No, it's just the first stage, there is still a chance.

Zhao Yue calmed herself down, her eyes returning to calmness.

Facing these peers who could be regarded as equals or even stronger, there is naturally no smooth sailing, and the inheritance is the same. But if her mindset becomes unbalanced now, it would be tantamount to admitting defeat to them.

Zhao Yue was not that fragile.

However, at this moment, she suddenly had some doubts.

Speaking of which, what exactly is the condition for ending the first trial?

The rules do not specify, but the trial has already exceeded 90 hours. Logically, there should be a deadline for the trial.

Now, the rankings of the vast majority have been set, except for a few who can still move forward a few steps, they have all reached their final scores.

After all, the conditions here are not good, and they even prohibit Spirit Beast recovery. It is very likely to result in a vicious cycle where failure leads to worsening of status, which in turn makes success even more unlikely.

But...

This doubt didn't last long.

A few hours later.

During the next rest period… all the Trial Takers suddenly heard a voice in their ears.

[It's noon.]

[Detected that five have completed the Supreme Nine Trials.]

[Over-limit stage activated.]

[Only those who completed the Nine Trials of Supreme difficulty can trigger this stage.]

[The first trial ends when the first to complete this stage emerges, and the rest are settled based on real-time completion.]

......

Ju Zuojing stared blankly at his Compass, disbelief written on his face.

"There's… one more stage?"

At this moment, the purple hue on his face no longer resembled the brilliance of jade but had turned into an extremely unhealthy purple-black color.

Previously, to complete the quasi-supreme ninth stage in one go, not only did he exhaust the Rotting Poison Dragon's Ether, but he also forcibly maintained the Poison of Activation at an overload.

Overload meant that Ju Zuojing could still not handle this poison. Prolonged maintenance would have a strong impact on his Sea of Spirit, requiring a huge price to recover.

All of this was to achieve first place in the first trial stage.

But even after going this far… he was still surpassed, falling to fourth.

Moreover, he no longer had any stages left to continue, even risking everything was not an option, he could only watch those who chose Supreme difficulty continue forward.

Doesn't that mean...

He paid such a heavy price and could only stay at the seventh?

The gap between himself and those six people, was it actually this vast?!

His Dao heart unbalanced, overwhelmed with anger, Ju Zuojing, already exhausted, rolled his eyes and fainted on the spot.

...…

Although it was noon, a dense darkness still shrouded Zuo Qingtian.

Expressionless, he looked at his Compass.

On the supreme-level Inheritance Compass, which had already been repaired, the nine Spirit Patterns completely overlapped each other.

Like a new special stage was unlocked, a structure appeared above it, more complex and three-dimensional than the Three-Star Spirit Pattern, intricately nested and intertwined.

In an instant, the Force Field beside Celestial Ladder Mountain, which was used to block Trial Takers from moving up and down, seemed to tremble under the effect of this Spirit Pattern, showing an unstable state, as if it slightly exceeded this Tier Three limit of the Secret Realm's control.

Undoubtedly, this was a Four-Star Spirit Pattern.

The final additional test of Supreme difficulty required drawing a Four-Star Spirit Pattern on the Compass.

He looked at the two people above his name, his aura became increasingly intimidating, like a darkness devouring everything around, gently saying: "The outcome is yet to be decided."

The next moment.

Rustle, rustle, rustle—

Amid the friction of scales, a gigantic black snake shadow appeared, tens of meters long, like a monster.

That was the Netherworld King Snake.

An extraordinary variant born with a complete Dao Mark.

Its forked red tongue flickered, while its golden vertical pupils sparkled with the same pure black Talent Spiritual Light as him, slowly coiling into a circle, enveloping Zuo Qingtian, trying to block the surrounding Force Field's interference as much as possible.

...

The last to complete the final stage of Supreme difficulty, Heaven-slaying Demon blinked, a bit tired, yet exceptionally excited: "This plot twist is indeed quite good. Those mediocre guys' jaws must have dropped."

"What a pity... even though Yin Long didn't come this time, there were still so many monsters, it didn't allow me to show off completely."

"Don't you think so?"

Beside him, a majestic Qilin with black scales and an imposing stature glanced at him, snorted disdainfully.

......

Du Qing glanced at the top of the leaderboard, then took a deep breath, releasing three small ones.

Even though his Spiritual Power had not fully recovered, choosing Supreme difficulty for this all-out fight made his heart almost burn.

Indeed.

If he had chosen quasi-supreme... would he know he could accomplish something this difficult?

Du Qing's eyes once again burned with a platinum glow: "Go, my Dark Four Celestial Kings!"

......

Sitting on a large green stone, Jiang Nalan recovered from his meditation and opened his mirror-like blue eyes.

"..."

Sparing a glance at the Four-Star Spirit Pattern's next stage, Jiang Nalan scanned the leaderboard again, seeing Lin Guang's rank nearly parallel to his, he frowned slightly.

Although he understood that his opponent likely had their Contracted Spirit Beast consume Ether during rest periods to eliminate interference to catch up, only Jiang Nalan himself understood how terrifying it was for someone of their status and age to keep pace with him.

Considering the Spirit Beast recovery restrictions here, the upcoming trial required preserving his Spirit Beast's status whenever possible, thus Jiang Nalan hadn't summoned his Spirit Beast yet.

But now it seems, to prevent being caught up by the opponent, he couldn't be excessively frugal.

The next moment.

Amidst distinctly audible waves, a 20-meter-long, bright silver-scaled Fish Dragon appeared in mid-air, its armor shimmering, a coral dragon horn on its head, swimming gracefully as if surveying its territory, seemingly unaffected by the surrounding Force Field limitations.

......

Meanwhile, Lin Guang looked at the fox-eared girl before him, smiling as he spoke: "Lisa, I'll be counting on you this time."

The golden-haired girl, full of vitality, shook her nine large tails, holding a gigantic Magic Staff: "Lisa will do her best!!"

Contrary to Jiang Nalan's assumptions.

Lin Guang hadn't let anyone aid him in his drawing.

"Then..."

Sitting cross-legged, he embraced a slightly blushing but clearly joyful Lisa, together their two hands clasped the Compass.

"Let's begin."

After completing the nine stages of quasi-supreme difficulty, no one in the first trial could interfere with these top sky-prides of Fenghai Province's final showdown.

The victor... would be chosen among them.

And at this moment.

Until the Celestial Ladder Mountain inheritance ends.

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