Chapter 488 The Mountain Trial (2/2)

Zhou Yuan pondered over this for a brief moment, before setting it aside for the time being. He gathered his calm as he gaze swept around, but did not discover anything out of the ordinary.

The mountain path before him seemed to be nothing but ordinary.

But Zhou Yuan knew that this was impossible. Otherwise, the many previous chief disciples of Saint Genesis Peak would not have ultimately failed to reopen it.

He muttered to himself for a while. In the end, he lifted his foot and stepped forward, fully vigilant.

A foot landed on the stone steps, but nothing happened. After a brief hesitation, Zhou Yuan continued to advance.

However, there was only silence around him after several dozen steps, no activity at all.

“Is the mountain trial broken?” Mumbled Zhou Yuan in bewilderment.

However, the instant his voice rang out, Zhou Yuan’s pupils abruptly shrank. At this very moment he had indeed felt that something was wrong.

But the wrongness was not from the outside, but instead from inside his body.

He could feel a Genesis Qi star in his Qi Dwelling dim somewhat, as if some Genesis Qi had stealthily disappeared.

It was not being consumed or depleted, but as if some unknown entity had devoured it, causing it to be lost forever...

“What is going on?!”

Shock thundered through Zhou Yuan’s heart, his expression fluctuating rapidly as he stared at the extremely quiet old stone path before him. The latter now made him feel a heart-palpitating strangeness.

He raised his head and gazed at the path that snaked into the mist.

“Could it be… am I supposed to reach the end before my Genesis Qi disappears?” Zhou Yuan’s eyes flickered in thought. Soon after, he took in a deep breath. Hesitating here was pointless. He needed to first find out what kind of test this mountain trial was giving him.

After making his decision, Zhou Yuan cast away his hesitation and boldly stepped forward, advancing step after step on the long stone path.

With each step he crossed, Zhou Yuan could clearly feel shining star after star in his Qi Dwelling dim one after another, before ultimately disappearing into nothingness.

Disappear, not deplete.

The Genesis Qi that spread from his body weakened little by little.

Zhou Yuan’s expression was rigid as still water, tightly clenching his hands, while feeling a mix of negative emotions inside. No one would be able to calm, while helplessly feeling the Genesis Qi in one’s body strangely disappear.

After all, every drop had been the fruits of his effort.

As his Genesis Qi disappeared bit by bit, Zhou Yuan’s pace grew faster and faster.

Nearly an incense stick of time later.

A sliver of paleness had already appeared on Zhou Yuan’s face. More than half of the four thousand stars in his Qi Dwelling had already disappeared...

In such a bizarre situation, anyone with lesser mental fortitude would have already lost himself to panic and fear.

Huu.

Zhou Yuan took in a deep breath of air. The mountain trial’s reputation was well-deserved indeed. It was a fearfully strange test.

“Another hundred stars…”

Zhou Yuan pursed his lips, an unreadable look in his eyes as he stared at the winding path that reached into the mist. In the face of such a situation, even he felt his heart begin to tremble at this moment.

He was not certain if he would be able to reach the end before all his Genesis Qi disappeared.

Moreover, his greatest worry was that… even if he did manage to walk to the end, would it be over?

In the face of this incomparably bizarre mountain trial, unease began to surge out in Zhou Yuan’s heart.

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