At the same time, traveling through time, starting from subverting the war at the top

Chapter 277 Everyone Passed?!
Lin Mo's aura was as deep and boundless as the ocean. As he continuously absorbed the violent fire spiritual power of the lava road, his cultivation level rose steadily at a visible speed.

From the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it progressed to the middle stage, and then gradually stabilized as it approached the late stage.

Such a terrifying rate of advancement would likely shock ordinary cultivators. After all, it usually takes one or two hundred years, or even longer, of arduous cultivation for an average cultivator to progress from the early to the middle stages of the Nascent Soul realm.

at the same time.

In a dark corner deep within the Void Heaven Palace, two figures were having a secret discussion.

"Was pushing the ice and fire energies of the Xuanjing Path and the Lava Road to their limits this time too reckless?" a slightly worried voice asked. "While we've done things secretly before, we've never been so blatant. This level of energy impact will likely wipe out most of the Core Formation cultivators from both the righteous and demonic paths. We'll have a hard time explaining ourselves to Wan Tianming and the Barbarian Beard then."

"Explain?" another chilling voice sneered. "Do you really think those old foxes from both the righteous and demonic paths don't know what we've been doing in the past? They're just pretending not to know because of the Star Palace's power. They know perfectly well that we can only control some of the outer restrictions of the Void Heaven Palace; we can't cause any real trouble."

"But now that the two Holy Lords are in seclusion, rumors are rampant in the Chaotic Star Sea, and even the inner palace disciples are restless. It's simply beyond our capabilities to suppress both the righteous and demonic paths simultaneously with just a few old bones like us."

"That's precisely why we must show our strength!" The cold voice said decisively. "Only by weakening their strength with swift and decisive measures can we make them hesitate to act rashly. As long as we drag this out until the Holy Lord emerges from seclusion, even the madwoman of the Myriad Laws Sect and the Six Paths of the Holy Demon Island will have no choice but to retreat three feet in the face of our Holy Lord's Primordial Magnetic Divine Light."

"As for worrying that the other side will use this as an excuse to cause trouble, you are worrying unnecessarily. Judging from their posture, they are most likely after the Void Heaven Cauldron. It's not their own disciples who are dying, so they won't bother with anything else! At most, they'll just curse a few times in their hearts."

After a long silence, the first voice finally let out a long sigh and said no more. In the dim space, only two figures remained, appearing and disappearing in the flickering light.

The Void Heaven Palace.

It was an extremely simple stone hall, about fifty or sixty zhang in area and about seven or eight zhang in height.

Besides the two teleportation arrays in the center, there are four huge blue stone gates, each several meters high, on each of the four sides.

At this moment, all the doors were tightly closed, sealing the place off like a large prison cell.

Inside the stone hall, there are also a large number of stone tables and benches of various kinds, none of which are the same, numbering in the dozens.

On these stone benches sat five or six cultivators with varying expressions; these were the Nascent Soul cultivators who had been the first to pass the Ice and Fire Dao assessment and return to the Void Heaven Palace.

Wan Tianming, Man Hu Zi, Ji Yin Lao Zu, Madam Wen, and others were all present.

The changes in the Ice and Fire Path were nothing to fear for Nascent Soul cultivators like Barbarian Beard, but they posed a great threat to late Core Formation cultivators. As for cultivators with weaker cultivation, their chances of survival were even slimmer.

Nascent Soul cultivators naturally knew about the changes in the Ice and Fire Path, which must be closely related to the yet-to-be-seen Star Palace Elder.

It's just unclear what the Star Palace's intentions are in doing this!

Are we really going to break ties with both the righteous and demonic factions right here in the Void Heaven Palace?

They believe that not many people will be able to pass the Ice and Fire Path test this time.

But what happened next proved all these Nascent Soul stage monsters wrong.

The teleportation array corresponding to the Lava Road lit up one after another, and then one cultivator after another walked out of the Lava Road teleportation array.

These cultivators had steady auras and showed few injuries, as if they had not encountered any obstacles or battles.

"Could it be that the Lava Road is fine, but the Mystic Crystal Path was tampered with?"

Wan Tianming frowned and asked the Nascent Soul cultivator walking on the lava path.

The Nascent Soul cultivator also frowned, because after entering the Lava Road, he indeed felt that the fire spiritual energy was more violent than before. However, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, and not his first time entering the Void Heaven Palace...

He was fast and passed the test before Lin Mo absorbed the violent energy in the lava path, so no abnormality was detected.

Soon, the cultivators who had passed the test on the Lava Road and arrived at this hall also discovered the anomaly.

Because on the other side, the teleportation array representing the Mystic Crystal Road has yet to produce a single person.

The entire stone hall was eerily quiet.

Wan Tianming, the leader of the righteous path, finally pieced together the truth of the matter after carefully questioning the cultivators who came out of the Lava Road.

The Lava Road was also tampered with by the people from the Star Palace!

However, something unexpected happened afterward, and the raging fire elemental energy in the entire canyon rapidly dissipated in a short period of time, eventually vanishing completely.

That is precisely why this spectacle has occurred.

That means all the cultivators who chose the lava path passed the test!

This sudden turn of events caused everyone to have different expressions, but a sense of unease rose in their hearts.

The stone hall was filled with an extremely oppressive atmosphere!
Like the other people who came out of Lava Road, Lin Mo and his two companions casually found a corner to sit down, their expressions indifferent.

Who would have thought that the disappearance of the fire elemental energy along the entire lava road was because of him?
Just as everyone inside the stone hall was filled with mixed emotions and harboring their own secrets, the two white-robed elders from the Star Palace unexpectedly appeared inside.

Immediately, all sorts of unfriendly gazes were fixed on the two of them.

"Ahem! I wonder which reckless fellow cultivator triggered some powerful restrictions while crossing the Ice and Fire Path, causing a great change in the canyon. We two searched for them specifically, but unfortunately, we couldn't find a way to undo the damage. This time, we've probably lost quite a few fellow cultivators in our cultivation world. We two have failed in our duties this time. After this visit to the Void Heaven Palace, we will definitely return to apologize to the two Holy Lords and spend over a hundred years in seclusion to atone for our dereliction of duty."

The kind-faced elder in white robes recited his prepared lines in one breath, sighing as he spoke, as if he were truly heartbroken!

But when he finished speaking, he looked up at the people in the stone hall and his expression froze.

Because the number of people who passed the Ice and Fire Path test was far greater than he had expected.

What exactly is going on?

The number of participants is even greater than in previous years.

At this point, everyone present in the Stone Palace also realized that the Star Palace had tampered with the Ice and Fire Path.

Upon hearing this, people from both the righteous and demonic paths cursed this person in their hearts for being shameless.

Especially those Core Formation stage cultivators who fought their way out of the Xuanjing Path, they practically wanted to devour these two Star Palace elders alive.

In other words, they can't beat them.

With just a few light words, he tried to completely dismiss the matter, as if it had nothing to do with Xinggong.

(End of this chapter)