Although Phantom Beasts can mimic all of a player's skills, Shi Feng had gained a clear understanding of them during their exchanges.

From the start of the battle, Shi Feng had already used Ice Blue Devil Flames, but the Phantom Beast didn't seem to be able to use it.

Ice Blue Devil Flames wasn't a skill Shi Feng had learned, but an effect attached to the Ice Blue Devil Flames item. So, Shi Feng was 100% certain that the Phantom Beast couldn't use the attached skills from a player's equipment.

As the black mist emerging from the Abyssal Blade seeped into Shi Feng's body, a faint layer of silver-gray death energy surfaced on his skin. He immediately charged toward the Phantom Beast, first activating Nine Dragon Slash. Twelve Abyssal Blade phantoms appeared, directly attacking the Phantom Beast.

Seeing the twelve Abyssal Blades coming, the Phantom Beast cleverly chose not to defend. Instead, it used Yanlei Storm to kill Shi Feng, reasoning that if Shi Feng died, the skill would naturally be canceled.

However, Shi Feng smiled calmly, not dodging, but instead activating Sword Dance Return to meet the attack, directly aiming for the Phantom Beast's vitals.

Sword Dance Return could negate four melee attacks. Shi Feng didn't need to use his swords to block; he allowed the Phantom Beast to attack him while his own dual swords slashed at the Phantom Beast's body.

The Phantom Beast had already used Sword Dance Return to block Flame Burst, so now it could only endure Shi Feng's attack head-on.

Shi Feng seized this opportunity, landing seven consecutive hits on the Phantom Beast, each dealing over 500 damage, with critical hits reaching 1000.

Each Abyssal Blade phantom also dealt over 200 damage.

Four of the seven sword strikes were critical hits, and with the attacks from the twelve Abyssal Blade phantoms, they inflicted over 7000 damage, which could be considered very impressive.

However, the Phantom Beast, transformed into Shi Feng, revealed a disdainful sneer.

It was as if it was saying, "Is that all you've got?"

This level of damage was just a scratch for its 200,000 health points. It could spit on it and wipe it off.

But you, without any life-saving skills, are doomed.

"Having high HP is certainly an advantage," Shi Feng said, looking at the Phantom Beast's health bar with a bit of emotion, but he then smiled, "But if you think you can crush me with that advantage, you're ten years too early."

Shi Feng once again activated Purgatory Power from Purgatory Shadow, increasing his attack speed by 100% and damage by 30% for 15 seconds, with a two-minute cooldown.

Seeing the Phantom Beast charging again, Shi Feng pointed with the Abyssal Blade.

Abyssal Shackles.

Nine pitch-black, icy chains instantly emerged and bound the Phantom Beast.

A full four seconds of absolute restraint, but the Phantom Beast showed no panic, not even a hint of resistance. Instead, it revealed a mocking look, as if to say, "Go ahead and hit me if you can."

Before, it only lost 7000 health points in a little over a second. Even with another four seconds, it would only lose 30,000 health points, less than a quarter of its total.

After using all these skills, Shi Feng's burst damage was used up.

Without life-saving skills or burst-limiting skills, the result was obvious, so the Phantom Beast was at ease.

From the start, it was impossible for this human to defeat it.

But the Phantom Beast soon discovered that fantasies are always plump, while reality is very bony.

Abyssal Shackles was indeed four seconds, but it reduced defense by 100%, which drastically increased the damage Shi Feng inflicted.

Just one casual sword strike from Shi Feng could deal over 700 damage, and even more unbelievably, it triggered the Abyssal Blade's curse, instantly reducing the Phantom Beast's attributes by nearly 30%, its health dropping directly from 200,000 to 140,000.

Under the barrage of Sword Tempest, the Phantom Beast's health plummeted as it was constantly hit with critical strikes. Strands of death energy were absorbed by Shi Feng. It could be said that Nine Dragon Slash was a perfect match for the profound meaning of Black Emperor. After activating Nine Dragon Slash, Shi Feng would never be short of death energy again.

