Ye Ziyun smiled, revealing two dimples, "Then I'll wait for your good news!"

Lan Hua and Qin Yu entered a silver vortex one after the other, which was the entrance to the trial grounds.

Upon entering the trial grounds, what greeted them was a vast expanse of Gobi Desert and sand, devoid of any greenery.

Lan Hua waited for a while and found that Qin Yu had not followed. She began to wonder if the kid had changed his mind and was not coming.

After waiting a while longer, there was still no sign of Qin Yu. Lan Hua remembered that there were many trial grounds in the New Origin Realm, and the entrance just now might have teleported Qin Yu to another place.

"Fine, being alone is fine too. If I encounter any danger, I can easily escape!"

Lan Hua looked around and saw only yellow sand; there wasn't a single cloud in the sky.

"If we can't get through this trial ground, can we fly out?"

Lan Hua extended her divine sense to investigate and discovered that the fluctuations in the primordial energy in the sky were actually protected by a barrier.

"It's no use. The barrier is extremely powerful. It seems there's no way we can fly out of the sky!"

Lan Hua walked aimlessly into the distance, completely unaware of what this trial ground was testing.

Just as he was wondering, several figures flew toward him from a distance, looking very flustered, probably trying to avoid something.

Lan Hua was overjoyed; she had finally seen someone!

Seeing several figures approaching, Lan Hua clasped his hands and said, "Fellow Daoist, may I stop and have a word with you?"

"Stop what? Get out of here, or you'll regret it!"

After the first celestial being finished speaking, he passed over the top of Lan Hua, and Lan Hua only felt a gust of wind blow past her head.

The other five figures flew past without stopping, looking somewhat disheveled.

Lan Hua could tell that the cultivation levels of these six people were all at the first or second level of the Celestial Realm, indicating that they had all recently ascended to the Celestial Realm.

"Hmm? Why are they leaving in such a hurry? Is there danger approaching?"

Suddenly, a strong wind swept in, and the sand on the ground began to swirl around.

In the distance, yellow sand filled the sky, and billowing dust gradually filled the view.

"Damn, it's a sandstorm!"

Lan Hua scoffed, "It's just a sandstorm, is it really that bad?"

With his right palm raised to the sky, a dazzling red beam of light erupted, transforming into a blade of energy hundreds of feet long, slashing towards the oncoming sandstorm.

boom!

The Heaven-Opening Palm, with its River-Splitting Style, was incredibly domineering. It cleaved a ravine in the massive sandstorm, leaving no trace of sand in the ravine.

"That's all there is to it!"

Lan Hua was about to cross the ravine, but after only a moment, she was completely dumbfounded.

The huge ravine in front of them was instantly filled with sand and dust. Lan Hua's powerful attack seemed to have just skipped a stone across the water, leaving no trace.

The sandstorm is getting even closer to Lanhua.

The ground began to shake violently, and the rapidly swirling sand stung Lan Hua's face, forcing her to use her protective energy.

"Damn, this is definitely not an ordinary sandstorm!"

Lan Hua used the Flowing Light Step to quickly catch up with the fleeing group.

Despite running away, Lan Hua refused to believe in bad luck and summoned the Yueque Bow, unleashing the Nine Heavens Reaching for the Moon technique.

More than two hundred invisible arrows were shot into the sandstorm, but they did not cause a ripple.

Now, Lan Hua is completely in trouble.

He could tell that if a newly ascended celestial being were to be hit by this sandstorm, even with protective elemental energy, the sandstorm would quickly strip away a layer of their skin.

Even if it doesn't die, it's not like a human being.

They used their movement techniques to the extreme, and with Lan Hua's cultivation level being higher than the others, they quickly caught up.

Lan Hua cried out, "Fellow Daoists, how can we get rid of this sandstorm?"

One of them said, "I don't know. Just keep running, and eventually the sandstorm will dissipate on its own!"

Lan Hua was speechless, then asked curiously, "How big is this place?"

The man turned his head and glanced at Lan Hua, saying, "Brother, I think you just came in, right?"

This is the sixth trial ground of the New Origin Realm, covering an area of ​​thousands of kilometers, with sand everywhere.

The sandstorm is incredibly powerful. If you don't use your elemental energy to protect yourself, even if you have a celestial body, you will be swallowed up by the sandstorm and turned into a pile of bones!

Lan Hua was taken aback. "Is this sandstorm really that terrifying? Could it be that one of our fellow cultivators has perished?"

The man said, "That's right, but not many. More often, many celestial beings are trapped here!"

As they were talking, someone nearby exclaimed, "Oh no! Another sandstorm is ahead!"

Lan Hua looked closely and saw that in the distance directly ahead, yellow sand filled the sky, and another terrifying sandstorm was rushing in.

More than a dozen people were running away quickly in front of the sandstorm.

Now facing a pincer attack, the group looked grave, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Lan Hua knew that if she were hit by two sandstorms at the same time, the consequences would be dire.

"Activate your protective elemental power!"

One person shouted loudly, his body filled with Yuan Power, and was enveloped in a blue light.

Then, dozens of people on both sides activated their Yuan Power at full strength, and dozens of light spheres appeared in mid-air.

boom!

Two sandstorms collided, and countless yellow sands raged, cutting through the protective air shield like blades.

Even someone as strong as Lan Hua felt the pressure, and cracks slowly appeared in her protective aura, with more and more cracks appearing.

"Master, please use the Qiankun Bowl!"

Lan Hua shook her head inwardly, "No need, I can still stop this level of power. The Qiankun Bowl is a backup plan, I have to save it for last!"

A moment later, the sandstorm finally dissipated, and Lan Hua's protective aura was covered with cracks; it would shatter if things didn't stop soon.

With a palm strike, Lan Hua broke free from the sand dune and discovered that many people had even used their Dharma power to resist the two sandstorms.

"That was close! Another day of being chased by a sandstorm!"

One of them brushed the sand off his clothes and sighed, "I really hate this."

"Why did you have to come all the way to the New Origin Realm to train? Wouldn't it have been better for me to be a freelance cultivator in the outer Heavenly Domain?"

"Yeah, I must have been blind to have come to this godforsaken place!"

Lan Hua whispered, "Fellow Daoists, I am Lan Hua. I have only recently ascended to the Celestial Realm and have just entered the Sixth Trial Ground."

"When did you all arrive? And what are the steps to successfully complete the trial?"

One of them clasped his hands in a fist and sighed, "My name is Zhuoran. I come from the Desolate Sea Realm in the lower realm. I have been an ascension to the Heavenly Domain for about a hundred years!"

Lan Hua was taken aback, her eyes flashing with a sharp light as she realized that Zhuoran's cultivation had already reached the second level of the Celestial Realm.

"I, Sima Yi, have been trapped here for almost five hundred years. What bad luck!"

Lan Hua exclaimed in surprise, "Five hundred years? I see that your cultivation has reached the third level of the Celestial Realm, yet you still can't escape this place?"

Sima Yi said, "No wonder I'm so unlucky!"

"I heard from others that the trials in the New Origin Realm are not difficult. As long as you can pass any trial ground, you will be taken up by the major sects and families of the Heavenly Domain."

Who would have thought that I would find myself unable to leave the sixth trial ground!

Lan Hua asked around again and learned that the people had been trapped here for varying lengths of time, some for as long as five hundred years, and others for as short as a few days.

"Fellow Daoists, according to you, this place is vast. Do you know how many celestial beings are trapped here?"