If an Outer Sect disciple loses their identity token, unless a Golden Core master personally enters the Earth Erosion Seal, no one should expect to rescue them.

Unfortunately, the three Supreme Elders of Five Extremes Mountain are all in seclusion.

The seclusion periods for those in the Golden Core Realm are measured in decades, sometimes even lasting decades, so if one cannot escape from the Erosion Land, the disciples face an almost certain death.

Those who speak may not intend to, but those who listen do, and Liou Yuan’s eyes lit up.

"This is quite fortunate."

Liou Yuan extended his tongue to lick the corner of his mouth, his gaze intentionally and unintentionally drifting towards where Liou Tao was.

"Initiate the array!" Zhao Zhuoran’s powerful voice suddenly exploded before the entrance to the Inner Sect at the front of the platform.

With his command.

Buzz! Liou Yuan felt the large platform he was standing on begin to tremble.

Every slab beneath him emitted a dazzling light.

The light interconnected, forming a massive array pattern that covered every inch of the platform.

The power of the array surged forth at this moment, intertwining around Liou Yuan’s body.

It also enveloped this side of the platform and the body of every Outer Sect disciple.

The next instant, a feeling of weightlessness hit, Liou Yuan’s vision was engulfed by piercing white light.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

All the disciples present transformed into white light simultaneously, disappearing from the top of the platform.

A moment ago, this enormous stone platform was bustling with activity and crowded with heads, but the next moment, it was empty.

Only the silver leaves around drifted down with the gentle breeze.

The Outer Sect trial had officially begun.

...

This land seemed abandoned by the world.

The sky held no sun, moon, or stars, only a blue lantern hanging high above, casting a faintly pitiful light.

On the earth below, there was no trace of plant life, only mountains and fields of barren, diverse stones.

The stones were either as large as mountains or as small as fists, scattered lifelessly. Their surfaces were rough and cracked, and scratch-like lines resembled the ravines of time, chronicling the endless solitude and desolation endured over long years.

Some stones stacked together, forming bizarre shapes, seeming like the remains of ancient beasts or twisted monsters standing silently in the darkness, exuding an eerie presence.

There were no howling winds, no flowing water, no audible life sounds here, it was eerily silent.

Occasionally, the sound of stones rubbing together echoed, and each sound seemed amplified by the darkness then swallowed by it instantly.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Until at some moment, dense as raindrops, white dots fell from the sky of this barren dark world, scattering throughout this domain.

The light converged from those raindrops momentarily illuminated this world, then vanished abruptly, falling everywhere.

The feeling of weightlessness around Liou Yuan did not last long, he silently counted a few numbers in his mind.

By the time he reached five.

He felt the weight of his body returning.

However, when he looked around at this time, he found his surroundings were no longer the large platform leading from the Outer Sect to the Inner Sect of Five Extremes Mountain.

Around him was silent, with only a ghostly blue lantern hanging high in the sky, reflecting on his face.

The air carried a pungent scent akin to sulfur.

Liou Yuan surveyed his surroundings, took another look at the lantern in the sky, rubbed his nose which was slightly discomforted by the smell, and thought to himself, "This must be the Erosion Land."

His current location was at the bottom of a canyon deep within the earth.

Both sides of the canyon were filled with reddish-brown rocks.

Whether it was due to the colors or for some other reasons, when Liou Yuan looked at these rocks, he felt an indescribable sense of aversion. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The rocks seemed as if soaked in blood and then absorbed, giving an impression of filth.

Realizing he would have to stay here for three months, Liou Yuan had to work hard to overcome this discomfort.

As soon as he landed, the first thing he did was activate the Evil Eyes, scanning around to see if there were any Outer Sect disciples landing at the same place as he.

The outcome was predictable; of course, there were none.

According to Xie Miaobo, the Erosion Land was so vast that no Outer Sect disciples could traverse it entirely.

The probability of landing in the same spot was extremely low.

As Liou Yuan’s eyes flickered with purple light, he probed the area without finding any peers, and just as he was about to retract the Evil Eyes.

A faint red spiritual power suddenly appeared in his vision.

This type of spiritual power color differs from the Star Spiritual Power absorbed by cultivators and from the Demonic Power belonging to demons.

The faint red color gives a sense of frenzy.

Liou Yuan glanced several more times with his Evil Eyes, feeling strangely agitated.

The image in his Evil Eyes left Liou Yuan’s face surprised, as if he stumbled upon some possibility.

"Could it be... am I really lucky? Encountered it upon landing?"

After a quick self-talk, Liou Yuan whipped up his spirit and fixed his gaze on the source of that faint red spiritual power glow.

It was a pale red stone embedded along the left wall of the canyon, roughly a yard high, less than fifty yards from Liou Yuan.

The stone had an irregular, elongated shape.

A large portion of it was embedded in the canyon’s rock wall, leaving only a small section of rock exposed outside.

As Liou Yuan scrutinized the stone, a faintly discernible aura locked onto his presence.

"Heh!" Liou Yuan chuckled without moving, showing a look of intrigue.

Because under the watch of his Evil Eyes, he noticed the fluctuations in the spiritual aura were not strong, roughly at the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer, hardly enough to pose a threat to him.

After a brief contemplation, he tentatively approached the stone.

Tap tap tap~

The sound of Liou Yuan’s feet landing on the ground full of stones echoed through the canyon.

The stone remained unresponsive.

Liou Yuan, maintaining patience, ventured forward another ten yards, then twenty yards... until he was within ten yards of the stone.

Still, the stone stood firm as a mountain.

"Goodness, this thing certainly knows how to hold its ground," Liou Yuan sneered, his tone full of mockery.