"If you keep being so polite, I might just have to beat you up."
Chu Feng said with a grin.
"Heh heh, alright, I'll stop being polite then." Bai Yunqing chuckled.
But before long, his expression began to change.
"Damn, is this great hall the reincarnation of a starving ghost? How can it devour so much?"
"It still hasn't stopped?"
"Brother Chu Feng, I… I'm almost out of Mental Power." worry crept across Bai Yunqing's face.
Having gone through so many trials on the way here, they had gained considerable experience. Under normal circumstances, they could roughly sense how much Mental Power each trial was capable of devouring.
At the very least, they could feel it when a trial was nearly full.
But right now, inside this great hall, it felt like a bottomless pit. Even though his Mental Power was nearly spent, he still couldn't sense even the slightest hint that the place was anywhere close to being filled.
Meanwhile, Chu Feng had been going all out nearly every step of the way, filling every single trial to the brim.
In comparison, the Mental Power Chu Feng had released was probably more than ten times his own.
And Bai Yunqing's Mental Power was already incredibly powerful and dense.
That Chu Feng had released more than ten times that amount was already beyond belief.
So he worried that Chu Feng's Mental Power must also be running low — surely he couldn't fill this bottomless pit either.
"Don't worry, I'm here." Seeing the deep worry etched on Bai Yunqing's face, Chu Feng simply smiled.
The moment those words left his lips, Chu Feng's robes began to flutter, and then the entire great hall started trembling violently.
In that instant, Bai Yunqing's jaw dropped.
The Mental Power within Chu Feng's body was gushing outward at a manic pace, so intense that it had become visible to the naked eye.
Right now, he was like an erupting volcano — and not just any volcano, but an enormous one.
But what poured forth from his body was not lava or ash. It was Mental Power — the single most vital resource for a Spirit World Master.
The great hall was shaking precisely because the rate at which Chu Feng was releasing his Mental Power was simply too frenzied.
Under these circumstances, this seemingly bottomless great hall was actually filled up by Chu Feng in a shockingly short amount of time.
As for Chu Feng himself, his complexion hadn't even reddened. His heartbeat remained perfectly steady. He looked completely unscathed.
Bai Yunqing looked like he was about to cry.
"Why the face?" Chu Feng asked.
"Brother, thank goodness you're my brother, or I'd be so jealous I'd die."
"I've always thought of myself as a genius, but next to you, I probably don't even qualify as an average person. I'm nothing but a piece of trash," Bai Yunqing sighed.
Just that single burst of power had been more than twenty times his own output. Combined with everything he'd released before, Chu Feng's total Mental Power expenditure thus far was already more than thirty times his.
He… had still underestimated Chu Feng.
"Brother Chu Feng, do you still have any power left?" Bai Yunqing asked again.
"I'm almost tapped out too," Chu Feng said with a smile.
He didn't tell the truth because he was afraid of crushing Bai Yunqing's spirits.
In reality, he had released less than half of his Mental Power.
Chu Feng had been holding back too.
Rumble, rumble, rumble— And just then, the hall's gate at the opposite end finally opened.
Another great hall lay before them.
"There's more?"
"Are they trying to kill us?!"
Seeing yet another hall materialize, Bai Yunqing's face went pale. He was starting to panic — after all, his Mental Power was completely spent.
But upon closer inspection, he realized something was off.
This new hall was entirely different from every one they had seen before.
In the center of the hall stood a raised platform, and hovering above it was an object — a Life Crystal.
Moreover, this hall had another entrance, which was open. Beyond that, there was also a barrier gate.
And inside the hall, he could sense certain auras — they belonged to the junior generation of the Seven Realms Sacred Residence.
There were also residual traces of Jie Yu's presence.
"Is it finally over?"
Bai Yunqing was overjoyed.
Based on his reasoning, this hall before them had to be the final destination of this trial. That barrier gate must be the exit.
And Jie Yu and the others had surely already left.
Chu Feng stepped into the palace and discovered that it, too, would devour Mental Power — meaning this palace had not yet been filled.
However, inside this palace, one could exercise restraint.
With enough restraint, you could seal your Mental Power completely and remain in absolute safety.
Whether or not to release one's Mental Power was entirely under one's own control. There was no danger whatsoever.
"Damn, this is so unfair. What they're doing isn't a trial at all — it's straight-up cultivation," Bai Yunqing couldn't help but curse.
Thinking back on how he and Chu Feng had made it here trembling with fear the whole way, and how without Chu Feng he probably wouldn't have made it here safely at all, he couldn't help but feel bitter.