A few minutes after the last person entered the domain, the gate shimred but did not close, but the swirling darkness in the gate vanished.
After the first person who questioned the authenticity of the commandnts of the trial died, a few others were idiotic enough to challenge it, thinking that they were so kind of special existence in the world.
And the result?
Everyone but two n died.
And the reason the two n survived was nothing grand.
One of them got scared before he even reached the cloud bridge. He gave up and ran away as if his life was on the line.
As for the other one, that guy was lied to by his parents. He was still a day away from turning 50 when he thought he had just celebrated his 50th birthday the day before.
But no one but the guy himself thought that he did not have the qualifications to enter.
"Now what? Can we see what is happening within the domain?" Chi Zu asked impatiently from the side as a tall, bulky monk kept looking over his shoulder, as if daring him to make a move.
"Now we wait…" Abbot Liang Chen smiled at the blood demon. "There is no surveillance ans in this domain, as we are not the ones who have control over it. This domain works on its own."
Sotis permanent domains did not need a cultivator to die to form. If there is an energy source to sustain it for a long ti, the domain can hold on on its own.
"What? How long do we have to wait then?" Even though he was trying to appear to be nonchalant about his question, there was an edge of impatience and wariness in Chi Zu's voice.
Abbot Liang Chen narrowed his eyes before relaxing them as he spoke, "Two days. After two days everyone alive will be forced out of the domain on their own."
"Now, you are welco to leave and co again in two days, or you can wait here and cultivate to see what happens."
Chi Zu's expression faltered for a second before he looked away and closed his eyes.
'How are the preparations going?' Abbot turned to Arhat Lian Shou and talked with him through their thought transmission.
'Every disciple is being prepared. I have already started the preparation to activate all the contingency plans.' The droopy-eyed Arhat glanced at the abbot and then glanced at Chi Zu from the corner of his eyes. 'But are you really sure we are going to do this? You already said that he is the guest of the temple according to the tradition of the temple.'
'I don't care about that; he is a demon, and as long as he is alive, he will be a danger to all the humans in the empire.
He has killed who knows how many humans all his life, and now he suddenly broke through the next realm.
I don't think it ca without a cost. No matter what others think, I cannot let this danger lurk in the open anymore.'
The Arhat stayed silent for a mont before nodding, 'The rogue cultivators who were not allowed entrance to the domain have started to leave the area to lay in ambush around the temple to snatch the rewards from the weaker participants.
We can take this chance to eliminate the demon; why wait for so long?'
'No, I don't want to take any chance and alert their sect that we killed their sect master and allow them to go into hiding.
Once this trial is over, we will use full force to kill the demon and his disciples on their way back before wiping out his sect at once.'
He glanced at Chi Zu silently while the weight of his determination and burdens echoed with his words, 'The Buddha is rciful, but he is no pushover. Sotis you have to touch the moral lines like these to eradicate the evil.'
Arhat Liang Shou silently took in the heaviness of his words and left the area.
On the side when the cultivators who wanted to wait for the trial to end were sitting down to enter cultivation state, Elder ng Shui approached the blood demon from the side under the confused and slightly worried eyes of Elder Lei Ji.
"Sect Master Chi Zu, it has been a while since we saw each other." She approached the man with a sly smile on her face behind the veil. Her voice was coy, making the wrinkled old man imdiately suspicious of her.
"What do you want, woman?" The distaste in his voice was clear. He would have resorted to harsher words and ans if not for the Arhat hovering behind him like a shadow, waiting for him to make a mistake.
"Nothing, just coming to check up on Senior to see what you have been up to for the past ten to twenty years." The lotus-patterned Elder chuckled, completely ignoring how he spoke to her.
Chi Zu seed to have sensed the suggestive tone in her words and narrowed his eyes sharply, but then his expression loosened and a wild smirk appeared on his expressionless face.
"Oh, I have been in seclusion for several years, trying to reach where I am now." He started off with an even voice, but it suddenly shifted when the next words ca out of his mouth.
"But from what I heard, your sect does not seem to be doing that well."
He looked at Elder ng Shui like a laughingstock and mocked him. "It seems soone from the demonic sect infiltrated one of your cities and seems to have caused trouble for you."
"They not only destroyed the mansion of the city lord but also seed to have caused havoc in his territory."
Elder Ming Shui did not seem to be angered in the slightest and kept her cool before soone as ruthless and rciless as Chu Zhi. "It is as you said, and this topic is also the real reason I ca to talk to you."
"Tell sothing, sect master Chi Zu: do you know anything about this matter and know who is the culprit behind it all?"
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