When Guangzhenzi first entered the Third Trial ten thousand years ago, he had already made it to the final node.
And he had successfully crossed it.
However, he had assumed that once he leaped across, he could easily enter the Colored Light Orb. To ease the pressure, he had used up his chess piece, even though he could have endured the node's danger at the cost of an injury.
As a result, without the chess piece that served as the "key," he had been rejected by the Colored Light Orb.
His Origin Essence had also been damaged, leaving him unable to withstand the nodes' attacks head-on.
Without claiming the Colored Light Orb, he had not completed the task and could not leave the Third Trial's boundaries.
Much less return to reality.
Learning this, Chen Lin felt a surge of lingering fear.
Guangzhenzi had a fiefdom as well.
Like Chen Lin, he had entered the scenario in his physical body. If Guangzhenzi could not leave, Chen Lin would fare no better.
He had previously thought that as long as he finished a chess game and won, he could leave whenever he pleased. Only now did he realize how naïve that had been.
Golden scenarios had far more restrictive rules than lower-level scenarios. He would have to be doubly careful in the future.
Chen Lin silently warned himself.
Although Guangzhenzi could not return to reality, he had still won the contest on the chessboard and had suffered no punishment.
Thus, he had waited by his proverbial tree for a rabbit, lying in wait in the Lake for other Explorers who entered the Third Trial.
Over ten thousand years, a total of six Explorers had appeared.
All of them cultivated the Destiny Law.
Anyone who was not a Destiny Practitioner could not pass