The Demonic Domain instance was a public instance governed by a points system.
At most, it was equivalent to a regional instance.
Its priority and importance were nowhere near comparable to the Northern Frontier Trial.
Not to mention himself.
Even Aze and Chen Rui had each activated a regional instance.
This sort of thing was not rare across the Endless Continent.
Most of what was sealed within were fallen villainous factions from the previous era or the era before that.
These instances were essentially released for lords to practice on.
They had yet to rise to the level of a trial.
All large-scale trials were direct selections by the Lord System.
Those eliminated would most likely end up dead.
The number of lords remaining now was not even 55% of the number who had first descended.
Most of the lords who died had been eliminated by various trials during the first month.
The next largest group had died at the hands of natives or wilderness monsters.
Only after that came lords attacking one another or all manner of accidents.
For any large-scale trial, it was no big deal unless tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of lords died.
What existed now was merely survivor bias.
In reality, during the earliest trials, lords had died by the hundreds of millions.
Trials did not merely demand sufficient strength; luck was equally important.
Jiang Yi had been among the better-developed lords.
Yet she had ultimately GG'd after drawing Titans as the attacking side in the Defense Challenge.
If Zong Shen had not used one revival privilege, the grass on her grave would already have grown a meter tall. Who knew, she might even have been turned into a recruitment scroll by the Lord System.
If their generation of lords still failed