Max smiled faintly.
'Interesting.'
As he drew nearer, he began to notice more figures moving across the surrounding wilderness. There had been only a few at first, but soon there were dozens, and then hundreds.
Some flew through the sky under their own power, while others rode flying treasures shaped like swords, ships, beasts, or enormous leaves. A few crossed the ground at incredible speed, and several groups used strange spatial techniques that carried them great distances with every step.
All of them were headed for the same place.
Max quickly noticed something else too. Almost everyone approaching the trial was young, and more importantly, their cultivation levels all fell within a narrow band. The vast majority sat at the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level of the Divine Lord Realm.
They were newcomers, exactly as Anna had described.
The closer he came to the trial site, the more representatives of the five great races he saw.
