These six young men, with eyes tightly shut, had completely passed out, evidently failing the "Tempering Meridians" trial of the second layer!
Although they had endured the trial of the first layer, they still fell at the second layer's challenge!
Only when they hit the ground, awakened by the cool essence of the great earth within the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, did the youths stand up again.
Then, just like the sixteen youths who had failed the first layer's challenge, they were transported out of the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm and returned to the Green Flow Plains in the outer region of the secret realm.
When these six youths arrived at the Green Flow Plains, the enormous sound of teleportation awoke the sixteen who had been eliminated first from their cultivation.
All the youths gathered around the sixteen who had just been eliminated.
"Bai Xiaofei, you've been eliminated too!"
"Qian Feng, you're ranked fifth among the top ten, yet you also fell in this test!"
Seeing among the six eliminated youths even two who were in the top ten, everyone was shocked.
This clearly indicated that another wave of elimination was about to come.
"Qian Feng, did you six pass the first layer's challenge?"
Suppressing the astonishment in their hearts, the first sixteen youths eliminated asked Qian Feng and his group.
The six youths responded in turn.
Though they had been eliminated from contention for the greater fortune and opportunity below, unavoidably filled with disappointment, Qian Feng, Bai Xiaofei, and the other four youths quickly adjusted their mentality.
After all, they hadn't left the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm empty-handed; they had successfully passed the "Tempering Flesh" trial of the first layer and had earned the chance for "Flesh Transformation."
"You all passed the Tempering Flesh trial! The Artifact Spirit had said that completing one trial would grant one opportunity, you now all received the chance for 'Flesh Transformation,' how does it feel different from before?" the sixteen youths who hadn't completed Flesh Transformation asked curiously.
They wanted to know what the opportunity from the second trial was like.
"Flesh Transformation?"
"After completing this transformation, I feel full of strength all over. Just with the power of my body alone, I could probably match the strength of my True Qi from before!"
A young man at the seventh level of True Qi said.
As he spoke, he clenched his fist and smashed it into the ground. With a "boom" echoing, his punch cracked the earth open with a terrifying fissure several zhang long!
"That was without using True Qi, purely physical strength?"
Many people couldn't believe it, Flesh Transformation could actually enhance their physical strength to such a degree.
At this time, Qian Feng, the strongest among the six who had completed Flesh Transformation, also nodded and said, "Indeed, after Flesh Transformation, my physical strength has greatly increased!"
"Now, relying on my physical strength and True Qi, I'm confident that I can challenge a True Qi eleventh-level powerhouse!"
Qian Feng was at the tenth level of True Qi. Before, he would never have had the confidence to say he could challenge an eleventh-level powerhouse, but now, after undergoing Flesh Transformation, he possessed this confidence!
"Flesh Transformation is indeed miraculous!"
At last, all six youths who had completed Flesh Transformation confirmed the power of the opportunity they had gained from the Ancient Furnace of Creation.
The sixteen youths who had been eliminated first finally realized what a great opportunity they had lost by not finishing the first layer's trial.
If only they had known that the Flesh Transformation involved the ancient power of the golden monkey from the "Jindi Ancient Clan" inheritance, they would have surely gritted their teeth and struggled through the first layer's trial!
"With such great gains from completing the first layer's 'Tempering Flesh' trial."
"I really don't know what kind of mystical opportunity will come from completing the second layer of 'Tempering Meridians' trial."
Qian Feng muttered to himself as he looked at the central area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm.
He had already lost the chance to receive the opportunity of the second layer and could only sigh in vain.
Not long after Qian Feng's sigh faded away, following their elimination from the second layer of the trial, another six young men were consecutively transported out of the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm.
Among these youths was even Qian Ming, ranked third in the Jindi Ancient Clan's great competition and a strong practitioner of True Qi at the eleventh level.
"Qian Ming, you've been eliminated too!"
"Did you complete the second layer's 'Meridian Transformation'?"
Upon seeing Qian Ming's figure, the young men on the Green Flow Plains couldn't help but exclaim.
When they saw Qian Ming and the other five youths shake their heads in utter disappointment, indicating they hadn't completed the second layer's Meridian Transformation trial, all the youths fell silent.
This meant that all the youths present had failed in front of the first two levels of the trial set by the Ancient Furnace of Creation!
"No wonder the Artifact Spirit said that in the last five openings of the ancestral land, no one has been able to pass the first three layers of trials set by the Ancient Furnace of Creation!"
"This trial is indeed too difficult!"
"Out of us, this sixth batch of thirty people, twenty-eight have already been eliminated!"
The first layer of the trial had eliminated sixteen people, and then the second layer went on to eliminate twelve more, bringing the total number of youths eliminated to a staggering twenty-eight!
Out of thirty youths, only two had not been eliminated.
"Who is still in the central area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, which two haven't been eliminated?"
On the Green Flow Plains, the twenty-eight youths looked at each other, and in an instant, they came to a realization.
"It's the strongest two among us!"
"Ye Chen, Bai Xiaodie!"
"Both of them have not been teleported out yet; they are still in the central area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm!"
Just as the youths realized that the only two remaining in the trial were Ye Chen and Bai Xiaodie,
In the central region of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm, within the valley of the nine golden monkey statues where Bai Xiaodie was, a girl's figure was thrown out of the Ancient Furnace of Creation.
"Alas, this girl has great potential, it's a pity she's a girl, unable to withstand the pain of the Qi Sea Acupoint collapse and reshaping during the 'Tempering Acupoints' by the Ancient Furnace of Creation; she ends up like her predecessors, defeated by this third-level trial."
"She also has missed out on the third chance to reach the core area of the Ancestral Land Secret Realm!"
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact sighed in the void, while the thrown-out Bai Xiaodie slowly came to her senses.
"I've been eliminated too?"
Bai Xiaodie's elegant eyebrows furrowed, her face filled with a look of disappointment.
Following the twenty-eight people eliminated on the Green Flow Plains, Bai Xiaodie became the twenty-ninth person to be eliminated!
"Go out, girl. Your journey through the Ancestral Land Secret Realm also ends here," the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact said to Bai Xiaodie.
It was about to transport Bai Xiaodie out of the central region of the ancestral land, just like the other young men,
When suddenly, Bai Xiaodie's beautiful eyes turned towards the Spirit of the Sacred Artifact: "Artifact Spirit, may I ask if Ye Chen is still undergoing the trial?"
The Spirit of the Sacred Artifact nodded: "Yes, Ye Chen is still in the midst of the trial!"
"Out of you thirty people, including you, twenty-nine have been eliminated!"
"Only Ye Chen remains in the trial!"
"He has now reached the fourth level of the trial!"