Martial God Asura

“I want to challenge it,” Eggy said as her consciousness returned to her body.

She was still at the bottom of the Immemorial Massacre Sea, surrounded by a water wall. However, the water in front of her opened up to form an underwater passageway. 

It was the same passageway Chu Feng saw, just that he had chosen not to challenge it.

Eggy figured that Chu Feng had made a wish too, but he gave up upon learning the price of failure. 

She stepped into the passageway and soon encountered a spirit formation gate. 

She entered the spirit formation gate and found herself transported into an underwater palace made out of rapidly flowing water. The surroundings were dark due to the black water. 

All of a sudden, a ray of light illuminated the space in front of her, revealing a black saber and a formation sphere behind it. 

“To clear this trial, you have to wield this blade and torture the person inside the formation to death,” a voice echoed.

Eggy raised her hand, and the black saber flew into her grasp.

A trial like this posed no difficulty to her.

Kacha!

The formation sphere shattered, revealing the person within—it was Chu Feng!

He was in a weakened state too, but he was in a much better condition than the Chu Feng outside. He appeared to be incapable of speech, so he looked at her with pleading eyes. incapable of speaking, so he looked at her with pleading eyes. 

“Playing tricks with me?”

Eggy stepped forward, plunged the saber into Chu Feng’s body, and immediately pulled it out.

Blood splattered. 

Chu Feng kneeled on the floor in pain, his eyes looking more pitiful than ever,

But that failed to evoke Eggy’s sympathy. She wasn’t so weak-willed as to hesitate over Chu Feng’s illusion.

“A reminder for you. I didn’t say this isn’t the real Chu Feng,” the voice said.

Eggy was taken aback.

She anxiously examined the person before her to determine if he was the real Chu Feng based on her understanding of him, but the more she studied him, the more panicked she became.

She was unable to tell if the Chu Feng before her was real or not. They looked identical.

Eggy turned around, only to see the spirit formation gate had closed. She couldn’t return outside to see if Chu Feng was still there.  

“You can give up,” the voice said.

Eggy closed her eyes and fell silent. Moments later, she opened her eyes once more. This time, her gaze was filled with conviction.

“You sure know how to put on an act.”

She unhesitatingly slashed the black saber down on the Chu Feng before her. She slashed again and again, not stopping even as Chu Feng writhed in pain from having his flesh sliced into pieces. 

Her blade only stopped when Chu Feng stopped breathing. 

Even so, Eggy didn’t lose her nerves. She raised her head and asked, “Have I succeeded?”

“How do you know you didn’t just kill the real Chu Feng?” that voice asked.

“Stop wasting my time. I know he’s a fake. Hurry up and save Chu Feng,” Eggy said impatiently.

“Hah…”

A light chuckle could be heard as Chu Feng dissipated as a black aura. The sealed spirit formation gate opened, and Eggy hurriedly headed back.

Just then, the voice sounded once more, “I’m curious how you knew he wasn’t the real Chu Feng. Did you think you had to clear the trial by hook or by crook to save him, so you decided to hurl it all out and go ahead with it?”

Eggy’s footsteps halted. “You will never understand the bond we share. I can mistake anyone but Chu Feng. You will have to work much harder if you want to disguise yourself as Chu Feng before me.”

She left via the spirit formation gate and returned to where Chu Feng was.

To her delight, Chu Feng’s condition was much better than before. 

It wouldn’t be surprising for him to drop dead at any moment earlier, but his condition had stabilized since, and he was out of immediate danger for the time being. 

That being said, he was still in a terribly weakened state, so much so that ordinary Heavenly Dragon World Spiritists couldn’t heal him. 

“You have already treated him?” Eggy asked.

“This is the treatment he can receive based on the earlier difficulty of your trial. You can continue challenging the trial if you still aren’t content, but the difficulty level will rise, and you might even lose your life. The price of failure is the same as before,” the voice said.

“I’ll continue challenging the trial,” Eggy said.

Another underwater passageway opened.

Eggy entered without any hesitation. She passed through a spirit formation gate and found herself standing inside yet another underwater palace surrounded by black water. 

A ray of light shone in the center, lighting up the palace. 

Eggy saw that the walls were filled with black swords, tens of millions of them.

Clang!

A black sword suddenly darted toward her. 

It moved so fast that she didn’t have time to dodge. It pierced her in her heart. 

The sword surprisingly dissipated as an aura right after stabbing her, but the pain was so great that Eggy clenched her jaws. Her legs caved in, and she ended up in a half-kneeling position. 

She reflexively grasped her chest with her hand. It was so painful that sweat was raining down her forehead within seconds. 

The sword had only pierced her heart, but the pain resonated throughout her body. Even for her, it was tough to endure.

“You should have realized the peculiar nature of these black swords. The pain will amplify as more black swords pierce your heart. You can choose how many times you want to suffer that heart-clenching pain, but you only get one chance to choose. 

“The more swords you endure, the more potent the treatment Chu Feng will receive. You can choose to give up whenever you want. Similarly, if your body succumbs in the middle of the trial, you will be deemed to have failed the trial too,” the voice said.

As soon as those words were spoken, Eggy answered, “Everything.”

“Everything? Do you mean…” The voice was shocked.

“It is as you have thought. I will take all the black swords here,” Eggy said.

“That is an insane decision. Are you certain?” that voice asked. 

“Don’t waste my time. Do it now. Come!” 

There was no fear in Eggy’s eyes, just anger and anxiety. She was anxious for Chu Feng to receive treatment as soon as possible, and she was angry that whatever entity she was dealing with here was wasting her time. 

The voice fell silent, but the palace became incredibly noisy.

Tens of millions of black swords tore free from the walls and floated in mid-air.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

The black swords flew toward Eggy’s heart one after another.

… 

The Asura Sword had been in Chu Feng’s World Spirit Space all this while.

Wielding power transcending world spirits, it could sense what was happening outside even when Chu Feng was unconscious. However, its perception range was greatly restricted by the incredible power lurking inside the Immemorial Massacre Sea. 

It was unable to peer through the spirit formation gate to see what Eggy was going through.

Weng!

A ray of light was suddenly cast on Chu Feng.

It was the same ray of light that had previously appeared to stabilize Chu Feng’s condition, but its intensity was far greater than before. Chu Feng was recovering at an incredible rate.

“Did the lass succeed? Not bad. She didn’t bring shame to our Asura Spirit World,” the Asura Sword remarked.

The light soon dissipated. Chu Feng remained unconscious, but his body had healed up by around 30%. 

But Eggy still hadn’t returned from the underwater passageway.