[Trial]

Core Sealing Point.

"Commander Sun, this batch of enemies has been completely wiped out."

"Continue to guard strictly, do not relax in the slightest."

"Yes, sir."

The unease in Commander Sun's heart grew heavier.

"Huh? What is that?"

Father Jing slowly walked over from a distance.

Everyone within the defense line looked at Father Jing.

Xiao Jia shouted, "Bishop Jing, halt! Take one more step forward, and we will attack."

Father Jing smiled.

"I don't intend to go in. When I arrived here, my goal had already been achieved."

Following his words, the scattered blood all around regained vitality, floating up from stones, fabrics, and blades.

The blood decomposed in the air and then disappeared, as if absorbed by some invisible entity.

Commander Sun was decisive. "What are you doing! Attack, attack immediately."

Ranged attacks arrived in an instant.

The woman who had just released Father Jing flashed forward, blocking in front of him.

She suffered three or four fatal wounds but still did not take a single step back.

Commander Sun's eyes spewed anger, mixed with a trace of sorrow.

He had no children of his own; this woman was his niece, whom he treated as his own daughter.

"Why?" He was about to shatter his teeth from gritting them so hard.

The woman had no strength to reply to him, so Father Jing answered on her behalf: "It's very simple. You gave her a future, so she worked for you. I gave her faith, so she lays down her life for me."

Commander Sun forcibly suppressed the grief and indignation in his heart, putting away all expressions on his face:

"Bishop Jing, so you came to deliberately anger me. And then what? I didn't act as you wished, so what do you plan to do next?"

"Commander Sun, is that mystical item that links the success or failure of the four seals together useful?"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't tell me you forgot that the Magic Mirror used to belong to the Church of the Sun."

Commander Sun certainly knew.

Ten years ago, among the Big Three of Sixiang City, there was no Director; at that time, it was the previous Commander, President An, and the Bishop.

At that time in Sixiang City, there were two bishops, one each from the Sun and Moon Churches. The Bishop among the Big Three was Bishop Yi of the Church of the Sun.

The crucial mystical item this time, the Magic Mirror, was once the property of Bishop Yi.

Later, Bishop Yi suddenly died, and the Director took over the Bishop's position as one of the Big Three. Because the Magic Mirror was too important, it was confiscated by the new three-person council.

Commander Sun snorted coldly. "I don't have time to play riddles with you."

"Haha, then I'll just tell you directly. None of you have figured out the true usage of the Magic Mirror.

The reason this Magic Mirror has all sorts of miraculous properties is actually not because of the mirror itself.

The Magic Mirror only has one function: it can imprison a weird entity within the mirror world and allow this entity to be used by the mirror's master.

The function you thought it had doesn't belong to the mirror, but to the weird entity inside it.

And that weird entity, if stimulated by enough blood from mystics, will reveal a completely different side."

"I'm not interested in the stories you make up. Continue the attack."

The woman blocking the attacks was completely torn to pieces, while Father Jing retreated outside the attack range.

Perhaps the woman's blood was the last straw, or perhaps Father Jing's special technique took effect.

At the four sealing points, four identical mirrors simultaneously glowed and began frantically absorbing the nearby blood.

The defenders were all dumbfounded.

They knew this situation was abnormal, but they didn't dare to attack the mirrors for fear of interrupting the linking effect, so they could only watch helplessly.

Father Jing waved to the crowd within the distant defense line. "I didn't make it up. After all, I put this weird entity inside with my own hands."

"Next, we just wait quietly for the Trial to begin."

The Magic Mirror was not one mirror, but four.

They exactly corresponded to the four sealing points. The reason it was so precious was precisely because its function perfectly matched the core of Sixiang City.

If Sixiang City were compared to a mystic, then the Magic Mirror could be called this mystic's vital artifact.

At this time, there was a mirror at each of the four sealing points. What appeared in each mirror was not the scene in front of a single mirror, but a screen divided into four grids, simultaneously presenting the situation at all four sealing points.

It was precisely this miraculous mystical imaging that ensured as long as one seal remained intact, the overall restoration result could be maintained in a 'not failed' state.

However, Father Jing's arrival brought changes.

