After a while, Ying opened her eyes and felt a bit disoriented at first. When she saw the Fire God sitting obediently at her side, she remembered her actions. Because of his touch, he had triggered a bad memory of hers. While lost in the past, she crushed his windpipe and ended his life.

Now she felt a bit guilty. It had since long been her motto to be emotionless and coolheaded, but somehow her control had slipped.

However, she would not consider apologizing. They could after all die infinity amounts of times during this trial and had many deaths awaiting them. An extra death wouldn't make any difference. Thus she only rose up and moved towards their equipments in order to sort them up again.

This total nonchalant attitude towards the occurrence, caused the anger within Yang to flare up.

"Hey you crazy woman! Aren't you going to apologize to me?" He walked up behind her but made sure to keep a certain distance between them. If she would act like a maniac again, he would then have a better opportunity to counter.

The response was a complete silence and no apparent reaction from the Ice God.

He promised himself as he mused during her sleep to keep calm, to be rational and to find out the truth. However he really found it hard to contain himself from exploding when she wasn't the least bothered by the fact that she just killed him.

"Talk to me, woman!" His nails dug into his palms as he tried to prevent himself from attacking.

"What do you want me to say?" Ying asked calmly when she was done organizing their items.

"That I am sorry?" She shook her head as she continued.

"Why would I? We will die soon again. And again. And again. If we ever complete this trial, it would be after acquiring vast knowledge of the desert through dying."

The Ice God picked up a backpack and dusted off the sand from her trousers. She then turned around to face the pissed off Fire God. With a cold voice, she kept preaching.

"Did your really believe that a mortal trial of the first rank is a child's play? Throughout the years, quite a few famous and powerful immortals have attempted to accomplish it, but none have succeed. Of course these individuals also had the choice to relinquish, since they weren't officially order by the Celestial Emperor to complete this task."