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Chapter 794 - 365: The Night Watchman’s Trial_2

Chapter 794: Chapter 365: The Night Watchman’s Trial_2

The familiarity with the spiral staircase wasn’t much, merely twenty or thirty steps at most. Walking a bit slower wouldn’t cost much more time, and being greedy for speed could lead to an unanticipated danger that might knock one down, which would truly be a loss not worth the gain.

Besides, the Night Watchman might still be watching!

If this were some sort of test, wouldn’t too many mistakes surely lower one’s rating in the heart of the Night Watchman?

As he was pondering, the hairs on his body suddenly stood on end, and an invisible crisis materialized out of thin air before him.

"Hum..."

When the crisis appeared, Lin Yi’s eyes turned golden, and the dim light around him instantly seemed to be covered with a special luminous film filter, the flow of the mist also began to slow down.

’High-Order Perception’ was triggered, and his Perception of ’Time’ and the surrounding things became acutely sharp all at once.

He then focused all his gathered spiritual power into the void where the crisis had emerged.

Sure enough, he quickly saw the form of that ’wind’!

That was a thread as fine as a hair, spreading out from the air in an arc like a slingshot, with a calm behind it that showed no sign of any problem.

Lin Yi’s eyes lit up: "That gust of wind, it seems like it can be dodged?"

So, when that gust reached his face, he quickly ducked his head to evade.

"Whew—"

The sound of wind swept over the top of his head.

"Indeed it can be dodged..." Lin Yi was ecstatic in his heart, but before he could finish feeling relieved, a heavy inertia hit him squarely in the face as if a dump truck had crashed into him.

"What...?!"

Lin Yi’s heart went cold, unable to stand on the step, he was heavily smashed down, his back hitting the wall outside the spiral staircase, his entire body ’smacked’ against the wall as if stuck to it.

In fact, it was just him being flattened a bit, and with that one blow, part of his spine already cracked.

Lin Yi slumped down to the floor, his mouth hissing in cold air as his face twisted in pain.

But pain or not, a Sky Blue Aura began raging within his body, forcibly Repairing it back to health with overwhelming force.

While his body was being repaired, he contemplated the collision just now, only then realizing that the wind was not just one line but that what he could see was just that one line!

Just as a wave crashes in, he saw only the edge of the splash and thought that was all there was, not knowing that behind that splash, there was a whole wave!

He indeed dodged the edge of the splash, but met the ensuing wave with a full embrace.

Black and blue all over!

If his body hadn’t been robust, this impact could have shattered him to pieces!

Huh? Shattered to pieces?

He immediately thought of the black sticky glue-like substance spreading on the walls of the Bell Tower; those things seemed to have been shattered and obliterated by a similar fluctuation, right?

As he thought about it, he no longer felt the pain.

Within moments, his body had already recovered. He got up, thinking that the Boss indeed did well to train him in Recovery in advance; otherwise, he wouldn’t have adapted so quickly now.

Thinking of the Boss, he couldn’t help but recall the Boss’s sleek and fair flying kick.

This hurt, but compared to the Boss’s Foot strength, it was light.

He looked towards the stairs again.

"Since dodging is not an option, I can only brace for it!"

Recalling the Devil training the Boss had put him through, he could only say, "It takes a thousand days to nurture an army for its moment of use." He hadn’t expected the newly acquired Self-healing skill to come into play so suddenly; it was quite a fortunate coincidence.

He took his position on the step once more and awaited the arrival of that wind surge.

He took a deep breath, his muscles tensed, ready to brace himself.

Soon, the invisible wind formed a line, entering his field of vision.

"Here it comes!"

He concentrated, holding his breath, waiting for the moment the wind would strike his body.

The next moment, the edge of the wind skimmed his body, followed by an immensely powerful gust, which rushed towards him like surging waves.

The dump truck charged once again, smashing into him fiercely, nearly sending him flying. But this time, his feet were rooted in place on the stairs, immovably nailed down.

Under the relentless barrage of airflow, his body convulsed violently, and in that moment, he felt as if every bone in his body was shattered, every joint emitting a painful cry. Each bone seemed to split apart, and his muscles felt as though countless needles were stabbing into them simultaneously, spreading excruciating pain. His vision began to darken, and his consciousness nearly blurred under the impact!

At the critical moment, he bit down hard on his teeth, maintaining the clarity of his will.

Gradually, his body showed countless cracks, as if it had been sliced up by numerous nanowires, but his body did not fall apart. The bones and flesh held together tightly by the Supernatural Power, like a stack of blocks constantly swaying in the wind but not collapsing.

He swayed unceasingly on this first-layer stair but did not fall, and then, the gust surged through his body like a torrential flood.

「Boom——」

The Breath surged like a long rainbow, piercing into Lin Yi from the front and gushing out from his back, with a large amount of blood mist spraying from his body, and it dissipated immediately.

He bit down hard, veins bulging on his forehead, the sweat bursting into the gust, mixing with the blood mist.

The Supernatural Power within his body surged unceasingly, patching up his battered body, barely counteracting the speed of disintegration, forming a kind of balance...

"Grit... Grit... Grit..."

Lin Yi squeezed out a low growl between his clenched teeth, his golden eyes filled with bloodshot veins like sinister tentacles.

"Looks like... I’ve held on!"

His body ached terribly, probably due to the full-on burst of Perception, his Perception of Xu Dongxi became particularly sharp, including his sense of pain.

He could vividly feel the gust ravaging his body, severing every muscle fiber, making him profoundly aware of every minute component in the gust.

The gust subsided, but its residual power still wreaked havoc on Lin Yi’s body, leaving it in a mess.

Before he could recover, the second wave of the gust arrived.

「Whoosh——」

The gust buffeted Lin Yi like a small blade of grass in the wind, blowing him almost to a fall.

His body leaned back a lot, but he strained not to fall.

As the gust washed over, many of his internal tissues were obliterated.

The Sky Blue Aura’s Supernatural Power was still patching up continuously, but the high-level repair work could not keep up with the consumption.

Lin Yi felt like he lost much inside. His internal organs seemed incomplete, but the Supernatural Power was still promoting their Regeneration.

His healing speed became faster and faster, for if it wasn’t fast enough, his body would be completely obliterated.

It was like someone drawing on a sheet of paper while another erases it; if the drawing isn’t faster than the erasing, the drawing will soon be gone.

Yet now, Lin Yi felt he was not drawing fast enough.

"Too slow!"

"Indeed, way too slow!!"

A resentful roar erupted from within Lin Yi’s heart.

"At this rate, I’m a goner! What chance do I have of passing the Night Watchman’s trial!"

Wait a minute!

Trial?!

Suddenly, a spark of insight flashed through his mind!

"Since it’s a trial, there must be an ’answer’!"

"Right!"

"There should be an answer indeed!"

His first "exam" was already a failure, this second time he must answer properly!

With that thought, he couldn’t help but activate his Perception towards his own body.

Upon this Perception, the image of his body, riddled with holes, was etched into his mind...

His current state resembled a leaf riddled full of holes by pests.