As the Foundation Establishment death soldiers made their preparations at a feverish pace, a month passed in the blink of an eye.
A month later, twenty streaks of escape light shot like meteors across the sky above a vast, mist-shrouded canyon.
"Those who obtain a jade token pass. Those who fail to obtain one are eliminated!"
"You may use any means during this assessment."
"The jade tokens have been placed in several conspicuous locations in the canyon. You can easily find them by scanning with divine sense, but you are forbidden from putting them into storage bags. You must carry them on your person!"
Leng Yuexin coldly announced the rules while the eighteen death soldiers listened respectfully.
Although they were all at Foundation Establishment, the gap between the early stage and the peak was no simple matter.
The authority she had built over the past dozen years could not be erased overnight, either.
From how they stood together now, it was already clear that the Foundation Establishment death soldiers had quietly divided into groups of various sizes.
The larger groups had four or five members, while the smaller ones had two or three.
Some were so weak that no cultivator was willing to ally with them, leaving them conspicuously isolated to one side.
Xu Haoran, Shen Shan, and Gong Xinyuan, along with a Foundation Establishment cultivator who had joined them later, formed one group.
Although their group of four was not the largest, their combined strength was certainly not weak, giving them a good chance of passing the assessment.
Their strength definitely ranked among the top three groups.
However, the largest group had a full five members, which undoubtedly gave them a tremendous advantage when everyone's strength was roughly equal.
Only eighteen cultivators were participating in this assessment. If