29 Commence the Trials (1/2)

Chapter 28: Commence the Trials

While Van was busy analyzing the passages, the participants of the trial finally recovered from the aggressive mental transmission from the examiner.

The arrogant young lady was fuming. Her aunt dared to treat her like that! She was an important member of her clan's younger generation.

Everyone started to analyze all of the possible paths. With every path one could expect a danger, some were obvious while others were hidden. Someone spotted a path with a tranquil pond and dove for it. Being at the 5th Stage of Dantian Formation and having an agility Martial Skill, he easily got onto the path. Others looked at him, their anger rising to new heights.

That one path seemed to be the only tranquil one, the other ones were filled with beasts and natural disasters.

”Haha! I got the best one.”

The others watched from behind a transparent Qi barrier that had appeared in the door frame when the cultivator had passed. A few minutes later, a beast similar to a Kraken emerged from the water and started to attack the cultivator. It had strength similar to that of a cultivator at the 6th Stage of Dantian Formation.

The cultivator at the 5th Stage of Dantian Formation paled at the sight of such a large monster. Its body size alone had made him forget about trying to find any way to advance. Instead, he ran back and banged on the transparent Qi barrier.

”Help me! Please, guys! We're friends right?!”

He looked at the faces of his associates, a hopeful expression on his face. How shameless! They thought as their faces scrunched up. The cultivators had thought he had found the safest route and immediately abandoned his friends. Now that he was in trouble, he turned back to them for help.

The participants that had been pressing their faces to the Qi barrier previously, were now backing up as far as they could from the barrier. They watched as a tentacle wrapped around the cultivator's leg and dragged down under the water. Luckily, it was an illusion or the cultivator could've actually died or gotten seriously injured.

The participants smiled wryly before sitting down to carefully inspect each passageway. Van felt enlightened. If he picked the right passageway, it would improve his affinity with the associated element and temper his body. He would also gain combat experience from fighting from a beast, despite it being a simulated one.

Van decided to ask Yu Lin for advice on this one. Despite Yu Lin's arrogance and rather annoying attitude, he was still a High Diety and would be able to determine his affinity and which path he should pick.

Some of the paths contained the extremes of more than two elements. There was one with a mighty mountain range that contained two giant stone golems while a thunderstorm raged above. Van hoped he might get an affinity with one of the more powerful elements, like Fire or Lightning.

Van's eyes started shining as he thought of the possibilities. He might even be one of those rare dual affinities or the legendary triple affinities.

”Yu Lin, would you help me out with this?”

The orb had entered his Outer Dantian and started to glow.