CHAPTER 1783: CHAPTER 1783: POWER COMPARABLE TO THE EARLY GREAT SAINT REALM

Rows of soldier statues, looking grand from a distance.

Wyatt Barnes glanced over, immediately gauging the number of these soldier statues—at least a thousand.

"Is the test for the eighth checkpoint to destroy them?"

With doubts in his mind, Wyatt Barnes slowly approached the soldier formation ahead. The formation, composed of over a thousand soldier statues, brought a vague sense of oppression to Wyatt.

Wyatt couldn’t find the words to describe this oppressive feeling.

Gradually, the distance between Wyatt and the soldier formation grew closer...

Five hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

One hundred meters!

Just as the distance was a mere hundred meters from the soldier formation, Wyatt seemed to sense something. His brow furrowed slightly as he paused his advance.

At the same moment, Wyatt saw vividly that the soldier formation a hundred meters away appeared to come to life in an instant.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

...

Clack! Clack! Clack!

...

A crisp sound quickly spread throughout the vast underground palace as the ’stone skin’ on the surface of the soldier statues began to peel off, revealing their true forms.

One by one, soldiers with flesh and blood appeared before Wyatt.

Of course, it was only their appearance that seemed real, as their eyes were blank and lifeless, not at all like living beings.

"What is happening?"

Seeing this spectacle, Wyatt was shocked; he hadn’t expected the stone statues to turn into real people.

Now standing a hundred meters away, the thousand soldiers looked like real humans, apart from the lackluster eyes; their appearance bore no substantial difference from normal people.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

Simultaneously, a chilling wind swept through the vast palace, an eerie wind that even the bold Wyatt found unsettling.

"These soldiers..."

As Wyatt’s gaze returned to the soldier formation, he realized the thousand soldiers’ previously dull eyes now gleamed with a sinister green light.

As their eyes lit up, they completely ’came to life.’

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

...

After coming to life, the thousand soldiers promptly moved, forming a more orderly formation, instinctively, without requiring any command.

"Kill!"

"Kill!!"

"Kill—"

...

Once reformed, the thousand soldiers shouted in unison, their voices booming, compressing the void and causing it to ripple like waves, spreading outward.

At this moment, even Wyatt felt his eardrums vibrate and his blood surge.

However, he had no time to focus on that.

Because he noticed that as the thousand soldiers’ shouts reached him, their eyes locked onto him.

Even with his vast experience and courage, Wyatt felt a shiver running through him, being targeted by thousands of glowing green eyes.

"Kill!!"

Once more, the soldiers shouted in unison, followed by a simultaneous assault toward Wyatt’s position.

Hundreds of cavalry charged at Wyatt, leading the assault.

While infantry and spearmen took to the sky, advancing through the air.

Their swords and spears, imbued with immense True Origin, pierced through, like dragons emerging from caves, targeting Wyatt.

Hundreds of infantry, hundreds of spearmen, were like hundreds of swords and spears crossing the sky, sweeping toward Wyatt.

The thousand soldiers’ eyes glowed green, making it impossible to discern any change in their gaze.

Yet, from their stance, it was clear they would not rest until Wyatt was destroyed.

Before long, the thousand soldiers surrounded Wyatt, closing in for the kill.

"All at ’Little Saint Realm pinnacle’!"

At the same time, Wyatt activated his ’Heavenly Eye,’ and his Divine Sense swept out, quickly detecting that the surrounding soldiers were all at the pinnacle of the Little Saint Realm, without exception.

At first, seeing the soldiers were only at the Little Saint Realm pinnacle, Wyatt did not worry much.

However, after the ’Taoyan Sword Clock’ barely withstood a combined attack from over thirty soldiers, Wyatt’s expression changed completely, "How is this possible?! Aren’t they just at the Little Saint Realm pinnacle?"

Despite his full power, the Taoyan Sword Clock nearly shattered under the assault of thirty-some soldiers.

"If another ten soldiers had joined in... my Taoyan Sword Clock would have collapsed just now!"

Realizing this, Wyatt became a bit flustered and acknowledged he had underestimated them.

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt dodged an attack from a group of soldiers, striving to calm himself down.

After calming down, Wyatt Barnes observed the soldiers besieging him, noticing that their seemingly chaotic movements actually contained some kind of mystery.

"The formation they are in isn’t a common one! Their formation seems to connect their powers together, advancing and retreating in unison!"

"I was wondering... As the eighth checkpoint of the ’Abyssal Marsh’, the penultimate checkpoint, how could it be so simple! These thousand soldiers are much more troublesome than the horde of Savage Beasts at the first checkpoint."

