The Bronze Tokens Issued · The Nightmare Begins
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Number 186 · Ning Hao · Eternal Era · True Immortal Emperor
As the number lit up, Ning Hao walked out of the crowd with a solemn expression.
Unlike his previous nonchalant tea-drinking demeanor, he now possessed sharp eyes and a mind as clear as a needle, as if he had already foreseen that this would be a "dividing line" on his spiritual path.
"My life was not meant to end like this."
Ning Hao murmured softly as he stepped into the Thought Realm Manifestation Array and the Silent Realm Prison Array.
Enemy Soul Manifestation--
It is still a simulated body Curse Emperor Yuanqing, but its soul pressure is several points stronger than in the previous rounds, approaching the level of a small world constructer.
Above the realm of thought, immense pressure surged like a tide.
Ning Hao's soul consciousness fluctuated, but unlike Cang You and Xuan Luo, he did not construct heaven and earth or weave logic. Instead, he slowly clenched his fist and uttered two words:
"Seal the boundary."
Behind him, a six-sided sealing wheel appeared, engraved with the six characters: [Time, Power, Cause, Thought, Soul, Fate].
His method was not to create a world, but to seal the source of the enemy's six senses and use "rules of binding" to complete the alternative construction of the Thought Realm.
Single layer, double layer, triple layer...
When the sealing wheel activated its fourth level, the enemy's soul actually tore through the structure of the mind domain and rushed in front of him!
Ning Hao's expression trembled violently, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his soul consciousness damaged!
Not enough... still just a step away!
Qin Yu's gaze flickered slightly from below the stage, while Azure Ring whispered in her mind, "If he forcibly increases the suppression, his Soul Foundation might collapse."
But--
Just as the enemy soul unleashed its devastating attack, Ning Hao gritted his teeth and roared:
"Six Lives Locked Together - Boundary Separation!"
The sealing wheel behind him suddenly exploded, transforming into six soul-locking chains that forcibly bound all the enemy's consciousness chains and soul paths.
The enemy's spirit abruptly stops moving!
Thought Realm rating update:
Successful conception - Method: Forced binding type
Suppression Level: Threshold Pass
But Ning Hao on stage was deathly pale and almost collapsed.
At this moment, the Silent Realm Prison Array suddenly took effect—the enemy's soul consciousness was already half-damaged. Ning Hao did not insist on operating it anymore, but instead spat out a soul crystal and activated the "Soul Resonance Dispersal Technique" to completely sever the enemy's soul's thinking in a compensatory way.
Silent Pressure Passage · Special Type · Consumable Completion
The entire audience was stunned!
The purple-robed examiner solemnly confirmed:
"Ning Hao, No. 186, has passed the Dual Domain Challenge. Assessment Level: Boundary Success."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ning Hao knelt down on one knee, his clothes stained with blood.
Qin Yu immediately and almost imperceptibly took out the Azure Ring from his sleeve and whispered, "Circulate the Annihilation Energy Stream to stabilize his Soul Sea."
A faint breath surged from the Annihilation Abyss, and Ning Hao's injuries instantly stabilized, his complexion improving slightly.
He looked up, a smile playing on his lips, his gaze falling on "Qin Ning" below the stage.
Qin Yu nodded slightly to him, his eyes remaining calm, but inwardly he sighed softly:
He wasn't a genius, but he never backed down.
"He is more trustworthy than those who claim to be candidates for the throne."
Ning Hao was slowly carried off the dual-domain battle stage by the soul light. His aura was weak, but his eyes remained resolute.
"Number 186, Ning Hao. Passed."
This is the third successful person in this round of testing.
The scene was solemn—the number of losers had reached 70.
Thus, the battle resumed.
Numbered 187-208, a total of 22 people, took the stage one by one.
Among them are several with extraordinary physical abilities, such as the "Those Who Ignite the Realm with Fire" and the "Those Who Create Images from Threads," as well as a legendary "Ancient Soul Inscription Master"...
But without exception:
• Or, due to the floating of the Thought Realm, it may be unable to complete the construction of the boundary;
• Or perhaps due to the collapse of soul pressure, the silent consciousness backfires and devours itself;
• Some even had their souls burned out on the spot in the Silent Realm, completely annihilated.
The faces of the people in the audience gradually paled.
Until number 195 took the stage --
A rogue Rogue Cultivator in black cloth, with weak mental power, but whose "mental structure was naturally pure," barely passed.
Number 197, a descendant of an ancient imperial clan from before the dawn of time, successfully reversed the Silent Soul score using "Dual Domain Suppression" and forcibly passed.
Number 202, a female cultivator named "Qi Youshang", has a unique way of constructing a realm. She uses "Dream Consciousness Projection" to summon the complete suppression of the Heavenly Domain, which is truly amazing.
Further on--
Numbers 206 and 207, both of them passed the test, and although they each had some flaws, they still met the passing standard.
