"The second time my suspicions about the true nature of this inheritance challenge became stronger was when all of us who had passed the first stage were forcibly converted into disciples of the Holy Land of Laws.
"Sure, it makes sense that it is a necessary precaution against various loopholes of the first stage, like allowing powerful cultivators to send in their clones or slaves. But later, after all four of us met and I got to relax a bit in the second stage, I reflected back onto my experience in this test. Some doubts inevitably popped out.
"Using the assumption that a powerful being might have been sealed here and the circle of laws were actually placed to suppress it, what would be the aim of practically enslaving the cultivators who enter this... prison?"
Zhao Weiqing instantly interrupted Han Xuhan.
"It doesn't make any sense. Your theory so far contradicts that clue. Doesn't that mean you were on the wrong line of thinking, to begin with?"