Mountain Sitting Immortal

If they run out of internal energy to use the energy shield, then they will resort to expending life energy to reinforce their flesh with life force so as to resist the heat.

This is a last resort because reinforcing the flesh with life force will only reduce the damage by a small amount if at all.

It is more likely that hardening the skin and flesh won’t eliminate the damage caused by fire. It also won’t eliminate the pain of being burned alive.

Besides, they need the life energy to enhance their physical power so that they can withstand the pressure and move. If they also used their life energy to defend themselves against the heat, they would quickly run out of it and be unable to continue.

Not only can using internal energy to protect themselves make them conserve energy, but they will also gain an advantage of energy recovery because they can recover their internal energy with mana from the environment while they use their shield. The recovery rate will be slow, but it will be better than nothing.

Using an energy shield or life force to protect themselves are the only two options that people at the second mortal coil have. But those at the third mortal coil have the help of their foundation.

This is one of the reasons why people at the third mortal coil are not normally allowed to participate in this trial. It is because the foundation that has been established can grant some people undue advantages in this trial, like fire resistance.

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In some cases, the foundation can even make the body stronger. An increase to the outright strength of the body is unlikely, but an increase to durability and toughness is pretty common.

All in all, this causes those at the third mortal coil to have certain advantages even though their outright power output might not be different from those at the peak of the second mortal coil.

While Arthur was still at ease, everyone else was having a hard time. It is not that they haven’t been having a hard time right from the start of the trial. But things got worse in the second section.