The Demon City’s Trials

Su Han reached out and opened the character panel.

ID: Izaloth.

Gender: Female.

Equipment: Wicked Ghoul Armor.

Current Professions: Mage, Knight, Bloodline Cultivator.

Rank: Archmage, Heavenly Knight, Seventh-tier Bloodline.

Main Profession (Sealed): Divine Mech Master. This profession is unlocked at Tenth-tier Bloodline.

Sub-Professions: Legendary Sword Saint (Unlocked). This profession comes with the Legendary Sword Art: Unblemished Sword Art.

It also includes the accompanying skill: Myriad Dance Severing Slash.

Death Sword Intent — Killing Intent Solidification.

Special Profession: Pupil Technique Cultivator (Stage Two). This profession includes a Pupil Technique Skill Bar.

Within it is “Dual Pupils”:

[Kaleidoscope Aperture] This offers a random effect, either slowing the opponent’s attack speed by more than two times or predicting their next move, effective for three seconds.

[Time Stagnation] This randomly freezes a specific area around oneself, causing absolute stillness for 1.5 seconds.

[Illusion and Reality] This creates an illusion to trap enemies, making them unable to extricate themselves. However, it is ineffective against those stronger than oneself.

[Mental Shock] This pupil technique condenses mental energy to launch a soul impact, disrupting the opponent and causing momentary loss of control.

Race: Destruction Dragon Race, Dragon Girl. (Stage One, Seventh-tier Bloodline.)

This race comes with accompanying Bloodline Skills.

[Gluttony]: This skill evaporates half of one’s own blood, causing combat power to surge threefold. It is effective for half an hour.

[Forbidden Hand]: This allows for the dragonization of any part of the body, significantly enhancing power. Currently, Stage One is awakened, granting Forbidden Claw — transforming one’s right hand into a dragon’s sharp claw — and Forbidden Wings — growing a pair of dragon wings on the back.

[Emperor Armor]: The entire body becomes covered by dragon armor, causing combat power to surge dramatically. It is currently in its initial stage, and its usage time is unstable, potentially lasting from one minute to two hours.

[Dragon Transformation]: This allows transformation into the true form of a Destruction Demonic Dragon for battle. However, due to being in a sealed state, forcibly activating it is effective for only one hour.

[Dragon Blood Essence]: Usable only after dragonization, this skill evaporates dragon blood for rapid wound recovery, but causes damage to life essence.

[Blood Feast]: This skill incites the blood within one’s body to its extreme, then causes a fierce collision to make it burst forth, releasing immense energy.

Attribute: Replication. This allows the user to replicate the opponent’s attributes for a short period.

No sooner had Su Han withdrawn her divine sense than Ye Yuan materialized behind her.

“Now that you’ve undergone a rebirth of flesh and blood, your combat prowess has surged dramatically. However, you still lack real battle experience. Would you care to temper yourself within the Demon City?”

Ye Yuan, the Heavenly Scourge Knight, mounted upon a white tiger with a pair of wings sprouting from its back, addressed Su Han.

It resembled a divine beast, a White Tiger, yet it bore an additional pair of wings adorned with pristine white feathers. Its appearance was one of immaculate sanctity, forming a stark contrast with Ye Yuan, who sat astride it, wreathed in a dark, malevolent aura.

“This is… a divine beast White Tiger? But why does it also have angel-like wings?” Su Han wondered aloud. Yet, she didn’t press the point, instead asking, “The Demon City? What kind of place is that?”

“A superb place for self-refinement!”

‘It’s quite similar to the Death Fortress…’ Su Han mumbled under her breath. Her soft murmur, however, was caught by Ye Yuan’s keen ears.

“How could the Demon City possibly be compared to a trash heap like the Death Fortress?”

Thus, Su Han found herself led by Ye Yuan to the formidable Demon City.

Amidst the sprawling complex of palaces, within the central training grounds, stood a dilapidated palace, long sealed away.

No one knew how many unknown ‘filth’ were suppressed within its depths. According to Ye Yuan, Ye Shang had awakened and fought his way out from this very place, transforming from the strongest Evil Knight into the most powerful Death Knight.

Over the years, under Ye Yuan’s rule, many renowned powerhouses had been willing to pay a hefty price to enter the Demon City for tempering, hoping to elevate their cultivation. Yet, half of them had vanished forever within its walls.

