He State's child of divine destiny sat there, cross-legged and upright, ethereal and placid, like a stick of lit incense.
With this, incense was lit to carry the message, and so the Hundred Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix.
One after another, more people entered, all familiar faces.
Xie Ai of Li State, Yan Shaofei of Wei State, Sheng Xuehuai of Sheng Kingdom, Chen Siwu of Song Kingdom, Beigong Ke of Yong Kingdom...
Beigong Ke?
Zhong Xuanyin quietly sent Ju Kui a voice transmission. "Old Ju, did you secretly lower the assessment difficulty?"
Ju Kui's face remained expressionless. "Beigong Ke is a little stronger than you know. Of course, the assessment difficulty was also lowered a little."
Though he was the designer of the [Nine Squares Illusory Realm], altering the difficulty of the entire assessment realm was not something accomplished with a thought—the matter was that, when it had first been designed, no one had considered setting difficulty tiers. Look at Li Yi, Dou Zhao, Chongxuan Zun, and the rest—they had passed with ease!
Now that he had realized the difficulty was too high, he had to hold the Great Void Magatama and sit here making adjustments bit by bit, starting by revising the Divine Presence Realm assessment stages. This level alone would take an unknown amount of time. Where things could be eased up and where they could not all required repeated deliberation. He had to consider not only fairness, but also how far to adjust things before the assessment lost its meaning... In truth, while observing, he had heavily watered things down.
At the very least, someone of Beigong Ke's caliber had to be able to squeeze in, lest the tune be too lofty and too few appreciate it.
There were in fact an enormous number of participants