The next moment, Qin Yan felt the space around him lurch violently.
The room before him vanished rapidly. After a wave of dizziness passed, the mysterious light before his eyes disappeared.
He found himself inside a palace.
Three other figures stood around him.
Qin Yan looked around the palace and found it remarkably empty. There were only five statues.
The two statues at the center of the palace drew his attention most.
They depicted a man and a woman. The man looked imposing, the woman strikingly beautiful.
Silver light coiled around the man's statue. Like countless tiny wandering dragons, it roamed across the surface, giving off an ancient, profound aura of arraycraft.
Blue light flickered over the woman's statue, gentle yet mysterious, like a miniature starry sky revolving around her.
Three more statues stood around the hall.
Compared with the two at the center, these three appeared somewhat dim.
Their auras were far weaker than those of the central statues, but to Qin Yan and the others, the power they radiated remained unfathomable.
That pressure was as impossible to fathom as an abyss. Though the statues stood motionless, they stirred an involuntary urge to fall to one's knees.
Qin Yan could clearly sense the power within them. Any one of the three could crush him to dust.
"Four trial-takers, congratulations on reaching the Xuantian Hall. The five statues before you represent the five strongest Array Mages of our Xuantian Valley."
The aged, mechanical voice echoed through the empty palace.
"The two statues at the center depict Xuantian Valley's two Valley Masters. Both were Half-Step Emperor-Rank Array Mages."
Half-Step Emperor-Rank Array Mages!
At those words, the eyes of Shen Xinglan, Ling Feng, Qin Yan, and Mu Dong—whose head still felt ready to split apart—trembled.
In their era, they had never heard