Zhao Luo was feeling pleased as he noticed his increase in strength. He was now able to implement his thoughts into action and plan while fighting multiple enemies. 

Planning each step in a fight is also important. Just increasing your strength isn't the only way to get better at fighting.

"You...join them."

Zhao Luo pointed at another one of the apparitions and ordered him.

The other two apparitions that were fighting him before were on the ground after being kicked by Zhao Luo on their chest. 

'Cough.'

The apparitions hardly got up but it didn't take them long to recover back. 

This was also one of the perks of training inside this space.

Zhao Luo's apparitions were like zombies while Zhao Luo was invincible here.

'Hmmm.'

Zhao Luo was standing in the middle of his three apparitions as his three apparitions were looking for an opening.

"Hahaha."

Zhao Luo laughed as he liked how his apparitions were getting smarter.

Before they would just rush at him thus letting him plan.

"Thud."

Zhao Luo blocked a kick from one of the apparitions by moved up his arms but the other two had moved at the same time he was going to block the attack from the first apparition.

Two punches were gonna land on him from his left and right.

Zhao Luo couldn't even duck their attacks like before.

"Bam, bam."

Zhao Luo blocked both of their hits by rotating his body.

First, he pushed away from the first apparition with the repelling force of his arm and grabbed the fists of the other two.

Zhao Luo used all the force he could muster through his hands and pulled the two apparitions inwards.

They both struck each other and fell. 

Zhao Luo rushed at the third apparition and started hitting him with a barrage of attacks.

It didn't even take him a minute to destroy three of his apparitions.

Zhao Luo smirked and he was feeling invincible.

He thought that he could probably fight anyone now. 

In this moment of heat which was filled with Zhao Luo's overflowing confidence, he looked at all of his apparitions and ordered them.

"Attack me together."

Zhao Luo said as he looked at the six apparitions who were enjoying the show.

'It's time for them to receive their beatings from me.'

Zhao Luo thought with a grin on his face.

One after another the apparitions closed in on Zhao Luo. The three apparitions who were down also got up and joined the fight.

In the Dark Space inside Zhao Luo's mind.

One man was surrounded by nine ghastly men.

It wasn't a coincidence that they all looked the same. 

A game of stare was going on as all of Zhao Luo's apparitions had surrounded him.

"Are you waiting for me to sleep?"

Zhao Luo asked his apparitions as they were taking their time.

He thought of attacking them first but he was outnumbered. So he couldn't make a mistake.

Zhao Luo wanted to know where he stood regarding his strength. He will be going to the Xin Sect soon so he didn't want to embarrass himself.

'Step.'

All of the apparitions took a step towards Zhao Luo.

'Gulp.'

Zhao Luo felt nervous as he had already taken a life-threatening beating from his apparitions before.

'Here they come.'

Zhao Luo thought as the apparitions rushed at him all at once.

Zhao Luo instead of waiting at his position rushed at two of them. They both acted while reacting to Zhao Luo's movement. 

One of them threw a low punch while the other came at Zhao Luo with a high kick.

"Bang, Bang."

Zhao Luo took them on his body without defending. He did fail the pain but it wasn't enough to stop him.

With the help of the high kicks force which was aimed at the left of his abdomen, Zhao Luo rotated to punch both of his apparitions.

The force of his punch was multiplied as Zhao Luo kept on rotating like a spinning top.

"Beyblayd Punchi"

Zhao Luo roared.

The apparitions were hit with multiple punches as they couldn't even fall.

"Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud."

Both of those apparitions fell after they were hit by more than ten punches.

The spinning Zhao Luo was slowing down as he stopped spinning.

Zhao Luo was smiling because he had just created a new attack. So it was a moment of celebration.

Sadly his other apparitions weren't willing to wait for that.

As Zhao Luo stopped they all rushed to attack him. They already knew how their end will be like if they waited any more. 

Zhao Luo raised his fist to fight back.

'A good offense is the best defense.'

He thought as he wanted to move to attack them before they could close on him but he couldn't move his leg.

Zhao Luo looked down and saw the two apparitions that he had smashed into a paste holding down on his legs.

"Oh, Sh*t."

Zhao Luo tried to kick them away but it was easy as he had to defend himself from the coming attacks too.

"Bam, Bam."

A punch landed on Zhao Luo's abdomen which caused him to bend his back because of the pain.

As he had to stoop down another lunch landed on his face.

"Thwack."

Zhao Luo punched the two apparitions that were holding his leg as he had bent down and when the punch from the fourth apparition landed on his face, he raised his leg to kick him back.

This continued for a short while before the nine apparitions had subdued Zhao Luo and they started beating him viciously.

For a while, only two kinds of sounds were heard in the dark space of Zhao Luo's mind.

"Thud, Thud, Thud."

And,

"Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah."

These weren't the moans of a girl neither were these the screams of pleasure.

It was the sound of Zhao Luo being beaten to a pulp by his apparitions.

Whenever Zhao Luo would try to fight back they would back off and then attack him again as his attack would fail.

This continued for the whole night.

The next day.

Outside of Zhao Luo's room.

A beautiful maiden was standing at the door of Zhao Luo's room.

"Wake up already."

"Brother Zhao Luo."

"Bang, Bang."

The maiden had a quite manly voice as she started banging at the door while calling out Zhao Luo.

Inside the room.

Zhao Luo was still sitting in a lotus position. The start of his last night training but the end wasn't worth mentioning. But during the whole night, the level of his apparition had gone up by a lot.

While Zhao Luo's resilience had gone up because of all the beating he had received.

Zhao Luo was lying on the ground as his apparitions had stopped as different sounds kept on echoing in his mind space.

'It's Yan.'

Zhao Luo thought as he opened his mouth.

"Assimilate."

Zhao Luo said as all of his apparitions turned into shadows and were absorbed by Zhao Luo.

Zhao Luo could feel his powers rising once again as one by one all of his apparitions were absorbed by him. That is what the assimilation step of Naoli was.

Beads of sweat were flowing down from his face. Zhao Luo's hairs were a little wet.

Even though Zhao Luo had fought his apparition the whole night, he still felt amazingly refreshed.

"Bang, Bang."

Yan was still knocking at Zhao Luo's door.

Zhao Luo opened his eyes. He got up and walked towards the door and opened it.

Yan blushed as she saw Zhao Luo's appearance.

With his wet hairs dangling around his handsome face and his loose robes Zhao Luo looked mesmerizing to Yan with just a single glance.

"What's wrong?"

Zhao Luo asked as he saw that Yan's cheeks were turning red as she stared at him.

"Mhm mhm."

Yan just shook her head as she turned her eyes away from this lust trap Zhao Luo.

"Let's go. Otherwise, we will be late."

Zhao Luo told Yan as he started walking past Yan.

'Look who is talking about being late.'

Yan thought as she had the idea that Zhao Luo was lost in some dream before she had come to wake him up.

"Wait for me."

Yan shouted as she picked up her speed and came to walk side by side with Zhao Luo.

Outside the PinK CuBe Hotel.

Zhao Luo and Yan left the hotel and now they were heading towards the Teleportation building to meet up with the other examinees who had passed the entrance exam of the Xin Sect held by the Second Elder.

The journey to the building was mostly quiet as Yan would frequently steal glances at Zha Luo and Zhao Luo was busy going over his last night's training. He could feel that he had become even more powerful than before.

After reaching the building, Zhao Luo and Yan stopped at the entrance.

'Breathe~'

Zhao Luo took a deep breath. 

'This is it. I will finally be going to the Xin Sect.'

Zhao Luo thought as he pushed open the door and entered the TPC building.