The Seventh Star Cave.
The mountain peak trembled and shook.
The ones most affected by this were undoubtedly the evolvers still contemplating the stone statues.
Currently, among the many evolvers in the Seventh Star Cave, only three to five were Gold Marks, while the rest were all Silver Marks.
As for those three Crimson Marks, they had already passed the test and left the Seventh Star Cave several days ago.
The vast majority of the Gold Marks had also left.
"What's happening?"
"Why do I feel like the ground is unstable?"
"Is there an earthquake? Can there be earthquakes in the virtual world?"
The evolvers exchanged puzzled looks. They were all third or fourth-rank evolvers and shouldn't have trouble standing firm during this slight tremor.
But where exactly were they? The Seventh Star Cave world, the great trial world opened by the esteemed Red Kun Star Lord.
To ensure fair contemplation of the stone statues by the evolvers, the entire Seventh Star Cave was incredibly stable, free from any unexpected variables.
But now?
"Why do I feel like the statue in front of me is shaking?"
At this moment, one evolver seemed to have noticed something, looking incredulously at the stone statue he had been contemplating for half a month.
This stone statue was nearly three meters tall, considered top-notch among the many containing sixth-rank evolutionary pathways.
And as others observed, they immediately noticed.
Under the trembling ground, it wasn't just the two to three-meter-tall stone statues that were affected.
Even those massive statues over ten meters tall, containing pathways surpassing the sixth rank, were similarly affected.
Specifically, these massive stone statues over ten meters tall, weren't as still as before.
For example, the huge 'Cube' was no longer rotating its six faces slowly, stirring up ripples of space.
And the 'Giant Mouth' stone statue seemed to have completely immersed its eerie aura, as if it were an ordinary statue.
"Something special must have happened."
Fang Qing also stopped contemplating the stone statue in front of him.
The information the old man with the white beard gave him about the Seventh Star Cave was clear.
That is, the trial of this star cave tests the insight of each evolver.
"What about him?"
Fang Qing observed his surroundings.
He noticed that the evolvers sitting under the statues were all showing expressions of doubt and shock.
Except for one evolver lying in the corner, resting on the ground, without any changes.
Everyone was nervously chatting.
While the other evolvers were showing various emotions of shock, unease, and anxiety, this evolver lay motionless on the ground, showing no interest in the trembling ground.
"Gold Mark."
Fang Qing had noticed this peculiar Gold Mark evolver long ago.
Instead of actively contemplating the stone statue, he lay there resting.
In the mysterious space.
The twelve figures were filled with waves.
Those evolvers didn't know what the trembling of the mountain peak meant, but they were different. As disciples of the Star Lord, they knew much more than the outside world.
"Someone passed the final test?"
"Who could it be? The difficulty of the final test, even if I were to contemplate it, might not guarantee success. Are these third and fourth-rank youngsters able to comprehend it?"
"This is a major event, a once-in-a-million-years event for our Red Kun lineage."
The twelve figures were shaken. It was because they knew more that they understood the difficulty of passing the final test.
That was not something prepared for normal evolvers.
"It's Lin Yuan."
"It should be Lin Yuan who passed the final test."
The twelve figures scanned each evolver, finally stopping at Lin Yuan.
There was no other way.
Compared to the shock, unease, and anxiety of the other evolvers, only Lin Yuan had remained unchanged from beginning to end.
And the twelve figures could feel that the tremors of the entire mountain were centered around Lin Yuan, rapidly spreading in all directions.
"Lin Yuan, wasn't he just wandering around before?"
"Could it be that he wasn't wandering but was secretly contemplating the final test?"
"That's probably it. I didn't expect it. Lin Yuan actually gave us such a big surprise."
The twelve figures quickly conversed.
They immediately speculated on the reasons for Lin Yuan's strange behavior before.
As disciples of the Star Lord, the twelve figures knew that besides the 136 stone statues containing evolutionary pathways, there was also the 137th evolutionary pathway.
This pathway was not in the stone statues but within the mountain beneath their feet.
Unfortunately, over the millennia, the Seventh Star Cave world had been opened hundreds of times, and thousands of Crimson Mark evolvers had entered the Seventh Star Cave, but none had even thought of contemplating this pathway, let alone succeeded.
To the extent that the twelve figures had overlooked this final test, it wasn't until the mountain peak trembled for a while that they realized.
"The final test, huh? Lin Yuan actually fits this evolutionary pathway. If he continues to grow smoothly, surpassing the sixth rank is highly probable."
