Lack of talent? I'll buy a year's worth of cultivation for one dollar!

His dark golden vertical pupils revealed a chilling cruelty.

boom!

There was no probing.

Elder Kuchen directly burned thirty percent of his essence blood, and the Kumu Realm at the peak of the Hunyuan realm suddenly erupted, transforming into thousands of hard ancient vines, attempting to entangle the Rift Beast.

but.

The Skybreaker simply raised its front paws.

With a gentle wave.

scoff.

Those ancient vines, powerful enough to strangle even those of the same level, were instantly shredded by the Law of Limitless, like fragile noodles.

The claw-like wind, still powerful, struck Elder Kuchen directly in the chest.

boom!

Elder Kuchen's domain shattered instantly.

The sternum collapsed.

He was sent flying off the Demon-Slaying Platform like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the array's light barrier.

"puff."

Elder Kuchen spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

He did not scream.

He simply pressed his pale face against his chest, forcibly suppressing the rampant Wuji Law within his body.

"I lost."

Elder Kuchen spoke with restraint, but his eyes revealed a deep despair.

He knew that his foundation of Tao had cracked.

His remaining 100,000 years of lifespan wouldn't even be enough to heal his injuries.

In the stands.

The crowd watched Elder Kuchen being carried away, their eyes darkening slightly.

"That's too strong."

"Dimensional suppression is simply impossible to break through."

"The withered wood domain of the withered dust has been cultivated to its limit, yet it cannot even withstand a single claw."

The murmurs were very quiet.

No one laughed.

Because if it were them, the outcome wouldn't be much better.

"Next."

The Supreme Elder's voice remained indifferent.

Silence fell over the stands once again.

Just then.

A series of steady footsteps sounded.

A young man with a handsome face and a sharp aura, dressed in a dark red robe, stepped out from the crowd.

Yan Wuxie.

The personal disciple of the Grand Elder of the Beginning Demon Sect.

He had already reached the peak of the Primordial Chaos realm in less than two eras of cultivation.

He is recognized as an unparalleled genius by the entire Beginning Demon Sect.

They saw Yan Wuxie walk out.

The atmosphere in the stands finally stirred slightly.

"Yan Wuxie has made his move."

"He is a prodigy who has cultivated the 'Primordial Demon Blood Technique' to perfection."

"I heard that the Grand Elder lent him that item for this trial."

All eyes were fixed on Yan Wuxie.

Yan Wuxie remained calm.

He walked to the edge of the Demon-Slaying Platform but didn't rush up.

Instead, he flipped his wrist.

hum.

A long spear, dark red in color and exuding a suffocating aura of ancient killing intent, appeared in his hand.

【Blood Sea Town Bone Spear】.

A complete ancient artifact!

As soon as the spear was drawn, the surrounding space seemed to groan under its strain.

"It really is a complete ancient artifact!"

"With this in hand, perhaps I can truly survive for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn."

A glint of light flashed in everyone's eyes.

Yan Wuxie gripped the spear.

Step onto the Demon-Slaying Platform.

boom!

He poured the primordial energy within his body into the spear without reservation.

The abandoned artifacts have been restored.

A terrifying pressure comparable to the early stage of the Wuji realm rose from his body.

"kill."

Without wasting words, Yan Wuxie thrust his spear straight at the target.

A crimson spear light tore through dimensions, heading straight for the Ancient Sky-Splitter Beast's brow.

Roar!

Sensing the threat, the Sky-Splitter let out a deafening roar.

Instead of dodging, it swung its giant claws and met the spear's edge head-on.

when--!

The sound of metal clashing against metal rang out.

A violent shockwave swept across the entire Demon-Slaying Platform.

Yan Wuxie grunted and slid back dozens of feet.

but.

A faint white mark was also left on the Sky-Splitter's claw.

It's been successfully defended!

In the stands, everyone's spirits lifted.

Yan Wuxie steadied himself, his eyes remaining calm.

He knew he couldn't kill the beast; his only goal was to buy time.

The battle reached a stalemate.

Yan Wuxie relied on the sharpness and pressure of the desolate weapon to escape the attacks of the Sky-Splitting Beast.

Each impact sent his blood churning.

