The moment the young juniors stepped onto the Storm Dragon Battle Platform, they were beset by the attack of powerful fire dragons.
And from Shengguang Xuanye's words, the crowd learned that those juniors who had disappeared were likely already dead.
Though they had long known that the Storm Dragon Battle Platform was incredibly dangerous, actually witnessing that danger firsthand still sent chills down their spines.
After all, the geniuses from every faction who had just passed through the stone gate numbered in the tens of millions — yet only a little over ninety thousand juniors had successfully appeared in the competition stage world.
In other words, before the competition had even officially begun, tens of millions of juniors had already perished. And those top geniuses who remained now very likely could not escape death either.
"The Storm Madness Tribe is truly insane."
"Do they really use a place like this to train and compete with their juniors?"
"This isn't nurturing juniors — this is slaughtering them."
The crowd sighed ceaselessly, and some even muttered curses under their breath. People like the Dragon Clan Master broke out in cold sweat from sheer anxiety.
After all, the ones trapped inside that world right now were the future of all their factions.
…
Inside the world, Chu Feng and the others had all been trapped.
What had trapped them was an invisible barrier.
This barrier was extraordinarily powerful. With Chu Feng and the others confined within it, this was why they could no longer move.
Trapped inside the barrier, Chu Feng could only wait for the flame ripples to arrive.
At this moment, Chu Feng did not employ any techniques. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, as though he were cultivating.
Hummmm—
Suddenly, the invisible barrier confining Chu Feng emanated a golden radiance.
ROAAR—
Before long, accompanied by a heaven-shaking, earth-covering roar, the terrifying flame ripples swept across the land.
Yet no matter how fierce those flame ripples were, as they swept past Chu Feng, they could not harm a single hair on his body.
It was the golden radiance that had blocked the flame ripples' assault on his behalf.
After the flame ripples passed, the golden radiance vanished as well — but the invisible barrier still held Chu Feng in place.
Chu Feng opened his eyes and gazed toward the distant horizon.
From his vantage point, an enormous fire dragon coiled through the heavens above, its body so vast it was like an entire world unto itself.
If Chu Feng stood before it, he might not even qualify as a speck of dust.
Being inside this world, Chu Feng could feel the true terror of that fire dragon far more acutely.
The fire dragon's power was truly on the level to destroy heaven and earth.
"It looks like this really will just keep going on."
"If this continues, Long Xiaoxiao and the others will eventually be unable to hold out, won't they?"
Chu Feng gazed at the fire dragon coiling through the heavens like a god, and a trace of worry flickered in his eyes.
Chu Feng had already deduced that it was not just him who had been trapped here — people like Long Xiaoxiao and the others must have all been confined by this invisible barrier as well.
Trapped in place, every time an incense stick's worth of time passed, the fire dragon would release its flame ripples.
The flame ripples were terrifyingly powerful, but they would not harm a single blade of grass in this place — only the people trapped within.
In principle, as long as the flame ripples struck them, they would die without question.
However, there was one method that could allow them to survive.
That method lay within the invisible barrier itself.
The moment they were trapped inside the barrier, a riddle would appear within it. Solving the riddle required the use of one's comprehension ability and knowledge of the martial cultivation path.
As long as one could successfully solve the riddle within the time of a single incense stick, the invisible barrier would transform into a golden barrier — and that golden barrier could block the flame ripples.
Conversely, if one failed to solve the riddle within the allotted time, all one could do was wait for the flame ripples to obliterate them.
This was why, after each wave of flame ripples, some people died while others remained unharmed.
However, even if one successfully solved the riddle and obtained the protection of the golden barrier, the golden barrier would disappear after each wave of flame ripples passed.
Within the invisible barrier, a new riddle would appear. Only by continuing to solve it successfully could one continue to withstand the flame ripples.