Undercurrents Before the Longevity Island Trial

[Real World, Station 13]

'Has the production team gotten lazy again? They skipped over more than half a month of the plot with just one flashback!'

'Come on, a production team like Stellaris that inserts flashbacks into the main story is already pretty good. Some anime insert the main story into their flashback arcs~ (doge)'

'Still not as bad as that "elementary-school grim reaper" who's been in first grade for over a decade.'

Jokes aside, when the image froze on Tiandao standing amid the mountain of corpses and sea of blood in Boneyard Canyon, the barrage comments still flooded the screen with rows of '666.'

After all, if anyone else had led a team to conquer a Fallen Zone right after getting their certificate, people would definitely have called it a Power Level Collapse.

But when it happened to Tiandao, the Dimensional Audience only found it perfectly reasonable.

From Season 1 until now, Tiandao had proven it countless times.

As long as it was something he wanted to accomplish, he would definitely accomplish it in the end—without exception.

The flashback ended, and the image returned to the people in the plaza.

Sunlight fell through gaps in the clouds onto the trainees' faces, half bright and half shadowed, just like their current moods.

Though they could not, like the Dimensional Audience, witness Tiandao's feats through the Dimensional Screen,

news of "Tiandao conquering a Fallen Zone" had already spread like wildfire among the trainees during this period.

And with Tiandao as an example, those trainees who had originally held considerable objections to "entering a Fallen Zone too early" all chose to shut their mouths.

Someone from their own cohort had managed it. If they kept complaining, they would only make themselves look incompetent.

The Otter Administrator crouched at the edge of the