Thundercrash had already passed the First Trial of the "difficult" assessment.
After resting, he vanished and headed for the Second Trial.
The other God Kings who had chosen the difficult assessment lagged a little behind him, but they too completed their tasks within the allotted time and left the First Trial one after another.
Jiang Ping An and Jun Changge, who had chosen the Nightmare Trial, had yet to finish.
They remained in that deathly silent darkness, enduring the merciless burning of their souls by Pure Spirit Fire. Every moment was agony at its most extreme.
The ghostly green flames burned on and on, seeking to break their tenacious wills.
Pain that struck directly at the soul was enough to shatter anyone whose mind was not firm.
Jiang Ping An's soul suffered, but it was also undergoing a wondrous transformation.
Long ago, his soul had undergone an astonishing mutation. It had abandoned its ordinary shape and become a huge, eerie eyeball.
Complex, mysterious six-pointed Formation Patterns were branded across it. At its center sat something resembling a pupil: the special treasure he had once seized from Zhuo Bufan.
According to the Crystal Ball, that black sphere came from the Cicada's Eye, casually fashioned by the Lord of Order.
After Jiang Ping An broke through to God King, the strange sphere had fused with his eye.
The green Pure Spirit Fire sought to destroy his mutated eyeball-shaped soul. Yet this "World Eye" was not destroyed. Tempered by the flames, it grew ever more solid and powerful!
The strength of his soul continued to climb, almost beyond belief, amid the extreme pain and tempering...
For Jiang Ping An, the trial was pain and joy intertwined.
As the World Eye grew stronger, its resistance to Pure Spirit Fire seemed to grow as well.