Poison God's Heritage

The turrets were utterly useless in even making a dent into the barriers around the corpses, and the fortresses crumbled the moment the corpses stepped inside them.

Base after base fell down, leaving nothing but ruin and desperate looking cultivators.

Many of them complained on the unfairness of the situation, even those who spent every points to try and further improve the base. They all received humiliating defeats.

The Fire King himself couldn\'t help but sigh as he saw the fortresses fall down, not even the puppets and the turrets were able to halt or stop the advance of the corpses as he shrugged and simply let the base fall down.

Zhang Tian was the last one to fall, as his base had managed to actually take down one of the corpse. He had used the majority of his points to fortify the base and focus fire one of them, he also had repositioned the minigun turrets closer, but it still wasn\'t enough.

The Trial ended in a bland and very anticlimactic matter. Leaving the cultivators and spectators feeling a sense of defeat and helplessness.

I on the other hand simply drank from my cup and grinned at the snorting figure of the Cryptic Sun.

"It seems that the trial had ended the way Du Shen expected. Apparently the corpses were far stronger than the ability of the base. What do you have to say about that, Du Shen?" the commentator asked.

"Like I said before, it didn\'t sit right with me. If indeed it was another person, they would also fall victim to this onslaught. Unless they\'re able to make something like what I did, I had almost no hope in anyone winning, now," I said as I turned my head to the Cryptic Sun.

"This should prove that he cheated, right?" I said.

"It wasn\'t cheating." The Cryptic Sun coughed, "I merely gave everyone a trial that they could come out victorious of. In fact, everyone could have won but no one saw the easy mode answer," said the Cryptic Sun.

"You mean using the Merchant as a warrior?" I asked.

The Cryptic Sun\'s eyes widened.

The commentator, Eccentric Long and Even Xiao Du all gasped at my words.

"If you knew…"

"Why didn\'t I use the merchant?" I replied in an question.

"Indeed, you must have only figured it out now," he said.

"No, it was obvious from the first line, anything in the base is at the disposal of the user. And the merchant is also a part of the base. But that would have been far too easy. After all, you threw in a lot of random stuff like the puppets and the towers, and subconsciously pushed everyone to focus on the obvious things forgetting that the merchant can also be used.

But, I saw through it and didn\'t want to use it. After all, using a high level merchant would be worthless."

"How so? Isn\'t it a part of your force?" asked the Cryptic Sun.

"I already deduced the reason and purpose of every trial. The first is to test one\'s stamina and endurance, the second is to test one\'s intellect and ability, the third is to test their shrewdness against impossible odds and so on. And this one was to test one\'s strategic thinking," I said.

"Then more reasons for you to use the merchant as a weapon," said the Cryptic Sun.

"It would be so in a perfect world. But, in reality, sometimes you\'re faced with impossible odds and don\'t have a trump card like the \'Merchant\' then what will you do? Would you blame fate for its inability to provide? No. That shouldn\'t be how a cultivator thing. One must strive to struggle and wriggle even through impossible odds, nay, even die trying.

For that heavens never put a man under more weight than they could hold. So I didn\'t rely on the merchant, because frankly, that trial, was far from impossible to achieve, so I used my own thinking and created the weapon I used to destroy those corpses."

The Cryptic Sun didn\'t seem too keen on believing me, so he said, "That is only you specifically, others would have needed the mind to create that rifle if you didn\'t know how to do it, you too would have died." The Cryptic Sun said.

"Would I now?" I smiled and turned to the Commentator, "Can you still show my base?" I asked.

"I still can, why are you asking?"

"Show my base from an eagle point of view." I said.

And he did, revealing the screen of my almost destroyed base. "There is one puppet that I haven\'t ordered to do anything, and it\'s in the center of the base. Give it the order to place a saint Qi stone right under its foot." I said.

The Commentator thankfully had the ability to do as I said. And the moment the puppet did so, a disgusting amount of Saint Qi began flowing through the whole base. Making all of the four fortresses shine bright.

A massive formation showed up all around the base with the four fortresses being the four major points of connections, creating a formation that immediately flared up in an incredible surge of flames.

The whole area around the base was flared and then blew up outward, devastating everything in its path and creating a crater in the ground so deep and so wide that nothing would ever live to tell the tale about it.

The Cryptic Sun\'s eyes opened wide as he noticed what happened.

"When… when did you plant something like that?" he asked.

"From the first moment I sat foot in that land, I thought that there might come a day where I\'ll be forced to either fight against my own base or even have to destroy it in case something bad happens. Also, this system if you copied my base exactly, should also be present in every other base.

But no one noticed it, I made this system bit by bit, subtly whenever I moved or used my clone one of them would randomly inscribe something and implement it. So, not only was I more than capable of destroying my base and never used it, I even gave it to everyone else and they didn\'t use it.

So, like I said, I was never worried about losing," I smiled "And I also gave everyone the opportunity to clear the stage but they didn\'t see it," I shrugged.

The Dusking Sun laughed as he saw and realized what went on. Never had I been worried, because I had nothing to worry about.

"This is indeed the mind of a genius, even I didn\'t see it," the Wisest Sun said. "I thought you were simply making some form of formation that you would use later on, but never thought it was fully connected. Even I learned something new." The wisest Sun laughed.

The Cryptic Sun sighed and said, "Then so be it, anyone who went through the trail using your base will hereby pass to the next stage. I don\'t know why you would want this, because you could have easily claimed the Title of Strongest Under the Sun right now."

"Because that would be too boring now, also I really want to see the rest of the trials," I said.

"Then there isn\'t much time to waste. Let the second part of the event start!" the Lord of lords proclaimed.