Time flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
On Primal Star 81, powerful beings appeared one after another and left through their respective Vortex Passages.
With the various factions keeping one another in check, no fights broke out in which the strong bullied the weak.
However, many powerful beings had set their sights on the loners leaving with Star Banners.
Inside the Star Divine Palace, the Artifact Spirit watched the departing figures, turned ethereal, and vanished.
The Star Divine Palace sank into the Primal Star once more.
"Goodbye," Dongguan said softly.
If he attained eternity, perhaps he could see the Star Divine Palace open again. By then, however, he would no longer be able to participate in person.
The Ten Thousand Cause Stone lay safely in his World Ring, waiting for him to study it.
Refine Star Banners? Perhaps there was no need to use this particular combination against World Beasts. It was not especially suitable, really. One additional Universe Strongest One's worth of combat power was simply useless against the World Beasts' numbers.
Dongguan also recalled the previous three trials.
Twenty years ago.
The third trial.
Apart from the "World Light Passage," the difference in strength between third-order and second-order World Beasts was not particularly great. The powerful beings had learned their lesson in the second trial.
This time, the Starry Sky Grand Formation had not been broken, and they had successfully passed.
Ten years ago, the fourth trial.
A Tier 4 World Beast had a much richer array of abilities.
Its "World Light Domain," in particular, was even stronger than a Universe Strongest One's Words Become Law, without the same harsh restriction of being suppressed when facing Universe Masters.
However, the Universe Strongest Ones, including Giant Axe, discovered that the