The juniors had only just entered the Storm Dragon Battle Platform when they immediately faced an attack from a powerful fire dragon.
From Shengguang Xuanye’s words, people also learned that the disappeared juniors had very likely already died.
Although they had long known that this Storm Dragon Battle Platform was extremely dangerous, when they truly witnessed its peril, people still felt chills down their spines.
One must realise that the geniuses from various forces who had just stepped through the stone gate numbered tens of millions, yet only a little over ninety thousand juniors ultimately appeared successfully in the world of the competition platform.
In other words, before the competition had even formally begun, tens of millions of juniors had already fallen. Now, even the remaining top geniuses were very likely unable to escape death.
“The Storm Frenzy Clan is truly deranged.”
“Did their descendants really use such a place for training and competition?”
“This is not cultivating descendants at all. It is clearly slaughtering them.”
People sighed repeatedly. Some even cursed under their breath. Figures like the Dragon Clan Chief were tense and breaking out in cold sweat.
After all, those now within that world were the future of their forces.
…
At present, inside the world, Chu Feng and the others were all trapped.
What trapped them was an invisible barrier.
This barrier was extremely strong. Chu Feng and the others were confined within it, which was why they could not continue moving.
Trapped inside the barrier, Chu Feng could only wait for the flame ripples to arrive.
At this moment, Chu Feng employed no techniques. Instead, he sat cross-legged with eyes tightly closed, as if cultivating.
Hum.
Suddenly, the invisible barrier sealing Chu Feng surged with golden light.
Awooo.
Before long, accompanied by a heaven-obscuring roar, the terrifying flame ripples swept across.
Yet no matter how ferocious the flame ripples were, when they passed by Chu Feng, they could not harm him in the slightest.
It was the golden light that had blocked the assault of the flame ripples for Chu Feng.
After the flame ripples passed, the golden light also vanished. However, the invisible barrier binding Chu Feng remained.
Chu Feng opened his eyes and gazed towards the distant horizon.
From his line of sight, a gigantic fire dragon coiled in the ninth heaven. Its size was so vast that it resembled an entire world.
In front of it, Chu Feng might not even count as a speck of dust.
Being in this world, Chu Feng could feel the terror of that fire dragon even more vividly.
The power of the fire dragon was truly at a level capable of destroying heaven and earth.
“It seems it will indeed continue indefinitely.”
“At this rate, Long Xiaoxiao and the others will eventually be unable to hold on, won’t they?”
Chu Feng looked at the fire dragon coiling in the ninth heaven like a divine being. A trace of worry appeared in his eyes.
Chu Feng had already guessed that not only was he trapped here, but Long Xiaoxiao and the others were surely also confined by similar invisible barriers.
They were stuck in place. Every incense stick’s time, the fire dragon would release flame ripples.
The power of the flame ripples was terrifying, yet it would not harm a single blade of grass or tree here. It would only target them.
In theory, the power of the flame ripples meant that if they successfully struck, death was certain.
However, there was one method that could allow them to escape calamity.
This method lay within the invisible barrier.
The moment they were trapped by the invisible barrier, a puzzle appeared inside it. To solve it required using one’s comprehension as well as knowledge of the path of martial cultivation.
As long as one could successfully solve the puzzle within one incense stick’s time, the invisible barrier would transform into a golden barrier. That golden barrier could block the flame ripples.
Conversely, if one could not solve the puzzle within the allotted time, one could only await destruction by the flame ripples.
This was why, after each wave of flame ripples, some died while others remained unharmed.
However, even if one successfully solved the puzzle and gained the protection of the golden barrier, after each wave of flame ripples passed, the golden barrier would disappear.
A new puzzle would appear within the invisible barrier. Only by continuing to solve them successfully could one keep resisting the flame ripples.
Yet the difficulty of the puzzles increased steadily. Although for now the puzzles posed no threat to Chu Feng, he worried that as it continued, Long Xiaoxiao and the others would be unable to solve them.
When that happened, Long Xiaoxiao and the others would be in danger.
The reason Chu Feng was certain that the flame ripples would continue indefinitely was because, while solving the puzzles, he had discovered hidden clues within the invisible barrier.
Those clues informed him that unless someone stopped the fire dragon, it would release flame ripples every incense stick’s time in an endless cycle until all the juniors here were dead.
At this rate, not to mention Long Xiaoxiao and the others dying, even Chu Feng himself would perish.
Chu Feng had already found the method to stop the fire dragon.
It was to solve the hidden puzzle here. As long as he solved the hidden puzzle, he could stop the fire dragon and save everyone.
However, the difficulty of solving that hidden puzzle was extremely high. Even Chu Feng had no confidence, and there was also a time limit.
Timing started from the moment he began solving the puzzle. He had to succeed within one incense stick’s time. If he failed within that period, without waiting for the flame ripples, the invisible barrier would shatter him to pieces.
This was why Chu Feng had not immediately chosen to tackle the hidden puzzle.
But now, Chu Feng was certain that the fire dragon would indeed continue its assaults indefinitely. If he did not stop it, they would all die eventually.
At this point, Chu Feng had no choice.
“Storm Frenzy Clan, you truly live up to your reputation. You are ruthless enough.”
“You forced me into this. If I truly obtain your inherited martial techniques, you have only yourselves to blame.”
Chu Feng said this because, based on his experience, successfully stopping the fire dragon would surely bring a reward. That reward was very likely the legendary inherited martial technique of the Storm Frenzy Clan.
After saying this, he closed his eyes again and began solving puzzles once more.
Only this time, the challenge Chu Feng faced was not the puzzles to resist the flame ripples.
It was the hidden puzzle capable of stopping the fire dragon!!!
Hum.
However, just as Chu Feng began solving the puzzle, a change occurred in the invisible barrier around him. The invisible barrier actually turned pitch black.
The black barrier writhed constantly, extremely eerie.
It felt as if Chu Feng had been swallowed by it!!!
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Meanwhile, the Dragon Clan Chief and the others had hearts in their throats from tension.
The flame ripples just released by the fire dragon were the fourth wave.
After this fourth wave, over eight thousand light points disappeared. This meant over eight thousand juniors had already died in that world.
Judging by previous patterns, the impending fifth wave of flame ripples might cause tens of thousands of juniors to perish. It was even possible that all the juniors in that world would be wiped out.
Even if Chu Feng, Long Xiaoxiao, and the others could withstand the fifth wave, what about the sixth? Could they truly hold on?
“Chu Feng, Chu Feng he, young friend Chu Feng, how has he disappeared too?”
Suddenly, someone cried out in alarm. Immediately afterwards, the vast sea of people erupted in uproar.
Because from their perspective, the seven-coloured light bearing Chu Feng’s name had indeed vanished from that world!!!
“Could it be that Chu Feng has died?”
“But he was clearly fine just moments ago. What on earth is going on?”
At this moment, people familiar with Chu Feng such as Chu Lingxi, Yin Zhuanghong, Long Daozhi, and the Dragon Clan Chief all panicked.
“Lord Xuanye, why is this?”
“Why was young friend Chu Feng unharmed when the flame ripples raged?”
“How has he disappeared at this time instead?”
In their confusion, the Lord of the Monstrous Demon Temple asked Shengguang Xuanye.
“I do not fully understand the specific structure of this Storm Dragon Battle Platform either.”
“But I have said that the Storm Dragon Battle Platform is extremely perilous. Those with the courage to step into it must be prepared for death.”
Shengguang Xuanye replied.
When he said this, people like Chu Lingxi, Gu Mingyuan, Yin Zhuanghong, and Long Daozhi instantly fell into despair.
