Chapter 2778 Dark Restraint

After saying her piece, Bloodfang said she was logging off to rest.

"The mental strain is this severe?" Shi Feng frowned slightly as he watched Bloodfang log off.

After observing Bloodfang for some time, he was sure that she was a master of the Vacuum Realm, a top-tier existence even in super guilds. This was why he was so confident.

The tests in the Titan Library relied entirely on player skill and had nothing to do with skills or equipment.

For a master like Bloodfang to feel helpless, it was hard to imagine how difficult the tests in the central area would be.

Mental exhaustion beyond the player's limit usually took three to five hours to recover. If overdone, it wouldn't be surprising to need more than ten hours of rest. Even using an S-grade nutrient solution to recover would take at least an hour in the real world to fully recover.

The time to choose a skill book in the Titan Library was only three hours. An hour of rest in the real world was two hours in God's Domain, meaning that when Bloodfang came out, she would have little time left to challenge the central area.

"This test is really ruthless!" Shi Feng clicked his tongue in amazement.

If you failed once, it meant consuming a bottle of S-grade nutrient solution, and you could only choose skill books in the inner area. Without an S-grade nutrient solution to recover, it was equivalent to losing a chance to select a skill book in the Titan Library.

Now he understood why so many peak experts were stuck in the central area.

"Luckily, I still have a few bottles of S-grade nutrient solution, or I probably wouldn't even have the qualifications to challenge it." Shi Feng adjusted his mentality and stepped into a dark barrier.

As soon as Shi Feng entered the completely dark barrier, he immediately felt its extraordinary nature.

Not only was his vision taken away, but even his hearing was deprived.

Any expert, even if only their vision was deprived, would have their combat power greatly affected, let alone having both vision and hearing deprived. Forget fighting, their mentality itself would be unbalanced.

Moreover, in a world where you can't see or hear anything, you don't know what kind of danger you will face.

Even expert players would collapse from the unknown terror.

Fortunately, Shi Feng had experienced something similar in the Tower of Battle before, although it wasn't as intense as here. His mentality was not unbalanced, and he remained calm.

Although he had lost his vision and hearing, he still had his sense of touch and smell.

"Hmm, something is coming!" Shi Feng had not taken a few steps forward when he felt fluctuations in the air in several parts of his body. However, this fluctuation was very weak, and in an instant, he felt a sting like being pricked by a needle in those places, which pushed him back two or three steps.

Shi Feng then tried again, but the result was the same. He hadn't taken a few steps when several more places sent a faint fluctuation, followed by a pain in his body, especially in the places that had been pricked before, where the pain was doubled.

"I see, no wonder so many peak experts were helpless against this." Shi Feng smiled wryly after trying a few times.

It was too difficult to perceive the fluctuations of the air purely through touch.

Experts in the Vacuum Realm could maximize their five senses to control the surrounding environment. If relying solely on touch to perceive, it was difficult to have accurate judgment. Even though he had made evasive actions at the moment of perception, he still couldn't avoid the needle attacks.

Moreover, the repeated pain made it difficult for the brain to remain calm, and it would inevitably become impetuous.

"Now that evasion is impossible, the only way is to resist." Shi Feng then drew his twin swords and rushed forward.

The reason why experts became experts, in addition to their agile skills and keen perception, the most important thing was their speed of thought and instant memory ability. After the brain's activity was improved, the brain's memory and calculation speed were greatly improved, allowing them to perform various simulations through limited information.

In this dark barrier, the needle attacks were not without rules. Each attack was in three to five places. According to the injuries Shi Feng had suffered, whether repeated or not, there were twelve places on the body.

Although he couldn't be sure that the needle attacks would definitely target these twelve places, knowing twelve places was enough.

As long as he kept defending these twelve places, even if he was attacked in other places, he wouldn't be eliminated. He would simply take a step or two back and add another defense point later.

Then, Shi Feng continued to move forward, and the twin swords he wielded seemed to form a defensive layer. All the needle attacks were blocked one by one, and as he continued to swing his swords, Shi Feng was also refining the trajectory of his swords, reducing unnecessary movements and strengthening his defense ability.

Everything was as Shi Feng had guessed. The twelve places were indeed not the entirety of the needle attacks, but fourteen places. These fourteen places seemed to contain some kind of meaning. As Shi Feng continued to refine the trajectory of his swords, the defensive range of the sword trajectory was also constantly increasing, almost covering about 40% of the frontal attacks.

This made Shi Feng feel incredible.

But more than that, he felt joy.

There were still many shortcomings in the trajectory of his sword, but it could already defend about 40% of the frontal attacks, which meant that if there were 50 attack points in front, he could defend at least 20 attack points by following this trajectory.

Just as Shi Feng went 50 yards deep, the number of attacks directly rose to six to eight times, and the attack points also increased from the original fourteen to twenty-one, which immediately made Shi Feng become flustered, and he kept advancing and retreating in the area of about 50 yards.

However, as his body was constantly hit, the places that were repeatedly hit became more and more painful. Even Shi Feng, who had such a firm will, couldn't help but grit his teeth and frown.

Although the pain in his body would make his thinking slow, Shi Feng became more and more energetic.

To defend twenty-one positions, the complexity of the sword trajectory was greatly increased. After streamlining some unnecessary movements and trajectories, Shi Feng finally officially went 50 yards deep after spending half an hour and could block all the needle attacks.

After stepping into the 80-yard area, the number of attacks increased again, directly changing from six to eight times to a qualitative change of fourteen to eighteen times. The defense points also became thirty-two. Although only eleven points were added, the complexity of the sword trajectory directly doubled, and even Shi Feng himself couldn't bear it.

Even after spending more than an hour to improve it, there were still many shortcomings, but he could still defend about 60% of the attacks from the front.

Relying on a 60% defense rate and an incoherent thirty-two sword trajectory, he gambled on the needle attacks not targeting those few places, gritted his teeth and constantly tried to break through the last 20 yards. Finally, with only the last twenty minutes left before the three-hour limit, Shi Feng fortunately passed the dark restraint area and came to the central area of the Titan Library.

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