Before the four seconds were up, the Phantom Beast's health had fallen below 70%.

Seeing that the shackles were about to be released, the Phantom Beast would be free and able to completely crush Shi Feng.

However, Shi Feng changed his sword stance, leaped into the air, and used 10 layers of the accumulated 30 layers of death energy on Yanlei Storm. The cooldown time for Level 7 Yanlei Storm was 30 seconds, and each layer of death energy could reduce the cooldown time by 3 seconds. By consuming 10 layers of death energy, Yanlei Storm could be used again.

And it didn't end there. Shi Feng added the remaining 20 layers of death energy to himself, instantly increasing all his attributes by 40%, attack speed and movement speed by 20%, lasting 10 seconds.

After the boost, Shi Feng used Yanlei Storm, blasting the Phantom Beast's head, sparks flying everywhere, dealing over 3000 damage and stunning it for more than 3 seconds.

Shi Feng was well aware of his situation. His level was low, he had few skills, and he only had burst damage without sustained damage. After the burst, either the enemy died, or he died, or he ran away. But the truly powerful experts would infinitely control the monster to death, unless the monster was immune to control skills. It was clear that the monsters in the trial were not immune to control skills, only resistant. This resistance would make the effects of control skills worse and worse; otherwise, this trial would be impossible to complete.

There were gaps between the skills Shi Feng had learned, but the profound meaning of Black Emperor could solve this problem, allowing the skills to form a cycle. Otherwise, Shi Feng wouldn't dare to challenge the seventh round of the trial. The only pity was that the profound meaning of Black Emperor could only be used on skills that the player had learned, and not on skills from items or equipment.

But if that were the case, then it would be too overpowered...

During the 3-second stun, Shi Feng not only dealt a lot of damage, but also easily accumulated nearly twenty layers of death energy through Nine Dragon Slash.

He once again used ten layers of death energy to blast down Yanlei Storm.

But this time, it only stunned for less than 3 seconds.

However, Shi Feng didn't care at all, because at this time, he felt an inexplicable sense of freedom as he wielded his dual swords. He felt that this was how a swordsman should fight, and what he was pursuing.

Too much rigidity would lead to breaking. The connection and cooperation of skills should be continuous like flowing water – that was the kingly way.

And so, Shi Feng continuously used Yanlei Storm to bombard the Phantom Beast, although the effect of each stun became worse and worse, until finally it was only one second.

But the 140,000 health points were endlessly stunned to death by Shi Feng.

The Phantom Beast was crying its heart out.

The big shots in the Eternal Throne were stunned by this result, never expecting that Shi Feng was hiding so much.

System: Defeated Phantom Beast, completed the seventh round of the trial. Reward: 15 million experience points, 30 free mastery points, 800 points to all skill proficiency, and 10 gold coins.

System: Passed the seventh round of the trial. Do you want to start the next round of the trial?

With 15 million experience points, Shi Feng instantly leveled up twice, reaching Level 23. In the entire White River City, only Blackie had reached Level 23, and it took Blackie several days to level up from Level 21 to Level 23, while Shi Feng only took dozens of seconds...

Shi Feng looked at the system notification bar. He was a little expectant for the eighth round of the trial, but he still shook his head, "Know when to stop. It's good enough to earn an epic item. Continuing would make me a gambler instead of a master."

After all, the Twelve Trials was the strongest trial of the Temple of War God. The difficulty definitely increased geometrically as you went further. According to Shi Feng's speculation, the monster in the eighth round would probably not be a special elite, but a leader monster.

Leader monsters were much stronger than special elites. Not to mention that they had more health, their resistance to limiting skills was much higher than that of special elite monsters. Moreover, leader monsters also had team-wiping skills, and you could lose your life if you weren't careful.

Shi Feng had almost no chance of killing a leader monster that he knew nothing about.

Analyzing things calmly was a necessary condition for becoming a God's Domain expert.

A first-rate expert like Shi Feng would naturally give up decisively.

Then Shi Feng clicked "No" in the system selection bar and was immediately teleported out of the Twelve Trials.