Wei Zhao, for his part, was not idle either. The trial tournament had indeed been a fine baptism for Qiu Lingshan and the others, who had only recently succeeded in Foundation Establishment; it was plain to see that compared with before the tournament, their cultivation and realms had been markedly consolidated. But that alone was still far from enough for the Primordial Trial—after all, what awaited them there was not only wave upon wave of unforeseen crises, but also Xue Jianming, watching like a tiger from the sidelines.