Ye Feng narrowed his eyes at the two puppets who came out of the wooden doors, then he coated his sword with his saint force. The puppet with the daggers charged at Ye Feng with incredible speed. Ye Feng's eyes widened in shock at the puppet's speed; it was moving so fast that he was barely able to follow the puppet's movements. The puppet started cutting Ye Feng all over his body with incredible precision with its daggers.
Ye Feng couldn't react in time; he was too slow to react to the puppet's assaults. All he could do was grit his teeth and endure the pain. "Damn it." The puppet then stabbed Ye Feng in the stomach deeply with one of his daggers. Ye Feng quickly reacted after getting stabbed by the puppet and grabbed the puppet's arm with his free hand before the puppet could pull his arm back. Ye Feng then swung his sword while it was coated with his saint force and chopped off the puppet's arm.
After chopping off the puppet's arm, a bo staff slammed on Ye Feng's cheek out of nowhere and sent Ye Feng flying. Ye Feng used his coated sword to stab the ground, and he stopped his backward momentum.
Ye Feng removed the dagger that was in his stomach and tossed it to the ground. He was bleeding profusely from his stomach thanks to the stab he received from the puppet just now. Also, his white robe that the middle-aged woman gave him to wear before he entered the pagoda was shredded into pieces.
Furthermore, when he was attacked by the short puppet, he was cut by it's daggers all over his body, and now he was bleeding from all these cuts he received from the puppet. However, he wasn't bleeding profusely from these cuts. Ye Feng didn't care about his injuries; instead, he was concentrating on the two puppets.
The short puppet charged again at Ye Feng with his incredible speed, but this time Ye Feng was ready and took a defensive stance with his coated sword. The puppet cut Ye Feng's chest with its dagger, but Ye Feng grabbed the puppet arm with his free hand again, and then he swung his coated sword horizontally, chopping the puppet in half by the waist.
After the two halves of the short puppet fell to the ground, Ye Feng saw from the corner of his eyes that a bo staff was thrusted towards his face. Ye Feng quickly brought his coated sword to the side and blocked the bo staff "CLANK."
Quickly, Ye Feng made some distance between himself and the puppet. The puppet started rotating the bo staff on his palm with incredible speed to build up momentum, then all of a sudden the puppet started thrusting and swinging the bo staff at Ye Feng.
Ye Feng started dodging the bo staff with so much difficulties because the bo staff was swung and thrusted at him with incredible speed, precision, and momentum. "SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH." Ye Feng couldn't get close to the puppet at all; he was forced to stay away from it because of how skilled the puppet was at wielding the bo staff.
Ye Feng narrowed his eyes, then gave a small, excited smile and thought, "Here goes nothing." Ye Feng then charged at the puppet with his top speed. The puppet started swinging and thrusting his bo staff again at Ye Feng, but this time Ye Feng started parrying every swing and every thrust of the bo staff with his coated sword. When Ye Feng was close enough to the puppet, he stabbed his coated sword at the puppet's chest.
After stabbing the puppet with his coated sword, Ye Feng removed his sword from the puppet's chest. The puppet then fell to the ground. Ye Feng sighed in relief when he saw the puppet fall to the ground, but suddenly Ye Feng heard a loud sound: "CLICK."
He looked straight towards the source of the sound and saw four walls lifted up in the air, and four wooden doors appeared. The four wooden doors started to open slowly, and four different puppets of different sizes walked out of the wooden doors. Ye Feng cursed when he saw this and said loudly, "Come on, give me a break."
The first puppet was wielding a gauntlet with his right hand. The gauntlet looked like a monster-beast claw and was made of steel. The gauntlet covers the puppet's hand and forearm. This puppet was short, like the puppet Ye Feng faced, who wielded the two daggers.
The second puppet wielded a huge battle axe. The puppet carried the battle axe with one hand, despite how big the axe was. The puppet was huge. The next puppet has an ordinary height and average size; he was wielding a bow and carries arrows on his back. The last puppet was wielding a huge black blade with a black hilt. The blade was as tall as the puppet, around 5.8 feet tall.
Three of the four puppets charged at Ye Feng with their weapons ready to take him down, except the archer puppet, who pointed his bow towards Ye Feng and was ready to fire his arrows at him. The ones who charged at Ye Feng were the blade-wielding puppet, the axe-wielding puppet, and the gauntlet-wielding puppet.
Ye Feng unconsciously coated his entire body and his sword with his saint force when he saw the three puppets charging at him. A bright blue cloud covered Ye Feng's body and, by extension, his sword too. When the three puppets attacked Ye Feng simultaneously, Ye Feng grabbed the forearm of the gauntlet-wielding puppet and threw him towards the axe-wielding puppet.
The two puppets crashed into each other, and Ye Feng quickly blocked a blade strike from the blade-wielding puppet "CLANK." After Ye Feng blocked the blade strike from the puppet, he dashed towards the gauntlet puppet, whom he had thrown earlier at the axe-wielding puppet.
