Chapter 6152: Challenge

Chapter 6152: Challenge

The red carp flowed from their palms into their bodies before turning into fiery auras that burned them from the inside. Steam puffed from their bodies as the extreme heat warped their faces.

The ones suffering the most were Chu Feng and Little Fishy as they had gathered the most red carp.

Chu Feng worriedly looked at Little Fishy, only to see her looking back at him.

They realized that the other was worrying about them, and that made them laugh despite the excruciating pain.

Fortunately, the two of them were resilient enough to withstand this level of suffering.

As more red carp flowed inward, the crowd’s bodies began to glow red, with Chu Feng and Little Fishy’s bodies glowing the brightest.

Fortunately, Chu Feng and Little Fishy successfully fused with the red carp.

As soon as the fusion was completed, the sea ahead turned turbulent, and a towering water wall rose and blocked their path. The water wall was covered in giant red scales that floated rhythmically as if it were breathing.

There was a door fixed to the water wall. It was shaped like a fish head, with the fish’s mouth serving as the entrance. It looked adorable and even hilarious, but it was so massive that it felt intimidating.

Beneath the door, at the bottom of the water wall, was an opened spirit formation gate.

“What does this mean?”

Confused, the crowd dared not to make a careless move. They turned their eyes to Chu Feng.

“Do you feel it?” Chu Feng asked as he pointed at the spirit formation gate.

“Feel what?”

The crowd was confused.

Only Little Fishy replied, “I can feel it.”

“It looks like only Little Fishy and I can enter that spirit formation gate. It’s probably related to the number of red carp each of us fused with,” Chu Feng said.

“What? Does that mean... we’re stuck here?” Ouyang Kuangfei exclaimed.

The other Ouyang Heavenly Clansmen, Long Chengyu, and Long Muxi panicked too.

They had caught a substantial number of red carps though not as many as Chu Feng and Little Fishy, and they had suffered immense pain earlier when the red carps fused into their bodies as auras too. They thought they could at least get something out of this trial, but it looked like they were going to return with empty hands at this rate.

Weng!

Two lines of characters appeared on both sides of the gate.

Chu Feng and Little Fishy could either enter the spirit formation gate straight and continue the trial on their own, or attempt to activate the main entrance so that everyone could advance.

There might be a reward if they chose the latter option, but it would be the end of their journey if they failed.

The crowd fell silent.

It went without saying that they preferred the latter option, but it would be too shameless to ask Chu Feng and Little Fishy to sacrifice themselves for them.

“Why don’t you go ahead and wait for me inside?” Chu Feng asked Little Fishy.

“Let’s do it together, big brother.” Little Fishy knew that Chu Feng would choose the latter option.

“Chu Feng, you don’t have to do this. I doubt we can reach the end of the trial anyway. Admittedly, I didn’t expect to stumble so early on, but we only have ourselves to blame for that. It means that our strength can only get us this far,” Long Chengyu persuaded.

“Chu Feng, this is your opportunity. Don’t risk it for us,” Long Muxi advised.

The Ouyang Heavenly Clansmen remained silent, but they looked at Chu Feng with expectant eyes. They didn’t want their journey to end here. Some even reached into their Cosmos Sack to offer Chu Feng something to help them, but they held back in the end.

“Chu Feng, Brother Long is right. Don’t worry about us and continue the trial with that miss,” Ouyang Kuangfei said.

As much as he didn’t want to give up on the trial, he felt apologetic when Chu Feng decided to help them. They were merely acquaintances, so how could he ask the latter to do him this huge favor?

“What are you thinking? I’m doing this for the reward. I don’t know what the reward is, but it should be something good since it’s from the Immemorial Massacre Sea,” Chu Feng said with a smile.

Long Chengyu and the others couldn’t rebut what Chu Feng said. It was stated there might be rewards for activating the main entrance.

Chu Feng turned to Little Fishy and asked via voice transmission, “Yu’er, are you certain?”

“Big brother, you shouldn’t look down on me. Did I catch fewer red carp or fuse them slower than you?” Little Fishy raised her head with a pout, showing a sweet, beautiful, and confident smile.

“All right. Let’s begin,” Chu Feng said.

Little Fishy immediately caught the drift.

Both of them felt the same thing when the door opened.

They understood that they could either enter the spirit formation gate straight or fuse the red carp’s auras into the spirit formation gate. Choosing the latter meant giving up on their chance to advance right away to challenge this trial.

Chu Feng and Little Fishy fused their red auras into the spirit formation gate at the same time. When the last sliver of red aura entered the spirit formation gate, the two of them were suddenly dragged into it.

Long Chengyu and Long Muxi were alarmed.

Despite knowing those two possessed means far surpassing them, they were still worried about them due to the Immemorial Massacre Sea’s dreadful reputation.

Chu Feng was still above the Immemorial Massacre Sea, and he could still see the red scale wall and the door in front of him. However, Long Chengyu, the others, and even Little Fishy were nowhere to be seen.

“What a formidable formation,” Chu Feng remarked.

He knew that he was inside an illusion formation, and everything around him was fake, but he couldn’t find any lapses in the illusion.

Crk!

The door in front of him suddenly opened.

On the other side of the door was a flight of stairs that spanned seven steps. The stairs were so huge that it left Chu Feng feeling like he had entered a country of giants. A normal human would never be able to climb up the steps.

There were fist-sized pearls placed on each step. The purpose of the pearls was unknown, but there was a disparity in the strength of the energy they emanated.

The first step had tens of thousands of pearls, the most compared to the other steps, but they harnessed the least energy.

The seventh step had only three pearls, the fewest among the steps, but they harnessed the most energy.

Chu Feng turned his sight to the three pearls on the seventh step.

These pearls had similar colors and auras. Only the runes inscribed on them were different.

One resembled a sword.

One resembled a shield.

One resembled a pair of shoes.

“That must be the reward. Can we take them all?” Eggy asked.

As if having heard Eggy’s question, a line of words appeared in mid-air.

In summary, Chu Feng could take any pearl from a step he had scaled, but he could only take one with him. The challenge would conclude the moment he took a pearl.

Reaching the sixth step granted a 50% chance of activating the main entrance. To ensure the activation of the main entrance, he would have to reach the seventh step.