Everyone had desires in their heart. As long as someone was alive, it was impossible to be free of desire.
Therefore, the Greed Gate's warning threshold wasn't low.
As long as the desires in someone's heart remained within the normal range, passing through the gate wouldn't trigger a warning.
Only when those desires swelled to an abnormal degree as they passed through would the gate bar them from entering.
Lu Yang guessed that, as one of the ancient Six Desires Gates, the Greed Gate itself had the ability to magnify the desires in people's hearts.
As each person passed through the gate, their truest thoughts were exposed and detected by it.
When the Emperor arranged his daughter's marriage, he would surely examine the character of the candidates.
Lu Yang guessed that when those people passed through the Greed Gate, most of them had already been fantasizing about using dual cultivation with a cauldron to drain Ji Qingyi's Primal Yin, advance by leaps and bounds, and rise to wealth and glory. That was why the gate had detected them and kept them out.
Seen in this light, everything that had just happened was easy to understand.
Those examinees with lower cultivation knew full well that they had practically no chance of passing the final test and marrying the Princess. At most, they hoped to use the examination to show their faces before the Emperor and his ministers, and perhaps secure a promising future for themselves.
Though such people had desires, theirs were only natural, so the Greed Gate hadn't raised an alarm.
By contrast, that Seventh level of the Sixth Realm martial artist ranked among the leading candidates in terms of cultivation. At first glance, he still had a sliver of hope of succeeding.
And with hope came greed.
At that