"So this was the legendary Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven..."
Before Bai Yi, towering mountains like stars crumbled and collapsed. Surging tides swept in from the distant horizon, washing over the world before him like layer upon layer of curtains.
He had only just stepped inside when a wave spanning a hundred li, mingled with the lingering traces of numerous shattered Dao arts, came crashing toward him.
"No wonder the Lanhai Sect's records of Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven said the attacks here were practically unceasing. You have to leave yourself some room, whether exploring or fighting."
With one stroke, Bai Yi cut an opening large enough to pass through in the tide that blotted out the sky before him.
Although an unknown number of years had passed, the combined power of the many lingering traces mixed into the tide still far exceeded the might of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator attacking at full strength.
For ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, with tides like these sweeping through almost every ten minutes or so, exploring the Secret Realm was out of the question.
Even simply surviving here might prove difficult.
"True disciple status... if the Lanhai Sect's records were accurate, the highest access level for the first few great halls was true disciple."
As Bai Yi spoke, he took a jade talisman from his ring and activated it with Origin Power.
A map detailing roughly eighty percent of Sea Tide Grotto-Heaven's terrain appeared before him.
His Divine Sense swiftly swept over his surroundings, and Bai Yi immediately determined his location: the junction between Pill King Pavilion and the medicinal garden.
He had taken only five days in total to pass the first through fourth trials.
That gave him a full three days more than the eight days that geniuses across the ages had averaged to pass