Chapter 282

But even the Old Dog of War couldn't bear to move any further after he reached halfway.

In fact it is impressive enough to make it this far. He has only fought for 100 years while most other Rank 2 Warriors could have up to a thousand years of combat experience!

Instead of wasting his life away by continuing, the Old Brocade Guard realised his potential and sat cross legged on the step, using the repetitive violent voices to refine his soul.

Scenes like both of them happened everywhere. Most young Rank 2 Warriors, typically less than five hundred years old, stopped at the halfway point, choosing to refine their souls rather than continue.

But there were also people unwilling to accept the failure. They forcibly pushed forward and of course the result is shadow fighting leading to death.

Only a few warriors with strong souls that have lived many years or have special skills and strong strength managed to make it to the top.

Of course Samuel is one of them. Although he has also only lived for a century, nothing compared to others typically would with his strength, he has more than half a dozen clones!

Every year for others is the same as 8 for him! And the effects of these years are also completely different.

As mentioned before, your life experiences are one of the key factors that help evolve your soul and most people can't be like Samuel, experiencing being a king, idle villager, owner of a hidden mansion and a beast grazing on a field!

Even Samuels Mediocre Planetary clones have become village heads in charge of thousands of people or became mysterious recluses.

Regardless of what they did, it is enough to improve Samuels Soul Strength!

He resisted the steps with relative ease and stepped lightly onto the large blood red platform at the top of the steps.

But when he first stepped onto the platform, Samuel felt a refreshing energy course through his body. His mental state was refreshed and he could clearly see the already large orb like soul grow even bigger!

From the size of a house it rapidly grew into a glowing mansion sized orb.'

''Is this the reward for passing this level? Then the rewards for the first level must be the resources looted from killing others right?''

Samuel sensed the growing soul strength and sighed. It is worthy of being a Rank 9 Powerhouses inheritance, just this can double his centuries of work!

''If this is my soul, how strong must those powerhouses be.''

Samuel couldn't help but lament. The strength of your soul is directly correlational to the orbs size. Of course there are some techniques that are different but this is the general idea.

However, just Samuels soul is the size of a mansion. What about those people who have lived millions of years!

''Huhhh don't think about that. I can't waste time here.''

Samuels body shivered slightly at the thought. But quickly sorted out his mind and looked towards a large red and black gate at the end of the platform.

As he walked towards it a deep rumbling sound spread out as a set of iron bars across the entrance were pulled up, revealing a large red world.

''Strange a world inside a world?'' Samuels eyes widened slightly.

His steps didn't falter as he walked into the door. But he was greeted by a intense smell of blood.

His eyes snapped to the left only to see a large river of blood flowing through the crevices within a large red boulder.

''Disgusting! Who is the creator of this place?''

Samuel wrinkled his nose at the heavy smell of blood. Clearly there wasn't just one or two people who died to create this place. Even the blood of fifty Million Nieps weren't comparable to this!

But he continued to move forward, navigating his way through the bloody terrain. Strangely he didn't seem to see any creatures as he walked.

''Strange what is the challenge of this place?''

Samuel curiously looked around, walking around definitely isn't on par with the difficulty of the other two challenges.

But as he continued to walk for twenty minutes he slowly realised something was wrong.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

A faint dripping of liquid came to Samuel's ears. But it was that simple sound that brought a solemn look to his face.

''I was right. It really is a formation.''

Samuel muttered slightly. This was the third time he heard an identical dripping sound. And the third time he saw the boulder slightly blocking a river of blood.

He was trapped!

Samuels eyes rapidly spun around, trying to realise when he got stuck in a Formation. From Situ he faintly knows the horror that comes with formations, even a Rank 2 Formation is able to summon 9 powerful ghosts!

Let alone now, with a formation of an unknown level!

Luckily Samuel had thought ahead a bit. While he was learning all sorts of information he researched formations. Although he doesn't know how to set them up or how they work he knows some basics.

Formations need a key at the centre to operate as well as countless other key points around the edges in order to maintain its stability.

''Just search for the key point!''

Samuels eyes immediately turned towards the ground and he began to walk forward again.

With the thought in mind, Samuel continued to search for half an hour before he finally found something.

''Luckily this isn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.''

Samuel smirked slightly, he quickly figured out what the base of this challenge was. To see how ruthless you could be.

How did he know that? Because Samuel was staring at a sleeping beauty hidden inside of a cave.

She was completely naked revealing every part of her body to the air and to Samuels prying eyes. But he wasn't looking at her lustfully, no he wasn't interested in the tear covered look of the girl.

Instead, he focused on the pulsing red set of veins between her breasts. He could perceive that this was the centre of the formation!

''Please help me. I don't know how I got here.''