The Trial City didn't have the scale of a super metropolis like the Free Capital. It was just an ordinary city. However, just thinking about the huge number of Prime Beast groups outside it, one could understand how difficult it was for the association headquarters to build such a city. Perhaps the current scale was already the limit.

  After entering the city, Chen Yue asked about the location of the City Lord's Mansion and then headed straight there.

  Unlike the Apostle Continent, the Trial City was directly ruled by apostles. This was somewhat similar to the association headquarters. However, the Trial City wasn't entirely populated by apostles. There were also a considerable number of ordinary people in it.

  Like the middle-aged man Chen Yue had asked for directions from just now, he was an ordinary person.

  After thinking for a moment, Chen Yue understood. After all, apostles weren't immortals. They needed food and drink to survive. And due to the special feature that the Trial Ground only opened once every hundred years, it was very difficult for them to get sufficient supplies. So they could only relocate some ordinary people to engage in production.

  Outside the City Lord's Mansion, Chen Yue was stopped by several guards. They were all ordinary people, but they represented the authority of the city lord behind them, so Chen Yue didn't dare to be negligent.

  "I'm here to register for the trial," Chen Yue said casually after glancing at these people.

  "Are you an apostle lord from outside?" These guards exclaimed in shock.

  "Yeah," Chen Yue nodded, feeling a bit puzzled in his heart. Logically speaking, with a large number of apostles coming in every hundred years, they should have been used to it.

  "Please show your proof." After Chen Yue stated his identity, these guards became extremely polite.

  After checking Chen Yue's voucher, they immediately welcomed Chen Yue in with great respect. Meanwhile, one of them went to inform the city lord.

  By the time Chen Yue entered the City Lord's Mansion, the city lord was already waiting there.

  The moment he saw the other person clearly, Chen Yue's eyes narrowed.

  The city lord was an apostle who looked like a middle-aged man. Judging from the badge he wore, which indicated he was at the third level, he should be a peak third-level powerhouse. However, what surprised Chen Yue was that his badge also indicated another identity of his.

  He wasn't a disciple but a deacon.

  A third-level deacon...

  Shaking his head, Chen Yue bowed and saluted, "Chen Yue pays his respects to the deacon lord."

  "Please take a seat," The city lord said politely.

  Seeing Chen Yue's puzzled look, he smiled slightly and said, "You're wondering why I can be a deacon even though I'm only at the third level, right?"

  Chen Yue smiled but didn't deny it.

  Looking at him approvingly, the city lord said, "Everyone who comes to the Trial Ground for the first time will be curious about my identity. Hehe, it's actually very simple. You are just trial participants, while I'm the one in power here. Unless I die, I'll always be in power. For the stability of the Trial City, my identity must be able to suppress everyone, including you."

  He said casually, "Some of you are here for the disciple trial. Once you meet the requirements, you can directly be promoted to disciples. There were also cases where disciples entered directly before. If I were also a disciple, I wouldn't be able to suppress them at all. If I let them do whatever they wanted here, the Trial City would have ceased to exist long ago."

  "So, no matter who it is, after entering the Trial City, they must abide by the rules. Otherwise, they will be killed without mercy."

  When he said the last sentence, his eyes became extremely cold, and his whole body was filled with an intimidating authority that no one dared to resist.

  Chen Yue looked at him calmly, as if he didn't feel the intimidating aura on him at all.

  After looking deeply at Chen Yue for a while, the city lord regained his calmness. However, he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart. You should know that the slogan of "killed without mercy" wasn't just empty talk. Among apostles, the hierarchy was extremely strict. A higher-level identity could definitely suppress lower-level apostles firmly. Otherwise, Kaxiu and others wouldn't have tried every means to obtain the disciple qualification.

  Although communication wasn't easy, the Trial Ground hadn't reached the point of losing contact with the headquarters. Once an apostle here, relying on his strength, wanted to disobey the management or brought disaster to the Trial City, as long as the city lord reported it, the offender's end would be extremely miserable.

  Not to mention that it was a special area like the Trial Ground. Facing the threat of Prime Beasts, the stability of the Trial City was the most important. If there were offenders, they would probably be killed on the spot by the association headquarters after returning as a warning to others.

  Chen Yue smiled faintly and said, "Lord City Lord, don't worry. I'm not a troublemaker."

  With Vinia's reminder in the Aerial Passage, Chen Yue already deeply understood this point, so he wasn't surprised.

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  "That's good. I'm just giving you a reminder, not that I don't trust you," The city lord smiled and said, "You were able to reach the Trial City in a day and a half. I think your mentor has very high expectations of you. You shouldn't have any accidents."

  Chen Yue was stunned and asked, "Is a day and a half fast?"

  "Of course," The city lord looked at him strangely. "Generally speaking, those who can arrive within three days are the elites among the elites."

  "So that's how it is," Chen Yue finally understood why those guards had been so rude at first and then so polite.

  "Chen Yue, in the Trial City, there are three rules that everyone must abide by. That is, you must never hunt Prime Beasts within a kilometer of the Trial City, you must not fight within the city, and you must hand in one-tenth of the Life Essence you've harvested," The city lord said majesty ly .

