Because one was an entry examination, while the other was an inheritance examination.
Normally, one had to join the sect to obtain the Great Dao inheritance.
But considering this place's past, it had once been an ancient sect.
The ancient era had long vanished into the river of time.
It was hardly strange for the inheritances left behind in these places by this sect to undergo certain changes.
After all, those who obtained the inheritances were often not inheritors of their predecessors' lineages.
With this connection in mind, the man and cat quickly sorted out part of this place's underlying circumstances.
At the very least, it seemed that outsiders like Zhou Shenlong might not need to undergo the test of joining the sect.
Conversely, the mortals in that plaza were likely native beings of this land, unlike cultivators from elsewhere such as themselves.
This approach was somewhat similar to the Divine Lord's training ground in the Universe Realm of the West Sea.
That training ground stood beyond the heavens, with an immense and majestic divine mountain rising there as well, drawing countless cultivators to it.
Zhou Shenlong had witnessed it once before, but the feeling it gave him had been somewhat subtle, so he had not entered to explore it.
Still, he had heard several fellow disciples describe what the examination scenes within were like.
Some cultivators had acted upon the rumors and headed to the Divine Lord's training ground, but not all of them had gone for the inheritance.
Some wished to experience those novel and wondrous Reincarnation simulation scrolls.
After all, such unique cultivation experiences and places of cultivation were indeed rare in the world.
Simulation scrolls, three chances, experiencing different lives, changing different fates, struggling against the predetermined destinies that descended from within those scrolls—this too was