Proving Immortality Starting with Hextech Runes

Several months have quietly passed.

During this period, Chen Xu passed the trials one after another and reached the eighth level.

During the journey, the clones were replaced three times because the time limit for clones had expired.

The trials that have been passed so far are as follows:

On the third floor, Chen Xu found himself dressed as a jailer, holding a leather whip, in a cold and damp dungeon.

He tried to communicate and probe, but there was no response.

Finally, after wielding his whip and striking one hundred prisoners, he successfully passed the test, and the message that appeared was:

Punishment is not for killing, but for guiding. With a hundred lashes, the prison of the heart opens. Congratulations on passing the trial. Claim your reward, or proceed to the next level?

On the fourth floor, Chen Xu transformed into a yellow-haired guard dog.

At night, a dark figure scaled the wall and entered the courtyard, and Chen Xu instinctively barked wildly.

A dog's bark pierced the night sky, lights came on inside the house, and a dark figure fled in panic.

The next day, the fire in the kitchen stove accidentally ignited the pile of firewood, and thick smoke billowed out.

Chen Xu barked fiercely again, waking the servants who were taking a nap, and they extinguished the fire in time.

One day, under the hazy moonlight, he caught a glimpse of the butler and his wife having a secret rendezvous behind the artificial hill, their behavior ambiguous.

Without hesitation, Chen Xu barked wildly, waking everyone in the mansion.

When the master rushed out with his servants and stumbled upon the scandalous affair, the scene froze and vanished.

The text appeared: "The dog's barking is a testament to its loyalty in duty. Three disturbances to the dream bring peace to the home. Congratulations on passing the trial. Claim your reward, or proceed to the next level?"

On the fifth level, Chen Xu appeared in an oasis in the desert.

In the oasis stands a yellow fruit tree and a clear spring.

After failing to find a way out, Chen Xu simply built a shed by the spring and prepared to stay there.

Finally, they unexpectedly discovered that the fruit on the yellow fruit tree was delicious.

So he ate all the fruit in one go, successfully passed the test, and the text appeared:

The journey was arduous, but the sweetness of the fruit is in my heart. Congratulations on passing the trial! Claim your reward, or proceed to the next level?

It wasn't until the sixth level that the trials finally became somewhat normal.

The scene is a fighting space. In the center, a phantom that looks exactly like Chen Xu slowly condenses, holding a spirit sword, and attacks Chen Xu.

However, Chen Xu's phantom could not imitate Hextech's abilities and was easily defeated by Chen Xu.

The completion message is: "Only by transcending your true self can you become a truly promising individual. Congratulations on passing the trial. Would you like to claim your reward or proceed to the next level?"

On the seventh floor, Chen Xu stood atop the ruined Yanmen Pass.

He donned blood-stained armor, transforming into the city's commander-in-chief.

The adjutant urgently reported: "General! Thirty thousand soldiers and civilians have been without food for three days!"

There is a large barbarian army lying in ambush in the narrow valley of the eastern plank road. If three hundred elite soldiers were to force their way through, they might be able to break through and send half of the grain into the city, but they would surely be wiped out!

The western plank road is adjacent to Xinghua Village. It has fallen into disrepair over the years, and the rotten timbers are blocking grain carts. Unless…

The adjutant's voice was hoarse: "Unless we set fire to the five hundred houses in Xinghua Village tonight, burning down all the obstacles on the plank road, the grain carts can only reach the destination in full, but... the villagers are all gone!"

He looked up, his eyes filled with sorrow: "I beg the general to decide: should we sacrifice three hundred elite soldiers to protect the villagers of Xinghua, or burn the village to protect the city's grain?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xu simply picked up the water pouch beside him, tilted his head back, and took a swig, without making any other choice.

Finally, the adjutant closed his eyes in despair, and Chen Xu successfully passed the trial.

[Choosing and discarding are all shackles; remaining unmoved is enlightenment. With a mind free of attachments, illusions and tribulations naturally dissipate. Congratulations on passing the trial. Claim your reward, or proceed to the next level?]