After absorbing the blood of countless powerhouses, four pillars of blood shot straight into the sky from the four mirrors.

An incredibly ancient voice echoed in the sky above the city.

"Finally awake again. Who is the trial-taker this time?"

Father Jing activated the ritual he had prepared for a long time.

He stood in a small blood-red array, slit the arteries in his hands, and let the blood gush out.

When the blood filled the strokes of the array, a fifth pillar of blood appeared.

It was a very thin pillar of blood.

Inside it, Father Jing shouted, "The trial-taker this time shall be designated by me!"

The owner of the ancient voice, whose form was unknown, seemed to look at Father Jing in the thin blood pillar.

"I seem to have some impression of you. You were the one beside the previous trial-taker, and in the end, you killed that trial-taker."

"Yes. According to the rules, I seized the trial qualification and have the right to transfer it and designate a candidate."

"Permitted."

"The trial-taker I designate is Chen Miemie!"

The ancient voice did not reply again.

Chen Miemie, who had just arrived at the main battlefield, was looking around, ready to find a target to snipe and ambush.

With such a massive commotion of blood pillars piercing the sky on the battlefield, he was mixing in with a few society members, watching the drama unfold together.

Unexpectedly, a pillar of blood enveloped him precisely.

Inside the blood pillar.

The ancient voice began to chat with him privately.

"Candidate confirmed, Chen Miemie. The Trial is about to begin."

Chen Miemie looked at the blood-red pillar of light around him. "Who are you? I refuse to participate."

"I am a rule-type weird entity named Trial. I have been sealed and slumbering within the Magic Mirror. Every time I wake up, I initiate a trial.

If you refuse to participate, it will directly be deemed a trial failure, and the four seals will be declared destroyed. Do you confirm?"

Chen Miemie was shocked. "Hey, hey, why are you using moral kidnapping, blackmailing me with the safety of the whole city? That's playing a bit too dirty, isn't it?"

"Do you confirm? Countdown: 10, 9, 8."

"Wait, I'm still a child. I shouldn't bear pressure beyond my age group!"

"7, 6, 5."

"Are there any benefits to succeeding in the trial?"

"4, 3, 2."

"You win, I'll participate."

"The trial begins. Trial-taker, Chen Miemie, in this trial, you need to answer three questions. After answering, the trial will end."

"Wait, who determines the answers, and who judges right or wrong?"

"Different perspectives yield different answers. There is no right or wrong to the answers, and no one is needed to judge. As long as you finish answering, you will be considered to have passed the trial."

"Alright, bring it on."

Chen Miemie knew very well in his heart that questions without even a standard for right or wrong wouldn't be easy; on the contrary, they would definitely be very difficult.

"Next, two people will be selected from those around you, and you must choose one of them.

"Between the two of them, one wants to repair the seal, and the other wants to destroy it.

If you choose the former, that person will successfully repair the seal at the cost of their own life.

If you choose the latter, that person will be able to easily destroy the seal."

The stray cowlick on Chen Miemie's head stood straight up, aggressively making its presence known. "So, your test is just to have me pick the right person at each of the four sealing points? Doesn't that make it four questions? Are you a sore loser trying to cheat?"

"No. Whether your choices are right or wrong, and whether the seals are repaired or destroyed, has nothing to do with the trial itself.

You will only need to answer the question after you have finished making all your choices.

Now, I will tell you the first question of the trial in advance: How many betrayers are there in total?"

Chen Miemie dropped his fake smile. "If I happen to pick the person who wants to destroy the seal, will it only ruin that specific location, or..."

"The sealing points are currently linked. If one is destroyed, all four will be completely destroyed."

"That's playing a bit dirty. You're saying I can't afford to make a single mistake out of all four choices."

"This is the result of the previous trial qualifier reversing the effects. Originally, you only needed to choose correctly once."

"What the ****!"

"Now then, the first location: the North City sealing point."

Chen Miemie was instantly teleported by a blood-red pillar of light.

In the blink of an eye, he was moved from the East District to the North City sealing point.

Appearing right in front of him at the exact same time were two other people.

Liu Bo, and Yue Junyang.