Ji Yuan actually did not enter the trial immediately.
Instead, he waited for three more days.
It was because he had expended all his profound strength and there was no way that he was in the right condition to enter the trial.
Therefore he had to regain his profound strength first by resting and consuming profound pills for the next three days.
The profound strength that he had lost was temporary and not the same as a cultivation realm breakthrough when the cultivator's inner cultivation sea would be consumed. This consumes the vital energies that were provided by the inner cultivation sea instead. With some profound pills and rest, the vital energies would be quickly regained.
The strength of the cultivator's inner cultivation sea would determine the rate of recovery in the vital energies.
