The pressure was like a prison. When Lin Baichuan stepped onto the final tenth of the stone stairs, that terrifying pressure instantly surged by more than tenfold.
Even Lin Baichuan felt his entire body tremble.
Most importantly, this pressure was constantly affecting Lin Baichuan's soul and consciousness.
His spiritual awareness was dragged into some bizarre illusion, as though it were about to sink into it completely.
"A mere illusion cannot affect me. Break!"
Lin Baichuan's eyes narrowed, and a heart-palpitating sharpness burst from his pupils. With a thunderous roar, an overwhelming aura erupted from him, forcefully shattering the effects brought by the pressure.
Breaking free from that strange illusion, wind seemed to rise beneath his feet. The final tenth of the stone stairs no longer affected him in the slightest. He climbed all the way upward and reached the mountaintop in an instant.
Boom...
The moment he stepped onto the mountaintop, a clap of thunder rang out from above the nine heavens.
The next moment, the stars shifted and the constellations changed. Lin Baichuan discovered that he had returned to that vast, empty hall.
Before him stood an old man in white robes, smiling at him.
It was Old Mu, the spirit of Yuheng Star Palace.
"Young man, we meet again..."
The White-Robed Elder, Old Mu, chuckled at Lin Baichuan. "I never expected that you would truly pass the second trial. And you are even the first among your batch to clear it.
"You have truly given me a tremendous surprise..."
"I'm the first to pass the second trial?"
Lin Baichuan froze, greatly surprised.
He truly had not expected himself to be the first person through the second trial, faster even than Golden Light King and the others.
"The tests my master left behind were naturally not as simple as