"This fiend is incredibly arrogant!"

"How dare they insult my sacred land of righteousness in my territory! Who gave them the audacity to do this!"

"Once he leaves the tower, I will personally suppress him!"

Outside the Seven Absolutes Tower, upon hearing Chi Yuan's criticisms, all the righteous holy masters were furious. It was true that they wanted to curry favor with Ye Chen, but it was also out of their original intention to eliminate demons and protect the righteous path. If Chi Yuan had not been unwilling to prove himself, why would they have labeled him as a demon?

This scoundrel is not clean himself, yet he slanders the righteous path and confuses the righteous path with the demonic path. His demonic nature is exposed. If they are not brought to justice, how can we maintain the bright and clear world of the righteous path?

"How utterly foolish!"

Xiao Yu scoffed. Chi Yuan's words and actions were tantamount to standing against the entire righteous path. With so many righteous holy masters present, all enraged by Chi Yuan, how could Chi Yuan possibly survive? He was truly throwing his life away for nothing.

"He must be the eldest brother; he has never been possessed!"

Chi Yang felt a surge of excitement. Looking at Chi Yuan at this moment, it was as if he saw the older brother he once admired and respected.

When Chi Yuan spoke harshly to him earlier, he had indeed suspected that Chi Yuan had been possessed by a demonic cultivator. But now he clearly saw that Chi Yuan had not been possessed. Perhaps Chi Yuan's nature had changed, but he was still the older brother he knew. It was just that he had hidden his kind side because he had been hurt too deeply.

“Chi Yuan…”

In the crowd, Yu Xiao's eyes welled up with tears as he recalled the times he and Chi Yuan had worked together to enforce the law. This scene was so similar to when Chi Yuan was enforcing the law back then. Only now, Chi Yuan no longer had him by his side, and he no longer had the right to fight alongside Chi Yuan.

On the other side.

All six women, including Lu Ziling, had tears in their eyes. Thinking of the injustices and persecution their senior brother had suffered, they were heartbroken and understood why he had been so heartless towards them. Now, as outsiders, seeing their senior brother being wrongly accused of being a demonic cultivator, they felt extremely aggrieved and angry. They could only imagine how much their senior brother had suffered when they wronged him. So what reason did he have not to be heartless towards them?

They secretly resolved that if their senior brother were to be wronged again, they would risk their lives to stand with him!

"My lord, no matter who your enemy is, no matter how great the difficulties you encounter, Yu Xi will be by your side even at the cost of her life. You will never be alone again!"

An Yuxi's gaze swept over those powerful and awe-inspiring Holy Lords who were unattainable to her. There was no fear or timidity in her eyes, only a fearlessness that disregarded life and death, just like when Chi Yuan risked his life to save her.

Inside the Seven Absolutes Pagoda.

Whether Yun Teng and Wu Ban were convinced or not, they were at least outwardly intimidated and dared not challenge Chi Yuan again.

As for the sect-level elders, none of them uttered a word. The two elders who had spoken felt guilty and secretly sent a telepathic message to Chi Yuan to express their apologies.

After that, more and more people arrived at the fourth level, and disciples at the Spirit Emperor and Spirit King levels successively passed the test and appeared.

However, since the fourth trial was divided into several different spaces, only a portion of the total number of people came to Chi Yuan's side. Among those who knew Chi Yuan, only Ning Wan'er was present, while Rong Qingyan, Ye Chen, and others were assigned to other spaces.

After an unknown amount of time, all the trial participants still in the Seven Absolutes Tower had arrived at the fourth floor, and the trial on this floor began.

A pale blue light flashed along the edge of the circular city wall, instantly forming an inverted bowl-shaped barrier that enveloped the entire circular city wall.

This is a defensive barrier to protect the trial participants, and it is also their last line of defense. Once this line of defense is breached by the monsters, the remaining trial participants who have not met the conditions for passing the trial will have to forcibly withdraw from the trial.

The conditions for passing the level are also very simple: kill ten fourth, fifth, or sixth-tier monsters, and you will be automatically teleported to the next bonus level.

The reward levels are divided into three tiers: Tier 4 corresponds to the Spirit King level, Tier 5 corresponds to the Spirit Emperor level, and Tier 6 corresponds to the Spirit Sect level. Each tier can only receive rewards within the range of its corresponding tier. For example, a Spirit King can only receive Tier 4 pills and cannot receive Tier 5 or Tier 6 pills.

Based on this rule, those at the Spirit Sect level should prioritize hunting sixth-tier demonic beasts. If they kill ten fourth- or fifth-tier demonic beasts first, they will be teleported to the reward level at the Spirit King or Spirit Emperor level, which would be a loss.

Rumble—

The earth suddenly trembled as if an earthquake had struck, and a dark mass of demonic beasts rushed toward the circular city wall from all directions. The weakest of them were all low-level fourth-tier demonic beasts, numbering approximately a thousand.

This is the vanguard of the beast tide; there will be fifth and sixth tier beast tides following behind.

"Wan'er, stay by my side for a while, and I'll take you to kill fifth-tier demonic beasts."

Chi Yuan told Ning Wan'er that this level can be accessed by bringing people along. As long as you have the strength to approach the level of a higher reward level, a higher-level person can lead you to kill the higher-level monsters. Let the higher-level person cripple them first, and then hand them over to the lower-level person to kill them.

However, Chi Yuan could only take Ning Wan'er to kill fifth-tier demonic beasts and send her to the Spirit Emperor-level reward level, because the reward level also required corresponding strength to obtain treasures. If the strength was not enough, she could not even break through the protective shield and could only watch helplessly after entering.

"Um."

Ning Wan'er nodded obediently, thinking to herself that she would show off her skills later and let her senior brother see her strength.

As the beast tide approached, the Spirit King level trial participants, who made up the largest proportion of the group, were on high alert. Only when the beast tide was close did they break through the air and charge into the beast tide army.

Chi Yuan and Ning Wan'er quickly followed suit, but their target was the fifth-tier beast horde behind the fourth-tier demonic beast.

Holding Ning Wan'er's small hand, Chi Yuan flew above the fifth-tier beast horde. He then used the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the least powerful of his weapons, to control his strength and avoid vital points, leaving ten fifth-tier demonic beasts half-crippled.

"Senior brother, watch me."

Ning Wan'er smiled charmingly and said a few words before flying towards the ten half-crippled demonic beasts. She leaned down, crossed her arms in front of her, and hundreds of exploding spirit talismans swirled out under her control.

"go!"

With a soft shout, Ning Wan'er sent hundreds of exploding spirit talismans flying in ten waves like a celestial maiden scattering flowers towards the ten demonic beasts. They then unleashed destructive explosive energy, and in the blink of an eye, the ten half-crippled fifth-tier demonic beasts were reduced to dust amidst a series of deafening explosions.

"Hehe, senior brother, aren't I amazing?"

Ning Wan'er flew back to Chi Yuan's side and said with a smile.

"sharp!"

Chi Yuan sincerely praised that the Exploding Spirit Talisman was a low-grade fourth-rank spirit talisman, whose power was comparable to a full-force attack from a low-grade Spirit King. However, Ning Wan'er had used some unknown means to greatly enhance the power of the Exploding Spirit Talisman, with each one displaying the power of a high-grade Spirit King, which was why such a spectacular killing scene was created.

It is evident that Ning Wan'er has achieved a profound level of expertise in the art of talismans.