Although they were following behind Chen Changan, Wang Ba and Guan Ao took every step with their hearts in their mouths.
As they neared the end of the clearing and were about to step onto the broad Ascension Road, Wang Ba's and Guan Ao's hearts climbed into their throats.
Yet Chen Changan did not pause at all. He walked straight out of the clearing and onto the Ascension Road.
The moment everyone stepped onto the Ascension Road, Wang Ba and Guan Ao were shocked to discover that their cultivation had not regressed.
"Wh... what's going on?"
"Our cultivation hasn't regressed. Does that mean we didn't fail the trial, and we actually made it out?"
"Master, why... why is that?" Guan Ao asked, his face full of shock.
"The reason is simple. This trial tested our courage."
"Didn't you notice anything wrong with the person we met along the way?" Chen Changan asked with a smile.
"Wrong?"
"What was wrong with him?" Wang Ba and Guan Ao both looked puzzled.
"The problem was that he ignored the suppressive force."
"At the point where we met him, you two had to break through to the late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm to keep moving."
"But he was walking back from this direction, and his cultivation was only at the late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm."
"Do you think he could have withstood that terrifying suppressive force with that level of cultivation?" Mu Yunyao said with a smile.
Wang Ba and Guan Ao both froze at her words.
That's right! How did we forget about that?
"So that man deliberately lied to us?"
"Just to make us think that place was strange, so we wouldn't dare make any rash moves and would waste our time?"
"That way, we'd be afraid to leave but unable to stay, trapped in that