The first round of trials resulted in the loss of half the cultivators—a casualty rate approaching fifty percent. With most of those individuals now dead, the survivors could not help but feel a growing sense of panic. The four-hour break felt less like a period of rest and more like a countdown to their own demise.
"If we participate in the next round, at least half of us will die. Are we just going to sit here and wait to be slaughtered?" one male cultivator spoke up.
"Did we sacrifice everything to ascend just to become playthings for those beasts?"
Chapter 178