"Alas... looks like we came a step too late. The Divine Path creatures here have already gone berserk."
Chen Yang looked at the shattered weapons on the ground and dispelled the last trace of illusion from his mind.
Without a doubt, the Divine Path creatures in this Secret Realm had gone from fallen evil gods to completely mindless mad gods.
What had once been harmless penalties for failure had now become threats to life itself.
Yang Yuanhong only understood the art of forging at present. Chen Yang had originally intended to let him familiarize himself somewhat with the other stages of artifact refinement through these trials, but it seemed there was no longer time for that.
"We can't sit here and wait for death. We need to find this thing's vessel as soon as possible."
Having made up his mind, Chen Yang sent a Thought Transmission to Yang Yuanhong and, just as he had controlled Elder Yu at the Gathering of Heroes Banquet, took over his body.
For Chen Yang, who had already deeply cultivated the Hundred Refinements True Understanding Record, trials at the Qi Gathering Realm were no difficult matter at all.
In less than half an hour, he passed five trials with the utmost efficiency.
At the final checkpoint, he even refined a top-grade Qi Gathering spiritual treasure and received the golden teleportation light that signified the highest evaluation.
Yet during the process of clearing the trials, Chen Yang also sensed the sinister intentions of the mad god in this place.
Whenever he was about to pass a trial, several clumps of evil force would emerge from thin air and shoot toward him.
The other party's purpose was obvious: to make the cultivators undergoing the trials fail under the interference of that evil force.
That way, it could