The Medallion
Chapter 1775 Faced With Difficulty

As soon as Holden, Michelle, Hall Leader Chen, and the two middle-grade Spiritual Emperors saw that Rocky had parted ways with the three girls to act alone, they could not help but exchange meaningful glances. It seemed that every one of them thought that it was such a good opportunity to take action.

"Miss Michelle, let me go and tail that guy. You and Young Master Holden should stay together," Hall Leader Chen offered and volunteered. Seeing that no one disagreed, he quickly followed Rocky and made sure that he would not be noticed.

At the same time, Michelle and the rest took the path that Carla and the two other girls had chosen.

Before long, several candidates had also arrived on the island and had chosen random paths into the forest.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, Rocky stopped briefly.

He noticed that the path became broader all of a sudden. It seemed that he was already inside a spacious area.

Moreover, the area was full of strange upright pillars that were arranged in a regular crisscross pattern.

Then, upon closer inspection, Rocky found a few middle-grade Spiritual Emperors there. They were standing before the stone pillars, looking very helpless and dejected. It seemed that they had somehow reached a stumbling block that hindered them from moving on.

'Hmm. They should have come here from the other paths. So, these trail paths were interconnected after all, 'Rocky thought to himself after some careful observations.

The nine trial paths in the Spiritual Divine Land interweaved in a very complicated way. Some of the paths were connected with each other, so the participants would eventually meet other contestants along the way.

At this moment, one of the middle-grade Spiritual Emperors tried to pass through the stone pillars again.

However, as soon as he stepped on one of the stone pillars, it reacted as if it had a life on its own. Then, all these pillars instantly formed a stone wall, forcing the Spiritual Emperor to retreat backward. It seemed that many candidates were stuck here because they could not get past the array that was created by the stone pillars.

Although the middle-grade Spiritual Emperor exerted all his strength, he was still unable to get past the stone array.

"What the hell is with these stone pillars? They are so hard that no amount of strength can break them!"

"This is absurd! There is no use attacking the stone pillars. How do we even proceed?"

"Then, why don't we go back the way we came? Maybe this really is a dead end. Let's try other ways!"

"I agree! We can't waste our time here anymore!"

Most of the middle-grade Spiritual Emperors had already agreed and were about to go back. However, at this moment, Rocky suddenly approached the stone array and examined it closely. "Hey, look! It's that guy! Is he trying to get past the stone pillars?"

"He's just a low-grade Spiritual Emperor. If we can't break through it, then neither can he." "Yeah. He's just trying to show off. I bet he will also fail miserably!"

Although the middle-grade Spiritual Emperors recognized Rocky as one of the outstanding low-grade Spiritual Emperors, they believed that it would be impossible for him to go over the stone pillars. However, the very next moment, Rocky activated the Earth-diving Skill and instantly shuttled through the huge stone pillars. Since the skill enabled him to travel beneath the ground, the stone pillars were unable to hinder his advancement.

At the sight of this scene, the middle-grade Spiritual Emperors, who were belittling Rocky earlier, were silenced and flabbergasted. They never anticipated that Rocky would be able to use such a unique skill that could effortlessly let him bypass the stone pillars.

But since they did not have any skill that had the same effect, most of the middle-grade Spiritual Emperors gave up on overcoming the stone array and decided to replace a different path. Only three were left who continued trying to break the array.

At the same time, Hall Leader Chen, who had been following Rocky all this time, had also arrived in front of the stone pillars. However, Rocky had already gotten past them, while he was immediately blocked off. His mission became a failure, and he had no other choice but to watch Rocky leave before his eyes.

About two hours later, Rocky accomplished two more challenges, which were not that difficult for him. Therefore, at this point, he was actually far ahead compared to most of the participants.

At this moment, many prominent figures were gathered outside the Holy Heaven Palace. Most of them were high-level representatives from major forces. They specifically went here in order to show support for their members that were currently taking the fourth round of the contest.

Colton had also returned to the outside of the Holy Heaven Palace. He was the one who was personally supervising this round to see if everyone was behaving well inside the Spiritual Divine Land. After all, many candidates might be tempted to try some underhanded tricks despite his strict reminders before the start of the test.

While Rocky seemed to have been displaying an outstanding performance yet again, the other candidates were evidently struggling at various challenges.

After going through and completing five trials, Rocky, who had been proceeding smoothly in the entire trial, had finally encountered his first difficult situation. He was also faced with an array this time, but this one was based on the eight diagrams in the compass.

This was definitely not an ordinary array, and it should be one of the most difficult mysterious arrays to figure out.

After studying it carefully for a while, Rocky decided to give it a try.

Eventually, he stepped into the compass array. But then all of a sudden, the whole array began to spin rapidly, making him unable to grasp his sense of direction. Moreover, some beast spirits appeared and rushed towards him from all directions.

Discerning that he was in a disadvantageous position, Rocky had to unleash his strength to the fullest to protect himself. However, even though he did not hold his strength back, he noticed that he was still unable to eradicate all the beast spirits. Since they were not living creatures, it became impossible for him to literally kill them. They would just respawn after a while, and they kept on emerging in the array. After careful considerations, Rocky flew out of the array to get himself out of danger.

"This array is a pain in the neck! What should I do to overcome this?" Rocky murmured to himself while rethinking his strategy.

First of all, the compass array was a kind of mysterious array. From the basic characteristics of mysterious arrays, Rocky knew that it could create something that was not actually real. Hence, those beast spirits were most probably just made of mysterious energy from the array.

However, it didn't mean that the beast spirits could do no harm. After all, the compass array was built on the Spiritual Divine Land and could absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth. Therefore, even the phantoms that were created by these arrays would be carrying enough spiritual power to attack and even incapacitate the participants.

Moreover, since it was a mysterious array, it should be broken through mysterious skills. But first, Rocky had to replace its origin and ending spots. Then, he could eventually reverse the array and break it.

Of course, it was easier said than done. After all, once he entered the array again, he would be surrounded and attacked by the beast spirits. Hence, he would have a pretty hard time replaceing the location of the origin and ending spots.

"This is going to be hard since I'm alone..." Rocky let out a frown and felt a headache. He thought that if only the three girls were with him, he would not have any problem breaking this array.

Now, how was in a pinch. Even though he was racking his brain for a solution, he could not think of any.

Then, while Rocky was at a loss, he suddenly thought that he could still use a divine treasure at this moment.

Thus, he immediately entered the palace, where the guardian instantly appeared to assist him.

"I don't have that much time, so listen carefully. I need a treasure that can break a mysterious array. Help me replace one," Rocky said bluntly.

"A treasure to break a mysterious array?"

"Yes. Is there a treasure here that I can use?"

"Actually, yes. However, you can't use it for the time being..." the guardian answered reluctantly.

"Huh? That's nonsense." Rocky rolled his eyes as he felt pretty annoyed.

"But you can still break the array in some other way," the guardian said, giving Rocky a glimpse of hope.

"How? Tell me!"

"Master, aren't you already proficient in the skill that can materialize your demonic soul? I have here a divine treasure that can easily materialize your demonic soul and turn it just like a real person. That way, you will have a physical helper out there. You can instruct it to do whatever you wanted. However, the divine treasure can only create three materialized demonic souls at most," the guardian briefly informed.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