Alex stepped out of the mountain for the next part of his tests. He didn't want to destroy parts of the hill on the inside, so he took the Immortal Tribulation out of the region surrounded by the barrier.
Shumi came along with him and had planned on helping him just as well as she had for the past year.
"Let's not do it the first time around," Alex said. "I'll see what I can learn on my own at first, and then we can have you jump in the second time around."
Shumi nodded and waited patiently to the side while Alex went away to start the Immortal Tribulation.
Considering it hadn't even been two thousand years since he became an Immortal, his next Immortal Tribulation wouldn't have appeared on its own for the next eight thousand years. But the current situation forced his hand, requiring him to start it.
That was, in a way, the story for every single individual.
