Establishing Authority, Claiming the Pearl

"Not yet. There's something unusual about the island beneath our feet. Let me explore it first."

From the moment he arrived, Lin Yi had spread out his senses to observe the surroundings.

He discovered that the island beneath their feet was not originally part of this realm. It had been formed by using some kind of earth-pulling technique to draw up rocks from deep within the Earth Vein.

This showed that the site they had been teleported to had been carefully constructed by the Academy Elders.

If it were merely for a Trial, there was no need to build such a massive island. Clearly, something was hidden within it.

The next moment, Lin Yi used Kun Earth and vanished into the island as though burrowing underground.

"Overlord Saber Lin Yi disappeared. Did he discover something?"

As the only renowned prodigy among this group of a hundred who was on the Dragon Tiger Ranking, every move Lin Yi made was being watched by the other New Students.

Seeing Lin Yi vanish into the island using an earth-burrowing technique, they immediately guessed that something unusual lay beneath it and hurried to follow.

However, accompanied by a scream, a New Student who had used an earth-burrowing method was abruptly trapped alive within the rock layer.

Quite a few New Students were shocked. "What happened? Could there be mechanisms beneath the island's rocks?"

"Save me! The rocks suddenly hardened and solidified! I can't move..."

"Useless..."

Very quickly, the man was rescued by his friends.

Not far away, Ling Shanshan stomped on the island's rocks with her foot and found that they had become several times harder than when they had first arrived.

Remembering something unpleasant, she curled her lips. "It's probably Lin Yi's doing. Back at Stronghold 703, that guy used this very method