Chapter 1160: Three Sand Soldiers
This is because in the cave mansion beneath this desert, every item's attack power is not below his realm. Even if he has the Immortal Level Martial Arts of the Great Roc Holy Body, he's still no match for these sharp spikes.
After waiting for about five minutes with no movement outside, Lin Yifan guessed that the spike wall might have retracted.
So he left the Immortal Ring and returned to the real world.
As soon as he came out, the stationary spike wall started operating again.
Seeing this scene, he finally understood what happened earlier. The spike wall recognized his presence, and when it detected he was gone, it stopped operating.
This challenge was different from any previous one. Lin Yifan needed to find life through death.
So, he quietly waited for the spike wall to approach, putting himself in a precarious situation.
The spike wall quickly shrank the space, getting closer and closer. When they were about to merge, Lin Yifan hurriedly hid inside the Immortal Ring to escape.
By doing this, he indeed passed this challenge.
The merging spike wall paused for a minute, then retreated, returning to its original position.
Seizing the moment the spike wall retreated, Lin Yifan quickly left the Immortal Ring, performed the Immortal Level Light Skill 'Great Roc Spreading Wings,' flew to the exit, and left this challenge.
In the third challenge, he encountered a sand pool filled with sand.
There was nothing on the sand pool, just golden sand.
Lin Yifan wasn't sure what this meant. Was he supposed to jump high or long?
He tried using Qinggong to leap over the sand-filled pool.
He succeeded easily without any obstacles.
"How strange! Why did the Cave Master set this sand pool here?"
Lin Yifan was full of doubts.
However, this was none of his business. Since he had passed, he might as well proceed to the next challenge and save his mental and physical energy.
As he attempted to move forward, he found no exit ahead, only a tightly closed stone gate.
He tried to open it but found it useless.
He also looked for a switch, but there was none around to open the stone gate.
"What the heck does this mean?"
Lin Yifan was baffled.
He had passed this challenge, yet he couldn't enter the next. Was this saying he should return the way he came?
Unwilling to accept this, he drew his treasured sword and struck fiercely, only to find that there was a formation prohibition on the stone gate. As a result, he was rebounded by the force and injured.
"Cough, cough!"
Lin Yifan felt a tightness in his chest, then coughed up a mouthful of blood.
He was quite injured and would need some time to recuperate.
So he took out a healing elixir, swallowed it, and sat down cross-legged to heal his internal injuries.
After several minutes, he recovered completely, no longer feeling pain or discomfort.
After this series of verifications, Lin Yifan realized he had overlooked something.
So he looked back, staring at the sand pool behind him.
"Could there be something hidden inside? The Cave Master wouldn't be so mischievous, would they?"
Lin Yifan had a faint sense that there was something wrong with this sand pool, and something might be buried underneath.
"Could there be a thousand-year-old mummy buried here? Please don't scare me, I'm timid!"
After encountering that green mummy on the marble avenue, he had developed a fear of mummies.
Such zombie-like creatures are the scariest, neither one thing nor another, and they feed on human flesh and drink human blood.
While suspicious, he had yet to determine if this was true; therefore, he shouldn't scare himself.
Composing himself, he slowly approached the sand pool.
The sand pool was very smooth, with no signs of disturbance.
It was Lin Yifan's first time seeing such a smooth sand pool.
At school, the long jump sand pools were always chaotic and uneven, either lacking in some areas or having too much in others.
Additionally, this sand pool was quite high, almost reaching his waist. If it weren't filled with sand, one might think it was a platform.
Lin Yifan didn't know what use the sand pool had, so he reached out, grabbed a handful of sand, and examined it, finding it no different from ordinary sand.
This made him even more puzzled.
"Could there really be something buried underneath?"
Thinking of something buried in the sand, Lin Yifan involuntarily thought of mummies, so he didn't dare dig into the sand.
After hesitating for a while, he finally sighed, "If it's a mummy, so be it. What's the big deal? Since I have the Immortal Ring, no matter how hard it tries to chew, it can't bite through, bite off, or bite through me."
Gathering his courage, he rolled up his sleeves, plunged his hand into the sand, and tried to feel what might be buried in the sand pool.
After feeling around, he found nothing, which puzzled him even more.
"Could it be buried in the center?"
He had just circled the pool's edge and found nothing, so he could only suspect this.
To find the answer, he had to jump into the sand pool.
Without any hesitation, he swiftly used Qinggong to leap in and land at the center of the sand pool.
As soon as his feet touched the sand, there was movement in the sand pool.
Grain by grain, the sand gathered together, piling up higher and higher.
Gradually, the outline of an object appeared.
Lin Yifan saw three pairs of small legs, clearly belonging to three people.
Seeing people formed of sand, he immediately thought of the sand soldiers.
While researching in the Scripture Pavilion of Medicinal Saint Valley, he had once read a description of the Desert Dynasty's founder, who could summon sand soldiers for battle, defeating entire armies single-handedly.
"Could this be his cave mansion?"
Thinking of this, Lin Yifan couldn't hold back his shock.
If it were true, it was as if he had searched tirelessly, only to find it effortlessly.
With excitement, he quietly waited for the three sand soldiers to form.
Now he finally understood the purpose of the sand pool—it was for summoning sand soldiers.
Rather than calling it a sand pool, it was more fitting to call it a platform, given the current scene.
The three sand soldiers gradually materialized, first the feet, then the body, and finally the head.
Half a minute later, three sand soldiers, clad in armor and armed with spears, appeared before Lin Yifan.
They were expressionless and extremely stern.
As soon as they appeared in the world, they started to move.
First, they opened their ruthless eyes, then, without regard for their own safety, charged and swung their spears at Lin Yifan.
Lin Yifan remained unfazed, pulled out his treasured sword, and engaged them in battle.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Who would have thought that the bodies and weapons of the sand soldiers, formed from fine soft sand, would be so hard? Even Lin Yifan, at the peak of the Divine Transformation Third Realm, possessing Immortal Level Martial Arts, couldn't shatter them.
The sand soldiers had no life, akin to death warriors; they had no emotions, with only one goal, which was to execute orders and kill Lin Yifan.
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