Ever since Ye Danxia and Yang Yun left her line of sight, Yun Jin hadn't encountered someone like this in ages—someone she could endlessly fleece for Emotional Value, and no matter how much she squeezed, there was still more to be had!
Yun Jin secretly made up her mind. Once she cleared this trial, she would definitely find a way to track down this new "Number One Big Brother."
They could talk, they could share laughter, and best of all, maybe even become inseparable confidants!
The robot watching Yun Jin on the screen suddenly felt a chill run down his metallic frame.
He was a little baffled.
Was it even possible for a robot to feel cold?
Forget it.
That wasn't important.
This human called Yun Jin.
Her methods for clearing the first two trials had been strange, downright bizarre…
But still, she had passed them.
Now, only the last trial remained.
The robot didn't ask for much anymore. All he wanted was for Yun Jin to not stir up trouble, just to complete this challenge smoothly.
"This last one should be impossible to mess around with," the robot muttered to himself.
On the screen.
Yun Jin walked forward step by step.
The light dimmed, little by little.
With each step, the darkness deepened.
Until finally—
The entire world fell into absolute silence.
No light.
No sound.
Not even the faintest trace of life.
The third trial had begun.
Yun Jin came to a halt.
She lifted her head and glanced at the sky.
Once, that sky had been bright, day and night, a constant presence overhead. But now, it was as if some deity had spilled ink across the heavens. The entire world lay shrouded in pitch-black gloom.
Yun Jin slowly sat cross-legged.
Silence.
This was ultimate restraint.
All energy drawn inward, sealed away without the slightest leakage. She sat in stillness, quietly sensing everything around her.
All things in the world, yin and yang, usually intermingled. But here, what she felt was pure, extreme yin. So extreme it carried a suffocating stillness, the kind that could stir primal fear. If a mortal were placed in such a world, even for a few fleeting breaths, they would fall into madness.
Even cultivators, when subjected to this extremity, could not endure for long.
"At a time like this, you must use yang energy to balance the extreme yin," the robot muttered.
From his observations of the past two rounds, this should not pose much difficulty for Yun Jin.
This trial was one of endurance. She had to last seven whole days. If, after seven days, she had not fallen into madness, if she could remain clear-headed, she would pass.
This was the final stage of Path One.
If she succeeded, it meant Yun Jin had walked the entire Path One, earning ten trial points.
For hundreds of thousands of years, in other small worlds, there had been prodigies who walked this same path. But none of them had ever cleared the final test and obtained the treasure left behind by the master of this realm.
This was the first time the trial space had been opened in this small world. Yun Jin's appearance was, in truth, a pleasant surprise.
"This trial… you won't be able to mess it up. Just sit there quietly for seven days. When the time is up, the ten trial points will be yours," the robot whispered.
Compared to the previous two rounds, Yun Jin indeed looked much more well-behaved this time. She sat still, Dao Rhythms flowing steadily around her, clearly using the power of law to resist the oppressive nature of this extreme world.
The robot blinked his eyes and kept watch over Yun Jin for an entire day. Seeing her remain this calm, the robot finally relaxed. This time, there shouldn't be a problem. At last, he felt free enough to switch channels and check on the others.
The robot looked at Di Xiao first.
As expected of his second-seed candidate, Di Xiao had already passed the first trial and entered the second. Though he looked somewhat battered, he still seemed able to hold on.
The robot then checked on Bai Yiran, the third candidate. Her condition was much worse than Di Xiao's. Her eyes brimmed with regret.
Seeing Di Xiao choose Path Two, she hadn't wanted to fall behind and had chosen Path Three, which providing the same trial points.
But…
The difficulty of Path Three had far exceeded her imagination. Though she managed to clear the first stage, it had nearly cost her half her life. Her physical wounds were healed after leaving the stage, but the mental exhaustion was not so easily erased. In such a state, it was impossible to pass the second stage. Bai Yiran had no choice but to stop and recover.
The robot checked on the rest.
Each path carried different levels of difficulty.
Path Eight and Path Nine were the easiest.
Man Sen and Yu Shiyi, who chose those paths, both passed their second stages smoothly and still looked to have reserves left.
After a full round of inspection, the robot could not help but sigh. Path One was the hardest. Yet now, among the nine paths, only Yun Jin had entered the third trial. If all went as expected, in seven days, she would be the first to complete her trial.
The robot was just sighing when—
Suddenly—
His expression changed, and he quickly switched the channel back to Station One.
When he had left, Yun Jin had still been sitting quietly. He had only checked on the others for a short while. How could Yun Jin already be stirring up trouble again?!
Now she was no longer sitting cross-legged. She was standing, lips curved in a wicked smile.
"Extreme yin, is it? Come, let me see—can it go even further?"
She abandoned the use of yang to counteract the yin. She simply stood there, letting the yin energy bear down on her.
Then—
As if that still wasn't enough, she began releasing her own yin energy, adding more weight to a world already drowning in extremity.
The robot's jaw dropped slightly.
No way.
Did this woman really have to be so insane?
The trial world would not cause direct physical harm. But the soul and spirit—those could absolutely be affected. If Yun Jin kept acting like this, this world of silence would truly drive her into madness!
The robot began pacing in agitation.
What to do?
What to do?
Should he intervene?
If he forcibly interfered, it might cause Yun Jin's challenge to fail. But if he didn't, and such a promising candidate lost her mind, what then?
"Feels like…"
In the darkness, Yun Jin's voice suddenly rang out.
The robot looked instinctively.
A smile curled at Yun Jin's lips. "Feels… wonderful!"
Her hand moved slightly.
The yin energy surged out even more.
Cold.
Gloom.
A crushing, destructive force pressed in from every direction.
And still Yun Jin did not resist. The greater the pressure, the more she fed it with her own strength.
Not enough.
Not enough.
She herself thought she was going a little mad.
But.
She could go even crazier.
She should go even crazier.
Under this absolute oppression, in her sea of consciousness, storms raged. Her soul power, which had been releasing slowly before, now erupted in a wild torrent. Her spiritual force surged higher and higher. She had been in the mid stage of Tribulation.
Now, she pushed into the late stage. And then, she aimed straight for the peak of Tribulation!
The robot had been about to intervene forcibly. But watching Yun Jin's sudden surge of soul power, he froze.
Was soul power even supposed to grow like this?
What in the world was this human's true identity?!