The gauntlet-wielding puppet was giving his back to Ye Feng, and Ye Feng quickly stabbed the gauntlet puppet in the back with his sword. The puppet then fell motionlessly to the ground.
Ye Feng saw two arrows flying towards him from the corner of his eyes. He quickly grabbed the gauntlet puppet body and used it as a shield to protect himself from the arrows. "PENG, PENG."
The arrows stabbed the puppet body and protected Ye Feng from the archer's puppet assaults.
The axe-wielding puppet swung his axe vertically to chop Ye Feng in half; however, Ye Feng used the gauntlet puppet body again and brought it in front of him to protect him from the axe-wielding puppet attack.
The axe chopped the gauntlet puppet that Ye Feng used as a shield in half, and Ye Feng used this opportunity to attack the axe-wielding puppet. Ye Feng used his sword to stab the puppet in the throat.
Ye Feng quickly removed his sword from the puppet's throat and swung his sword again horizontally from the waist, cutting the puppet in half. However, Ye Feng saw the blade-wielding puppet swinging his blade at him in order to cut him in half, but Ye Feng flipped backward, dodging the blade.
The puppet kept chasing Ye Feng and swinging his blade in order to cut him into pieces, and Ye Feng started blocking every strike from the puppet: "CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK." Two arrows were flying towards Ye Feng with tremendous speed, and they were aiming at his right shoulder and at his forearm, but the bright blue cloud of saint force that Ye Feng was coating himself with reduced the arrows momentum tremendously, and it only scratched Ye Feng's skin, and the arrows fell to the ground afterward.
Ye Feng got annoyed by the archer puppet. "Damn, that archer puppet is so annoying; I need to take care of him right now." Ye Feng then kicked the blade-wielding puppet and sent him flying towards the wall; after that, he started running at top speed towards the archer puppet.
The archer puppet started firing arrow after arrow towards Ye Feng, "SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH." Ye Feng used his sword to cut the arrows that were flying towards him. The blade-wielding puppet was following Ye Feng with its top speed, closing the gap between them at a fast rate.
All of a sudden, Ye Feng turned around towards the blade-wielding puppet. When the puppet was close enough, he swung his sword vertically. The puppet was slow to react and was cut in half.
Four arrows were flying towards Ye Feng and were aiming at Ye Feng's back: "SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH," but his saint force cloud protected Ye Feng, and the arrows only scratched his back after penetrating the saint force cloud that was coating Ye Feng, and the arrows fell to the ground.
After dealing with the blade-wielding puppet, Ye Feng turned towards the archer puppet again. and he started charging towards it with his top speed. Ye Feng started cutting and dodging the arrows that the archer puppet was firing at him. When Ye Feng was close to the archer puppet, he swung his sword and chopped the puppet head off.
After chopping off the head of the archer puppet, Ye Feng was breathing hard, and the saint force cloud that was coating his body and sword disappeared slowly. Ye Feng then heard a loud sound: "CLICK."
The wall in front of Ye Feng started to rise in the air, and Ye Feng was nervous when he saw that. He was worried that he would need to fight another group of puppets. However, Ye Feng found stairs leading upward to a higher level. Ye Feng sighed in relief at what he saw and said loudly, "It seems I succeeded in beating all the puppets in the first level of the pagoda." Ye Feng then chuckles, "If the first level was this tough, I can't imagine what the other levels had in store." Ye Feng gave a vicious smile and thought, "This is exciting." Then Ye Feng started walking to the stairs to go to the second level of the pagoda.
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Outside the pagoda, all the academy students were in an uproar because one of the students in the pagoda was entering the second level of the Azure Fang Pagoda.
On the pagoda, three specks of light could be seen. Each speck of light represents a student who is still fighting inside the pagoda, and only three students are left inside the pagoda. 197 students were teleported outside the pagoda after getting injured or because they gave up. The injured were sent to the medical bay to get treated by the radiant saint masters of the academy.
One of the specks of light that could be seen on the pagoda was reaching the second level. This only happened twice in the history of Azure Dragon Academy.
The brown-bearded middle-aged man stroked his bread and smirked, "This is getting interesting. I wonder which kid is going to challenge the second level."
Ye Long smiled, and Su Hau asked him, "Do you think it is your fifth brother who is going to challenge the second level?" Ye Long shocks his head: "I'm not sure; , fifth brother is considered a genius back in the clan, but all of us know how difficult the pagoda is; it is hard to say for sure." His friends nodded their heads, agreeing with what Ye Long just said.
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When Ye Feng reached the second level, he saw a puppet with an average build and height wielding a black sword. The puppet's eyes shone brightly after 2 seconds, and it charged at Ye Feng with its sword. The puppet swung its sword at Ye Feng with the intention of cutting Ye Feng in half. Ye Feng raised his sword to block the sword attack "CLANK.".
Ye Feng gritted his teeth because of the heavy sword swing from the puppet, then kicked the puppet after coating his foot with saint force and sending the puppet a couple of feet backward. Ye Feng smiled strangely at the puppet and said, "This is really going to be interesting. This puppet is much stronger than those I fought in the first level. Let's dance, puppet.".