First Trial, Human World

Long Tu's soul scattered and his spirit dispersed.

There had been no suspense whatsoever. Though he still had a few trump cards up his sleeve, under the rank suppression of a Golden Core True Lord, all struggle was futile.

Immediately afterward, Lu Yang flicked his hand.

As casually as brushing away a speck of dust, True Person Demon-Subduer's figure vanished from where he stood, as though he had never appeared here at all.

As for the Ten Imperial Sovereigns, they had, after all, been raised up by that mouthful of his blood. Kindhearted as Lu Yang was, he did not intend to kill them. He took out the Righteous Banner and transformed it into an Immortal Gate standing there. Once these Imperial Sovereigns willingly became Banner Spirits, with him protecting their true spirits, they could be considered immortal and imperishable.

"Ah, I'm just too upright a man."

Only after finishing all this did Lu Yang turn to the palace complex before him. After pondering for a moment, he entered the pavilion from which True Person Demon-Subduer had emerged earlier.

Boom!

The pavilion doors shut the next second. Lu Yang stood within and looked around, yet found nothing amiss. Only his spiritual sense trembled faintly.

Looks like the trial isn't inside this pavilion.

Do I need to sense it?

Lu Yang frowned slightly. He wanted to summon Patriarch Tingyou and ask, but Patriarch Tingyou was now a Golden Core True Lord and could not easily appear here.

*This place forbids Golden Core True Lords. Patriarch and the others have all fallen into deep slumber, their auras isolated. Combined with the fact that they are Banner Spirits to begin with, that's how they can join me in deceiving Heaven and crossing the sea. If I awaken them, they can't conceal themselves like