Chapter 629 Stairs (6)

When the light in his vision cleared, Lin Fan found that he was back in front of the gate to the staircase.

Looking around, he saw that there were the people that had entered the staircase with him.

Most of them looked quite tired, but there wasn't a single person that had serious injuries. There wasn't even a person with minor injuries.

Of course, that made sense since this was a trial that only tested with the pressure generated from the laws of gravity.

Each person here was an outstanding young expert, so even if they were weaker than Lin Fan, that didn't mean that they were weaker than normal people. In fact, most of them were at a level that normal people could never reach in their lives.

Their instincts were sharp and they had a strong sense of self preservation, once they knew that they wouldn't be able to handle the next step, they would immediately back down. So in the end, this trial was quite simple for them if they had enough time, but…

When they had all been sent back, everyone was confused at first as to why they had been sent out of the trial.

After all, they had all been doing their best in the trial, but not a single person remembered clearing it just yet. The furthest that any of them had even gotten was the one hundredth step.

Most of them used their own results as the benchmark for others and even the weaker people had estimated that no one had gotten past the two hundredth step yet, so there should have been plenty of time.

But as they thought about this, they realized what the reason was for them being sent out.

Someone had cleared it!

In just a single day, someone had cleared the trial that most of them had thought would take at least ten days to clear!

What kind of monster was hidden among them?

They all looked at each other with wary eyes as they tried to figure out which one of them had cleared it.

,m They had felt how hard it was to pass this trial, so they figured that the reward for it should have been something very precious. If they knew who had received this reward, perhaps they could…

Of course, there wasn't a single person who cast their gaze onto Lin Fan.

Well, not that there wasn't a single person, but most of them ignored Lin Fan since they didn't believe that he was the one that had passed this trial. After all, the aura that he was currently releasing was that of a Low Embryo Soul Realm Expert, the only one from one of the twelve great factions that had come into this Ancient Era Ruins.

Everyone else from the twelve great factions were at least in the Mid Embryo Soul Realm, with most people being in the High Embryo Soul Realm or the Peak Embryo Soul Realm. There were even Child Soul Realm experts that came, like Murong Yue and Mao Tao.

The only person that was staring at Lin Fan was the person with the different coloured cloak from the Assassins Association, though with the cloak on, it didn't seem like he was looking at him.

Finally, there was a hot headed person that couldn't help shouting, "Who was it? Who stole my inheritance?"

Everyone looked at this person like he was an idiot, but no one said anything to refute what he had just said. In fact, everyone was focused on the expressions of everyone else.

They didn't mind this person taking the initiative to act this way because this person was asking what they wanted to know. If they could use this person to find the person who had cleared the trial, it wasn't too late to take care of this person afterwards along with the person who cleared the trial.

So they watched and waited, waiting for the person who cleared the trial to expose themselves.

Of course, Lin Fan wasn't a fool, so he didn't rise to this person's challenge.

Instead, he gathered his group and just watched along with the rest of the people standing around. At the same time, he passed along some of the information that he gained to his group, along with his allies.

Once he was done that, he started looking around himself at the various staircases that had slowly started to open their gates.

They had already spent a day in this first trial, so there were more and more trials that had their countdowns finished, opening their gates for them to attempt.

However, Lin Fan didn't care about the staircases or the gates themselves, what he cared about was the aura that they released.

Based on the aura, he was trying to pick out the ones that were safe for his group members to go to.

When he had asked the question about leaving trials without losing one's life, the answer that he received was not to be greedy. But that wasn't the full answer, rather the answer that he wanted actually came from the aura that the statue had released.

He hadn't minded it back then, but now that he could sense the auras that were coming from the staircases, he could tell what the hidden meaning in the statue's answer was.

The statue had said, "Some of them won't take lives, but most of them will, so choose wisely and don't be greedy." As it has said this, it also released an aura based on which words he said.

When he said "won't take lives", he had released one aura and when he said "most of them will", he had released a different aura.

The aura that he had released for these different words were the auras that Lin Fan was currently feeling from the staircases. That meant that the ones with the aura that won't take lives were the ones that would be safe to enter. Or rather they would at least be safer than the ones where it was most likely one would lose their lives.

Lin Fan made sure to note the position of the ones that would be safe before passing this information onto his group and the groups he was allied with.

Naturally they had their doubts, but Lin Fan hadn't guided them wrong so far, so they had no reason to not believe in him.

Seeing that there was no one answering his challenge, the hot headed person cooled down a bit as he gave a snort and said, "A bunch of cowards." Then he didn't waste any time as he headed off to another staircase that had been opened.

Lin Fan watched him enter that staircase and shook his head with a faint smile.

The staircase that this person had just chosen was one with the aura of death around it.

This would most likely be the last time that Lin Fan saw him.

Seeing that person was gone, everyone else started to head off on their own.

One thing worthy of noting was that there were a few people who had followed this hot headed person into the gate that he had entered. Judging by the look in their eyes, they didn't have any good intentions…

But none of that mattered to Lin Fan.

Since everyone else had scattered, this was his chance to send his group into the gates that were safe.

Well, not everyone in his group and his allies' groups wanted to go into the safe gates.

After all, the rule with these trials was that the more dangerous it was, the greater the payout.

This was a rule that held true with all things and this Ancient Era Ruin wasn't an exception.

Some of his allies didn't want to go into safer trials, they wanted to head into the more dangerous trials for the greater benefits. Lin Fan was in no position to stop them, but he was in a position to offer them a choice.

When it came to the auras that the staircases released, there were varying degrees of intensity. It was clear that not every single staircase was as dangerous as each other, there were varying degrees of fatality, so Lin Fan could at least let them choose between the super dangerous ones and the ones that were just normal dangerous.

In the end, most of their groups chose the safer ones, only Murong Yue, Mao Tao, Qiao Yi Fei, Bing Yu, and Wang Jian chose the dangerous ones.

For the people from the Hunters Organization and Bing Yu, they chose the ones that were just a normal level dangerous, but for Wang Jian, he chose the most dangerous one that Lin Fan could currently find. After all, the gates for every single staircase weren't open yet and the ones that were still closed didn't release an aura.

So out of the ones that were open, this one had the strongest aura of danger to it.

As for Lin Fan, the one that he chose was one of the safer ones that no one else had picked.

He had his own reason for doing this, it wasn't because he was afraid. Rather it was because he wanted to quickly clear this trial so he could move on to his real target.

After all, he still had the key that he had received from the statue. The statue had said that this was the greatest trial with the greatest reward, so he was looking forward to seeing what kind of trial it was.

As he walked through the gate, the figure with the different coloured cloak from the Assassins Association group turned to one of the members of his group and said, "Follow him."

That person couldn't help revealing a look of panic since he had heard about what Lin Fan had done.

This was a person that could match their lord, how was he supposed to kill him?