Six people.
Of the 29 people in this group, only these six managed to survive.
Including Golden Immortal Xuanluo, Sage Cangyou, and Ning Hao, who passed earlier, a total of 9 people passed this round.
At this point, the assessment process has reached its final stage, with only one person remaining.
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Number 472 Qin Ning
Identity: True Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Antiquity Era
At that moment, all eyes turned to him.
Include...
The shrewd glint in the eyes of the purple-robed examiner;
Elder Wang Chi's fingertips trembled slightly;
Xuanluo and Cangyou below the stage were absorbed in their work;
Ning Hao sat to the side, a slight smile playing on his lips, and murmured softly, "You're on stage."
Number 472 · Qin Ning
As the string of numbers lit up completely, the Dual Domain Assessment Platform welcomed its last participant.
The arena was Ultimate silent; all eyes were fixed on this one person—
During the first round of "Fate Soul Level Screening," it agitated the ritual pillars, nearly causing them to collapse;
In the second round, however, his "realm suddenly closed," and he barely passed with only a slight fluctuation.
Is this third round a hidden potential candidate, or merely a fleeting, peculiar flame of Fate Soul?
Everything remains unresolved.
Qin Yu stepped onto the high platform, his aura restrained to the Ultimate.
--There was no surging soul pressure, no radiant summoning at the beginning of a concept, and even the wavebands of the divine soul were slow and stable lines, like an ordinary True Immortal Emperor in meditation.
Stand still.
The enemy's spirit manifested, still in the simulated body of the Curse Emperor Yuanqing, its Spiritual Sense as stable as a pillar, its logic as unbreakable as stone.
This time, it is even more powerful than when facing the Golden Immortal Xuanluo, and its deduction and optimization have reached Threshold.
The Thought Realm Manifestation Array slowly activated.
Qin Yu closed his eyes, raised his right palm, and gently made a sweeping motion.
Draw a line to define a boundary.
There was no complete heaven and earth, nor a mythical realm that suppressed mountains and rivers; there was only a blurry "semi-illusory ring of consciousness."
That was a "closed domain of thought" he wrote in the simplest structure. It could not suppress the enemy's soul, but it could stabilize the duration of the confrontation.
Enemy Soul Charge.
The mind oscillates, but does not break.
Qin Yu then drew a second stroke to reinforce the boundary.
The third stroke involves embedding a "sealing technique".
The fourth stroke, supplemented by the lingering remnant of the "Dawn Suppression" rune bone, slightly stabilized the enemy soul's steps.
What ultimately formed was a Threshold conceptual construct world that was almost a "test textbook" in nature:
Low suppression power;
The logical completeness is not high;
But it was precisely completed that it formed the "minimal Thought Realm".
The Nianyu rating appears:
The Realm of the Thought Realm: A simplified form · Minimum standard
Pass
The entire audience was stunned.
The purple-robed examiner raised an eyebrow slightly. "So it's... a textbook-level Thought Realm?"
Next, we enter the second stage: Silent Realm Prison Array - Soul Pressure Challenge.
Qin Yu remained calm, simply taking out a miniature soul bead and slowly Entering Stillness Suppression Array.
There was no silent vibration, no explosion of sealed consciousness, only a continuous soul frequency "hidden pressure" structure slowly unfolding.
This is the "Azure Ring - Annihilation Frequency" hidden in his sea of consciousness. After Limit suppression, only the most basic silent pressure rhythm is retained.
The enemy's spirit, instead of being suppressed, gradually fell into a state of "slow response fatigue".
Ultimately, the formation determined it to be:
Enemy Soul Sense Feedback Failed; Annihilation Pressure Established
Pass/Grade: Minimum Boundary Value
The entire room fell silent.
The purple-robed examiner nodded. "Both domains passed, evaluation boundary."
Test number 209, test complete.
He returned to Taiwan.
Wang Chi finally narrowed his eyes slightly, silently noting the result, and wrote down the self-examination on the soul tablet in his hand:
Qin Ning, True Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Antiquity Era
The Limit of the Soul Core are unknown, but its performance in the following two rounds was mediocre.
If not for the first round of instrument column reaction, it would only be below average.
He whispered to the secondary soul Sacrificial Dao beside him:
"It seems that the Fate Soul was too well-suited to the main body of the ritual pillar. It's normal that it didn't manifest itself in subsequent rounds."
The secondary soul priest asked, "Is it necessary to conduct another sampling verification?"
Wang Chi waved his hand:
"No need, it's confirmed—this person is likely just a lucky configuration of a remnant soul from some Immortal Antiquity immortal realm. There are no traces of origin evolution within him, no reverse configuration fulcrum, and he hasn't displayed any latent abilities."
"Marked as low risk level - Monitoring cancelled."
