Shixue Fengqing logged off to rest as soon as he finished speaking.
"His mental stamina drained that badly?" Shi Feng watched Shixue Fengqing disappear, his brows furrowing slightly.
After observing Shixue Fengqing's skill level for a while, he could confirm that the man was a Void Realm expert—a top-tier player even among super guilds. That explained all his confidence.
The trials inside the Titan Library tested nothing but player technique—skills and equipment were irrelevant.
To see someone as skilled as Shixue Fengqing reduced to helplessness made it hard to imagine just how brutal the Central Zone trials must be.
When mental energy was drained past a player's limits, recovery typically took three to five hours. Push it too far, and ten-plus hours of rest wouldn't be unusual. Even using an S-grade nutrient potion to recover, it still took roughly an hour in the real world to fully bounce back.
The time allotment for selecting Skill Books inside the Titan Library was only three hours. Spending an hour recovering in the real world meant losing two hours in the Divine Realm—meaning that after Shixue Fengqing logged back in, he'd have almost no time left to tackle the Central Zone.
"These trials are seriously ruthless!" Shi Feng clicked his tongue in silent amazement.
Failing even once meant burning through one S-grade nutrient potion, and you'd only be allowed to pick Skill Books from the Inner Zone. Without an S-grade nutrient potion to recover, you essentially lost your chance to choose Skill Books from the Titan Library entirely.
Now he understood why so many peak experts had hit a wall at the Central Zone.
"Good thing I still have a few S-grade nutrient potions left. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't even qualify to take the challenge." Shi Feng steadied his mindset and stepped into a pitch-black barrier zone.
The moment he entered the lightless barrier, he immediately sensed something extraordinary about the place.
Not only had his vision been stripped away—his hearing had been taken as well.
Any expert would suffer a massive blow to their combat ability from losing sight alone, let alone losing both sight and hearing. Forget fighting—their mental state would be thrown off balance on its own.
And in a world where you could neither see nor hear, you had no way of knowing what dangers lurked ahead.
The terror of the unknown could break even top-tier players.
Fortunately, Shi Feng had experienced something similar in the Tower of Battle before. It hadn't been quite this intense, but close enough that his mentality hadn't fractured—he remained calm.
Though sight and hearing were gone, he still had touch and smell.
"Hmm, something's coming!" Before Shi Feng had taken more than a few steps forward, he felt faint disturbances in the air at several points on his body. The fluctuations were barely perceptible, and in the next instant, those spots stung as if pierced by needles, the force knocking him back two or three steps.
Shi Feng tried again, and the result was the same. After just a few steps, several more faint fluctuations rippled through the air, followed by sharp pain—especially in the spots that had already been hit once, where the pain doubled instantly.
"So that's how it is. No wonder so many peak experts hit a dead end here." After several attempts, Shi Feng let out a bitter mental laugh.