After noticing this change, Xu Chunniang immediately adjusted her strategy, sped onward at full speed, and flew toward the Gate of Creation.
The Sky-Gazing Hound naturally raised both hands in support of her decision.
"It's not too late to hurry over now. More than a day has already passed since the trial began. I'm afraid someone may have gathered a hundred Creation Stones and passed through the Gate of Creation already."
"So quickly?"
Xu Chunniang was somewhat surprised. When she had gathered Creation Stones yesterday, although she had tried her best to avoid the crowds, she had still inevitably fought cultivators from other races.
Of the seven Creation Stones in her possession, aside from the first one, four had been snatched after fighting cultivators of other races.
She believed her speed had not been slow, yet she had not expected others to be so much faster.
"That's normal. You gathered seven; as long as the others weren't forced out of Creation Mountain, they should have managed three or four no matter what. With some twenty or thirty people, they could scrape together a hundred."
The Sky-Gazing Hound looked utterly unsurprised. "No one knows what the second trial entails. Whoever enters the Gate of Creation first can begin the second trial early and seize the initiative."
Xu Chunniang's brows drew tightly together. "In that case, I spent yesterday waiting in vain. I should have acted sooner."
"You can't quite put it that way. You saw yesterday's chaos yourself. In the midst of a melee, no one can guarantee they'll emerge unscathed."
The Sky-Gazing Hound paused, then continued,
"Of course, that excludes the Stone Jade People, the Void Beast Race, and certain races with especially unusual gifts. But even those races are not without weaknesses.
"The Stone Jade People, for example, have