"Well, now that I've had the best meal I've had in quite some time," I said, patting my full stomach, "since I do indeed believe in getting things out of the way quickly, I'm going to go get my turn at the Flames of Perdition handled."
"Risky," noted Shokoya, "putting up your score for Level 1 so early will motivate others to try to beat it."
"Let 'em try," said Chen Huan, "it's not every cultivator even at this level who can perform crowd control like my master here." I held in a wince. We'd long since had a discussion that him using that word every once in a while would likely be unavoidable. "Remember, he cleared the middle trial of the Library even faster than us Sa—err, Spiritual Beasts."
Level 1 of the Flames of Perdition was indeed facing an endless number of illusory training puppet-golem enemies. Granted, I wouldn't be able to use an Earth-Sky Pill this time. Treasures were allowed, but not pills.
