Each peal signaled the passing of a trial and meant that its rewards had been given.
David's group didn't know whose team had succeeded in the eighth trial but they were sure of one thing: Those rewards were now gone, they would have to pass the ninth trial to obtaining anything!
The cultivators in the group became dejected, they had just passed the third trial and endured a great deal of pain just to discover that their exploration had become longer.
It's not that they didn't have confidence in defeating the trials, they were a group formed by twenty rank 3 cultivators after all, they could deal with any threat that the separate dimension placed on their way.
Yet, they had just returned to the Inheritance ground and they were fairly confident in succeeding in the eighth trial, finding out that surpassing it wouldn't reward them was a heavy blow to their morale.
David put a pensive expression when he heard the peal, his mind seemed to evaluate something as he sat in silence.
