Suddenly a laughter comes from in front, and Zhou walks out of there with 2 other kids. "Looks like I finally found you!" Zhou says, and without wasting a second, he raises his hand, and his hands become engulfed in flames. "I'm going to burn you to a crisp."
Shen also raises his hands and gathers his Qi and starts to manifest the 2nd form of the 8 elephant forms. Zhou makes a fire arrow, and Shen manifests a bird. Both of them release their techniques together, making a clash. The intensity of the clash is such that the whole dungeon shakes. After a few minutes, Shen's bird destroys Zhou's flame arrow and hits him, throwing him away and breaking the wall.
As Zhou opens his eyes and stands up, he sees the remains of the demonic dragon. A lot of demonic energy was coming out of it.
Shen and his team come in. Suddenly a kid from Zhou's team jumps at Shen with a dagger, but Irina uses her ice attribute to throw him away.
As Shen stands in front of Zhou, he notices 2 black wolves. The wolves are at the Foundation Establishment realm. They are releasing demonic energy.
Shen looks at Zhou. "Want to team up to defeat it?" Shen asks Zhou.
"Fuck no. I can kill it on my own." Says Zhou as he orders his teammate to help him get up.
As Zhou's teammate starts to run towards Zhou, the black wolf fires a purple beam from its mouth, which hits Zhou's last teammate, making a hole in his chest, and he falls down dead.
"Still want to refuse?" Shen asks Zhen Zhou.
"Fine, only this time." Says Zhou.
Zhou gets up, and fire comes out of his hands; Irina's ice spikes come out of the wall towards the wolves; Shen uses his 8 elephant forms and ruses the 3rd form, which is a snake made of divine power; and Rong writes some runes on the walls in a circle, and in the middle, electricity starts to gather.
"Let's go!" As Shen says this, he rushes forward to the wolf while dodging its attack and punches the wolf, throwing him back against the wall, and continues to fight him with the divine snake made of divine Qi.
Irina points her hands at the wolf Shen is fighting and releases her spikes as it hits the wolf, and it screams.
As the other wolf tries to help, suddenly a wall of fire appears around it as Zhou raises his hands, both engulfed in flames, and starts to create his strongest attack, 'Fire Arrow.' The wolf quickly rushes towards him, but suddenly lightning comes its way as it dodges it. The lighting came from Rong's runes, which he drew.
Rong quickly draws another rune around him and Zhou as a shield appears. Rong again draws a lightning rune, making the wolf unable to reach Zhou.
As Rong delays the wolf, Zhou successfully makes the attack and releases it towards the wolf. The wolf not focused on Zhou doesn't notice, and the arrow hits him, burning him to a crisp.
The wolf Shen is fighting opens its mouth and releases a beam that disintegrates whatever it touches. Shen dodges it by a bit, and Irina starts to gather her Qi and prepares her strongest attack, which is 'Ice Dragon.' As Irina continues to gather her Qi, an ice dragon starts to form around her. The wolf rushes towards her, but Shen's snake blocks its way as Shen rushes and kicks it back, throwing it against the wall again.
As Shen throws it back, Irinca completes her ice dragon and releases it towards the wolf as a dragon made of ice starts to go towards the wolf when Shen's snake also joins the ice dragon, and both techniques merge, making a 'Divine Snake Dragon,' and as it hits the wolf, the wolf cries in pain but, unable to survive, dies.
Everyone becomes exhausted from the fight, but as Shen is about to say something, suddenly Zhou grabs a dagger, and as Shen looks at him, he puts the dagger in his left eye and runs out of the room and uses his fire to destroy the wall hole, blocking their way out.
Shen screams as he pulls out the dagger. "NO! He...he destroyed it. My Eye of Void!" Shen says, shouting as Irina quickly comes to him trying to stop the bleeding. "Zhen Zhou, I'll make sure to repay you this someday!" Shen shouts loudly.
After a while Irina manages to stop the bleeding and bandages Shen's left eye.
"Thanks, Irina." Shen says.
"That bastard, he damaged your left eye." Ring says.
A system notification pops up in front of Shen. "New check-in detected. After the host absorbs the demonic energy from the remains of the demonic dragon, the host will be rewarded." Says the system message.
Shen stands up and walks into the demonic energy and sits down.
"What are you doing?" Says both Irina and Rong.
"Absorbing the essence of this demonic dragon." Shen says.
"DON'T!" Both say and start running towards Shen.
