulder was thrown like a catapult, crashing with terrifying acceleration into the neck of the two-headed monster, which was leaning forward due to the inertia of the attack.

The starlight in the God-Defender's hand suddenly went out: "The Trial Creature's fatal weakness has been..."

The deafening crash drowned out the rest of the sentence.

When the smoke and dust cleared, Ye Shuli knelt on one knee in front of the bronze gate's illusory image, panting, but her gaze was fixed on a giant rock on the west side whose surface was covered with cracks.

There, Jiang Ye had carved half of a teleportation array pattern with the tip of his sword when he was trapped in the time rift three months ago.

Before Ye Shuli could suppress the surging blood in her throat, a blinding purple light suddenly burst forth from the point where the basalt was struck.

The tattered bone wings of the two-headed monster regenerated in the light, and a third head crawled out from the torn neck. As soon as this head covered with ice crystal scales appeared, the temperature of the trial ground dropped by twenty degrees, and the ice crystals in the air refracted eerie six-pointed star patterns.

"Energy level has exceeded the critical value!" The starlight in the palm of the God Guardian turned dark red, and warning runes appeared on all sixty-four prisms at the same time.

The leader of the Jealous Ones suddenly crushed two fangs in his chest, and the spewing eerie blue flames burned black scorch marks onto the icy ground: "This is impossible...she should have..."

Ye Shuli slid five meters away, her back bracing against the last cracked boulder.

Ice crystals seeped from the completely shattered wound on his right arm armor, and his left hand, which had just detonated the spirit core, was still trembling uncontrollably.

She forced herself to stare at the newly born three-headed beast, her pupils reflecting the second barb growing from its tailbone—that silver-blue barb was visibly absorbing the free energy of the trial grounds.

The middle head of the three-headed beast suddenly roared to the sky, and the sound waves shook the bronze gate phantom violently.

Ye Shuli's right hand, hidden behind her back, suddenly touched a familiar pattern in the crack of the giant rock. It was a half-teleportation array that Jiang Ye had carved with the tip of his sword when he was trapped.

Her icy eyelashes trembled slightly as she dodged the poisonous mist, using her fingertips to embed the last three spirit stones into the array's grooves.

"The attack interval has been shortened to 4.8 seconds!" Ye Shuli silently counted the frequency of the monster's bone wings vibrating, and suddenly noticed that when the left head spewed out poisonous mist, the three vertical pupils of the middle head would tremble synchronously.

She risked channeling her psychic energy into her legs, deliberately slowing down by half a beat on her sixth dodge.

The corrosive slime grazed her left shoulder, but the charred hair allowed her to see the spiritual vein nodes exposed when the monster's pupils contracted.

Just as the three-headed beast's tailbone barbs were about to pierce the ground in preparation for an area attack, Ye Shuli suddenly flung out the psionic threads wrapped around her wrist.

The explosive talisman tied to the end of the silk thread was precisely stuck to the lower eyelid of the middle head. Although the exploding sparks did not cause any actual damage, they caused all three heads of the monster to freeze for 0.5 seconds at the same time.

It's now!

Ye Shuli bit her tongue to unleash her potential, transforming into a streak of light that charged straight at the face of the demon beast.

Her blood-stained fingertips traced three intersecting spiritual patterns in the air—a modified version of the barrier-breaking technique Jiang Ye had taught her.

The moment the three-headed monster's vertical pupils contracted due to the intense light, she compressed all her spiritual energy into a pinhead-sized point of light and shot it towards the rightmost vertical pupil of the middle head.

The starlight in the hands of the God Guardian suddenly stopped, and the warning runes on the sixty-four prisms began to flow in reverse.

The moment the light needle pierced the vertical pupil, the three-headed monster let out a miserable howl that shattered three floating giant rocks. The ice crystal scales on its newborn head fell off in a flurry, revealing the writhing scarlet flesh beneath.

As Ye Shuli fell, she spun around and threw out her last seven talismans. The burning talismans formed the Big Dipper formation around the demon beast.

As energy surged from the eye sockets of the third head, she leaped onto the back of the monster, stepping on the collapsing ice crystals, and thrust her blood-stained psionic sword thirteen times into the wound she had previously inflicted.

Each time, the sword tip pierced precisely three inches into the bone crevice, and the final strike even triggered a hidden lightning-type inscription.

The leader of the Jealous Ones suddenly crushed his third fang, and a twisted smiley face formed from the ghostly blue flames beneath his feet: "Guardian, the energy fluctuations of the trial creatures have exceeded the safety threshold, haven't they?" His bloodshot eyes were fixed on the life-protecting talisman that was beginning to crack at Ye Shuli's waist, and his rotting fingertips dug deeply into his palms.

The God Guardian suddenly raised his hand and froze the entire western trial ground. Starlight chains shot out from the prism and wrapped around the three-headed beast: "Trial suspended, energy abnormality..." Before he finished speaking, the locked beast suddenly severed two pairs of bone wings, and dark gold blood condensed in the air into a blood-red array.

Ye Shuli's pupils shrank suddenly—the patterns on the edge of the array perfectly matched the half-teleportation array on the giant rock behind her.

As the last piece of ice crystal ground cracked, Ye Shuli heard the crisp sound of the life-protecting talisman shattering completely.

Using the shockwave from the explosion, she rolled to the back of the giant rock. Her bloodied fingers pressed against the array patterns Jiang Ye had carved, and she suddenly noticed that the three embedded spirit stones were emitting an abnormally intense red light.

The fourth barb that mutated from the three-headed beast pierced the starlight chain, and the attack, accompanied by spatial turbulence, tore a black rift open on the west side of the entire trial ground.

Ye Shuli's breath condensed into icy mist in the extreme cold, and the monster in front of her began to tear through space with every movement.

Her hand, which was touching the array patterns, suddenly stopped—the teleportation array patterns activated by the dark gold blood were now strangely resonating with the energy on the tailbone barbs of the three-headed beast.