Time slips away, bit by bit.

Half an incense stick.

Most of an incense stick has burned.

Yan Wuxie's face grew paler and paler.

The consumption of rare artifacts is terrifying.

With his peak Primordial Chaos Origin, he simply couldn't sustain the operation of a complete Desolate Artifact for an extended period.

The power he could unleash was less than one-tenth of that spear's power.

"The source is almost depleted."

Su Yu stood at the back of the crowd, his hands tucked into his sleeves, and made his judgment.

really.

Just ten breaths before the incense stick burned out.

Yan Wuxie's inner essence momentarily stagnated.

The blood-red light on the spear suddenly dimmed.

Roar!

The Primordial Sky-Splitter seized this fleeting opening.

The enormous body appeared above Yan Wuxie as if it had teleported.

The giant claw, carrying the boundless law of tearing everything apart, slammed down.

"block!"

Yan Wuxie bit his tongue, forcibly squeezing out the last bit of potential, and raised his gun to parry.

boom!

The giant claw slammed heavily onto the gun barrel.

The artifact was not broken.

But that terrifying physical pressure, through the gun barrel, slammed into Yan Wuxie's body without reservation.

Click.

Yan Wuxie's arm bones shattered inch by inch.

He fell to the ground like a meteor, creating a deep crater.

"puff--"

Yan Wuxie coughed up a mouthful of blood.

He lay at the bottom of the pit, watching the Sky-Splitter Beast pounce on him again from above.

A strong sense of resentment flashed in his eyes.

However, he remained restrained.

"I surrender."

A hoarse voice came through.

hum.

The Supreme Elder intervened, and an invisible force swept Yan Wuxie away from the Demon-Slaying Platform.

The Sky-Splitter missed its target, roared angrily, and lay back down in its original spot.

In the stands.

Dead silence.

Everyone stared at Yan Wuxie, whose arms were crippled and whose life force was depleted.

A deep sense of powerlessness welled up inside me.

Even the peerless genius who wielded a complete ancient artifact collapsed in his last ten breaths.

There's absolutely no way I can pass this trial.

"It's too difficult."

An elder sighed and shook his head.

"The difference in dimensions cannot be bridged by a single primitive artifact."

"Although Yan Wuxie is not dead, his arms are shattered and his life force is overdrawn. He will need at least 100,000 years to recover."

"So be it, let's not fight over this Limitless Demonic Essence."

A sense of despair spread through the crowd.

No one was speaking.

Yan Wuxie leaned against the cold array light barrier.

His arms hung limply at his sides, waves of excruciating pain from shattered bones assaulting his very soul.

He did not scream.

He was just panting heavily, forcibly swallowing back the blood that was gushing from his mouth.

His eyes revealed a deep sense of powerlessness.

lost.

The defeat was complete.

"It's too difficult."

Yan Wuxie sighed inwardly.

He looked at the Primordial Sky-Splitting Beast in the center of the Demon-Slaying Platform, which had fallen back down as if nothing had happened.

Despair grew wildly in my heart like weeds.

He considered himself to be exceptionally talented, with perfected cultivation techniques, and had even borrowed a complete ancient artifact.

but.

They still couldn't cross this dimensional chasm.

Even a ferocious beast in the early stage of the Primordial Chaos realm possesses a physical quality and law suppression that is simply beyond the reach of a peak-stage Primordial Chaos realm cultivator.

"Resource monopoly".

Yan Wuxie's lips curled into a bitter, self-deprecating smile.

How could the Limitless Demonic Marrow, a strategic resource capable of breaking through dimensional barriers, be so easily bestowed upon those below?

This trial was never meant to be passed.

It is a threshold.

A threshold used to filter out outliers.

Unless you are the kind of unparalleled genius who is unique in all time and can fight against opponents of higher levels.

Or, you might be willing to be like those old monsters, spending over a dozen epochs at the peak of Hunyuan, simmering your origin until it reaches a point where there is no further progress.

otherwise.

It's absolutely impossible for anyone to pass the test of this Sky-Splittering Beast.

Above the stands.

The Supreme Elder of the Boundless Realm, who was in charge of presiding over the trial, coldly surveyed the entire scene.

He was used to this kind of despair.