The rumors grew more outrageous with every retelling. Eventually, people were even saying that an elder from the North Ridge Sacred Ground was hiding inside the Black Tortoise Grand Formation to test their reactions.
For a time, every competing cultivator who heard the rumor was thrown into a panic, inwardly groaning without end.
What kind of hellish difficulty was this? Having to compete inside the Black Tortoise Grand Formation regardless of cultivation was bad enough, but if two people met on the same Black Tortoise Stake, they were actually forced to fight!
If someone stole their Identity Token halfway through a fight, they would vanish into thin air, kicked straight out of the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
They had to worry about their opponent's moves and the possibility of their Identity Token being stolen, and even keep track of the time. If a fight lasted longer than fifteen minutes, the Black Tortoise Stake would throw them off.
And waiting directly beneath the Black Tortoise Stakes were those Golden Core cultivators, eyeing them like tigers stalking prey!
Even those Golden Core cultivators had to worry from time to time about that hidden elder from the North Ridge Sacred Ground!
Was the very first contest already this far beyond the syllabus? This was utterly ridiculous!
Naturally, Yun Xi heard the rumor too, and she immediately became even more cautious.
"I never expected a highly cultivated elder to be hiding here to test us. This contest is incredibly difficult."
Compared with this Black Tortoise Stake contest, the previous competitions between their sects had been nothing more than children playing house.
It tested not only their cultivation, but their intelligence as well.
"I wonder where little Lan Yue is now. I heard her thoughts just now, so she should be somewhere nearby, right?" Senior