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The Celestial experts surely did this on purpose to quickly deal with all the weaklings, even if they were lucky enough to come this far. They can't become obstacles to their favorite candidates."

Su Ping circumvented the traps. He felt that he and his teammates seemed to merely be chess pieces in the trial, and the real players were the actual Celestials who had prepared the trial.

The communication whistle enabled Su Ping to see what other people could see and share their sight. That was an item used by the Federation to explore unknown regions; it helped them forge trust among them, although feeble.

If any of them discovered the key, it would be tantamount to the rest discovering it as well.

'There would probably be a fierce and gruesome competition by then.

Su Ping heaved a sigh as he thought of that; the universe had always been cruel when it came to the competition of resources.

However, Diaz and the others were the most concerned of all.

The whistles were like ropes to tie them. Although the place was extremely dangerous, they still wished to try their luck and find the key, if they were fortunate enough.

Still, the current arrangement wouldn't allow them to keep the key even if they found it.

Su Ping and Shuai Qianhou were like two mountains on their backs.

Everybody felt uncomfortable and ambivalent; part of them wanted to find the key, while the other part was hoping against it.

Some of them were secretly considering other plans.

The team had been united earlier; their trust had declined ever since they entered the central continent.

Master purposefully separated the ultimate treasure from the tokens. It's probably also a test to find out whether or not we would kill each other.

Su Ping considered his master's plan while he searched, hoping to figure out what he was up to.

There's only one ultimate treasure. Master knows that Shuai Qianhou is the strongest. He probably wanted to find out if the guy would kill all the others for the ultimate treasure.

But what's the point of the test? To find out whether or not he has a good heart by putting our lives at risk?

Or maybe, is this test about something else? But I don't think the Celestial State experts would add anything unnecessary. What matters should only be the real hard strength.

Su Ping's eyes blinked, but he soon realized he had forgotten something.

It was his master's understanding of his strength.

Perhaps in his master's eyes Shuai Qianhou would be the uncontested team leader while they traveled on the central continent, and all the others would help the latter fight for the key. His master wasn't expecting that Shuai Qianhou would fail in getting the ultimate treasure.

'My master is well aware of Shuai Qianhou's combat ability; he probably thinks he's strong enough to suppress all dissidents. No wonder he made such an arrangement.

Su Ping was enlightened. He shook his head and continued searching carefully.

Everybody was blanket searching, which was rather boring for him.

However, it was quite dangerous for Diaz and the others.

They didn't detect some of the void traps until they were really close; they nearly fell several times.

'Their teammates might not even rescue them if something happened.

After all, all of them were competing against each other.

Time flew.

'Three days passed in the blink of an eye, all invested in searching.

Aside from the void traps, there were also dangers in swamps and forests. A lot of beasts with remarkable camouflaging abilities would ambush intruders; some swamps could spit special tentacles to catch the passersby.

Everyone encountered dozens of crises in that short three-day period.

Diaz and the others were exhausted, while Su Ping, Shuai Qianhou and Wanyan Shuang had been able to easily deal with the situation. The only thing that bothered them was that Diaz and the other teammates were too slow as they tried to avoid dangers; they would have to slow down just to keep the

formation.

So far, they had yet to meet competitors from the other star zones.

Considering the central continent's expanse, they had only explored the area of five planets in three days; it would take them forty years to comb through the entire continent.

The search continued.

Wanyan Shuang was carefully examining the environment and supervising Su Ping and Shuai Qianhou's movements. Her eyes twitched as she saw something, but then quickly looked away.

She then glanced at Su Ping and Shuai Qianhou, only to discover that they were still moving forward, just like before.

Her heart pounded nervously.

That must be a token! Wanyan Shuang thought. She believed her eyes, although she wasn't able to observe it for long.

To be honest, she was planning to leave the team and travel on her own.

It was absolutely impossible for her to defeat those two.

Trying her luck would give her better odds.

She would have the chance to explore on her own if she could find the token.

While she considered how to leave the team without raising suspicion—she heard a cry for help from the communication whistle. It was Jiang Si.

Everybody else heard his voice too. They saw him disappear, swallowed by a void trap.

Su Ping also noticed and immediately ran to him.

Shuai Qianhou also dashed over right after. Everybody stopped in front of the void trap, which was hardly perceivable.

"Junior Brother Jiang!" Yu Jingze looked at the void trap with grief.

He looked back at Su Ping and Shuai Qianhou. "Junior brothers, is there a way to rescue him?"

Su Ping remained silent as he stared at the void trap.

Shuai Qianhou narrowed his eyes, seemingly investigating. A moment later, he said, "The seventh space is on the other side. He's probably dead already."

Yu Jingze and the others had somber expressions.

Shuai Qianhou shook his head and said, "Let's proceed. We were all prepared to die before we came here. If any of you is unwilling to continue, just say it. I may give you a token, for our master's sake.

"However, we only have a limited number of tokens. I gave three of them away, and there's only four left. There are nine people on the team; Senior Brother Jiang is gone, but we're still short of four tokens. We haven't found any new tokens in the past few days… Ican only offer three tokens in total."

Everybody looked at each other in bewilderment.

Wanyan Shuang's eyes glittered, but she didn't step up to quit.

She thought that Shuai Qianhou might have said that on purpose.

Yu Jingze and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, but didn't say anything.

Shuai Qianhou looked around and heaved a sigh. "Since nobody is willing to leave, let's proceed. Senior Brother Jiang should have been more careful. Everybody, you need to be extra cautious. There are some dangers we cannot rescue you from!"

He seemed to be implying something in the end.

Everybody nodded gravely.

Shuai Qianhou gave Su Ping a silent glance, then returned to his previous position.

Yu Jingze and Qiao Lusi were friends with Jiang Si. They mourned him for a while, and eventually returned to their positions, still grieving.

The team's atmosphere became even heavier.

Somewhere in one of the deeper spaces.

A person was lying quietly. He was shrouded in a hazy light that protected him from the strange power in the void. He was none other than Jiang Si.

He was looking around vigilantly. His eyes tuned cold after seeing that Shuai Qianhou didn't try to go for him. "I knew he wouldn't rescue me. Humph. Right on the money!

"You didn't know that I had a secret treasure that could help me stay briefly in the seventh space, right? Unfortunately, it can only be used once."

Jiang Si felt a deep pang of regret as he spoke—

But he soon started moving. He didn't stay in the place for too long, and was about to work on finding his way.

I don't know if Old Yu's acting skills were good enough to trick them. The thing I noticed earlier was probably the key. Too bad I didn't have more time to observe it. If it is the key, then… 'm sorry, Old Yu

His eyes glittered; he then swam in the middle of the hazy light.

Exactly at this moment—a hoarse roar was heard approaching.

Jiang Si immediately stopped and looked around vigilantly. Then, he saw the most terrifying scene.

An ancient, magnificent figure gradually emerged. It looked like a giant, but its skin was covered in green moss, and there was a crazy surplus of limbs on its body.

Jiang Si was floating by its chest at the moment, like a glittering firefly.

To think there would be such a terrifying thing beyond the void trap!

Was that the main danger of the seventh space?

"No…" Jiang Si was frightened.

While searching, Shuai Qianhou suddenly spoke to Su Ping telepathically, "Senior Brother Su."

Su Ping asked with an unchanged expression, "What's up?"

She continued, "Master said that the central continent would be open for a month. Our progress is too slow. What do you think about us looking for people of the other star zones first and robbing them of their ultimate treasures?

"If so, even if someone else finds the key, we can always beat them and loot their key before the end of the trial."

Su Ping's eyes glittered, knowing that his junior brother could no longer hold back..