This trial was called "Heart Severing"!
It now seemed to test one's ability to read others' subtle expressions, and to control one's own. While judging whether others were lying through certain details, one had to do everything possible to keep them from judging whether one was lying.
At the same time, it tested the richness of the experiences one had gone through in the first half of one's life.
Mocking Heaven Sect was a sect devoted purely to sword cultivation. He could understand why a sword cultivator needed to experience the mortal world—only by seeing through the red dust could one prove one's true heart—but testing one's ability to read subtle expressions left him utterly baffled. Did a sword cultivator need to learn this too?
In truth, he had something utterly devastating.
That was—
Rainbow Trait!
If he had just said, "I watched my sister-in-law bathe, and I possess a Rainbow Trait," that would have been an instant kill, with a one-hundred-percent chance of eliminating the person below him. That person would have only two choices.
Either expose him, or grit their teeth and continue.
No matter which they chose, they would basically lose.
Even if they were truly bold enough to continue, did they think the person below them would believe them? Unless that person also had a Rainbow Trait.
It was simply unnecessary.
After all, it was only an Upper-Grade Foundation Establishment Earthfire Pill. It was not worth exposing his Rainbow Trait. If the rules had been that everyone eliminated from the arena would die immediately, and no information could leak out, he would not have minded letting the remaining people see what true despair looked like.
After saying that, Chen Qiu calmly sat cross-legged where he was, not even glancing at the person below him.
To be