"Let's break the formation at once!"
"Take positions according to the five elements' mutual restraint. Metal restrains wood. I cultivate the Purple-Gold Law, so I'll stand on the Wood Altar!"
"I'll stand on the Earth Altar!"
"I'll take the Fire Altar!"
"I'll take the Metal Altar!"
"I'll take the Water Altar!"
At once, five people flew up and took their places on the five altars.
However, just as the five were about to challenge the altars, Poison Sword Elder raised a hand. "Wait!"
"Hmm?"
The five were startled and all looked toward Poison Sword Elder.
"The method of breaking the formation that the president told us was fake. He secretly told me the real method!"
Poison Sword Elder said.
"What? It was fake?"
Everyone was shocked.
Poison Sword Elder explained, "The president feared that someone among you would leak the true method of breaking the formation, so the method he told you was false!"
"Shang Wanshi really is cautious!"
Lu Ren was secretly startled as well. He had not expected it to be false information. If he had not disguised himself as Tie Jun and brought five people who cultivated the laws of the five elements to challenge the Five Elements Altar, their fate would likely have been grim.
Even those peerless geniuses of the Ninth Shattered Realm had suffered grievous injuries after failing the Five Elements Altar. If cultivators like them, at the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Shattered realms, failed, they would likely have no path but death.
"Then aren't we supposed to take positions according to the five elements' mutual restraint?"
A cultivator standing on the Fire Altar asked.
Poison Sword Elder said calmly, "Among the Five Elements Altar—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—the Metal Attribute Altar's trial is the easiest. It is said that one must pass