As Irina and Rong rush towards him to stop him, Shen starts meditating and starts absorbing the demonic Qi. After 2 hours, Shen absorbs half of the demonic energy and stands up. As Irina is about to speak, Shen walks deeper into the energy and comes to the skeleton. Shen touches the skeleton.
"Devour," Shen says, touching the skeleton.
As Shen says that, suddenly demonic energy starts to enter Shen's body rapidly, and Shen screams in pain. After half an hour of screaming, Shen finally absorbs all the demonic Qi. Shen closes his eyes and feels that he has created another core along with his existing core. Now the amount of Qi Shen can absorb has doubled, and Shen can use demonic power too.
"The host has absorbed all the demonic energy. Does the host wish to check in?" The system notification says In front of Shen's eyes.
"Yes." Shen says and presses yes.
"Congratulations, the host has been rewarded with 2 martial arts creative cards. Host has also been rewarded with the Mystic Tier 'Sword of Eternal Darkness.' The sword of eternal darkness has automatically been placed in the host's storage ring." Says the system notification to Shen after he checked in.
Shen takes out the sword from his storage ring, which starts to emit a dark power aura quite similar to Shen's right eye of star. The Sword of Eternal Darkness is a longsword. It is black-colored with runes all over its blade.
"Wait! Is that the heavenly sword of Eternal Darkness? How do you have it?!" Irina asks Shen.
"I found it stabbed in the skeleton of the demonic dragon." Shen says. "It looks beautiful."
As Rong is about to say something, suddenly the way to enter the room, which Zhou had closed, explodes as a Half Saint Elder Yuan enters.
"Thi-This we've been looking for this skeleton everywhere, but it turns out it was already in our hands." Elder Yuan looks around and notices Shen. "Kid, what happened?"
As Elder Yuan starts to approach him, Shen puts the Sword of Eternal Darkness back in the storage ring.
Shen tells Elder Yuan about the fight with the wolves and how Zhen Zhou stabbed his eyes.
"I see, you three have found this skeleton. 20 percent will be given to each of you." Says Elder Yuan before taking out 3 boxes from his storage ring. "Take these pills. It will heal you."
Elder Yuan gives them three healing pills. Shen, Irina, and Rong take the pills, and they start healing. After half an hour they heal, but Shen's left eye heals but becomes a normal eye. Shen realizes it's too late, as the very last bit of essence of the void eye has vanished.
After 1 hour, the three of them come out of the dungeon. The sky is dark as it's nighttime. Zhen Zhou looks at them and walks towards Shen.
"Well, well, well, it seems like the trash survived the trial. Too bad you probably didn't get anything." Zhou notices Shen's left eye healed. "Oh, you used a high-level healing pill. Surprised that you can afford that." Says Zhou, making fun of Shen and his group.
As Irina is about to say something, Shen steps forward and looks him in the eyes. "Very well, I'll remember it. Next time we meet, you won't be breathing." Says Shen in a cold tone.
Shen slowly walks away, not saying another word. Zhou, knowing next time he might not live, starts thinking about how to improve when he gets the idea of walking the demonic path.
"Everyone! The dimension dungeon has ended. All of you will be rewarded with the fair percentage of things of what you earned." Says a disciple of Holy Sword Manore besides the host. "Everyone will enter the room down from me, and they will be rewarded." He looks at a list. "Shen, Irina, and Rong. Three of you will enter together."
As the disciple says, three of them enter and see Elder Yuan there. "Hallo, I pay respect to the mighty Xuan Clan." Elder Yuan says and bows down. "So after taking all the factors you've been through because of us into account, we decided three of you will get 30 percent of the Demonic Dragon." He sighs. "Its bones are quite powerful. It can be used to make armor or weapons."
Elder Yuan takes out demonic dragon bones, and each of them takes 10 pieces of bones. After taking the bones, they leave the arena, and Shen sees his sister waiting for him.
She walks to him and notices his left eye is a bit damaged. "Shen, I hope you didn't forget I'm at Half Saint. I can tell your eye was damaged," says Qui Yu.
Shen tells Qui Yu everything but hides the fact about him absorbing demonic power and about the power his left eye held.
"Shen, I think Rong and I should be going." Irina says. "I hope I can meet you again." Irina waves her hand bye and smiles before walking away.
Rong also leaves. Shen and Qui Yu get on their beast caravan and start their journey back to Xuan Clan.