As he spoke, Lord Bird gazed at Shi Yi with a deep, meaningful look.
Under that strange gaze, Shi Yi could not help shivering, a chill running through his whole body.
"Old man, this wouldn't happen to be a death trap, would it?"
"You could think of it that way," Lord Essence Coin replied from the side.
"..."
Although Shi Yi had great confidence in his strength, he was no fool. At present, he was only unrivaled in the Blood Moving Realm. He had only just opened three cave heavens in the Cave Heaven Realm and was nowhere near invincible.
Otherwise, he would never have come to the Initial Ground to find Lord Bird and Lord Essence Coin. He would have simply swept out of the grotto-heaven paradise occupied by the Ancient Era Pure Land and slaughtered his enemies to the last.
"What? Scared? Even Xuan Yi knows fear?" Lord Bird asked with a smile.
Lord Essence Coin was smiling too, and that expression sent a chill crawling through the heart.
Had Shi Yi not given them five jars of precious blood and three treasure bones, he would certainly have thought the two old men were deliberately setting him up, planning to send him back into the furnace to be reforged.
"A reminder: if you die here, your body and cultivation will perish in the real world as well," Lord Bird added.
"We aren't trying to murder you. Rather, our memories tell us that this is the outpost of the Ultimate Trial Ground.
"The so-called Ultimate Trial Ground is a place that nurtures the strongest being in history within a given realm. If you want to go there, you must first pass through this outpost," Lord Essence Coin said gravely.
"A place that nurtures the strongest being in history within