The room was dimly lit. The round chandelier hanging from the ceiling was carved with a simple and unadorned pattern. The faint mottled marks on it indicated that it was quite old.
The beige wallpaper on the walls added a touch of warmth to the room under the illumination of the light.
In the small room, there was a small bed that was already made. Judging from the size, it didn't look like it was for an adult.
On the right side of the small bed was a small wooden bedside table. The workmanship looked rather crude.
On the left side was an old-fashioned wardrobe.
The wardrobe was ajar, and there were a few pieces of clothing hanging inside. They looked like they were meant for minors in their teens.
"Is this the trial space?" Fallen Star looked around her with a puzzled expression.
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the room, she immediately calmed her mind and sensed the state of her body.
"Most of my abilities aren't restricted. Only the range of my telekinesis is restricted. The radius of my telekinesis has been reduced to less than 1,000 meters."
After turning off the chandelier, Fallen Star hid herself in the darkness. Then, she walked sideways to the window and carefully poked her head out to look.
As far as the eye could see, it was dotted with red lanterns.
The thousands of lanterns dyed the night sky red.
The lanterns were hanging from low-rise residential buildings. They ranged from two to five stories high, but none of them were taller than five stories. The roofs were covered with red tiles.
What was even stranger was that some of the buildings had their roofs facing left or right horizontally. Some had their roofs facing down. They were stacked on top of each other, making it impossible to see any other buildings apart from the residential buildings. They could not even see the sky or the ground.
There wasn't even a normal street between the countless buildings. There were only stairs made of wood or metal that connected the small buildings to each other. They seemed to have been there for a long time.
Without exception, there were lanterns hanging from the corners of the residential buildings. All the lanterns were lit up.
"What a strange trial space." Even though Fallen Star had participated in many trials and entered many arcane realms and ruins, it was her first time seeing a trial space with such a strange structure.
Just as she finished her initial observation of the environment, a notification popped up before her.
"Trial Space: Ten Thousand Floor"
"Number of Competitors: 3,000"
"Number of Trial Bosses: 300"
"The specific rules of the Competitive Trial are as follows:"
[1. Every time you kill or defeat a competitor, you will obtain 1 basic point and directly steal all the points of the opponent.]
"2. For every Trial Boss defeated, you will be awarded 100 points."
"If the Trial Boss is defeated, you will be teleported out. Killing or defeating competitors by the Trial Boss will not earn any points.]
"3. Competitors can choose to admit defeat during the battle, but admitting defeat is equivalent to giving up the trial. They will be directly teleported out and all their points will be taken away."
[4. Points cannot be partially transferred or divided.]
[5. The longest duration of the Competitive Trial is ten days. If there is only one competitor left in ten days, the trial will end early.]
[6. At the end of the trial, the competitor with the highest total score will be qualified for the official trial. After passing all the official trials, you will receive the Great Heaven Inheritance.]
"7. The competitor's highest combat strength is limited to Virtual God rank-9.
"8. All competitors' Sword Dao is restricted to below Sword Dao true meaning."
"9. In the Competitive Trial, all competitors are allowed to use any techniques they have, including techniques other than Sword Dao."
"10. To ensure the fairness of the Competitive Trial. All weapons and other items that can cause harm to first-rank True Gods are prohibited. All defensive armor and other defensive equipment that surpasses first-rank True Gods are prohibited. (Energy equipment condensed from your own skills, divine abilities, divine skills, secret skills, and so on are excluded.) "
"11. All communication methods are prohibited in the trial space."
…
After reading the rules of the trial, Fallen Star had a thoughtful expression on her face.
"There are a total of three thousand competitors. I've been teleported in, which means that this trial is an indiscriminate selection. Participants from the God Territory are also eligible to participate.
"If I'm not mistaken, the first selection condition should be sword cultivators. The second condition should have a combat strength restriction — they must be below true god-level to be eligible to receive the Sword Dao inheritance. The third selection condition might be to conduct a preliminary ranking of the sword cultivators who meet the requirements and select three thousand people from them. If that's the case, then Xie Lin, Twin, and Qing Ming should be here. "
"It's a good thing Master Zang Tian has foresight. The four people Death's Scythe sent into the Great Heaven Territory this time are all sword cultivators."
Fallen Star could not help but smirk when she thought about the number of sword cultivators sent in by other organizations.
Since there had been no news of the Great Heaven inheritance all these years, most organizations in the God Territory treated the Great Heaven Territory as an ordinary trial ground. Some grade-7 organizations had sent in only one sword cultivator out of more than ten people.
"However, if I'm not mistaken, that guy from the Combat God Temple must've been teleported in as well …" A face suddenly flashed across Fallen Star's mind, and her expression turned serious.
The 'guy' she mentioned was the number one virtual god-level powerhouse of the Combat God Temple — Unrivaled God, who was also the number one super genius on the Virtual God Leaderboard in the God Territory.
As a sword cultivator as well, Fallen Star had fought him once or twice, but she had never won. She had a vague feeling that Unrivaled God's Sword Dao might have elevated to true meaning.
"I wonder who would win if Xie Lin were to fight him …"
Fallen Star's thoughts drifted for a moment, but she quickly came back to her senses and continued to analyze the Trial rules.
"Defeating a BOSS will give you 100 points. This means that the BOSS's ability must be very strong, and we might need to form a team to kill it. The rules didn't say that teams can't be formed, so it's equivalent to tacitly agreeing that teams can be formed.
"The points can't be partially transferred or divided. Although this prevents teams from forming to a certain extent. However, as long as teammates trust each other, this won't be too much of a hindrance.
"The three sword cultivators from the Combat God Temple should've qualified for the Trial this time. If they encounter each other, there's a high chance that they'll form a team with Unrivaled God as the leader and help Unrivaled God to obtain points.
"There are four sword cultivators from God Capital participating in the Trial this time, but with the Pure Blood Protoss in God Capital, it's unlikely that they'll cooperate. There's no need to worry.
"There's only one sword cultivator from Precious Treasure Pavilion, so there's no need to worry either.
"From the looks of it, the strongest competitors are Divine Clapnet and Xeno. Of the two organizations, one has sent five sword cultivators, while the other has sent six. As an intelligence organization, Divine Clapnet has amazing organizational and planning skills. Xeno, on the other hand, is a gathering place for non-Pure-bloods, so its unity is incomparable to other organizations. These two organizations have the highest chance of forming a team.
"However, it's still unknown how big this Trial space is for now. After all, the Trial only lasts for ten days. If the space is big enough, it's possible that we won't encounter teammates from the same organization."
After analyzing the possibility of a few grade-7 organizations forming a team, Fallen Star felt that this Trial was far more difficult than she had expected.
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