Space twisted.
When Bai Yi opened his eyes again, he found himself looking at a pale expanse of empty space.
At its center stood a Seashell Hall gate that seemed to have been shrunk countless times over.
Before Bai Yi could gather his wits, a voice spreading like divine sense suddenly rang out deep within his mind.
"Enter the Trial Realm and complete the palace admission assessment!"
The cold, emotionless voice seemed to have repeated these words countless times to untold numbers of geniuses.
"It seems this is the grotto-heaven assessment recorded in the Lanhai Sect's legacy concerning Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven."
Bai Yi sensed the boundless, pale world around him with his divine sense, inwardly marveling.
Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven had appeared in the Origin Realm over a million years ago. Even though it opened only once every hundred years, over those long ages, the oldest great sects had already recorded most of its rules and environments.
Among these, what all participants considered the most important aspect of Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven was this entrance assessment.
This entrance assessment was probably one of the admission trials held by the superior sect to which this secret realm's palace had once belonged.
Yet for some unknown reason, it had survived along with this fragmentary grotto-heaven secret realm, restricting entry into Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven to Nascent Soul Realm cultivators under two hundred years old.
This was also why the major sects of the Origin Realm used the age of two hundred and the Nascent Soul Realm as the benchmarks for judging a person's talent and aptitude.
Beyond that, the most important aspect of this entrance assessment was this.
Prodigies of different levels could directly obtain disciple status based on their results in this entrance assessment, thereby gaining different privileges within the grotto-heaven.
However, the geniuses