The first trial was brief, a single battle eliminating most candidates. The second trial, however, stretched on for an exceedingly long time.0

A full two hundred years slipped by in silence.0

Pill cultivation, equipment cultivation, and talisman cultivation – the three tests were a tough challenge for all the Archimmortals and Archdeities across the eleven trial grounds. Even the mighty Astral Lords were no exception.0

In the trial ground where Wu Yuan was assigned to, no one had completed all three tests yet.0

It's just as Master predicted. Wu Yuan mused. Those who've lingered at the Archimmortal or Archdeity phase for such a long period aren't true geniuses. Few can excel in all three paths simultaneously.0

Master Kua Chi had estimated that even if this trial lasted ten thousand years, fewer than a thousand of the nearly twenty thousand Archimmortals and Archdeities would complete all three tests, far short of three thousand.0

But with his life at stake, Wu Yuan dared not be careless.0

For two hundred years, besides his own research and deductions, he closely monitored the progress of other candidates. The actual results aligned closely with Sovereign Kua Chi's predictions.0

There was a spike in successes around the hundred-year mark, with over a thousand passing the pill cultivation test. But the number dropped rapidly after that. Currently,...0