The medium burned by the Divine Fire is not matter, not sight, not sound, but perception!

No wonder they wanted two people to enter the final trial. With just one person, they might have used something like a sleeve to probe and foresee, but with two people who are competitors, the first foreknowledge will inevitably involve rushing up and fully contacting the Divine Fire, triggering this mechanism!

They could no longer escape the burning of the Divine Fire and could only watch helplessly as their skin became translucent. In an instant, they both transformed into glassy fire beings, and then—

As the last trace of Divine Fire converged within him, Ash turned to look at Silver Lamp and noticed that not only was her mask intact, but even her clothes were unscathed, which showed that the Divine Fire did not burn tangible objects.

He sensed carefully and found no changes in his soul. The Technique Spirit was sleeping as usual, but his soul seemed more solid, and the Technique Spirits were sleeping even more soundly.

Is this the final trial? No missing arms or legs, no fried brains, not even a combat phase?

Amazing, since they didn't mean to harm, don't just suddenly burn us!

However, this meant…

Ash looked at Weiser, his right hand gripping the sword hilt tightly, his eyes gradually turning cold. Since there was no chance to deal with Silver Lamp in the trials, his only option was to fight to the death.

However, just at that moment, a thunderous noise came from behind. Ash turned and saw the statues in the passage starting to crumble and fall into dust, as if something inside them was moving, about to re-emerge into the light of day.

But he wasn't too surprised; instead, it was a relief—a sudden emergence of a group of statues in such a mysteriously eerie trial would have been weirder if they didn't have to fight.

"Mm."

Ash turned and saw Silver Lamp hugging herself tightly, her shoulders trembling uncontrollably. Although her facial expression was hidden by the fox mask, she was obviously in a negative state, unable to even maintain her usual composure.

Should he take advantage of her vulnerability?

The thought had just crossed Ash's mind when his body very honestly drew his sword and charged forward. But at that moment, an unimaginable mutation occurred.

He was pushed back by golden water.

A golden water sphere suddenly appeared around Silver Lamp, then exploded instantly, and a continuous flow of golden Rapid Stream blasted the maliciously intended Ash away.

It was not just Silver Lamp; all other statues also burst into golden water spheres, then a torrential surge of golden water streams erupted in the palace corridor, converging into a flood.

However, the golden flood did not flow toward the base of the torches at the bottom of the palace, but flowed backward, toward the starting point of the Cicada Transformation Chamber!

Caught in the flood, Ash and Weiser collided, each catching a glimpse of uncontrollable terror in each other's eyes!

These seemingly foundationless, endlessly flowing golden streams—they, being high-ranking Mages, could surely recognize!

It was the water from the Flowing Gold River, a Wonder of the Void Realm from the Time Continent!

At that moment, Ash suddenly noticed something strange—why did both Silver Lamp and the statues emit water from the Flowing Gold River, while he faced no such issue?

But he soon deduced the answer: the only connection between reality and the Void Realm was through the Gate of Truth, and the Gate of Truth of Silver Lamp and the statues was probably linked to the Flowing Gold River, which is why he had turned into a tributary node of the Flowing Gold River water source.

Whereas he, he had no Gate of Truth at all.

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