Although the Savage Beasts at the first checkpoint did have some coordination, they lacked any strategy.

However, the thousand soldiers before him, although only at the peak of the Little Saint Realm, imbued every action with the subtleties of formations, seemingly always united with their companions.

Since these soldiers were devoid of rationality, their ’cooperation’ contained no issues of trust.

Because of this, their unified front was even more terrifying.

"If the horde of Savage Beasts from the first checkpoint faced these soldiers... these soldiers would probably destroy them with just a few charges!"

Wyatt Barnes did not doubt this one bit.

At this moment, Wyatt dared not be careless or underestimate the soldiers before him, despite each one’s cultivation only being at the peak of the Little Saint Realm.

A disorganized group of peak Little Saint Realm Martial Artists, even if numbering two or three thousand, Wyatt could handle with ease.

But faced with these thousand united soldiers, tied together as one, Wyatt could only choose to evade and seek opportunities to attack.

"Calm... calm..."

Wyatt knew that only by staying calm could he have a chance at defeating all one thousand soldiers confronting him.

Regardless of whether it was in his past life or in this one, where he fought his way from the remote areas of the ’Cloud Skies Continent’.

Thus, his battle experience was far superior to the younger generation born and raised in the Martial Dao Sacred Land.

Because of this, he quickly found a way to deal with these thousand soldiers at the eighth checkpoint.

Calm.

Defeat them one by one!

Of course, these two points are simple to say, but achieving them is incredibly difficult.

Time quietly slipped away.

Wyatt’s figure moved like the wind, dodging the thousand soldiers’ siege, as his ’Mysterious Eye’ quietly activated, seeking the flaws in these soldiers.

Once he found a flaw, he would strike with lightning speed, not giving the opponent a chance to breathe!

However, it was only because of Wyatt’s True Origin, comparable to the early Great Saint Realm Martial Artist, that he could deftly avoid danger under the combined assault of the thousand soldiers—an achievement not possible even for a peak Middle Saint Realm Martial Artist.

Finally, after half an hour, Wyatt discovered a flaw in a small formation.

This small formation consisted of over thirty soldiers.

Previously, it was such a small formation that ambushed him.

In truth, the flaw in this small formation was not obvious. Without the activation of his ’Mysterious Eye’, Wyatt might not have found it.

"I’ll take you guys down first!"

A flash of cold light sparkled in Wyatt’s eyes. Having been pursued for half an hour without being able to retaliate, he had been holding back a fire inside, and now that he discovered the flaw in the small formation, he wouldn’t let it go.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

With a wave of his hand, Wyatt overshadowed the scene in a burst of True Origin, transforming it into a solid three-foot-long sword.

The three-foot-long sword emitted a golden glow, looking from afar like a fierce sun hanging in the sky.

And right now, this fierce sun was tightly gripped in Wyatt’s hand.

Swish!

The flaw in the small formation continued to expand under the gaze of Wyatt’s ’Mysterious Eye’, while his True Origin surged dramatically.

Whoosh!

Subsequently, Wyatt charged into the small formation with incredible speed, exposing his entire figure right under the noses of the over thirty soldiers in the small formation.

This action naturally caught the attention of over thirty soldiers, making him the target of their focus.

"Kill!"

With a loud shout from the thirty-plus soldiers, their swords and spears flashed out like lightning from different directions, though their attacks situated as if hitting the same spot,

The attack of over thirty soldiers seemingly merged in a mystical way, perfectly uniting into one.

Trapped within the small formation, Wyatt, facing the attack of over thirty soldiers, remained composed, as the sword light from his three-foot sword erupted forth even faster, piercing directly at the eyebrow of one soldier.

This soldier was exactly where the flaw in the small formation lay.

Splurt!

Where the sword light passed, a cruel and terrifying bloody hole appeared in the soldier’s brow.

In the next moment, rather than seeing a bloody scene, the soldier with a pierced brow, along with the seven-foot long spear in his hand, vaporized simultaneously.

Following the elimination of one soldier, the power of the fused attack of the thirty-plus soldiers drastically weakened.

Wyatt raised the ’Taiyan Sword Bell’, completely blocking the attack without facing much pressure.

The remaining soldiers, due to the death of that soldier, revealed more flaws.

These flaws were so apparent that Wyatt did not even need the ’Mysterious Eye’ to spot them.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

Amidst the deafening roar of swords, the remaining soldiers in the small formation were vaporized under Wyatt’s sword, leaving none behind.