"Elite Apprentice Xiao Yang, your Death Mission has officially begun!"
"During the trial, you will be supplied with food and water."
"Carved into the walls of the trial chamber are the Psychic Controller's secret Basic 312 Forms."
"Learn these 312 forms, and you may have a chance to break out of the trial chamber."
Xiao Yang could now see countless intricate carvings on the translucent crystal wall before him.
There were more than three hundred illustrations of the human body, accompanied by explanatory text in the ancient ruins' script.
Even at a glance, Xiao Yang found them incredibly complex.
"Death Mission objective: break out of the trial chamber within three years!"
"If you fail to break out within three years, you fail the trial."
"And failure means death!"
Xiao Yang wasn't particularly worried about the Death Trial.
He wasn't afraid of this so-called trial of death at all.
Even if he couldn't pass, he could hide in the Game World and take his time growing stronger.
What worried him more was being stuck here for too long.
But there was nothing he could do about that.
He might as well make the best of it.
He was also very curious about the Controller 312 Forms.
He knew there was one way for a Psychic to reach Planetary Level: increase their psychic power amplitude.
The same applied to martial warriors.
Raise their force-exertion amplitude high enough, and they, too, could reach Planetary Level.
But the force-exertion secret arts on Earth weren't enough to help someone at the Peak God of War break through to Planetary Level.
That was why Earth had so few Planetary Level experts.
Xiao Yang began carefully studying the Controller 312 Forms before him.
At the same time, he used his communication wristband to record every detail.
In the blink of an eye, a month passed.
Throughout that time, Xiao Yang hadn't touched the food or water provided here.
Neither tasted bad, but neither was particularly good, either.
Xiao Yang cared a great deal about what he ate.
It was in his bones!
Besides, he had stored plenty of delicious food in the Game World's warehouse.
There was no need to worry about any of it expiring in there.
Everything came out exactly as it had gone in.
He even had plenty of freshly prepared dishes inside.
There was enough food to last Xiao Yang ten years!
Along with those meals, he had continued using rice and blueberries.
After a month, Xiao Yang's base strength had reached nearly one hundred thousand kilograms!
His psychic power was also very close to the level of an Invincible God of War!
But his greatest improvement was in his psychic power amplitude.
With a brain-domain width of 33, he really did have a knack for learning.
In just one month, he had raised his psychic power amplitude from 5 to 10!
That meant he could now control ten flying daggers perfectly!
What was more, because he was practicing an orthodox secret art of the universe, he could concentrate the force of all ten daggers into one!
His psychic power could exert roughly four hundred thousand kilograms of force.
In other words, his strongest strike could unleash four million kilograms of force!
His force-exertion amplitude, on the other hand, hadn't improved much.
It had only reached 4.5 times.
When he was bored, he had also practiced World Annihilation on the side.
During that time, he had mastered its fourth stage.
He hadn't tried to break through the crystal wall yet.
He remembered that Luo Feng hadn't broken through it until his psychic power amplitude reached 16.
And Luo Feng had been an Invincible God of War at the time, with psychic power at the Peak Apprentice Level.
Xiao Yang's psychic power hadn't reached the Peak Apprentice Level yet.
Wait!
Something suddenly occurred to Xiao Yang.
The crystal wall really had been incredibly sturdy for Luo Feng.
Without enough force, breaking it had been impossible.
After all, although Luo Feng had used an SS-Grade Flying Dagger, it was still something made on Earth.
By the standards of the universe, it was nothing special.
But Xiao Yang was different!
He had a Harpoon from the game!
He still had no idea just how sharp it was.
Almost anything it struck might as well have been tofu.
At the thought, Xiao Yang willed the Harpoon into his hand.
Under the control of his psychic power, it floated into the air.
The next moment, it shot straight at the crystal wall before him.
Pfft!
The crystal wall, which hadn't taken so much as a mark from Xiao Yang's strongest punch, was still like tofu before the Harpoon.
It passed straight through without the wall slowing it in the slightest!
Xiao Yang stared at the tiny hole in the crystal wall, speechless.
Damn!
I should've used the Harpoon sooner!
Without hesitating, he sent it punching through the crystal wall again and again.
The Harpoon was so sharp that each pass left a clean hole without damaging the wall's structure. Xiao Yang still couldn't break through it.
So he used the Harpoon to carve an opening out of the wall.
Once it was done, Xiao Yang squeezed through.
Deep within the ruins, a bald crystal figure watched in silence.
A strangely human look of confusion flickered in his eyes.
He wasn't sure whether Xiao Yang's attempt counted as passing the trial.
As stated before, the Death Mission was to break through the wall and leave the crystal chamber.
Xiao Yang had indeed gotten out.
But the mission's purpose was for the trainee to learn the Controller 312 Forms and use them to break through the wall.
Xiao Yang, however, had broken through with a weapon.
Nothing like this had ever happened before.
The main reason was that someone at the Apprentice Level couldn't possibly possess such a weapon.
Weapons from the Primordial Universe couldn't even be wielded without sufficient strength.
The bald crystal figure had never seen a weapon this sharp, either.
In the original story, the Sky-Escaping Shuttle Luo Feng used was also a Tier 3 Telekinetic Weapon.
Even so, Luo Feng had obediently raised his psychic power amplitude to 16 before breaking through the crystal wall.
Still, Xiao Yang had completed the objective, so he counted as having passed the trial.
The bald crystal figure wasn't a true intelligent life-form, after all. He had to follow his programming.
Xiao Yang heard the familiar voice again.
"·--XXXXXXXXXXX"
He immediately looked at the translation software on his wristband.
"Congratulations. You have passed the Death Trial!"
"Follow the passage ahead and come to me to claim your reward for completing the trial."
As soon as the voice faded, the tough wall of dark brown roots ahead of Xiao Yang writhed apart, forming a passage three to four meters wide.
The passage stretched deep into the darkness. At its far end, a mesmerizing light shimmered.
It was the same light that formed the "crystal wall"!
Xiao Yang had been a little uneasy, unsure whether what he'd done counted as cheating.
Now that he'd heard the voice, delight flashed in his eyes.
Without hesitation, he flew into the passage ahead.
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