Devouring the Stars: The Master of Metaphysics

Li Qi stood in the air above the grassland, and a light curtain appeared in front of him, with many words on it.

"The assessment of the Chaoguang Academy Trial Tower is about to begin, and your current assessment route is the controller.

"Please choose the type, quantity and flying equipment of your telekinetic weapons. "

As soon as the words fell, a variety of basic telekinetic weapons appeared in front of him.

Without extra thinking, Li Qi chose the bone cones that he had used for a long time, the number of which was 23 times the newly measured telekinetic amplitude, corresponding to 23 bone cones.

After choosing the telekinetic weapons, a variety of flying equipment appeared in front of him, including shields, shuttles, greatswords, etc.

Looking at the flying equipment in front of him, Li Qi fell into a brief thought.

Among these flying equipment, the shuttle is the fastest in terms of speed, the shield is the best in defense, and the greatsword is naturally the best in attack.

"Among these flying equipment, I am most proficient in the shield, and the shield is suitable for defense. It allows me to resist the attack of monsters in critical moments and make up for the shortcomings of my body skills that have not reached perfection."

After a brief thought, Li Qi chose the shield as a flying equipment.

If he had practiced his body skills for a long time and his realm was high enough, his first choice would be the shuttle.

But for now, the shield is the best solution.

As Li Qi made his choice, the light curtain closed up and down and disappeared, and then the new light curtain spread up and down.

"On the first floor of the Trial Tower, please kill an apprentice-level ninth-order flying monster - the carrion bird within one minute."

"Click to confirm, the assessment will begin in ten seconds."

Below the text, there is a big red word 'Confirm'.

Li Qi clicked 'Confirm', and a ten-second countdown appeared.

"Ten, nine, eight..."

The countdown ended, and the carrion bird flew from the horizon and then dived down.

"Want to interfere with my mentality?"

Looking at the carrion bird that was swooping down, Li Qi's eyes seemed to be burning with flames, "I will make you despair! Marcel!"

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

23 bone cones flew out from Li Qi's side, targeting the carrion bird that was swooping down.

The bone cones drew beautiful arcs in the air and hit the carrion bird head-on.

The apprentice-level ninth-order bone cones were only slightly stronger than the carrion bird's feathers, and could barely break the latter's defense.

Bang, bang, bang...

Amid the sound of metal collision, the carrion bird was hit by a series of bone spikes, and its body flew upside down into the sky.

Puff, puff...

After the sound of metal collision, a series of bone spikes pierced into flesh and blood, and the carrion bird was killed by the bone spikes!

The first level of the trial tower, passed!

The carrion bird with blood and flesh flying around disappeared, and the assessment of the second level of the trial tower is about to begin.

The goal is to kill three carrion birds, and the time limit is three minutes.

Without pausing, Li Qi directly clicked "Confirm", and the assessment began.

In less than a minute, the three carrion birds had been killed by the angry him, and the price was that he was slightly injured.

The second level of the trial tower, passed!

The body of the carrion bird disappeared, and Li Qi's minor injuries also disappeared, and the mental power consumed before was also restored.

The third level of the trial tower, the goal is to kill ten carrion birds, and the time limit is ten minutes.

It took three minutes and twenty-seven seconds for all ten carrion-eating birds to be killed, and the price Li Qi paid was an arm.

The third floor of the Trial Tower, passed!

After passing three floors in a row, Li Qi's anger was vented and he regained his composure.

"The fourth floor of the Trial Tower, please kill thirty apprentice ninth-level monsters - carrion-eating birds within thirty minutes."

Looking at the words on the light screen in front of him, he knew that the real Trial Tower assessment was about to begin, and the first three floors were just warm-ups.

"If you want to pass the fourth floor of the Trial Tower, you can't go head-to-head with a large number of monsters. You have to make full use of your small size to deal with the monsters.

"You also have to use your mental power to observe the environment, and then use your body skills to use the monsters to block the monsters, and leave a few bone cones to use when necessary, you should be able to pass the fourth floor."

After deciding on a countermeasure, Li Qi clicked 'Confirm'.

The countdown began, and dozens of black spots began to appear on the horizon.

"Ten, nine, eight..."

As the battle ended, a black dot appeared above Li Qi's head, where there were thirty carrion birds.

Facing Li Qi's sudden appearance, several carrion birds in the sky began to swoop down, as if to tear Li Qi to pieces.

But he was not afraid, and flew towards the sky with his shield on his feet, aiming at the carrion birds that were swooping down.

In the body movement teaching of Sandie Ivanko, it was mentioned that we should learn to use the environment to deal with the enemy.

And this so-called environment is not only dead things, living things can be regarded as part of the environment.     This was what he realized when he broke through the third floor of the Warrior Road Trial Tower, but without the assistance of mental power, it was difficult for him to use that level of body movement.

Killing the carrion birds that were swooping down, Li Qi controlled five bone cones to protect him, and the remaining eighteen bone cones attacked the carrion birds.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

The sound of bone spikes breaking through the air was heard, and eighteen bone spikes were divided into two teams, attacking the vital parts of the two nearest carrion birds.

The two carrion birds that were targeted lowered their heads and used their wings to protect their heads, and then used non-vital parts of their bodies to resist the attack.

However, this action was useless in front of the faster and more numerous bone spikes!