As soon as he finished speaking, the faintly glowing mark of the Soul Name "Qin Ning" on Wang Chi's soul tablet slowly went out.
Below the stage, Qin Yu's eyes remained calm, but a slight smile played on his lips.
"This is what I wanted."
"If the Recognition Annihilation Silent Abyss is activated again in this trial... even the Nightmare God Clan's Main Soul Saint Throne will likely emerge from seclusion prematurely."
The Azure Ring trembled slightly, as if sensing something.
And so, the third Ultimate trial of the Nightmare God Clan came to an end.
The sky was still, and the dual-domain battle formation slowly faded away.
As the light at the center of the formation subsided, a figure draped in a long robe of silver feathers and exuding an aura of authority slowly descended from the sky.
He was none other than the chief examiner, Silver-Winged Soul Observer Yu Xu, one of the mid-level administrators of the Nightmare God Temple responsible for the Kuawei Trials. Although his cultivation had not yet reached the No Consciousness Realm, his "Soul Logic Assessment Authority" was enough to shake the lower realm.
Yu Xu scanned the entire room and spoke calmly:
"This concludes the Nightmare God Temple Cross-Dimensional Initial Trial."
Total participants: 13,621.
Only twenty people ultimately passed.
The moment those words were spoken, the entire room fell into a deathly silence.
Those who watched as those who failed to pass, including many eliminated ancient immortals, soul emperors, epochal beings, and celestial spirit masters, all lowered their heads, sighed, remained silent, or left with somber expressions.
Qin Yu stood to the side, watching the figure disappear in a dazzling display of light into the surrounding Nightmare Plaza, his eyes slightly lowered.
Even these "heavenly beings" who have traversed eras cannot escape the Nightmare God Temple's ruthless selection process based on the "logic of the underworld."
Beside him, only twenty successful candidates remained, standing Anran beneath the dual-domain altar, each bearing the "recognition label of the Thought Realm and the Silent Realm".
Yu Xu his sleeve, and twenty long, dark red and black copper-colored tokens appeared in the void, each bearing ancient ominous patterns and a "soul seed number".
"You are the selected participants for this period, and are hereby granted the Nightmare God Temple Bronze-level Token."
"Imprint your soul consciousness upon it, and the Soul-Imprinting Pillar of the Temple will permanently archive it. In the future, you can use the token to travel to all the initial cultivation areas and record halls of the Nightmare God Clan."
Twenty people stepped forward and accepted the token.
Qin Yu also silently stepped forward and quietly injected a disguised fragment of True Immortal's divine consciousness into the bronze token, making it perfectly match the identity of "Qin Ning".
Yu Xu continued:
You have three days to handle personal matters or heal your soul wounds.
"Three days later, gather at the Soul-Executing Altar in the main domain of the Nightmare God Temple, carrying this bronze token."
"An internal ranking list will be released at that time, and the top three contributors will be selected."
"The first three will receive a Source Ascension Logic Pill, directly Karmic Unlocking Stage."
"Then the remaining ranked individuals can directly cultivate and improve within this hall."
Furthermore, they will enjoy various benefits and privileges from the temple.
Upon hearing this, many of the nineteen people present narrowed their eyes slightly.
Especially those few powerful individuals--
Sage Cangyou
Golden Immortal Xuanluo
Ning Hao (despite being severely injured, his aura still faintly showed defiance)
They all seemed lost in thought at that moment.
Source Ascension Logic Pill!
That's no ordinary pill.
Although it does not directly Mieyin chain like the "Flower of Stars," it can precisely sever the entanglement of the main cause and track between the dimensional crossover and the original Epoch Origin, making them officially recognized as the Source of Epochless, thus opening the Primordial Fate Cultivation System.
Even True Immortal from elsewhere can take the first step towards a qualitative change here.
"Disband."
With a flick of his sleeve, Yu Xu's figure transformed into silver flames and vanished from the top of the sky.
All onlookers, those forming ranks, and messengers of the Soul Field dispersed.
The once bustling and crowded Myriad Phenomena Square has finally returned to tranquility, with only the sky as dark as ink, the temple in the distance, and the shadows of the soul deep within.
At this moment, Ning Hao slowly walked to Qin Yu's side and chuckled softly:
"Brother Qin, you certainly don't look 'stunning' with your tricycle, but you're living a very peaceful life."
Qin Yu smiled faintly:
"We who came from the border, aren't we all just trying to survive... Staying calm and collected is another kind of bargaining chip."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Not far away, Golden Immortal Xuanluo glanced over, his eyes seemingly sensing something.
He watched Qin Ning's retreating figure and thought to himself:
"This person... may not be the strongest, but he is definitely not the simplest."
The entrance examination for the Nightmare God Temple has officially concluded.
A deeper surge is about to unfold on the Main Domain Soul Platform.
Qin Yu, during these three days of "brief calm," will also sow the seeds for his next move.