When Luo Yuan saw the old man, he was not surprised either. After all, Luofu Palace had been refined by some Superpowerful Being, so there was nothing strange about it having an artifact spirit. Moreover, Luo Yuan could sense that the old man was extremely powerful, and everything he had experienced earlier had merely been an illusion.
From the old man's explanation, Luo Yuan came to understand that it was a world constructed through some powerful secret technique used by that Superpowerful Being. This secret technique could conjure corresponding scenes according to what the Examinee thought, and all the people and objects within it were actually real, as though they had been copied.
But to the Examinee, it was illusory. Thus, after Luo Yuan finally discovered this, he unhesitatingly used his powerful mental will to break through the illusory universe. Even now, he still felt some lingering fear, because everything in that illusion had been no different from the reality he had experienced before.
Only when he noticed something wrong with the Origin Will in the Primal Universe, particularly when he could barely sense the Supreme Rule, did Luo Yuan discover where the problem with this world lay. Had he not discovered this flaw, he might truly have treated that world as real and lived there for billions of eras or more. In that case, he would have missed this opportunity to take the trial and wasted an enormous amount of time.
What Luo Yuan found particularly interesting was that the secret techniques he had cultivated and the control over origin power he had gained in that illusory world were actually real. This made him realize that the powerhouse who had created Luofu Palace might be an existence even more powerful than Yuan, who was known as a Hunyuan Lord.