Chapter 1585: Why is it Different from What Was Said

At the Broken Army Sect’s location, Ren Yanyu watched Master Wei fly back. With no one coming forward to announce his success, she finally let her heart settle.

If the Bright Flame Sect had succeeded, the pressure on the Broken Army Sect would have increased by more than several times.

‘Even the late-stage Spirit Transformation Master Wei failed to pass. Raising a sect’s rank is truly difficult. If things go wrong, both sects’ assessments might fail at the first pass this time.’

Ren Yanyu thought to herself. Although her Dao heart was firm, she was not obstinate.

With both sects’ grand elders having fallen, Ren Yanyu’s confidence was also beginning to waver. But if it were truly her turn to attempt the trial, she would still give it her all.

Inside the lamp’s cover, Li Yan controlled the rotating Fuxi Plate above his head, his heart filled with secret astonishment, though it wasn’t directed at the Blood Pagoda Lamp.

He was now even more curious about the origin of that mysterious Blood River!

Although this Blood River had not unleashed its flames, just controlling the power of Solitary Yang it emitted was enough to make the surrounding boundless flames avoid it as if it were a venomous snake.

But at this moment, Li Yan had already controlled the Fuxi Plate’s Solitary Yang power to a critical point, causing the sea of fire around him, and the demonic beasts within it, to almost skim past his body’s surface.

This kept him submerged in the sea of fire for the vast majority of the time.

Li Yan’s control was even more exquisite than before. The fiery demonic beasts that approached him struggled with all their might, trying to brush past him faster.

This made the towering red flames they stirred up appear even more ferocious from the outside, as if Li Yan was constantly engaged in a fierce battle with them.

All these fiery demonic beasts could do was, at the moment of approaching Li Yan, not attack him, but instead twist their bodies with all their might.

And this was exactly the result Li Yan wanted. He didn’t know if driving the Fuxi Plate to try and devour the sea of fire here, or those demonic beasts, would cause irreversible damage to the Blood Pagoda Lamp.

Li Yan had already considered this several times, but in the end, he held back. If he did that, Wu Gouzi’s intention to kill him would definitely arise.

And now he was relying on this treasure to pass the trial. Even if he succeeded in the end, as long as the other party hadn’t fully figured out the Fuxi Plate, they would only be somewhat interested in the magical treasure and wouldn’t immediately think of killing him to seize it.

In this world, there were far too many magical treasures that could counter each other.

Wu Gouzi couldn’t possibly want to snatch every magical treasure he saw that could slightly restrain the Blood Pagoda Lamp; he would never be able to kill them all.

Moreover, since they were countering objects, it mainly depended on who was using the magical treasure. Although Li Yan could now control the Fuxi Plate to restrain the attacks here, how much of the Blood Pagoda Lamp’s power had really been released? If Wu Gouzi personally used the Blood Pagoda Lamp, the Fuxi Plate would probably not be enough.

One reason was that Li Yan’s own strength was limited, and his use of the magical treasure would certainly be restricted. The second reason was that the Blood River and ice sand in the Fuxi Plate were still too little.

Li Yan’s flying speed was not too fast, but it wasn’t very slow either, giving the impression of someone striving upwards.

He was also worried that if he stayed here for too long, would he expose himself? So, under the condition of passing the trial as normally as possible, he wanted to leave here sooner.

At the same time, he would occasionally take out some pill bottles and pretend to open and swallow them amidst the flickering flames.

After three hundred zhang, every time he reached the moment before a checkpoint, Li Yan would retract the Solitary Yang power on the Fuxi Plate, allowing the demonic beast guarding the checkpoint to come out normally, and then he would kill it with his own hands.

Thus, Li Yan’s figure flickered in and out of view in the flames. He was seen summoning his magical treasure, constantly parting the sea of fire, and swallowing medicinal pills…

And every time he reached a checkpoint, he had to fight with the opponent for a while.

In fact, the strength of the demonic beasts guarding the first few hundred zhang was only at the fourth rank, so it didn’t take much effort at all.

