The Difficult Second Trial

After hearing the contents of the second trial, everyone was shocked. It had taken them a full two minutes to defeat a five-hundred-year Crimson Scorpion, yet the second trial had them facing a Savage Crocodile with a thousand years of cultivation. Their chances of passing had plummeted. If things went badly, all eight of them could fall here without even seeing what the third trial looked like.

But in truth, none of the eight of them wanted to see the third trial. The second trial already pitted them against a thousand-year Soul Beast. The third trial might very well have them face a fifteen-hundred-year Soul Beast.

"Is this trial treating us like monkeys? A five-hundred-year Soul Beast was already a powerful opponent on our level. Now the difficulty has been raised straight to a thousand-year Soul Beast, and it's even a Savage Crocodile—a crocodile-type Soul Beast that excels at close combat and fights with extreme brutality!"

Although these eight children did not know much about Martial Souls, they had all learned more or less about the Eight Soul Suppressors from their parents. They also knew that ever since Martial Souls had descended, there had been no fewer than dozens of Beast Tides of varying sizes. According to the timeline, the first Beast Tide had occurred in a city like the one they were in now. Back then, the first founder of the Eight Soul Suppressors had slaughtered his way through the entire Soul Beast horde alone, utterly crushing more than a hundred Soul Beasts with overwhelming strength. That was the foundation he had laid for the Eight Soul Suppressors.

The organization known as the Eight Holy Souls had truly emerged many years ago, when Banyan City suffered the most severe Beast Tide in its history. The nine Beast Kings had