  "Okay," After thinking for a while, Chen Yue thought these rules weren't too harsh, so he agreed.

  After all, the city lord was right. With his identity, he could suppress everyone. If one didn't want to abide by these rules, then one shouldn't stay in the Trial City.

  "This is your trial proof and content," After looking at Chen Yue's magic voucher, the city lord handed Chen Yue a document. "I've seen your trial conditions. There are three people participating in the competition for this qualification. However, I need to remind you that if you can't complete the goal above, then even if you win in the end, you can only obtain the ordinary disciple identity and can't become a disciple in power, that is, the so-called master of one side."

  "What goal?" Chen Yue asked in confusion.

  The city lord stretched out three fingers and shook them, "This goal is three pieces of fourth-grade Life Essence."

  "Fourth grade?" Chen Yue was shocked when he heard this and almost thought he had heard wrong. That required hunting fourth-grade Prime Beasts to obtain.

  "After all, it's the master of one side. Of course, the difficulty isn't small," The city lord's eyes showed a strong sense of envy. You should know that although he could also be regarded as a master of one side, in such a dangerous place, it wasn't worth it at all. If he could choose, he would rather be an ordinary disciple than stay here all year round.

  "However, you don't need to worry. Fourth-grade Life Essence doesn't necessarily have to be obtained by hunting fourth-grade Prime Beasts. After all, Prime Beasts of this level are too difficult for us," The city lord said understandingly. "In fact, Life Essence can be fused with each other. Every hundred pieces of Life Essence of the same grade can be fused into one piece of the next higher grade. So, you just need to hunt more Prime Beasts."

  Chen Yue smiled bitterly. The requirement for this fusion was too high. Even if only first-grade Prime Beasts were hunted, a full one million of them would need to be killed to fuse into one piece of fourth-grade Life Essence.

  At this moment, Chen Yue's desire to improve his strength became even stronger. Only by unsealing the cutting ability of the Blade Beast could he possibly complete this goal.

  After bidding farewell to the city lord, Chen Yue left the City Lord's Mansion. Someone naturally led him to a place to rest.

  For the convenience of management, the Trial City had a special place for them, the trial participants.

  It was a large hotel dozens of stories high, covering a large area and capable of accommodating more than ten thousand people.

  Here, Chen Yue once again experienced the gap in status.

  Although his strength was not inferior to that of third-level apostles, since he was only at the second level at present, Chen Yue was arranged to live on the twenty-fifth floor. Only third-level apostles could live on the floors below the thirtieth floor. As for the floors above the fiftieth floor, only apostles who were disciples when they entered the Trial Ground or those who became disciples after successfully completing the trial could live there.

  The living conditions on the twenty-fifth floor were naturally not as good as those on the floors above the thirtieth floor. However, Chen Yue didn't care. Here, a comfortable living environment would instead dampen one's fighting spirit.

  Accommodation wasn't free, and the cost wasn't low. It cost one piece of first-grade Life Essence to stay for a day. Fortunately, Chen Yue had hunted quite a number of Prime Beasts on his way here, so he didn't need to worry even if he stayed for a year or half a year.

  On the second day, other trial participants arrived at the Trial City. After that, a considerable number of trial participants arrived every day.

  Before advancing to the third level, Chen Yue didn't want to go deep into the groups of Prime Beasts to hunt them on a large scale. Kles Nor had extremely high expectations for West, so Chen Yue wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to pass through the dangerous area. He just went out occasionally, hunted a few second-grade Prime Beasts, and then came back. During the rest of the time, he practiced the "Health Preservation Formula" in his room.

  Chen Yue always felt that every time he took a breath of the fresh air here, all the cells in his body would cheer with joy. Perhaps it was because of the special environment of the Trial Ground. As time passed, the progress of his practice of the "Health Preservation Formula" was extremely fast.

  On the fifth day, after having breakfast and just as he was about to go out, Chen Yue suddenly felt a strong sense of tiredness welling up.

  "Finally, it's time for the third transformation," The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and Chen Yue showed a somewhat tired smile.

  He had already completed the 27th posture last night, so he had been prepared for it in his heart.

  After making some preparations, Chen Yue changed to another room and officially began the third transformation without anyone knowing.

  On the seventh day, West finally arrived at the Trial City. After handing in his voucher at the City Lord's Mansion and obtaining the trial proof, he immediately came to look for Chen Yue, but was told by the hotel owner that Chen Yue had gone out.

  After receiving a piece of second-grade Life Essence from Chen Yue, the hotel owner naturally had to speak for him and directly concealed Chen Yue's whereabouts.

  The period before the transformation was the most vulnerable time. For safety reasons, Chen Yue naturally didn't want anyone to know where he was. His cooperation with West was very limited. Essentially, they were still competitors. So Chen Yue also told the hotel owner not to tell West where he was. However, to avoid making him angry, he revealed the date when Chen Yue would return.

  West had no choice but to wait.