Baby with Daoist Monarch System

They were.

Xu Ran’s, the bald head’s, the third and fourth Human Bone Rusty Swords, and the remaining fourteen Human Bone Rusty Swords that still hadn’t been touched.

Now.

The two of them finally understood what Senior Brother had meant by those words.

”Wong---”

At the same time.

The instant their auras entered the trial, an invisible ripple spread out from the bald head’s body.

A powerful aura blasted their auras out in an instant.

At the same time.

In the Dueling Arena.

”Clang---”

”Clang---”

”Clang---”

”Clang---”

The sound of chains being dragged echoed above the Dueling Arena.

Following the sound, they saw that at some unknown point, the tangible mist originally coiled around the bald head’s body had turned into thick dark-red iron chains as thick as an arm.

These chains, like giant pythons, were rubbing over the bald head’s body; the ’clang clang clang’ sound from just now was exactly the sound of these chains rasping against his body.

Xu Ran looked at this scene and felt something was off.

”These chains were solidified from the dark-red mist, but the dark-red mist is being sprayed out from the ends of the Human Bone Rusty Swords’ hilts, doesn’t that mean...”

At once.

Xu Ran noticed something wrong.

Following the starting point where the chains coiled around the bald head’s body, he saw a scene he had never seen in his life.

He saw.

At the ends of the hilts of the Human Bone Rusty Swords gripped in the bald head’s left and right hands—those hilt ends that had already split open like sharp mouths—had now truly turned into a pair of fanged maws.

And these two maws were constantly writhing and chewing.

Every wriggle and chew would tug on those thick chains, and at the same time the arena rang with even harsher sounds of iron chains scraping.

The ends of the hilts of both Human Bone Rusty Swords writhed diligently, as if fighting over something.

”What are they doing?”

Xu Ran watched this scene and began to ponder.

Even if the answer might not bring him much, maybe this tiny detail could let him find the best way to clear the stage.

”Could it be they’re trying to strangle the bald head to death?”

At this moment the bald head was already tightly bound by those thick chains, and as the two maws writhed and chewed, his face flushed red, as though he was about to be unable to hold on.

Yet even so, the bald head didn’t make a single move to resist.

”No!”

Seeing this, Xu Ran immediately rejected his previous guess.

”It’s not to strangle the bald head!”

Previously, Xu Ran had guessed that the chains appeared in order to strangle the bald head.

The main reason was that the bald head was currently gripping two Human Bone Rusty Swords in his left and right hands.

If these two Human Bone Rusty Swords strangled the bald head to death, would they completely unleash their Power, or free themselves from the Nine-Layered Giant Tower?

If that were really the case, the bald head definitely wouldn’t voluntarily hold two Human Bone Rusty Swords.

Xu Ran pondered as he watched the thick chains coiled around the bald head’s body.

Those chains as thick as an arm were already about to strangle the bald head to death.

He carefully scanned up and down and found that the bald head still made no movement, which further confirmed his own conjecture.

He scanned up and down once more, and suddenly Xu Ran’s eyes widened sharply.

”This is...”

Xu Ran discovered that of the two Human Bone Rusty Swords originally gripped in the bald head’s hands, the dark-red mist spraying from the hilt end of the one on the left was growing thinner and thinner.

Whereas the dark-red mist spraying from the Human Bone Rusty Sword on the right was growing thicker and thicker, and its fanged maw’s wriggling and chewing speed became even faster.

”So that’s how it is!”

Looking at the scene before him, Xu Ran instantly understood.

”These two Human Bone Rusty Swords are about to fuse!”

At the same time.

Senior Brother, who was currently watching Xu Ran undergo the trial, also spoke lightly.

His words directly made the two beside him cry out in shock.

”Fuse?!”

Their voices seemed to jump several pitches higher, shrill to the ears.

”Everything that just happened was to let the Human Bone Rusty Swords devour each other until one side’s Power completely merges into the other!”

