Lu Yang released his Spiritual Sense, wanting to see just how vast this Cave Heaven was. To his dismay, he found that his Spiritual Sense could currently extend only about ten li. Beyond that, it encountered some mysterious force that restrained it, preventing it from reaching any farther.
Even his King Level Peak cultivation had been suppressed to the first level of the Supreme Great Grandmaster realm.
Though he had been prepared for this, the change still left Lu Yang feeling somewhat unsettled.
After sweeping his gaze around and making sure there was no immediate danger, Lu Yang turned his attention inward.
Fortunately, the Wood and Lightning Dantians in his body were still intact. That meant that even though his cultivation had been suppressed, he could still draw on the true essence in both Dantians.
In terms of true essence, he naturally had an advantage over the other participants in the trial.
"Ah!"
Before long, a scream rang across the sky.
A faint aura of death spread through the forest.
As Lu Yang edged closer, he could even hear some enormous beast crunching human bones.
The Chief Eunuch had already warned them that the Emperor's trial might very well cost participants their lives. Before each trial began, everyone who had signed up could withdraw.
Quite a few martial artists had withdrawn earlier.
But even more had chosen to stay, determined to achieve their goals.
Every martial artist who reached the Great Grandmaster realm was a dragon among men.
They understood very well that the lower the risk, the smaller the reward tended to be.
In this world, anyone hoping to achieve great things had to be brave enough to take risks.
As martial artists, they were meant to charge forward without looking back.
Those who chose to withdraw lacked courage,