Mu Yuan stood before the valley exit and waited for two and a half hours. Only after confirming that no new rules appeared with the passage of time did he take a step forward.
"Notice: You have passed Advancement Trial · Level One."
The storm ceased. The valley behind him faded like a washed-out ink painting, losing its color in the blink of an eye before rapidly disappearing.
In its place came a wave of scorching heat.
He was standing on a rock heated red-hot by the baking heat.
In front of him—or rather, all around him—stretched an endless expanse of boiling magma. Across the magma lake, only a sparse scattering of rocks provided places to stand.
"Flight? No, that's not it."
Pillars of fire erupted, splashing a line of large characters into the air.
"Experience fire, resist fire, and walk out of the magma lake."
"It's a rule similar to the previous level."
"But this time..."
Energy surged within Mu Yuan. His own energy gushed outward and converged with the fire-element particles gathering from the surrounding world, forming a scarlet shield around his entire body.
Yet even this blazing shield twisted under the extreme heat.
"This isn't ordinary magma. It's magma from the Ninefold Earth Core, magma that can easily burn through even the protective energy of someone in the Legendary Realm."
"And this world is filled with a conceptual force called 'Sky Restriction.'"
He himself wielded conceptual forces.
Thanks to the two talents Devour and Heaven Rewards Diligence, as well as his frequent practice after loading his commanders' templates, the upper limit of the conceptual forces he wielded might not be very high, but their variety was astonishingly broad.
He knew a little about everything.
As long as he used a flight-related concept, he could briefly