Nine figures below, looking at Lin Yuan lying on the ground, couldn't help but speak.
Moving from the sixth to the seventh rank is a major bottleneck.
In the cosmic sky, among billions of species, even those with exceptionally high starting points and special bloodlines cannot easily surpass the sixth rank.
The true form of the Red Kun Star Lord is a Star-Sea Kun, possessing the most pinnacle bloodline in the cosmic sky, reaching the sixth rank as an adult.
Even so, the Red Kun Star Lord spent thousands of years to surpass the sixth rank.
This was because the Red Kun Star Lord had decent aptitude. The vast majority of Star-Sea Kuns could not break through the sixth rank.
Regardless of bloodline or aptitude, the limit is the sixth rank.
To surpass the sixth rank, one can only rely on oneself.
For Lin Yuan to pass the final test and be evaluated by the twelve figures as having a 'high probability of surpassing the sixth rank' was already considered extremely high.
"Sigh."
Among the nine figures below, Kawu sighed.
During the second star cave, he had noticed Lin Yuan. At that time, he was considering whether to speak up and ask the senior brothers to accept him early.
Then he witnessed Lin Yuan's stunning performance in the fourth star cave.
At that moment, Kawu realized that he had been too indecisive.
Finally, in the Seventh Star Cave, Lin Yuan never chose a statue, which led to a sharp drop in the evaluation by the senior brothers.
This reignited hope in Kawu's heart.
"If you don't want him, I do."
However, at this moment, Kawu's thoughts were complicated.
"Junior brother, don't feel regretful." Another figure beside him noticed Kawu's change in expression and comforted him.
"That Lin Yuan has passed the final test, and he's no longer someone we can accept, including the three senior brothers above."
This figure spoke lightly, glancing at the three figures above.
Kawu was slightly stunned.
The final test was left by their teacher. Thousands of years ago, another evolver who passed the final test was directly accepted as a disciple by their teacher.
Unfortunately, this evolver hadn't grown up yet and attracted the attention of other races due to his high-profile behavior.
In the end, the other races sacrificed nine sixth-rank powerhouses and forcibly killed this potentially powerful evolver.
This incident enraged the Red Kun Star Lord, who directly descended to the battlefield and slaughtered the alien race before leaving after several hundred years.
The three figures above.
"We all misjudged him."
"This Lin Yuan never paid attention to those 136 stone statues."
"He has been contemplating that final evolutionary pathway from start to finish."
The three figures sighed with emotion. They didn't harbor jealousy or anger.
Instead, they felt genuine surprise and delight.
After all, since Lin Yuan chose to participate in the Seventh Star Cave test, he was one of them in the Red Kun lineage.
Where would anyone find fault with their own powerful members not being powerful enough?
"Gu Ze, it seems you won't be able to accept him." The figure in the middle joked and glanced at Gu Ze.
With Lin Yuan passing the final test, only the Red Kun Star Lord had the qualification to accept him in the entire Red Kun lineage.
As for them, they wanted to brazenly accept him, but they couldn't teach him.
Lin Yuan comprehended other evolutionary pathways. Even if it was those six pathways beyond the sixth rank, they knew how to guide him.
But the final test of the evolutionary pathway, This pathway, although also beyond the sixth rank.
There were differences between surpassing the sixth rank evolutionary paths
For example, the three of them were evolvers beyond the sixth rank.
But compared to the Red Kun Star Lord, they were like fireflies compared to the bright moon.
"Ten thousand years."
"Finally, another genius suitable for practicing the 'Mysterious Yellow' evolutionary pathway has appeared."
In the palace, the Red Kun Star Lord, sitting on the throne, had his eyes closed, but his thoughts were stirring with ripples of anticipation.
The 'Mysterious Yellow' evolutionary pathway was brought out by the Red Kun Star Lord from a certain cosmic secret realm.
This pathway was extremely mysterious, with a very low threshold yet extremely high.
The reason for the low threshold was that not only humans but also other races could practice this evolutionary pathway.
As for the reason it was extremely high, since the Red Kun Star Lord obtained this evolutionary pathway, only one person suitable for practicing it had been found.
The Red Kun Star Lord was initially delighted and directly accepted him as a disciple.
But unfortunately, this person died at the hands of another race thousands of years ago.
"The Mysterious Yellow evolutionary pathway."
The Red Kun Star Lord's expression showed anticipation.
With his strength, even if he wasn't suitable for this pathway, he could forcibly practice it.
However, if he did so, he could only practice up to the sixth rank at most, and there was basically no possibility of breaking through the sixth rank.
