Death Trial

Xiao Yang stood in a black hall.

The hall had a hemispherical ceiling and covered several hundred square meters.

Dreamlike beams of light shone down from the black hall's ceiling, making the entire place seem surreal.

Xiao Yang found that there was no one around him.

This did not surprise him.

After all, Yao Rao had roughly described what they would encounter after entering.

The lights above his head were now testing his strength.

The others should also be in identical halls.

Xiao Yang simply waited quietly.

Thirty seconds passed in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Yang's expression began to change.

"Don't tell me—"

He clearly remembered Yao Rao saying that the test would generally be completed within thirty seconds.

As each second passed, Xiao Yang's expression grew increasingly unpleasant.

The corner of his mouth twitched.

He suddenly remembered something.

Brain-Domain Width seemed to have nothing to do with whether one was a Psychic, didn't it?

Could it be that he was about to trigger the Death Trial as well?

The thought gave Xiao Yang a headache.

If the Death Trial was triggered, he would be unable to leave for some time too.

He wondered whether his villa would be repossessed by then.

Soon, sixty seconds had passed.

Just then, a piercing sound rang out.

"XX..."

Xiao Yang could not understand it at all and could only lower his head to look at his communication watch.

The software was activated, and a translated voice came from the communication watch.

"Warning, warning, warning—"

This was bad!

Yao Rao had never mentioned such a situation!

Was he really going to trigger the Death Trial?

At that moment, the dreamlike multicolored light enveloping Xiao Yang suddenly vanished.

At the same time, finger-thick crystal ropes suddenly shot toward Xiao Yang from the hemispherical ceiling of the black hall.

More than a hundred crystal ropes flashed like lightning, moving even faster than his flying knives.

Xiao Yang merely sighed at the sight and did not resist in the slightest.

In truth, at that speed, he would not have been able to resist even if he wanted to.

The crystal ropes instantly wrapped around Xiao Yang, binding him up like a rice dumpling.

Streams of light flowed through the crystalline ropes and rapidly surged toward the top of the black hall.

The scene resembled a computer transmitting signals.

The process lasted around thirty seconds.

Suddenly.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

All the crystal ropes rapidly retracted and merged into the ceiling.

A lengthy announcement echoed throughout the black hall.

Xiao Yang immediately looked at his communication watch.

Complex text appeared on the communication watch's screen, accompanied by a synchronized voice.

"Congratulations. Your Brain-Domain Width is 33, exceeding 18. You are qualified to enter the Elite Passage of this Trial Base."

"Because this is the first time the Elite Passage has been activated in five thousand years, please wait fifteen minutes."

33?!

Xiao Yang had not expected his Brain-Domain Width to reach 33!

Although he did not know what a high Brain-Domain Width represented.

Still, he guessed it was related to comprehension.

He remembered that in the original novel, Luo Feng's Brain-Domain Width had initially only been a little over twenty.

This meant that his initial comprehension was considerably better than Luo Feng's.

However, Xiao Yang was not particularly proud.

Luo Feng's comprehension continuously improved.

In the end, he could even become the second existence in the cultivator camp to break through all laws with brute force.

That showed just how terrifying Luo Feng's comprehension could become in the future.

Since there were still fifteen minutes left, Xiao Yang sat where he was and waited quietly.

He casually took out a grain of Level-1 Rice and began eating it.

He had no intention of hiding it.

This thing was worthless in the universe anyway.

Even if the intelligence here saw it, it would not do anything.

As for it appearing out of thin air, that was not a major issue either.

Many powerful beings in the universe possessed spatial equipment. That was perfectly normal.

An intelligence specifically responsible for testing and selecting geniuses would not care about such things.

Fifteen minutes quickly passed in the blink of an eye.

A prompt sounded in the black hall once more.

Xiao Yang looked at the message displayed on his watch.

"Please enter the Elite Passage."

A deep, bottomless black passage had appeared in the wall of the black hall.

There was also complex writing beside the passage, resembling a section of text displayed on his watch.

Without any hesitation, Xiao Yang stepped inside.

Within the passage, ancient tunnels formed by tangled black tree roots stretched in every direction, entirely unremarkable.

Whenever he reached a fork, there would be nine passages ahead.

After choosing one and walking for a while, another nine forks would appear before him.

Yao Rao had also said that other Martial Warriors had faced tests like this.

Just then, Xiao Yang noticed a blurry black shadow seeping out from a wall of tangled black roots within a fork not far away.

The shadow fell to the ground like a dripping water droplet.

The next moment, it gradually solidified into a black-robed figure wearing a silver-gray mask.

The same thing happened in the other forks.

Each of the nine forks ahead of Xiao Yang and the nine behind him "gave birth" to a black-robed figure wearing a silver mask.

All eighteen black-robed figures began converging toward Xiao Yang along the passages.

Unconcealed killing intent radiated from every one of them.

Xiao Yang was curious how things that were obviously not human could radiate killing intent.

But he also knew that now was not the time to dwell on it.

He took out the Harpoon and his flying knives.

Several Harpoons and flying knives shot toward some of the black-robed figures.

The flying knives could injure those black-robed figures, but killing them was still somewhat difficult.

However, Xiao Yang had never intended to kill them all.

His Harpoon shot directly toward one of the black-robed figures.

Before the Harpoon, those black-robed figures were like tofu and were instantly pierced through.

Without any hesitation, Xiao Yang entered the fork behind that black-robed figure and flew rapidly onward.

As a Psychic, he flew far faster than he could run.

Soon, he left those black-robed figures far behind.

As Xiao Yang vanished from the black-robed figures' sight, they instantly turned into black shadows and merged into the surrounding tree roots.

Just as Xiao Yang flew past one fork after another, saw that no one was following him, and landed on the ground.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Suddenly, streams of transparent light shot down from above.

Those streams of light were actually crystal walls!

In an instant, the crystal walls formed a crystal chamber five meters high and eight meters long and wide, trapping Xiao Yang inside.

At that moment, the familiar voice rang out again, and Xiao Yang habitually looked at his wristband.