This barrier wrapped around the two of them in an instant and completely covered them.
It wasn't just the two of them, it was also the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast who was caught off guard by this.
This lavender coloured barrier had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, so they had been completely caught off guard by this. However, even if they had been caught off guard by this, they didn't let their defenses down for even an instant.
Even if there was a barrier that had suddenly appeared that could protect them, it wasn't something that they could trust.
So they kept their guards up to see what the lavender barrier would do against the black flame spear.
Judging by how thin it looked, it didn't seem like it would be able to do much.
But to everyone's shock...
The moment that the black flame spear made contact with the lavender barrier, it shattered to pieces.
There was no resistance at all from the black flame spear as it was scattered away into nothingness.
There was only silence that followed after the black flame spear was destroyed, as no one could say a single thing in response to this. No one could even believe that such a thing had happened.
The one that was in the most disbelief was the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast.
It looked at the lavender barrier with a bitter look of disbelief on its face, almost as if it was saying, "Is this all my life is worth?"
After all, this black flame spear was the condensation of the power that it had exchanged its life for. So for it to be destroyed so easily meant that its life really wasn't worth anything at all in the end...
It could only curse this lavender barrier for showing up out of nowhere since it had no idea where it even came from.
So in the end, the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast had no idea who to curse for it dying like this.
After the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast fell, its corpse started to fade away.
But during this time, Huang Xie looked at Xiao Ming with a strange look as he said, "Senior sister, this barrier..."
He didn't finish his words, but it was clear what he was implying.
If she had such a powerful barrier, why didn't she use it earlier?
Xiao Ming shook her head with a bitter smile without saying anything, but the look on her face made it clear that she didn't know what created this barrier either. Though she could see that it was indeed centered around her, so it must have come from her.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Ming had a look of recognition.
It was as if she had thought of something.
Xiao Ming reached into her pocket and pulled out the jewel that she had left in her pocket.
When she held it, she found that it was currently glowing with a light that was much stronger than before. At the same time, she could feel that there was this strange feeling coming from it.
It was as if there was some kind of strange power that was being released from it.
It seemed like they didn't want anything to do with him after all that they've seen.
But that was what Huang Xie's group wanted in the first place.
It wasn't everyone that left though, there were a few that still hung around for their own reasons. They stayed near the statue, but they kept looking over in Huang Xie's direction from time to time.
Whether it was to look at Huang Xie, Xiao Ming, or the place where the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast had fallen. It was clear that there was something that they wanted.
At the same time, there were some of them that took things from the defensive walls.
These were items that had dropped from the various spirit beasts that they had defeated, these were items that could be considered quite valuable, so they wanted to take these things with them as they went.
There was no telling what they could use these things for.
They had found that these items hadn't disappeared after the trial had ended.
Huang Xie didn't care about any of them as he went over to where the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast fell.
On the ground, he found that there was this strange looking seed that seemed to be made of black flames. After thinking about it for a bit, he went to pick up this seed, but he found that the faint green light appeared around his hand.
It seemed that this seed had a bite to it and his physique's defenses had activated automatically.
But in the end, the seed wasn't able to burn through his defenses.
It was much weaker than the black flames that the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast had wielded.
As he was thinking about what to do with this seed, a voice came from the necklace he was wearing.
After being surprised by this voice, Huang Xie just brought the seed up to the necklace and it was swallowed by it.
Once he took care of the seed, he went back to everyone else from the Love Sect and Demon Palm Sect group.
There wasn't much for them to talk about, so they all chose different staircases and walked up as well.
They knew that there was no difference in terms of which staircase that they took, so they just went up random staircases.
Seeing them leave, the others that had stayed just went up as well and there was no one left in this room.
Once everyone was gone, the statue suddenly started to move.
It floated over to where the Peak Qi Condensing Realm Beast had fallen and just remained floating there for a bit before suddenly breaking out in laughter.
The voice of the statue was different from the same mechanical voice from before.
If Xiao Ming was here, she would have recognized it as the voice that she heard on the first floor.
"So they were able to make it through overtime. I never thought that they would be good enough to pass this trial without using that special override function." The statue seemed to be talking to itself during this time.
Then with another chuckle, it said, "I guess that she really is making use of the special privilege that I gave her in the beginning."