430: The second kind of trial?

"What the hell?"

Little Wang Flying Dagger didn't even react at first.

One second he was on the ladder, and the next, he had abruptly fallen into the canyon, slamming directly onto the rocks.

This displacement was completely unreasonable!

If the Sacred Emperor were still alive and had used a great Divine Ability to crush him, he would have accepted it.

But this was just the Trial Grounds that had existed for who knows how many years; how could it still make him displace so abruptly?

"No, I have to leave!"

Little Wang Flying Dagger subconsciously wanted to burst forth and accelerate to escape.

But at the critical moment, he held back.

As a player who used to be a Diviner, and now a rational player who valued science and research.

Little Wang Flying Dagger's first reaction to any situation was to think, not to act recklessly.

So he instantly thought of the key point:

What is the current situation?

Is this a method left behind by the Sacred Emperor?

Without other evidence, let's assume so for now.

Then...

Is this meant to punish them for being clever?

Or is this another path of assessment left behind by the Sacred Emperor?

Before coming, Little Wang Flying Dagger had researched information related to the Sacred Emperor; he knew that players on the Burial Emperor Star had sent back very crucial intelligence.

The Sacred Emperor, perhaps just a shared name, was also a Cultivator who had studied science.

So, did he also respect the method of studying the principles of the Trial Grounds, finding loopholes, and breaking the game?

Thinking of this, Little Wang Flying Dagger calmed down and stopped trying to burst forth, fearing it might trigger a chain reaction.

He rolled his eyes, then shouted to the other players:

"This is a trap left by the Sacred Emperor! Everyone, hurry and find a way to leave!"

After saying this, he scanned the area himself, moved close to the rock wall, curled up, and calmly observed his surroundings.

Sure enough, as soon as he shouted this, the players, who were already in a state of panic, became even more panicked.

The first player to react must have used some kind of movement technique, suddenly flying into the air at high speed.

Indeed, when trapped in a canyon crevice, a normal Cultivator's reaction would be to fly upwards to leave.

So, after the first player took off, dozens of players followed suit one after another.

But quickly, all these players hit an invisible barrier, then were struck by an invisible, immense force, and were crushed to pieces on the spot.

Little Wang Flying Dagger's eyelids twitched.

With Yan Xiao about to arrive, these players were willing to follow him to test the ladder partly due to curiosity, and partly because they felt this matter wouldn't be too dangerous.

But today, many players would likely die here.

He felt he would probably be blasted on the Forum.

"Sigh..."

Little Wang Flying Dagger shook his head: "This is the price of research..."

He still did not act rashly.

"Look! There are bricks on the ground!"

Suddenly, a player shouted.

The players all lowered their heads to look.

Sure enough, the canyon crevice was actually paved with a layer of brick flooring.

And there were two types of bricks; the main body was gray, but there were bright white bricks paved into a small path, pointing towards a rock wall.

"I get it, this must be a shortcut for the trial!"

"Quick, let's follow this path and go in!"

"There should be a hidden door there!"

Forcing themselves to endure the heavy pressure, the players moved forward step by step along the brick path. Before long, they indeed found a hidden door at the rock wall, inside which was a winding upward path paved with bright white spirit ore bricks.

After entering, the heavy pressure vanished.

"Haha! We succeeded!"

"This really is a shortcut!"

"We are going to reach the top!"

The players walked in excitedly.

Originally, some players hesitated, but feeling the pressure on their bodies getting heavier and heavier, they couldn't afford to hesitate anymore and all walked in.

Not long after, only Little Wang Flying Dagger remained outside.

Clang!

The opened hidden door slammed shut, and silence fell.

Little Wang Flying Dagger waited for a while, then went onto the Forum to check.

[F*ck! This isn't a shortcut!]

Little Wang Flying Dagger silently clicked on the post.

It turned out that all the players who entered the hidden door fell into a large pit inside and were then crushed to death by even greater gravity; not a single one survived.

"As expected..."

Little Wang Flying Dagger shook his head, looked at the path paved with bright white bricks on the ground, and clicked his tongue.

"For a Cultivator, one mainly relies on Spiritual Sense to perceive; vision is no longer important.

"Even if it really was a path left to guide someone, how could it possibly use a visual scheme?

"The Sacred Emperor isn't that low-level."

Little Wang Flying Dagger used the other players to verify his hypothesis, then immediately released his Spiritual Sense to investigate carefully.

Sure enough, once his Spiritual Sense was released, there were immediately many points of anomaly.

It was hard to describe in words.

It was like how it's hard for a tetrachromat to describe the world they see to a trichromat.

In some mundane places, Little Wang Flying Dagger could already "see" different characteristics.

For example, the same bright white brick path; under the coverage of his Spiritual Sense, when observed carefully, one could see different traces.

These traces were intertwined and required further analysis.

Little Wang Flying Dagger felt the heavy pressure on his body and compared it with the experience Li Changfeng had once published.

"Although the pressure here is great, it's not as strong as what Li Changfeng encountered back then; it's clearly just meant to make the Cultivator panic, not to test the Cultivator's physique.

"My guess should be correct; this isn't a punishment for stowaways, but another type of trial.

"The trial of the Sacred Emperor Mountain doesn't just have one path..."

Thinking of this, Little Wang Flying Dagger couldn't help but get excited, but then immediately felt a bit anxious.

"Yan Xiao is on his way here. Once he arrives, the Sacred Emperor Mountain will definitely undergo major changes. The extra trial I worked so hard to find might disappear, and the Opportunity that belongs to me will fly away!

"I must figure out the anomalies here before he arrives, understand what the test left by the Sacred Emperor actually is, and then find a way to pass it!"

Little Wang Flying Dagger's anxiety was not without reason.

Yan Xiao came for the immortal path, and the immortal path is related to Helian Meng.

Helian Meng's name is left on the Sacred Emperor Mountain, which shows that he must have some connection with the Demon Race Outside the Wall.

So, Yan Xiao will find his way here sooner or later.

Once Yan Xiao arrives, it's hard to say what changes will happen to the Sacred Emperor Mountain.

"I just hope the Yuyao Kingdom can keep Yan Xiao for a while and not have him rush over so quickly..."

Little Wang Flying Dagger shook his head to clear it, stopped thinking about other miscellaneous matters, and focused on analyzing the anomalies he had detected.

There were traces on the bricks that couldn't be detected by sight but could be "seen" by Spiritual Sense; the traces on each brick were unique, and there seemed to be some kind of pattern.

"Puzzle solving? Interesting."

Little Wang Flying Dagger immediately became interested, feeling that the Sacred Emperor was indeed not a brute, which suited his tastes perfectly.

He quickly immersed himself in the puzzle solving.

...

...

On the other side.

The East Sea.

Li Changfeng had been in the East Sea for some time now.

At first, he was quite worried that the various Yao Beasts of the East Sea would block his path.

But he soon discovered that he had overthought it.

It seemed that Wen Xinghai and the others had indeed reached an agreement with the survivors of the East Sea to not offend each other.