The bone spikes drew arcs in the air, bypassing the wide wings of the carrion birds, and two by two cooperated to hit their necks and heads one after another, and then penetrated into them.

Chirp!

Blood splashed, and the corpse-eating birds cried miserably.

While killing two corpse-eating birds, another five bone cones flew out one after another, forcing the three corpse-eating birds behind to fold their wings to protect themselves.

At this time, Li Qi took back the bone cone, and at the same time passed by the three corpse-eating birds and entered the huge group of corpse-eating birds.

The corpse-eating birds are not small in size, with a wingspan of ten meters.

Li Qi's height is now less than two meters, and he is considered a small guy among these huge corpse-eating birds. There are only three or four corpse-eating birds that can attack him at the same time.

Shuttled among the group of corpse-eating birds, Li Qi's mental power spread out, covering the surrounding sky.

Within the coverage of mental power, he can know any action of the corpse-eating birds in the first time.

And this range is seven meters, and there is no dead angle at 360 degrees.

Of course, the cost of doing this is terrible, which makes him consume a lot of energy, and at the same time the loss of mental power increases greatly. The bone cones that can be fully controlled have been reduced from 23 to 12, and the number has dropped greatly.

If he expands the coverage of his mental power, the number of bone cones he can control will continue to decrease, and he may not even have the energy to operate them.

"We have to fight quickly. I can only last four minutes at most if my mental power is too depleted. Seven meters is the minimum, and it cannot be reduced."

"If it is less than seven meters, once a carrion bird attacks, I may not be able to react in time and avoid the attack of the carrion bird."

Faced with the rapid consumption of mental power, Li Qi must fight quickly.

Fortunately, he has figured out the attack habits of the carrion bird. This kind of monster has limited attack methods, which are nothing more than pecking, slapping, and grabbing.

Among them, pecking and grabbing usually expose the vital parts of the carrion bird, which undoubtedly gives him an opportunity.

Facing these two attack methods, as long as he counterattacks when the carrion bird attacks, he will often achieve good results.

Bone cones can hit the neck and head of the carrion bird, and the carrion bird hit will be injured or killed!

If the telekinetic weapons provided by the Trial Tower were stronger, then the corpse-eating birds that were hit in the vital parts would be killed directly.

Even though the power of the basic telekinetic weapons was limited, Li Qi still killed twelve corpse-eating birds within a minute. His remaining mental power was enough to pass the fourth floor of the Trial Tower.

The battle continued. Li Qi controlled the shield to fall down, retreated to the right rear, and passed between two corpse-eating birds.

Bang!

The two corpse-eating birds chasing Li Qi collided with each other, and at the same time, the wings of the corpse-eating bird above also missed.

Whoosh!

Two bone cones hit the skulls of the two corpse-eating birds, making the two corpse-eating birds dizzy for a while.

One of them fell from the air, and the other flapped its wings several times before it stabilized its body. The part where it was attacked was also bleeding.

While the two corpse-eating birds were injured, Li Qi sent out four bone spikes in pairs, attacking the vital points of the two corpse-eating birds one after another.

Chirp!

Two screams sounded, and the two corpse-eating birds were killed.

Successfully killing two corpse-eating birds did not offset the depression in Li Qi's heart.

"The mental weapons provided by the Trial Tower are too weak. You must cooperate to kill the monsters quickly, otherwise you can only launch attacks again and again to consume them and kill them."

In the following time, Li Qi dodged and attacked again and again. When he killed all the corpse-eating birds, there was not much mental power left.

Feeling the remaining mental power, Li Qi thought: "It takes a lot of time to kill monsters by consumption. Fortunately, there are not many monsters in the first two levels of the trial tower, and there is enough time and mental power to consume.

"But when it comes to the third level, you can't pass it by consumption without some ability. The increase in the number of monsters has certain requirements for body skills.

"And this fourth level is more than five times more difficult than the third level, which is a great test of body skills.

"People with weak body skills don't even have the qualifications to consume, and can only die in the siege of many monsters."

The fourth level of the trial tower was passed, the corpse of the carrion bird on the ground disappeared, and a light curtain appeared in front of Li Qi.

At first, he didn't understand why the opponent of the trial tower of the controller route was always the carrion bird, and never said random monsters.

After going through the trial tower many times, he understood that this was to reduce the difficulty for candidates participating in the trial tower assessment.

The habits of a single monster are easy to understand, and they can be better dealt with in battle, which is fair to all candidates.

Otherwise, facing the unfamiliar monsters that randomly appeared, it would not be easy to pass the fourth floor of the Trial Tower with only the ninth-level apprentice's mental power level and the most basic mental power weapons, let alone the fifth floor.

You know, the number of monsters that need to be killed on the fifth floor is one hundred!

"The fifth floor of the Trial Tower, please kill one hundred apprentice ninth-level monsters - corpse-eating birds within one hundred minutes."

Looking at the text on the light screen in front of him, Li Qi shook his head, "The fifth floor of the Trial Tower, I can't pass it with my current strength."

"It's impossible to pass the fifth floor, but my current goal is to get good results. It's the best choice to use the fourth-level fighting method. Kill as many corpse-eating birds as possible before running out of mental power."

Whispering to himself, Li Qi clicked "Confirm".