As they reached the next step, invisible arrows suddenly increased. Although sharp, they weren't lethal and didn't stab their vital spots.
After the arrows became dense, the pressure on everyone immediately increased, and the arrows appeared and disappeared unpredictably, making them extremely difficult to detect.
Spiritual perception is not easy to cultivate; it requires blood and life to accumulate through countless struggles in death.
Although this trial was designed for the Vermilion Bird royal disciples and was very effective, completely avoiding these arrows was still extremely difficult and would take time.
"Long Chen, this is the place for refining intent." said the dragon clan expert.
"How do you train?" Long Chen said in utter confusion.
"The Dragon God Body Refining Technique is a unique art I created myself. Many of its concepts differ from yours and the methods used are different from yours.
As I mentioned before, you need to refine seven types of power: blood, qi, bone, spirit, soul, will, and will.
At that time, you were very confused, but there was nothing you could do; some things simply couldn't be explained.
For example, blood, qi, and bones—in our dragon clan, there are five categories: dragon blood, dragon bone, dragon tendon, dragon scale, and dragon horn.
But you're human, without dragon tendons or horns. Your tendons are fundamentally different from dragon sinews, let alone dragon horns. The dragon clan expert said.
"Then I have meridians and teeth. Can I replace them?" Long Chen asked.
"Impossible. Remember, the teeth of the True Dragon Clan are only for eating, never for attacking others. That's the difference between ordinary dragons and True Dragons.
Your human meridians are nowhere near as strong as those of the dragon clan. Even if a dragon clan expert dies in battle, their dragon bones may shatter, but their dragon tendons remain intact.
So don't overthink it. Since I was able to change the Dragon God's Body Refining Technique, it was only after countless deliberations before I decided to pass it on to you. Don't be clever and add things recklessly, only to end up refining yourself to death. There's nowhere to cry. The dragon clan expert warned solemnly.
Long Chen nodded obediently. It seemed this thing was no joke; otherwise, the dragon clan experts wouldn't be so serious.
"What is meant by 'meaning'? According to the Dragon Clan's explanation, it is a power that transcends the physical body, but the details are hard to explain.
He is something that lies between your human consciousness and spiritual power—seemingly so, yet intangible or tangible.
The so-called invisible means that when your divine sense spreads, you can detect the flame fluctuations and sense the arrow's attack direction at the moment it forms, allowing you to dodge or block its attack.
So-called tangible means that, based on your perception, you can block it without using any power, change its direction, and let it exist according to your will, with life and death at your fingertips. The dragon clan expert said.
"Can you block an attack just by your willpower?" This ... How is that possible? Long Chen was shocked; he had never encountered such power before; it was beyond his understanding.
"How could it be impossible? Sword cultivators use sword control techniques, alchemists use fire control techniques, talisman cultivators use talisman control techniques, and spiritual cultivators use spirit control techniques—all use this kind of power. The dragon clan expert said.
"But they all need to leave their soul imprint on what they control.
Setting aside whether I can imprint a soul imprint on these fiery arrows, the moment these arrows form and trigger is only a tenth of the time in the blink of an eye. Before I can even mark them, I'm shot into a sieve. "Long Chen said, this is simply impossible to accomplish."
"Stop wasting words. Before, when I told you to split your mind, you thought it wouldn't work, but in the end, you still managed it.
Some things are hard to explain, so just don't say it and just do it directly. If I say you're capable, then you definitely can. I'm confident, but aren't you confident yet? The dragon clan expert said irritably.
"This ..."
Long Chen was speechless. I didn't even understand what you meant, and you want me to try. I'm completely in the dark—how am I supposed to play?
But since the dragon clan expert had spoken, Long Chen had no choice but to grit his teeth and give it a try. Long Chen's divine sense was like air, or like water. Through their fluctuations, Long Chen could reveal the direction and strength of his attacks. It was simple.
But this air and water could only be passively controlled, unable to attack actively. This was extremely difficult, and Long Chen had never encountered such powers before, making him as if he were blind and touching an elephant.
Most importantly, the dragon clan expert spoke in a very general way; Long Chen had no direction at all, and he didn't even know if he truly possessed such power.
But even if he didn't understand, he still had to practice. There was no turning back now. Whatever Long Chen did, he always planned carefully and confidently.
But this time, he was in a daze—not only did he lose confidence, he didn't even know what he was doing. The feeling was extremely uncomfortable.
Yu Qingxuan and the others were cultivating at the first stage, and their progress was extremely fast. For example, Zhu Yifeng, Zhu Yunwen, and Yu Qianxue could sense about eight out of ten attacks, and two or three times they could block or dodge them.
Just arriving here and already possessing such powerful perception is already astonishing.
Long Chen greeted everyone and walked forward until he reached the fifth level. Just as he was about to stop, a dragon clan expert said,
"Keep going."
Long Chen had no choice but to keep moving forward. The further he went, the more arrows filled the space. With every step he took, two or three arrows stabbed at him.
Long Chen could sense them, and could avoid or block them, but he knew it was meaningless. His cultivation method was different from Yu Qingxuan and the others.
When he reached the tenth step, with every step Long Chen took, more than a dozen arrows shot toward him from different angles.
"Let's keep going, to the ninth checkpoint." Before Long Chen could stop, the dragon clan expert spoke up.
When Long Chen reached the eighth checkpoint, the arrows suddenly decreased significantly. After walking a few steps, he would encounter one arrow.
However, the arrows here suddenly became several times stronger; even Long Chen's physical body could be broken through by defense.
As Long Chen continued forward, wounds gradually appeared on his body. At first, the arrows could only cut his skin, but when Long Chen reached the seventh stage, these arrows could pierce about half an inch into his flesh and blood.
Once he reached the tenth step, these arrows became even more terrifying. The invisible arrows even threatened to pierce Long Chen's body.
Just as Long Chen was about to speak, the dragon clan expert directly urged him to enter the ninth trial. Long Chen felt a chill run down his spine and was about to summon the Dragon Blood Battle Body, but was sternly stopped by the dragon clan expert.
As Long Chen stepped into the ninth trial, a sharp sword aura suddenly stabbed toward his forehead. The chilling threat of death instantly tightened his nerves.
Shocked, Long Chen instinctively struck down the sword aura with his palm.
"Pfft!"
Blood light splattered as the sword energy actually pierced through Long Chen's palm, and his expression changed instantly.