This was the boundary between the mist and the mind.
It was the critical moment when the Advancement Method took shape.
If one could not find a method of advancement here, there would be no possibility of forming a Golden Core.
This was a trial all those at Foundation Establishment had to endure, but everyone's trial was different.
Some saw a broad, smooth road here; others saw a path of thorns.
But regardless, as long as they could make their way through and go far enough, they could obtain an Advancement Method.
Along this road, they would encounter others traveling alongside them.
Those people might stand in their way.
But defeating them would also let them travel farther down the road.
It would make obtaining the Third Method easier.
Yet everything around Jiang Man had already been completely sealed off.
Everything he had experienced was locking him down.
Leaving him nowhere to go.
Watching all this, Chen Yu found even breathing somewhat difficult, as though a great mountain were pressing down.
The world darkened with it.
Before, he might have had a chance to help Jiang Man, but now...
Even if an Immortal Spirit appeared, it would probably be powerless.
"What exactly did you do?" Chen Yu asked instinctively.
"Nothing much. Just stayed up cultivating, and let an Evil God put some locks on me while I was at it," Jiang Man said with a smile.
"How long did you stay up?" Chen Yu asked curiously.
"Not long. I just haven't slept since I started cultivating," Jiang Man said.
After a pause, he corrected himself. "I did sleep twice to enter that ruined temple, but both times I cultivated inside it."
Chen Yu froze at that. "You cultivated in there? Absorbed the mist?"
So the candles really had burned brightly