Chapter 321 - Chapter 321: Chapter 23: The First Trial, Failure (2/2)

Fortunately, Lin Jing, accustomed to alchemy all year round, had an incredibly tenacious divine sense. Gritting his teeth, he quickly recovered, thus preventing a fall.

Afterward, he took a seated position with legs crossed and committed all his efforts to counteract the omnipresent pressure and the coercion of divine sense.

This time.

Lin Jing rested on the tenth step for a good four hours.

During this period, he constantly circulated cultivation, nourishing his body with his own spiritual power, in order to adapt quickly to the pressure there.

At the same time, Lin Jing also noticed that under the coercion of the divine sense, his divine sense also seemed to have changed a bit, as if it wasn’t as uncomfortable as before.

After adapting,

Lin Jing then stood up, stretched his body, and prepared to take another step forward.

This time was just like the previous few steps.

With one step onto the stairs, both the gravity and the divine sense pressure were significantly less than when ascended from the ninth to the tenth step.

On the eleventh step, Lin Jing spent another two hours adapting.

After getting used to the gravity, Lin Jing did not choose to step onto the twelfth step.

Because.

His spiritual power was almost completely depleted at this point.

Lin Jing then started the second task.

It was also the next plan he had in mind.

That was, to enter the “System Space” while on the steps.

Next.

Standing on the twelfth step, Lin Jing silently commanded in his heart:

“Enter System Space.”

As Lin Jing’s words fell, his body instantly vanished from the twelfth step and appeared inside the System Space.

Upon entering the System Space, the surging spiritual energy directly flooded into his body,

After several hours of torment without spiritual energy, Lin Jing couldn’t help but take a deep breath, then let out a satisfied sigh.

Thereafter, Lin Jing spoke aloud, calling out the system:

“System, enter Observation Mode.”

Lin Jing did not start meditating to recover right away, but used the Observation Mode to check the situation first.

At the same time, Lin Jing also thought of the Fixed Point Teleportation function.

It was uncertain whether this system’s Fixed Point Teleportation function could allow him to bypass the 81 steps directly and appear above the Teleportation Array on the mountaintop.

Lin Jing wanted to try it…

As Lin Jing’s voice trailed off, he directly appeared outside in Observation Mode.

This observational perspective showed no anomalies; Lin Jing directly controlled the viewpoint to rise.

He wanted to see what the situation was like on the mountaintop.

The observational perspective rose all the way to the top of the mountain.

Finally, Lin Jing saw what the mountain’s summit looked like.

There, atop the summit, was a massive circular formation; at the center of the formation was a deep pool.

The pool was bottomless, as if it led directly to the sea bed.

Moreover, the water in this deep pool spun continuously, forming a vortex as if it wanted to devour everything.

Around the Formation, a total of nine Formation Patterns sparkled with peculiar thunder arcs, connected to the central array, becoming one.

Among these nine peculiar Formation Patterns, one of them lit up with white light, and the thunder arcs on it had already vanished. The bright light from that peculiar Formation Pattern extended to the larger array, lighting up a small part of it.

Next to it, another peculiar Formation Pattern also lit up partially, looking to be about a quarter as much.

The thunder arcs on this Formation Pattern seemed somewhat dimmer.

Seeing this, Lin Jing understood what was going on.

This large array was likely closely related to the steps below; only by passing the test on the steps below would the array be fully activated.

And that deep pool might very well be the exit from Immortal Crossing Island.

After observing, Lin Jing did not use the Fixed Point Teleportation function.

On the mountaintop, though Lin Jing did not understand the peculiar Formation Patterns with thunder arcs, he felt inexplicably uneasy just from observing them.

Especially those thunder arcs.

Lin Jing suspected that if he suddenly appeared on the array, the thunder arcs on those peculiar Formation Patterns would launch an attack against him.

Since the Trial Grounds had stopped so many people, the strength of those thunder arcs went without saying.

With Lin Jing’s current level of cultivation, being struck by those thunder arcs would leave not even ashes behind.

Upon reflection, he decided to let it be.

Lin Jing determined to rely on his own strength to make it through the Trial Grounds.

……

After resting completely in the System Space and fully recovering his spiritual power, Lin Jing reappeared on the twelfth step.

Thereafter.

Lin Jing continued like this, resting for a while as he reached each level.

Before long, Lin Jing had already reached the eighteenth step.

At this time, Lin Jing looked ahead.

He knew that the nineteenth step below was where the real challenge lay.

Lin Jing rested directly for twelve hours on the eighteenth step to fully adapt to the pressure and divine sense coercion there.

After fully recovering, Lin Jing prepared himself and once again climbed upward.

However.

This time, Lin Jing wasn’t so fortunate.

No sooner had he climbed onto the nineteenth step than he was immediately pushed down by the powerful force.

As Lin Jing fell off the step, a phantom-like waterscreen appeared behind him.

The scene within the waterscreen was the same pond that was in the oasis before.

Lin Jing directly fell into this waterscreen, which rippled waves upon waves, and he vanished within the Trial Grounds.

Before Lin Jing could react, the scenery before his eyes rapidly shifted, from the steps, stone platforms, and vast yellow sand.

Suddenly, it transformed into blue sky, white clouds, and lush greenery.

And then came a “plop”…

Lin Jing fell into the pond he had entered before the Trial Grounds began.

This first attempt to conquer the Trial Grounds had ended in failure for Lin Jing.

However, this was an expected outcome.