It was indeed a trial similar to Tielin's. Although Li Chonglou didn't know the other details yet, he was already worried about whether the difficulty of the upcoming trials would be the same as Tielin's.
The most crucial point was that he was all alone now. He didn't know if this complete loss of strength was an isolated case or if it applied to everyone. If it applied to everyone, he wouldn't have to worry too much about the difficulty of the subsequent trials.
"Forget it, I'll find out when I go down. Thinking about it now is useless."
Looking at the dark passage ahead, Li Chonglou shook his head and stepped forward.
As he stepped into the passage, the ground beneath him suddenly swayed. Li Chonglou narrowed his eyes, already guessing that he was now standing on a suspended platform.
After walking for a few minutes, he reached the end of the passage.
In front of him was a small iron door, just over a meter high, but it had no doorknob. Li Chonglou tried to push it, but it didn't budge.
Just as he was feeling confused, an electronic screen suddenly popped up on the iron door.
"Stage one content: Please pass all obstacles within thirty minutes."
The electronic screen only existed for a few seconds, and then the iron door made a creaking sound of loosening and slowly opened automatically.
A training ground that looked like something out of a wuxia novel appeared before his eyes.
There were jump poles, single ropes; there were pulleys, and logs. All the mechanisms were clearly visible, all performing repetitive actions in a regular pattern, and below them were dense rows of sharp spikes.
Li Chonglou glanced at the spikes beneath all the mechanisms, thinking that if he were unfortunate enough to fall, he'd probably turn into a hedgehog in a second.
However, when his gaze fell back on the set mechanisms, which were like checkpoints, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve into a smile.
If it were someone else, they might have been a little worried, but he had studied martial arts since childhood, and passing these checkpoints was as easy as eating and drinking.
In fact, it was true. After Li Chonglou carefully observed the route, he passed all the mechanisms smoothly in less than five minutes and arrived before another iron door.
This iron door had a handprint mark on it. When Li Chonglou placed his hand on it, another message popped up.
"Stage two content: Please resolve the beast horde within thirty minutes."
Li Chonglou's pupils contracted. A beast horde?
Unfortunately, he didn't have time to think further, as the iron door in front of him opened automatically, revealing a confined space inside.
Li Chonglou immediately thought of Tielin's beast cage. Both the recent prompt and the space before him were very similar to Tielin's beast cage trial!
"Could there be a connection between the two?"
With a look of surprise, he stepped through the iron door, and as expected, when the iron door closed, he felt the sealed space begin to move.
In a gladiator arena similar to Tielin's beast cage, dozens of faint figures were huddled in a corner.
"Do you really think someone else will come?"
"Old Lin, don't say it anymore. If someone were coming, they would have arrived by now. There hasn't been a single soul."
"It's over. It seems like decades ago people used to come in and play with us, right? Why did they suddenly disappear."
"Only you, kid, still think about playing. I want to reincarnate and transcend. I've been trapped here for hundreds of years, it's so boring!"
"Tch, as if no one else wants to. The new one who arrived only spent a few decades and is already about to break."
As the figures spoke, they suddenly turned their gazes in unison to another corner, where another figure was curled up. However, unlike the other figures, this one was significantly more ethereal.
Staring for a moment with pitiful eyes, the figures withdrew their gazes.
"Old Lin, do you think dissipating due to collapse is also a form of transcendence and reincarnation?"
"How should I know? If you want to try, then try it. I don't dare, anyway."
"Heh, I was just saying. I've had enough of that feeling after trying it once."
As soon as he finished speaking, the previously silent gladiator arena suddenly trembled slightly.
There were passages in eight directions of the gladiator arena. At this moment, a pack of fierce wolves rushed out from one of the passages, and the figures were instantly stunned.
"Holy hell, a newcomer!"
Old Lin, who spoke first, instantly stood up, his face filled with excitement.
The reactions of the other figures were similar.
"Do you think this newcomer can complete the trial?"
"Isn't that a stupid question? Look at how many wolves there are here. Is this a trial that humans can pass?"
Upon hearing this, a figure immediately raised a question.
"Yeah, why are there so many wolves this time? One, two, three... Holy hell, forty-five! Old Lin, how many were there when you died before?"
The figure named Old Lin finally reacted and muttered blankly, "Ten? Or eleven..."
All the figures fell silent.
Li Chonglou didn't stay in the enclosed space for long. After only a few minutes, he felt it stop, and then the wall behind him suddenly lowered.
What greeted him was another passage.
However, unlike the previous one, this passage was entirely built with bricks, giving it a slightly retro feel.
And at the end of the passage, there was light coming through. It was clear that the venue for his stage was there.
"Only thirty minutes..."
Li Chonglou muttered and quickened his pace towards the light. Facing adversity with calmness, since there were no other choices, he would give his all to the path ahead!
When he appeared in the gladiator arena, his first sight was the wolf pack in the center of the arena.
Unlike those in Tielin's place, the wolves here seemed to be normal wolves, at most looking as if they hadn't eaten for half a month, with sunken bellies and drooling all over the ground.
As soon as they appeared, all the wolves howled at him with fierce gazes.
"The numbers are a bit much."
Li Chonglou narrowed his eyes slightly. Strangely, the group of figures stood opposite him, but he couldn't see anything. All he saw were the fierce wolves lunging at him.
And the group of figures, seeing Li Chonglou remaining calm in the face of such a large wolf pack, couldn't help but feel admiration.
"This kid is good, Old Lin. If it were you, you'd probably be wetting yourself seeing this scene."
"Nonsense, I wouldn't be scared even if there were double the number! At worst, I'd die. Only children would wet themselves from fear."
"Oh, so you're tough now. Old An, you're the oldest here. Was Old Lin as tough as you are when he died?"
Among all the figures, there was always one figure who had maintained a calm demeanor from beginning to end.