The testing at Liba Beach carried on in lively fashion for nearly two months.
Especially during the final month, they selected five hundred cultivators at the Emergence from Dust Stage or above and tested them continuously for that long.
During this process, more than twenty cultivators voluntarily withdrew for various reasons, while over a dozen were forcibly removed.
Those who were forcibly removed had not necessarily died in accidents. In fact, seven or eight had tried to forcibly conduct Divination on cultivation techniques within the battle space—they believed that even if they got it wrong, at worst they would suffer cultivation deviation, and everything would be fine once they left the space.
Feng Jun had not been constantly watching the artifact, but he had people under him. Zhang Caixin and Yun Buyao held the artifact's secondary high-level permissions, second only to Feng Jun's highest authority, allowing them to forcibly inspect the footage of all five hundred cultivators.
It was not that Feng Jun intended to spy on anyone. The artifact had only just been refined and might not be stable; it would be terrible if it cost someone their life.
Moreover, even if other factions bought this kind of artifact, they would certainly want to know what their disciples were doing inside it, so they could analyze or even rescue them if something went wrong. This function might go unused, but it had to exist.
Before the final five hundred testers began, Liba Beach issued a statement: the testing fee would be waived this time, but if necessary, Liba Beach would collect some video records and reserve the right to make timely adjustments should anything unexpected occur.
Many cultivators were quite resistant upon hearing this, unwilling to expose their trump cards.
But some truly did not care, because they knew