The Second Wave of the Heaven and Earth Trial

Zhang Zhi's face lit up with joy when he discovered that the people in the Small World couldn't touch the Light Cluster.

That Light Cluster was likely a special reward, rarely appearing in the information he had seen, and only obtainable by a World Master.

Could it be that the Multiverse is quite satisfied with the Small World I opened?

With a flash, he appeared next to the Light Cluster and reached out to touch it.

As soon as the Light Cluster touched Zhang Zhi's hand, it immediately surged towards it. From a distance, it looked more like Zhang Zhi's hand was absorbing the Light Cluster.

From Zhang Zhi's perspective, after the light surged into his body, it flowed along his projection towards the World Bead.

As the entire Light Cluster's radiance was absorbed by the World Bead, a pattern appeared on the World Bead.

Looking at the pattern on the World Bead, Zhang Zhi was a bit confused.

What is this thing?

This is a Heaven and Earth Trial, a reward from the Multiverse. It shouldn't just be decorative, right? It should be a good thing, right?

Ugh, fine. Am I going to have to search the Small Library for information again?

But this reward seems a bit special. I might not find it in the Small Library, right?

Just as he was wondering what the pattern on the World Bead meant, the sound of cheers from his projection's ear startled him awake.

Snapping back to reality, he looked up and saw that the Chaos surrounding the borders of the Small World was continuously transforming into vast stretches of land that connected with the Small Realm, including various colored ore veins.

At the same time, a large amount of Chaos Qi turned into a white mist and surged towards the Small World. All living beings were frantically absorbing the white mist.

The changes in the Small World lasted for about half a day.

After half a day, as the Chaos Qi settled down, Zhang Zhi's Small World had expanded to approximately 15,000 square kilometers, and its thickness had increased from 700 meters to roughly 1,400 meters.

Looking at the significantly larger Small World, Zhang Zhi thought, It seems the Multiverse is extremely satisfied with my Small World!

Doubling the size of the Small World is basically the maximum Heaven and Earth reward.

Given this, the benefits gained by the creatures within the entire Small World shouldn't be bad either, right?

With a flash, he appeared next to Fang Yun and found that he didn't seem to have undergone any significant changes. He glanced around and saw there were still eleven Cultivators in the Mortal Transformation Realm.

It seems the humans didn't benefit too much?

After a moment of thought, he flashed again and arrived at the Small City.

Seeing the Qi of individuals who had broken through from Ordinary to Elite continuously appearing within the Small City, Zhang Zhi finally nodded.

It seems it's not that they didn't benefit much, but rather that Fang Yun and the others had a much deeper foundation.

It's like if an Ordinary person's aptitude is 5, and this Heaven and Earth reward increases aptitude by 5, the Ordinary person's aptitude doubles instantly, which is naturally a huge benefit.

But for Fang Yun, his aptitude might be 500 or even 1000. Increasing his aptitude by five points is barely better than nothing for him.

Therefore, in this wave, the ones who benefited the most were those Ordinary people who were previously unable to advance to the Elite Realm due to their aptitude.

This is why the Elite Realm saw no movement, while the Ordinary Realm saw individuals breaking through to the Elite Realm one after another.

Just as Zhang Zhi was thinking about checking if the Flat Peach Tree forest had yielded anything, the Chaos at the border of the Small World began to churn again.

The second wave of the Heaven and Earth Trial had arrived!

What formed at first were tens of thousands of Ordinary monsters of Gray rank.

Zhang Zhi was greatly surprised by the sheer number of monsters. The information he had read about a Small World upgrading to a Medium World didn't mention this many Chaos Monsters.

Could it be that the first wave of the trial was resolved too quickly, and the Multiverse increased the difficulty?

After a second thought, he mused, The larger the scale of the monster attack, the better the reward will surely be. The strength of my Small World isn't bad, so it should be fine... right?

Fang Yun, within the Small World, after learning that the number of monsters exceeded expectations, motioned to a person beside him. Immediately, a black smoke shot into the sky.

Upon seeing the black smoke, the people who had remained in the city, several teams that were already prepared, immediately exited the city and rushed towards the location of the black smoke.

This time, essentially all Elite Realm humans, except for those who had just advanced, were mobilized.

Just as about a third of the first wave of Ordinary monsters had been killed, hundreds of Elite Realm Chaos Monsters slowly formed and surged towards the Small World.

With the addition of the Elite Realm Chaos Monsters, the humans' rapid offensive came to a halt.

Looking at the chaotic battlefield, Zhang Zhi felt like covering his face and leaving. Having seen large-scale war scenes in movies from his previous life, the battlefield before him was like a bunch of rookies pecking at each other.

Just as he was lost in thought, ten even stronger auras entered the Small World.

Mortal Transformation Realm Chaos Monsters had appeared, and there were ten of them.

With the appearance of the Mortal Transformation Realm Chaos Monsters, the Mortal Transformation Realm individuals on Fang Yun's side, who had been holding back, quickly found their opponents and met them head-on.

However, the Mortal Transformation Realm Chaos Monsters were not unintelligent.

After discovering that the number of humans on the battlefield was not large, they actually knew to split their forces and advance towards the interior of the Small World.

Along their path, large amounts of matter within the Small World were assimilated into Chaos Qi, and after churning for a while, this Chaos Qi actually transformed back into Chaos Monsters.

Seeing this scene, Fang Yun became anxious and quickly chased after the Chaos Monsters.

But the number of teams the Chaos Monsters had split into was quite large, and he was overwhelmed, unable to handle them all by himself.

Some of the human teams that were originally fighting the large number of Chaos Monsters were withdrawing from the front line, seemingly wanting to split their forces to assist Fang Yun.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhi sighed up at the sky.

If you split your forces like this, the Chaos Monsters you were fighting will be unrestrained, and they'll definitely send more groups deeper into the Small World.

Alright, this Fang Yun is simply not cut out for leading troops into battle.

Unable to watch any longer, he waved his hand, and a stone wall ten zhang wide and dozens of zhang tall emerged along the edge of the battlefield.

He was expending World Power, using the World Bead to alter the Small World's terrain.

After the stone wall appeared, the humans fighting cheered.

Fang Yun, who had seen the situation getting a bit out of control, also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the stone wall.

The stone wall was quite thick; those Chaos Monsters wouldn't be able to break through it anytime soon.

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the reinforcements from the city quickly arrived. At the gap Zhang Zhi had deliberately left, they set up a defensive line, firmly blocking the Chaos Monsters that had split off.

With the vast majority of Chaos Monsters blocked at the gap, it signaled that they couldn't cause much trouble within the Small World anymore.

One group of Chaos Monsters after another was dealt with by Fang Yun.

This battle lasted for about three hours. As the last group of Chaos Monsters roaming within the Small World was killed by Fang Yun, the second wave of the Heaven and Earth Trial finally passed.