Apart from Luo Yuan, Venerable Bi Xue, and Lord Lu Chong, the other candidates were also working hard to comprehend what they had been given. Those who had chosen to stay were all Universe Masters with clones, and they mostly came from the East Emperor Holy Land and the Purple Moon Holy Land Universe. Quite a few could create their own strongest secret techniques at the Universe Master level, but creating secret techniques at the level of a Strongest One in the Universe was difficult. They, too, were stuck.
Under Duan Donghe's arrangements, candidates who had reached the first tier had no supreme secret techniques to consult, only an iceberg containing law patterns. Candidates who had reached the second tier had thirty-six sets of secret techniques and an iceberg to study. Even Venerable Bi Xue only had two icebergs to study. Luo Yuan alone received the best treatment, with a full three hundred and sixty supreme secret techniques and three icebergs to study. Not only was Luo Yuan the top-ranked candidate, but the requirements placed on him were also the highest.
Although Luo Yuan did not know exactly how high Duan Donghe's requirements were, he understood that the three hundred and sixty supreme Blade Dao secret techniques he was studying were merely basic inheritance in Duan Donghe's eyes. If he wanted to meet Duan Donghe's requirements, he naturally could not earn Duan Donghe's special regard if the secret techniques he created could not even surpass this basic inheritance. Yet creating secret techniques far beyond his own level merely by drawing on this basic inheritance was simply too difficult.
Even so, the two hundred candidates present were unwilling to give up just like that, because giving up meant death, and a meaningless one at that. Thus, even for that sliver of