The Eternal World

The location of the third trial was halfway up the mountain.

Zhang Chao walked up the stone steps and discovered a small stone array halfway up the mountain.

At the very top of the stone array, there was also a statue of Gu Yin.

However, this time, the statue held a long sword in its hand. The sword tip pointed downwards, pointing at a circular sundial beneath his feet.

"Could this be the third trial's assessment?" It's not a stone tablet anymore? " Zhang Chao stepped into the array and looked around, puzzled.

However, after looking for a long time, he still couldn't tell what formation it was.

Helpless, he could only walk in front of the statue and touch it.

"The person who has come here must have already passed the two previous tests and passed them without a hitch. This old man's country's shadow, the creator of Guoyin Association, congratulates you!" The voice of Gu Yin came from the stone statue.

In the first two tests, I brought your soul into a dream to test your greed and your tolerance. This old man believes that, to become a qualified Forging Master, these two points are the most basic of human nature, and I don't care about the other Forge Master. But, the successor of this old man needs to have such a character, otherwise, if he makes mistakes, he can't be taken care of!

The third realm is not to enter dreams, but to truly enter a lower realm. It is to enter the void. From the moment you start doing this, nothing on your body will be taken away, but you will be allowed to keep your memories!

After he finished speaking, the sword in the statue's hand suddenly dropped down and stabbed into a circular array at the foot of the statue.

Immediately, a strong light burst out from within.

This strong light enveloped Zhang Chao inside, and carried a wisp of his soul inside.

When Zhang Chao regained his senses, he discovered himself in a very simple village.

He quickly sat up and looked at his body. He was wearing beast skin clothes and his palms were full of calluses. His skin was dark.

There was a water jar beside him, so he quickly jumped in front of it. Under the reflection of the clear water in the water, he saw his face.

His hair was disheveled and disheveled.

He was no longer his original self. Instead, he had a rough, weather-beaten face.

It seemed that although he was similar in age, he had aged quite a bit.

"Yun Ze, what are you doing?" At this moment, someone on the side shouted at him.

"Yun Ze?" Zhang Chao pointed to himself in bewilderment, then looked to the side. Indeed, there were no people around.

"Yeah, of course I'm calling you. It's so great that you're fine. Everyone is really looking forward to seeing you!" The person who called him, was a tall and sturdy man with a naked upper body and beast skin tied around his waist. He walked over barefooted, and clapped Zhang Chao's shoulder a few times with his thick and strong palm: "Hmm, although he looks a little weak, but he should be fine.

"Ah... What happened? "This is …" Zhang Chao scratched his head in embarrassment.

"What's wrong? amnesia? " The big man stared blankly for a moment, then he suddenly realized something: "Oh, clan elder said that if you can wake up, it may cause you to be a little muddle-headed because of the poison. But it doesn't matter, it will be normal very soon!"

"Poisoned? "Me?" Zhang Chao asked quickly, he had to understand his own character.

"That's right, you went out to hunt this morning and were bitten by a coiling snake. Fortunately, you came back in time. The elder chewed some medicine and applied it to your wounds before he managed to pull you back from hell's gates!" The big man nodded.

"Oh, so it's like that..." Zhang Chao was still at a loss.

"This world, is a low level continental debris at the very edge of the starry sky. Back then, after the great war, Pangu Continent fell apart, causing countless of such small fragments to appear. And because the universe itself was damaged, the natural elemental energy on it is extremely thin, causing these small fragments to be extremely barren." Just then, Gu Yin's voice sounded out once again in Zhang Chao's mind.

"However, even if this is the case, there are still lives in these worlds that are struggling to survive."

"The owner of this body of yours just died from hunting poisoning, so I let you borrow his body to do this!"

"What this old man wants to test you on is how to save these creatures in such a barren environment!"

"No matter if it is refining or forging, saving is the starting point. Although magical equipment are used to attack, the original intention of their refining is to save people!"

"In another three years, this continental debris will be completely destroyed by a mysterious stone that had smashed into it. The life forms on it will all be wiped away and the entire continental debris will be reduced to dust!"

"If you can withstand the impact and protect the life of this continental debris after three years, then I'll consider it your third trial!"

"Wait, three years? I have to stay here for three years? " Zhang Chao exclaimed.

"Don't worry, the universe is circulating, the further you go, the more different the flow of time becomes. Three years here, is the equivalent of you spending three days in Chaotic Continent!" The voice of Gu Yin gradually faded away.

"I don't have anything. I can't even use my soul force. How can I defend against the apocalypse three years from now?" Zhang Chao felt bitter in his heart, and quickly asked.