As for the eighth floor where Chen Xu was at this moment, they didn't even bother to pretend anymore.

The eighth floor was unusually simple, a gray and white space, with three identical doors directly in front of Chen Xu.

Seeing that there were no clues in the space, Chen Xu became too lazy to waste his energy trying to figure out this illogical test.

In the end, I randomly chose the middle door and went inside...

[Looking left and right, pondering deeply, a push in the middle brings great prosperity. When the time is right, heaven and earth lend their strength; why need discerning eyes to distinguish the mysterious! Congratulations on passing the trial! Claim your reward, or proceed to the ninth level?]

"When fortune smiles upon us, heaven and earth lend their strength..." Chen Xu repeated softly, unable to resist rolling his eyes.

The Trial Tower of the First Saint Sect truly embodies the principles of going with the flow, lying down, and even being absurd to the extreme.

He was very curious about what kind of reward he would receive after passing the nine levels of absurd trials.

Then, a thought struck him, and he prepared to enter the ninth floor.

However, they found they could not enter, and a line of small text appeared before them again: [Only those who hold the Nine Separation Token may enter the Ninth Level].

"Nine Separation Order?" Chen Xu frowned slightly, his mind racing.

Then he thought of the token fragment he had obtained from the jade box before. Could it be the Nine Separation Token?

However, since he was still one fragment short of completing the set, he stopped thinking about it and chose to claim the reward and exit.

Once I've collected all the tokens, I can use another clone to challenge them...

The moment the thought crossed his mind, a ball of light entered Chen Xu's brow without warning.

Before Chen Xu could react, the light and shadows shifted before his eyes, and his body was sent outside the tower.

After coming out, Chen Xu calmed himself down and looked around, only to find that Li Yuan was no longer outside.

So he immediately sat down cross-legged and began to carefully sort through the information that had just flooded into his mind.

That was a profound inheritance called [Nine Separation Puppet].

Chen Xu also had a first-tier puppet inheritance before, but that inheritance was too useless.

Judging from the description, the wooden armor warriors that were forged were...

Not only is it slow to move, but its attack power is also far lower than that of cultivators of the same level, yet it requires a considerable amount of spirit stones to activate.

Therefore, he did not put any effort into studying it.

But now, the content of the "Nine Separation Puppet" inheritance is something that Chen Xu finds incredibly fascinating.

Because the highest level of the inheritance recorded was the method of crafting fourth-order puppets, which are puppets for the Nascent Soul stage.

As far as he knew, even in the cultivation world of Yunzhou, masters who could refine third-order puppets were extremely rare.

As for fourth-tier puppets, they were unheard of.

The value of this [Nine Separation Puppet] inheritance cannot be measured by ordinary secret techniques.

It is definitely a treasure that would attract even a Nascent Soul cultivator to personally fight for it.

Because the Nine Separation Puppet's cultivation level... is not subject to the suppression of the secret realm's rules!

Although the materials required for the high-level puppets were unheard of, Chen Xu could still afford to make second-tier puppets.

Exploring some hidden realms will be a great help at that time...

But just as Chen Xu was pondering, inside the Nine Separation Heart Forging Tower not far away...

A disheveled figure tumbled out from within; it was Li Yuan.

As soon as Li Yuan landed, he saw Chen Xu sitting cross-legged, and his body stiffened abruptly.

He almost reflexively prepared to bow.

But just as he opened his mouth, another refined-looking cultivator stepped out, and the atmosphere instantly froze...

Wen Tianhe straightened his robes expressionlessly, his gaze falling on Li Yuan, who was bowing respectfully, and said coldly:

"Li Yuan, what are you doing?"

Startled, Li Yuan quickly turned around and said, "Disciple greets Master!"

"Just now, this disciple only wanted to congratulate Junior Brother Chen..."

As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced at the Nine-Leaving Heart-Forging Tower.

Three faint points of light were seen flickering on the tower before quickly fading away.

A storm raged in Li Yuan's heart.

Even Master only made it past the third level?

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