“Remember not to venture too far inside. The deeper you go, the more ‘scum’ you’ll encounter. For your current strength, it’s not advisable to delve deep. ‘It’s said that many of these creatures are powerful beings from the deepest parts of the continent. Perhaps this Demon City connects to those abyssal regions,'” Ye Shang had once remarked.

‘Scum, my foot! They’re not scum; it’s just that your strength is too overwhelming!’ Su Han retorted, rolling her eyes at Ye Yuan. She then pushed open the palace doors.

A low creak echoed.

“Remember not to go too deep!” The final warning reached Su Han’s ears just as the palace doors swung shut.

Ye Yuan’s hands moved in sweeping gestures, and an endless surge of power emanated forth, sealing the palace doors once more.

Inside the palace, demonic mist churned, and ghostly wails seemed to echo. The moment Su Han stepped in, a formidable devil with a green face and menacing fangs lunged directly at her, its appearance truly terrifying.

Su Han swiftly dodged, then activated Gluttony and met the devil head-on, engaging in a fierce battle.

The green-faced devil, seemingly heedless of its own life, relentlessly pressed closer to Su Han. Left with no choice, Su Han used Forbidden Hand, dragonizing her right arm, and unleashed a devastating blow towards the devil.

The strike, like a mountain collapsing, slammed into its chest, sending the green-faced devil flying uncontrollably backward.

The green-faced devil, having been sent flying, scrambled back to its feet from the debris-strewn ground, covered in dust, and once again launched an attack at Su Han.

‘Damn it, did I sleep with your wife or something? Why are you clinging to me so persistently?’ Su Han grumbled, rolling behind the green-faced devil.

To her surprise, the green-faced devil abruptly turned, letting out a lecherous chuckle at Su Han. “Hehehe, fragrant, so fragrant,” it drooled disgustingly as it laughed perversely.

“Damn it, you really do deserve to die!”

And so, under the furious impact of Su Han’s fists, the green-faced devil… had its brains splattered.

Su Han wandered aimlessly deeper into the palace. Along the way, she had encountered countless demonic creatures, even a powerful Archlich.

Despite her seventh-tier bloodline cultivation, she had battled for a full three hours before finally managing to annihilate it.

Among them were also seven or eight formidable demonic beasts, each possessing a seventh-tier bloodline and unimaginable divine abilities. Their potent soul attacks were impossible to guard against, pushing Su Han to the brink of danger multiple times.

In this Demon City, teeming with monsters, danger lurked everywhere. Indeed, no sooner had Su Han rested for a moment than a Bone Dragon, tracking her aura, found her.

Thus, another fierce battle became inevitable.

Facing the Bone Dragon’s colossal body, Su Han chose not to immediately dragonize. Instead, she opted to use her Knight profession’s Legendary Sword Arts, slowly familiarizing herself with them as she entangled and eventually defeated her opponent.

Every day, without cease, Su Han engaged in relentless combat against an endless horde of demonic creatures. She teetered on the brink of death daily, undergoing an extremely brutal trial of life and death.

Had her body not already undergone rebirth once, Su Han would likely have been reduced to dust by now. Though her reconstructed body was immensely powerful, much to Su Han’s satisfaction, she found herself silently lamenting the increasingly burgeoning breasts on her chest.

‘How did they suddenly get so big?’ she thought.

‘This will surely affect my combat performance…’ Su Han kneaded at her ample bosom, sighing in frustration.

For a full seven days, Su Han’s potential was unleashed without limit, and her strength soared. However, having just broken through to the seventh-tier bloodline, she clearly couldn’t achieve another breakthrough so soon.

Instead, she amassed a wealth of combat experience, solidifying her foundation.

Having accumulated ample combat experience, Su Han could now skillfully wield all the abilities and sword arts unlocked with her Legendary Sword Saint profession. She could even manifest a semblance of sword intent.

After enduring hundreds of near-fatal crises, Su Han hadn’t broken through her bloodline rank, but her Mage level had advanced from early Archmage to mid-Archmage.

This once again forced Su Han to lament how incredibly difficult it was to break through in the bloodline cultivation system without some extraordinary opportunity!

‘Perhaps this is why bloodline cultivators are so rare!’ she mused.

‘I truly don’t know how that anomaly, Ye Qi, managed to cultivate to a ninth-tier bloodline!’ Su Han sighed, helpless.