333: Chapter 333 Echoes of the Origin

"Origin Echo? Interrogation?"

Chen Yi was a bit puzzled; this didn't sound like a gentle method of cultivation.

However, Lilian nodded vigorously and said, "If you want to quickly gain the power to deal with the crisis, this Origin Stele might be the only and most efficient path! The prophecy guided us here, so there must be a reason for it!"

Hearing this, Chen Yi hesitated no longer.

With the crisis looming, he couldn't let any opportunity to improve his strength slip by.

He prepared to be the first to try.

"Let me go first—"

Before he could finish, a warm, soft hand pressed down on his arm.

It was Shi Yuying!

She looked at Chen Yi and said softly, "Little Chen, you are our core; you cannot easily put yourself in danger! As for this unknown interrogation, let me, your aunt, test the waters first! My strength is decent, and I have more experience."

Without waiting for Chen Yi to object, she walked straight to the stele and sat down cross-legged.

Following the rules' instructions, she slowly extended her mental power to establish a connection with the stele.

Instantly, Shi Yuying was enveloped in a layer of hazy chaos light, her aura becoming deep and restrained.

It was as if her consciousness had entered another dimension.

In fact, she had indeed fallen into a state of deep meditation.

Chen Yi frowned, staring fixedly at Shi Yuying.

Others might only be able to sense the changes in her aura, but Chen Yi possessed a system interface and could see the changes in Shi Yuying's panel very intuitively!

Her [Physique] and [Spirit Power] attributes were currently increasing slowly and steadily at an average rate of one point every sixty seconds!

This improvement was not through absorbing external spirit power, but rather more like nourishment and strengthening gained from the level of the life source!

"Mom, what's her situation now?" Su Taotao asked in a low, worried voice.

Chen Yi shook his head, his gaze still locked on Shi Yuying: "I don't know the specific mechanism, but as far as it looks now, there should be no harm; on the contrary, it is highly beneficial!"

Time passed in a silent and tense atmosphere.

Half an hour passed.

Suddenly, a change occurred!

"Boom!"

A powerful aura erupted suddenly from within Shi Yuying!

The chaos light around her surged violently before finally slowly receding.

Her level had shockingly broken through from Tier 7 Stage 10 to Tier 8 Stage 1!

What surprised Chen Yi even more was...

This breakthrough did not rely on accumulating spirit power to break through a bottleneck, but was a natural occurrence after her base attributes reached the corresponding threshold!

Shi Yuying slowly opened her eyes, her face filled with irrepressible excitement.

"How is it? Aunt Ying, what's the situation inside?" Chen Yi asked quickly.

The girls also gathered around, full of curiosity.

Shi Yuying took a deep breath, calmed her excitement, and began to recount her experience.

"My consciousness was pulled into a very strange space!"

"There, it will continuously generate energy attacks of attributes corresponding to your own strengths and strike at you!"

"You can choose to dodge, or you can choose to take them head-on! Even if you are hit and die, nothing will really happen; your consciousness will just be ejected from that space, ending the resonance."

"Most importantly, in that space, every time you successfully survive a round of attacks, or after a certain period, a pure source of power will be fed back into your body, directly increasing your base attributes!"

"The longer you hold out, the greater the benefits!"

"My attribute is Chaos, so I faced a mixed attack of almost all mid-to-low tier attributes, which was very troublesome; I only lasted half an hour before I was defeated—"

After hearing her explanation, the eyes of The girls all erupted with excitement.

So the so-called interrogation was actually a trial space where you could farm attributes by dodging or tanking?

This was simply a huge opportunity!

Chen Yi grasped the key point and asked, "If you fail, is there any punishment? Or rather, can one person challenge it repeatedly?"

Shi Yuying nodded affirmatively: "You can challenge it repeatedly! However, it seems to require an energy within us called Source Power to support it—"

"I can't say exactly how much; it's just a vague feeling."

"Based on my current feeling, I can probably challenge it about four more times!"

"Once you experience it yourself, you should understand."

Hearing that they could challenge it repeatedly, everyone was eager to try.

However, Shi Yuying also reminded them of a key issue: "After entering the resonance state, you will be completely immersed and unable to perceive anything happening outside. What if an enemy attacks at this time—"

She didn't finish her sentence, but everyone understood the risks involved.

However, she quickly added, "Just now, you all protected me. This time, let me and my Contracted Spirit Beasts protect you all!"

The six Spirit Beast Girls under her command also nodded in agreement.

"That's right, just leave it to us!"

"Lord Chen Yi, you can go ahead and trial without worry!"

"If any magical beasts attack, it's no problem for us to handle!"

Seeing their determined attitude, Chen Yi no longer declined.

With the crisis at hand, improving strength was urgent.

"Alright! Then I will have to trouble Aunt Ying and everyone else!"

He nodded, then said to The girls: "Everyone, hurry and resonate! Be careful, and act according to your own capabilities!"

"Okay!!!"

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Chen Yi walked to the Origin Stele first, sat down cross-legged, and slowly extended his mental power.

In an instant.

He felt his consciousness being pulled by an invisible force, instantly detaching from his body and escaping into an endless darkness.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in an underground space that looked like a tomb.

All around him were cold stone walls, and overhead was an endless darkness.

Only in the center where he was located was there a faint light.

At the same time, that cold voice of the rules rang out in his mind.

"Challenger, it has been detected that among your Contracted Spirit Beasts, you possess multiple high-level attributes such as Chaos, Dragon, Phoenix, and Holy Spirit, so the All-Attribute Interrogation Mode has been activated for you!"

"In this mode, you will face attacks of all basic elements and derivative attributes."

"The longer you hold out, the more generous the power rewards you will receive!"

"Please strive to survive!"

No sooner had the voice of the rules finished than Chen Yi felt the surrounding air instantly become violent!

Crimson fire elements, azure water elements, cyan wind elements, yellow earth elements, purple lightning elements, milky white light elements, pitch-black dark elements—

Countless energy light spots of various colors emerged from the void, rapidly condensing into energy blades of various attributes!

"What the hell? So fast?"

Chen Yi hadn't expected this trial not to give him even a moment of preparation time.