But Li Yan also had to show that after his magical power was consumed by resisting the sea of fire, the time it took to kill the great demon at the checkpoint was delayed, making people think that his magical power might not be able to last later on.

And just as Li Yan ascended to over five hundred zhang, Elder Yu from the Bright Flame Sect also entered the lamp cover at this time.

But as soon as she entered, she found that countless heads from the sea of fire attacked her all at once.

Elder Yu felt it for a moment, and her heart jumped in surprise.

‘This feeling… seems different from what Elder Wei said. He said that with my strength, the difficulty would only become apparent after four hundred zhang. But why do I feel that the attacks here are already quite terrifying?’

She found that the heads appearing here were all ferocious, with expressions seemingly filled with boundless anger.

Faced with the tide-like attacks from all sides, she had to use about thirty percent of her power to part this sea of fire.

Elder Yu thought this in her heart, but her hands did not dare to stop. She immediately executed the fire control technique…

With Elder Yu’s entry, everyone’s attention once again focused on these two people, no longer looking at Master Wei’s side.

But not long after, many people discovered something. This elder from the Bright Flame Sect seemed not to be very strong.

Starting from just a few dozen zhang, her speed had been consistently slow.

And when she reached a hundred zhang, it took her more than twenty breaths to deal with the head there.

“What’s wrong with Elder Yu? Is she doing this on purpose? That’s only at the hundred-zhang mark. Elder Wei said we could just kill it directly without any worries!”

On the Bright Flame Sect’s side, a Spirit Transformation cultivator stared at the lamp cover and couldn’t help but frown and say. A Spirit Transformation killing a Nascent Soul, and at the beginning when his magical power had not been consumed much.

The nearby disciples, although also surprised, just stared at the scene, and no one dared to voice such a doubt.

As this Spirit Transformation cultivator spoke, the others also glanced at each other, with expressions of doubt on their faces.

At this time, if not for Master Wei being in meditative recovery, they would have wanted to ask about the situation again.

They didn’t doubt Master Wei’s words, but now they were comparing Elder Yu with the previous Shangguan Tianque. The main spirit root attributes of these two were the same.

Therefore, the Bright Flame Sect’s side, after a quick discussion earlier, felt that Shangguan Tianque’s method was correct, which was why they adopted his way of passing the trial.

And Elder Yu’s cultivation should be stronger, so why did her performance now seem even worse than Shangguan Tianque’s?

This made them have to suspect whether Elder Yu had a new plan after entering.

Han Zhumei’s beautiful eyes were also fixed on the sea of fire inside the lamp cover.

What she could see were the attacking heads, but she felt that their numbers and so on were not much different from when Master Wei entered.

Yet at this moment, Elder Yu was ascending slowly, as if she wasn’t afraid of wasting magical power by lingering…

At this moment, although Wu Gouzi’s face showed little expression, and he was still staring sullenly at the Blood Pagoda Lamp, he was also muttering to himself.

‘The technique I gave the four of them can at most bring out thirty to forty percent of the Blood Pagoda Lamp’s power, which would be quite good. But this time, the Bright Flame Sect has just started the trial, why does it seem so strenuous…’

The other few also had the same doubt, but no one could think that the four cultivators from the Pure Yang Hall were playing tricks.

And at this time, inside the lamp cover, Elder Yu had already realized that something was wrong.

‘Could it be that someone has increased the difficulty of the assessment? If I continue to pass the trial according to Elder Wei’s words, I might have extreme difficulty even passing the six-hundred-zhang distance!’

Although she also thought of a certain possibility, she immediately felt that increasing the difficulty should not have happened. This lamp was being controlled by cultivators from the Pure Yang Hall.

If the other party didn’t want their sect to raise its rank, they could just find an excuse to directly deny their qualification. Why would they go to such trouble?

For example, saying that someone among their Spirit Transformation cultivators had a problem, and so on. As long as one was a cultivator, it was impossible to be completely without problems. It all depended on how you applied the rules…

And on the other side, Li Yan, at this time, had already ascended to over seven hundred zhang.