The Martial Academy's testing grounds lay in a corner of a training field.
Stone Men stood here one after another.
Powered by Strange Arts, these Stone Men could walk and fight just like True Persons, save that they could neither speak nor think.
Heaven-Reaching Experts could hone themselves through battle with the Stone Men, while also reflecting upon their own shortcomings.
These Stone Men were terrifyingly powerful. No one knew how many dynasties they had existed through.
Their techniques were exquisitely refined.
It was said that many secret legacies tested and recovered by the current dynasty had been restored from the Stone Men.
Since the founding of the current dynasty, no student had ever defeated a Stone Man.
Even in the history before the current dynasty, only a scant few young men and women had defeated low-level Stone Men.
To a certain extent, Stone Men of the same rank were invincible.
Anyone who could defeat a Stone Man of the same rank was truly invincible—at least within the Great Gan Empire.
If students broke through the First Limit and wished to claim the Second Limit's resources, they needed to undergo an assessment.
Otherwise:
If low-level students borrowed high-level resources to forcibly break through their current realm, would that not be a waste?
The Martial Academy's resources looked inexhaustible, but in truth, they were finite.
The resources consumed by Heaven-Reaching Experts were even more countless.
Chu Qing had once read in a book:
The resources a Heaven-Reaching Expert consumed in a single day of cultivation were equivalent to a hundred households' consumption for an entire month.
Such massive resource consumption could only be accumulated by exploiting ordinary people.
Speaking of martial artists in the new realm alone:
They had to swallow a Golden Core every day.
This Golden Core required vast