It took him around an hour to heal himself.
While he didn’t fully heal himself, it was enough for him to use his powers without being affected too much.
There were still some minor injuries that he hadn’t healed, but he didn’t keep healing himself since he knew that there was no point.
This place itself was dangerous, so it wouldn’t do him well to remain in this place for long since he didn’t know how it would change.
It was better for him to take advantage of the fact that he could move to get out of here as soon as possible instead of waiting here any longer.
So Lin Fan stood up and headed towards the door that had just opened.
When he reached it, he found that it was a very short passage that he could see the end of.
The end of the passage wasn’t brightly lit, but he could still see through the exit to see what was behind it.
This passage led to a large hall that was filled with torches that lit the place up, but it was still very dim even with the torches because of how big it was.
Lin Fan once again didn’t notice anything strange with this until…
Why was it still dim for him when he had his night vision?
It was like this when he entered the room for the third trial. There had been some kind of strange power that had made it so that he couldn’t see in the dark, making the room completely dark.
He didn’t know what kind of power it was, but he knew that it was not something that he could break through with his current level of cultivation.
Still, at least there were the torches so he was able to see some things.
Lin Fan walked into this large hall and he found that it was even bigger than he had expected.
It was so big that he wasn’t able to see any of the walls in this hall except for the one behind him.
It was almost like there was just a room filled with endless pillars in front of him.
All of the pillars looked the same, so if one wasn’t careful, it would be very easy to get lost in this place.
Lin Fan went up to one of the pillars and tried to make a mark on one of the pillars with Gramr, but he found that he couldn’t even make a single scratch on the pillar.
It seemed like it was impossible to make marks to guide him back if he ever got lost, so he had to find a different way to get out of this place.
Lin Fan’s eyes fell onto the corners of one of the pillars and then he wiped his finger across it. Bringing it back up, he found that there wasn’t a single trace of dust there.
It seemed like this place was being kept quite clean by some kind of invisible force.
In that case…
Lin Fan took out a loaf of bread and then started moving forward while dropping crumbs behind him.
Since this place was kept so clean, there shouldn’t be any pests here that would eat the crumbs that he dropped. Since this place was so clean, it should be easy to follow the crumbs that were clearly out of place.
So just like this, Lin Fan started heading deeper into this hall.
He continued for around five minutes before he finally saw something other than all of these pillars around him. At the very end of the hall, there seemed to be a coffin and a dragon statue that was like the one that he had entered through, but instead of lying down, this one was standing up with its mouth pointed at the ceiling.
The pose that the dragon statue had, it was almost as if the dragon was soaring into the sky.
But this dragon was just a statue in the end and there was nothing special about it.
Rather, it was the coffin that attracted Lin Fan’s attention.
He could feel the spiritual energy fluctuations that came from it. These spiritual energy fluctuations were anything but normal, they were much stronger than anything that he had felt before.
He could tell that whatever was in that coffin, it was very powerful.
So Lin Fan raised his sword and carefully made his way forward towards it.
As for leaving this place, there was nowhere else for him to go even if he didn’t go towards that coffin and statue. He knew that if he didn’t go towards them, he would just be trapped here forever.
So he had no choice in this matter.
After he came up to the coffin and statue, he found that it wasn’t just those two things that were here.
To the side, there was something that looked like a mirror that was also hanging on the wall.𝑜𝑽𝐋xt.𝒸𝗈𝗆
This mirror seemed very strange since it was completely opaque and didn’t reflect anything at all, but it was clear from the material that it was made off that it was a mirror. It was just that under the surface of the mirror, there seemed to be something that clouded the surface of the mirror.
The only other strange thing that Lin Fan could see was that a chunk of a pillar had been knocked off.
He didn’t know what it was that had done this, but he couldn’t help being amazed since his Gramr hadn’t even been able to make a single scratch on the pillar.
Whatever carved out this chunk of the pillar had to be very hard and very powerful.
Lin Fan then walked over to the statue and waited for something to happen.
But as he stood there, there was not a single thing that happened.
Lin Fan couldn’t help looking around with his Appraisal Eyes, but even then, there was nothing for him to find.
The one thing that was strange was that when he tried to use his Appraisal Eyes on the coffin, it actually hurt his eyes. It was as if there was some kind of rebound that hit him when he used his Appraisal Eyes on them.
It seemed that whatever was in the coffin really was something very powerful.
After waiting for around half an hour, there was finally some movement.
The dragon statue suddenly lit up before all of that light gathered in the eyes of the dragon statue. The bright eyes of the dragon statue suddenly released a beam of light that fell down onto the coffin that caused the lid to start shifting.
It didn’t take long before the lid slid off the coffin and revealed what was inside.
The person laying in the coffin suddenly started floating there in the air and floated up above the coffin until he was standing up.
After he finished, he just floated there in the air looking down at Lin Fan.
Even though there was a serious look on his face, there was an awkward feeling under it.
That was because he had fallen asleep while waiting…
He had thought that he had time since it would take Lin Fan a while to cross the hall to reach this place. This hall was very easy to get lost in, so he thought that it would take Lin Fan several tries before he arrived.
He never imagined that Lin Fan would come here on his first try.
That was why Lin Fan had to wait half an hour for something to happen.
But now that it had happened, Lin Fan focused on the person in front of him. He had his sword raised as he said in a cautious voice, “Who are you?”
The person floating in the air looked down at Lin Fan and calmly said, “I am the ancestor of the Hidden Dragon Sect.”
Lin Fan was surprised to hear this since this person didn’t look like an ancestor no matter how he looked at him. This person didn’t even seem that much older than him.
But because of the spiritual energy fluctuations that came from him, Lin Fan could tell that he wasn’t lying.
These spiritual energy fluctuations were even stronger than the ones that he felt from Mu Bao Bao.
It must be that higher level cultivators had ways of preserving their youthful appearances with their cultivations.
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes to look at the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor and asked, “What happens now?”
The Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor was surprised that this was the question that Lin Fan asked.
He had expected Lin Fan to ask about a reward or about why he was here, but he never expected Lin Fan to ask what would happen now.
The Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor revealed a smile and said, “You really are a strange one, aren’t you?”
Lin Fan knitted his brows and didn’t say anything in response.
He could tell that this answer seemed a bit strange, but he couldn’t tell just what was strange about it.
The Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor gave a chuckle before saying in a serious voice, “You have passed this Hidden Dragon Trial that no one else has passed in the past hundred years, which means that you are the chosen one that our sect has been waiting for.”
Lin Fan didn’t reveal a happy look when he heard this since he had a vague guess of how this would go. He even couldn’t help taking a step back as if he was expecting something.
Then as he expected, the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor’s face twisted as he said, “Now, you have the honour of giving your body to me!”