All minions can see their master's actions during promotion matches, so they can better assist their master in promotion after being restored.

Lyanna remained silent and composed, standing beside Sulin like a statue, as if he had only awakened an iceberg of a beautiful woman.

"Grandmaster, can you understand what He said at the end?"

Xiao Linlin looked at Li Xingtian for confirmation, but Li Xingtian shook his head: "How would I know about these things? What kind of nonsense is this? It's all so complicated. If there's an enemy, kill him; if there's no enemy, just relax. It's that simple."

"Well, it seems that my grandmaster and my brother really do look alike."

"Hmm? This little girl's words are utterly disrespectful. It should be that she is more like me, the younger one!"

"Hehe, I misspoke."

Xiao Linlin answered with a smile, seemingly having returned to normal and no longer caring about His final answer.

"Let's go, let's move on to the next badge."

Xiao Linlin took the lead, skipping and hopping to a passageway, waving to Su Lin: "Brother!"

"Um."

Su Lin nodded and entered the new passage with Xiao Linlin.

It was still a long corridor. After passing through the corridor and pushing open the door at the end, a natural cave came into view.

The four of them stepped into this unfamiliar new world and stood at the entrance of the cave. A breeze blew through the cave entrance, but it couldn't blow into the cave.

Xiao Linlin curiously looked at the entrance of the cave, and could vaguely see a thin, almost transparent membrane in front of her, blocking out everything outside the cave.

Xiao Linlin reached out to touch it, and soon a notification appeared before her eyes.

This section cannot be traversed before the end of the match.

"We're trapped here."

Xiao Linlin looked up at Su Lin and said with a smile, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the venue for the Patience Badge competition."

As she finished speaking, a new notification appeared before everyone.

Welcome to the Patience Badge competition area!

The rules for the "Patience Badge" are as follows:

1. Only one survivor will participate in this competition.

2. You are not allowed to use any restored mechanics (including followers and talents), you can only rely on yourself, otherwise it will be considered a failure.

3. Using all the existing tools in the cave, expand the cave in any way possible to a new length, extending at least 100,000 meters inward.

4. You can give up at any time, and you can leave the current competition area after giving up.

5. The time flow rate in the current competition area is the same as the time flow rate in the waiting area.

......

This time, there was no reminder about whether cheating was allowed.

Su Lin scanned the entire set of rules in the information prompt, then looked into the depths of the cave.

From the entrance to the wall deep inside the cave, there is a distance of about a hundred meters. There are obvious traces of human excavation on the wall deep inside, and it looks very new.

Nearby, several broken pickaxes and shovels lay scattered, seemingly unusable.

"It seems we've finally found a normal playing area, but..."

Xiao Linlin also saw this scene, but just as she was about to start analyzing, she found herself unable to finish her sentence.

"Girl, what's wrong?"

Li Xingtian asked with concern, and Su Lin quickly came to his side.

Xiao Linlin pinched her throat in surprise and tried to make some sounds: "Ah? Ah ah? Hmm, it seems to be better again."

“I understand now. Not only are the attendants unable to help my brother, they are not even allowed to offer suggestions or provide analysis.”

"Apart from that, normal communication is allowed, but it cannot involve anything related to this competition."

Xiao Linlin shrugged helplessly: "The mechanism is really intelligent. Oh well... it's not difficult anyway, brother, you can do it yourself."

"good."

Su Lin withdrew his gaze and turned it back to the scattered debris on the ground.

Even without Xiao Linlin, Su Lin had a general understanding of the current situation: this was a regular competition zone, and the difficulty lay in losing the mechanism of strength for the second time, as well as the similarity of the time flow.

If the survivors lose their strength again, it will be difficult for them to quickly complete the race requirement of opening 100,000 meters inward.

The similarity in the flow of time is also ingenious. It makes survivors restless and impatient. Even if they can temporarily put aside their temper and forge a path forward, they will worry about whether the other people in the waiting area will overtake them during their long wait and cause them to lose their chance to advance in the game.

This is the test of the Patience Badge: when more important things weigh on your mind, can you still calm down and do the task at hand well?

What's even more interesting is that this competition area clearly has a certain degree of "relay" element; the mechanism doesn't really allow survivors to clear 100,000 meters entirely relying on ordinary humans and without any good tools.

It will continuously supply survivors, allowing everyone to pass the baton to each other without meeting in person.

If one person clears a hundred meters, the rest of the people save the entire hundred-meter journey.

Of course, if you do this, only one person can get the badge, or rather, only five lucky people can get the badge.

No matter how much effort and hard work others put in here, they are merely paving the way for the lucky ones, serving as stepping stones for others.

But clearly, the survivors were unwilling to do so.

Many survivors have come here, but most have chosen to give up. Some realize they will continue to venture deeper along the path of those who came before them, but they also worry that if they fail, it will benefit those who come after them.

Therefore, some people not only gave up and left, but also destroyed the tools for pioneering, leaving the newcomers without even the most rudimentary tools and with nothing but their bare hands.

"ugly."

Su Lin murmured, a faint look of disdain in his eyes.

He would never stoop to doing such a thing, just like when Sulin refused to take all the Luck Badges during the first Badge Contest.

In the current situation, these people choose to disgust newcomers even when things don't benefit them. This is just a way for the weak to compensate for their fragile hearts, using such a pathetic way to emphasize the "power" they currently hold.

After all, the power to destroy is still power, and not everyone has the awareness to make sacrifices for a greater good; most are driven by selfishness.

Su Lin slightly circulated his energy, and his spiritual energy surged. This part of his strength remained and had not been taken away by the mechanism.

Opening up a 100,000-meter-long project is difficult for ordinary people, but it is too easy for cultivators.

This test of patience was the easiest competition for Su Lin, since cultivating immortality is inherently a test of patience.

Su Lin did not immediately pass the level, but instead looked at Xiao Linlin with her eyes.

The two had a deep understanding of each other, and Xiao Linlin naturally understood the question in Su Lin's eyes: There are no outsiders here, should we say some things that cannot be said?

"Alright, it seems we'll be staying here for quite a while if we don't satisfy our brother's curiosity."

Xiao Linlin clapped her hands, sat down on the ground, and looked up at Su Lin with a smile.

"So, what would you like to ask, brother?"