The Imperial Guard assessment was fairly simple: display one's combat strength and break through the stages.
The more stages one cleared, the greater one's combat strength, and the more one's Imperial Guard status would be elevated.
The first to appear before Li Su was a Heavenly General—an elite Heavenly General, determined according to his highest status.
After swiftly suppressing it, the opponent immediately became ten Heavenly Generals.
He continued suppressing them. Ten Heavenly Generals and ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers formed an array to encircle and kill him.
It was not the Desolate Heaven Boundless Formation, merely an ordinary legion formation working in concert to grind him down.
There was some pressure now. Without using his supreme power, relying solely on his own foundation, suppressing them below the Taiyi realm was becoming somewhat difficult.
After that, the difficulty rose sharply.
A mid-stage Taiyi Heavenly General led the force. Among the ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers, a thousand had already reached perfected True Immortal cultivation.
The strength of the military formation also began to increase, possessing the might of an array and allowing its members to empower one another.
Suppressing them became harder. He had to break the formation and kill its members first before dealing with the mid-stage Taiyi opponent.
Then it became three mid-stage Taiyi and seven early-stage Taiyi Heavenly Generals leading five thousand True Immortals.
Then came five Taiyi opponents, with every Heavenly Soldier at great perfection of the True Immortal realm.
Even Li Su had no choice but to activate his supreme power. Their stacking was far too terrifying; he could not let it continue like this. He had to use his supreme domain to curb the formation's operation.
As the opponents grew stronger, killing them became increasingly arduous, and the battle dragged on longer and longer.
It continued