”That’s also why the Gatekeeper held two Human Bone Rusty Swords in his hands!”

”I’m afraid to do this he needs to use his body as a medium, only then can the two Human Bone Rusty Swords fuse with each other!”

Senior Brother finished in one breath. If the bald head had time to observe them right now, he would definitely give a big thumbs-up.

The truth was exactly as Senior Brother had guessed.

Indeed.

”Fusion!”

Not only Senior Brother, Xu Ran also saw the clue at this moment.

”I didn’t expect that even two of the Human Bone Rusty Swords can fuse!”

Xu Ran had truly never heard of such a thing.

”But this suits me just fine!” Xu Ran wasn’t worried in the slightest. ”Best if they fuse all of them in one go, that’d save me time!”

At this time, the bald head, wrapped in arm-thick chains, had only one eye still exposed.

Yet even so, his voice was still full and forceful as he said.

”I’m afraid once all the Human Bone Rusty Swords fuse, you won’t last even a single breath!”

Those words were like a catalyst.

At once, that last exposed eye was also wrapped up by the chains.

”Clang clang clang----”

At the same time.

The writhing and chewing speed at the end of the hilt of the fifteenth Human Bone Rusty Sword in the bald head’s grip suddenly surged.

That hook-shaped Human Bone Rusty Sword was instantly swallowed completely.

The devoured hook-shaped Human Bone Rusty Sword turned into a thick stream of dark-red mist and was sucked inside.

Winner takes all—this saying worked just as well on these Human Bone Rusty Swords.

At the instant the two Human Bone Rusty Swords finished fusing, the bald head’s body, which had just disappeared, flashed and reappeared beside the Rusted Sword.

This time, he again directly grabbed this newly fused Human Bone Rusty Sword, a ferocious expression on his face, like a demon from Hell.

”Xu Ran, even for the Human Bone Rusty Sword at the very bottom of the ranking, you had to pay a huge price to succeed!”

”Now, two powerful Human Bone Rusty Swords have fused together. With your newly learned half-baked Swordsmanship, can you withstand it?”

The bald head gave Xu Ran no time to breathe. Gripping the Human Bone Rusty Sword, his figure instantly vanished; throughout the entire Dueling Arena, the bald head’s aura disappeared as if he had never been there.

Seeing this scene, Xu Ran did not panic at all. Instead, he tightened his grip on the Silver Light Iron Sword.

What the bald head had just said was indeed true.

After all, he himself knew that defeating the first Human Bone Rusty Sword had been beyond expectation, and he had indeed learned two Swordsmanship moves from that sword.

If he were facing people of the same stage, he would be unstoppable, and even some Cultivators who specialized in Swordsmanship wouldn’t last more than a few moves against Xu Ran.

But.

He was now facing two Human Bone Embroidery Swords more powerful than the first Human Bone Rusty Sword.

And these were Human Bone Rusty Swords that had fused together.

Since they were originally things born from the same person, once fused again, the result would not be a simple one plus one equals two, but one plus one greater than two, perhaps even greater than three.

So Xu Ran didn’t dare be the least bit careless.

Although Xu Ran’s Swordsmanship, without using the Immortal Sword Skill, was indeed that of a novice Cultivator.

But in other aspects, Xu Ran was no pushover either.

”Wong--”

All of a sudden.

A faint spatial ripple flickered on Xu Ran’s left side. That instant was extremely brief, like a drop of icy water falling into the ocean, barely noticeable.

But this seemingly insignificant detail was caught by Xu Ran.

He quickly raised the Silver Light Iron Sword and held it horizontally to his left.

In the instant he assumed a defensive stance, the bald head’s figure emerged from that faint spatial ripple.

”Clang--”

A crisp sound rang out; the newly fused Human Bone Rusty Sword happened to strike exactly on the body of the Silver Light Iron Sword, without inflicting the slightest Damage on Xu Ran!