"Then it will depend on your own abilities. Remember, the Forge Master is transformed into a mystical, impossible existence, and if you can't do it, it means that you are unable to reach the peak of the Forge Master. It would be better to just stop here …" The voice of Gu Yin completely disappeared.

"Damn, this problem is invincible!" Zhang Chao was so worried that he frowned.

"I say, Yun Ze, what are you muttering about yourself?" The big man looked at him strangely and asked.

"Ah, no, it's nothing. I wanted to say that I'm actually fine. Very good, very good!" Zhang Chao shrugged his shoulders. Since he had already become a primitive man called 'Yun Ze', he couldn't complain anymore. He had to quickly think of a way to solve the problem three years from now.

He really hadn't thought that this country's Hidden Dragon Institute would really put in so much effort for the assessment of their successor.

Putting aside the first and second trials, this third trial was simply too outrageous!

After that, Zhang Chao adapted for a few days and completely got into his role.

This continental debris is called Savage Continent.

The entire continent was truly small. Even though it was vast enough for mortals, for cultivators, it was like a lotus leaf in a pond.

If one were to compare, the size of the Chaotic Continent and the Disenchanting Continent were similar, it was probably around a million kilometers, and this continental debris, on the other hand, was more than ten times smaller.

Even so, millions of mortals lived here.

The village that Zhang Chao resided in was called Tu Ta, and in the near vicinity, it could be considered a relatively large village. The number of men, women, and children in the entire village numbered in the tens of thousands.

However, everything here was very backward, and it was still in its original unenlightened state.

According to Zhang Chao's estimations, the world of the nation destroying Great Chieftain should have been much more advanced than this place.

Moreover, the natural elemental energy here was so thin that it could make one's hair stand on end, causing the vegetation to be sparse and the soil to lack nutrients.

The entire village relied on hunting and farming to survive, so the living conditions should have been barely adequate.

"Three years … Let me stay here for three years, and three years from now, I will save the world! " Zhang Chao grinded his teeth. The difficulty of this task, State Concealment, was already far beyond the limit of human imagination. His brain was simply too big, no wonder he had to remind himself that this mission was not something that could be completed by human beings!

Moreover, there weren't many materials here for him to use. It could be said that it was a difficult task to make a meal out of nothing. Even when forging artifacts, they didn't have any elemental energy to support them.

Although the quality of his body was very good, his physique was robust, and he hunted all year round. His physique that was forged under the sun and wind was far stronger than an ordinary person's, in the end, he was still not a cultivator.

Furthermore, even if Zhang Chao wanted to refine this body into a cultivator, it would be impossible.

No, he had to find another way!

He had been thinking for many days.

Although he would occasionally follow his clansmen into the mountains to hunt, he spent most of his time observing the world and searching for anything that might be useful to him.

However, on the tenth day since he arrived in this world, he made a discovery.

On that day, it was drizzling.

Zhang Chao once again followed the seven clan members into the mountain.

Their target today was a multi-horned reindeer.

This type of reindeer had an irascible personality and was reminded of its enormous size. The antlers on its head were like scythes, and were extremely aggressive. Generally speaking, they were the best materials to be used as simple weapons.

Moreover, their meat was rich and juicy, suitable for children and parturient mothers to eat to strengthen their physiques.

After wandering around the mountain for a long time, the initially locked down reindeer had already disappeared. However, just as Zhang Chao and the rest were about to go around a hillside, a plate of antlers suddenly jabbed out from the bushes behind them, straight at a member's heart from the back.

If it hit, the tribesman would definitely be pierced through. In this savage world, such an injury was certain to result in death.

However, although Zhang Chao had changed his body and lost his strength, his reaction and intuition were still there. He pushed his clan member away, but because his body was too slow, he was unable to dodge in time and was hit by the deer horn on his shoulder.

Blood spurted out.

Zhang Chao grinned. This kind of pain made his body stagger and his feet unsteady, falling down from the mountain slope.

"Yun Ze!" When the other clansmen saw this, they could not help but cry out in alarm.

"I'll go, won't I? You're going to die just like that? " Zhang Chao's body went out of control. While he was rolling, he tried his best to grab onto something to reduce the force of the fall.

He fell to the side of a mountain stream and headed straight down!

This mountain stream was over three hundred meters high, and below it was a rapidly flowing river.

"Your sister! You died before you even finished your apprenticeship!" Zhang Chao wanted to cry, but no tears came out. Fortunately, during the process of falling, he had grabbed onto a vine.

"Hu!" He stopped his descent and let out a sigh of relief. Looking down at the bottomless abyss below, he couldn't help but feel his heart tremble.

However, just as he raised his head to look up, his pupils suddenly constricted!

"That is …"