Only an evolver extremely suitable for this pathway had hope of reaching a higher level.
"Lin Yuan."
The Red Kun Star Master immediately recalled various information about Lin Yuan.
"My good disciple."
The Red Kun Star Lord's thoughts stirred slightly, and his consciousness once again connected to the virtual world.
Seventh Star Cave.
Lin Yuan lay on the ground.
In reality, he was trying his best to contemplate the mountain beneath his feet.
"What kind of evolutionary pathway is it that I've been contemplating for nearly ten days and haven't comprehended even the first step?"
Lin Yuan was somewhat shocked.
When he contemplated the six massive stone statues over ten meters tall, he could comprehend the first and second steps in half a day at most.
But contemplating the mountain beneath his feet seemed to have no end.
[Your insight is extraordinary, sensing the mysterious mountain, and comprehending the unknown evolutionary pathway, the first step (1%)]
"One percent of the first step?"
Lin Yuan had long noticed the tremors of the mountain beneath his feet and realized that he should meet the standard for passing the Seventh Star Cave.
Testers need to comprehend the third and fourth ranks to pass the Seventh Star Cave by comprehending stone statues two to three meters high.
Comprehending statues taller than ten meters only requires comprehending the first rank to pass the Seventh Star Cave.
Now, Lin Yuan only comprehended one percent of the first rank of the towering mountain beneath his feet, which counted as passing the test.
Among the three types mentioned above, each one is more difficult than the last. Especially the last type—if Lin Yuan hadn't comprehended all the statues, raised his realm of insight to a higher level, and carefully inspected the mountain several times, he might not have had the idea of comprehending this particular evolutionary pathway.
After all, Lin Yuan had never been aware of the attraction of the mountain to him.
In other words, Lin Yuan was not actually suitable for practicing this unknown evolutionary pathway. It was just his extraordinary insight that forced him to get started, thereby passing the test.
"Worth it."
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had only comprehended one percent, and it was only one percent of the first rank, since he passed the test, Lin Yuan naturally obtained the complete version of this evolutionary pathway.
However, this evolutionary pathway was too vast and profound for Lin Yuan to comprehend in a short time.
He could only leave it for later contemplation.
But for Lin Yuan, this was completely fine.
With his extraordinary insight, Lin Yuan was not afraid of being unable to comprehend it; he was afraid of having nothing to comprehend.
Directly comprehending the natural world was too obscure, while evolutionary pathways were like describing the mysteries of the natural world in a certain way.
Comprehending evolutionary pathways was more efficient for Lin Yuan, equivalent to taking a shortcut.
Whoosh.
Lin Yuan's figure disappeared directly.
Like the other evolvers who passed the test before him, he left the Seventh Star Cave.
The difference was that the former got up, touched the statue in front of them, and then were teleported away.
But Lin Yuan was lying on the ground and was then teleported away.
Lin Yuan's departure also drew the attention of the twelve figures in the mysterious space.
Like other testers, when they saw Lin Yuan disappear, they would only think that he had logged off.
However, as observers of the Seventh Star Cave test, the twelve figures immediately realized that Lin Yuan hadn't logged off but had successfully passed the test and left.
"It seems that the teacher has really taken action."
Among the three figures above, the first one spoke.
According to the rules of the Seventh Star Cave test, every evolver who passed the test would be transported to a unified space.
And when the Seventh Star Cave world was completely closed.
Then the twelve figures would select.
However, after Lin Yuan disappeared, they did not find him in the space where the testers were temporarily placed.
Obviously, only the high-ranking Red Kun Star Lord could change the rules of the Seventh Star Cave world.
"Where is this?"
After being teleported away, Lin Yuan appeared in a palace.
The surroundings were desolate and empty, with a throne in the center.
Sitting on it was an old man in a red robe.
Although the old man in the red robe had his eyes closed, Lin Yuan could faintly feel that the other party was watching him.
"Hmm?"
Fang Qing had told him that after passing the Seventh Star Cave test, everyone would be transported to a place where they would choose which Star Lord's disciple they would join after any test ended.
But now, in the entire palace, Lin Yuan did not find any other testers.
"Could it be..."
Lin Yuan speculated inwardly.
It should be that the last evolutionary pathway he comprehended had a problem.
"I, Red Kun, want to accept you as the thirteenth disciple." At this moment, the old man in the red robe sitting on the throne suddenly spoke. "Are you willing?"
"Red Kun?"
Thoughts surged in Lin Yuan's mind. "I am willing."
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