The apprentice testing and sacrifices in Shadow Valley lasted a total of four days.
Over those four days, not only the Low-Level Apprentices and Entry-Level Apprentices suffered terribly—even Intermediate Apprentices like Saine found it grueling.
Fortunately, after four days had passed, a Formal Black Wizard appeared in person and stated that the danger of the Time-Space Rift ahead would be greatly reduced.
Otherwise, one had to wonder whether such torment would drive people to collapse.
Worth mentioning was that a small incident occurred during those four days.
On the third night, a low-level apprentice named Tian Di somehow learned the location of Saine's tent and came seeking his protection.
In truth, even by the end of the fourth day, the more than four hundred Entry-Level Apprentices had not been entirely used up. There were still around thirty or forty left.
It was still far from the point of having to expend Low-Level Apprentices.
Saine had not dealt much with Tian Di over the past few years.
The main reason was that this woman had always wanted to latch onto him, to the point that Saine somewhat regretted why he had gone out of his way for her in Master Ke Suo Long's anatomy class back then.
Whether she had advanced to a low-level apprentice last year or the year before, it showed that Tian Di possessed some aptitude and potential.
But no matter how decent her aptitude and potential were, she was still only a low-level apprentice.
In Shadow Valley's precarious environment, with no mentor and no other powerful figure to shelter her, she could only steel herself and seek out Saine.
In fact, during the past two or three years at the Black Wizard Academy, Tian Di had indeed used Saine's name to avoid plenty of trouble and prying