"Something about this place feels wrong!"
Wu Yao felt uneasy as he took in the silent palace.
Bing Xuan, beside him, felt the same way.
Had some powerful Ferocious Beasts charged out all at once, she would have thought it normal. Yet now, not a single Ferocious Beast appeared. This was unlike anything she had experienced before.
The absence of the Ferocious Beasts did not make them relax. Instead, they became even more cautious.
As they advanced, both men stayed ready to strike at any moment.
Any Ferocious Beast or other enemy that appeared would be killed immediately!
The palace was enormous. In the past, reaching its heart required passing eighteen trials.
They had to endure eighteen waves of Ferocious Beasts.
The Ferocious Beasts grew progressively stronger, and their numbers steadily increased.
These Ferocious Beasts were manifested by the formation and were almost indistinguishable from real ones.
They even bled when struck.
Wu Yao and Bing Xuan continued forward.
But after a while, as they approached the end of the first trial's passage, they still had not seen even a single Ferocious Beast.
"Brother Wu, do you think someone arrived here before us?
"And killed all these Ferocious Beasts?"
Bing Xuan asked in puzzlement.
"Judging by how those people from the Flowing Moon Palace looked earlier, they must have arrived quite some time ago. Perhaps they entered this place and cleared out the Ferocious Beasts."
Wu Yao nodded.
But as for those few people from the Flowing Moon Palace having fought from the outer region to the inner region, cleared all eighteen trials, and taken the Emperor Pearls within this single month—
They would never believe that.
Over all these years, this Secret Realm trial had been held countless times, yet no one had ever obtained the Emperor Pearls in