"Hahaha! How does it feel to taste defeat by your own clone?"
A voice echoed through the arena as a transparent old man with a gloating look appeared in front of the pillar. He was the same old man Ye Chen had met inside the mystic pond, and from the looks of it, the old man here was also recording, which should be played after Ye Chen's defeat.
"Little guy, the challenge you just faced now is called 'Hundred Mirrors,' which I personally created to let geniuses like you understand that there is always something beyond your means and something you shouldn't touch."
"Now that you have learned this lesson, I will give back the people who died because of this test," the old man said and waved his hand.
SWOOSH!
In that instant the pillar lit up brightly, and a few streaks of light descended from the sky before materializing into a person.
Witnessing this, everyone was shocked except the people who had arrived.
"Y-you are alive! Then whose dead body is this?"