As Lei Wei and the others had said, once their souls were invaded, the battle grew fiercer and fiercer. More and more cultivators couldn't hold out and were eliminated. Before long, the number had reached three hundred, and the first trial came to an end.
Overall, among the three hundred eliminated cultivators, there were slightly more from Earth and North Xuan, but quite a few were from the Yellow Realm as well—only a little fewer than those from North Xuan. There hadn't been too much favoritism.
Ling Tian didn't particularly care about the losses suffered by either North Xuan or the Yellow Realm. When he saw that only five or six of his friends and family had been eliminated, he let out a long breath of relief. He knew they had all figured out the nature of this trial, and he was quite satisfied with how they had performed.
"Hey, Ling Tian, your clothes are spotless, and you look full of energy. You don't look like you've just fought a long, hard battle at all." Lei Ying exclaimed as soon as she saw Ling Tian. She glanced at the lingering lightning power on her own body, left behind by the attacks, and grew even more puzzled. "That's not right. Our strength is about the same, and the trial you faced should have been almost identical to mine. Did you figure out the secret of those phantoms right away? But even that shouldn't have left you with no wear and tear. By the end, that phantom had even learned my Thunder God Armor."
The trial had lasted quite a while. After such a long and intense battle, Lei Ying was quite drained. That was true even though she had figured out the phantoms' secret after using two or three secret techniques,