The trials of the first layer of Origin were incredibly dangerous, and if he had made the wrong decision and tried to resolve that Tribulation using the standard method that any other Primordial would use, he would have failed.
His core was different, and his laws could not be judged with common sense. He was not the Primordial of Fire, the Primordial of Darkness, or any of the concepts that were relatively tangible. He was the Primordial of Defiant Ascension, and so his road was different.
The trials were deadly, but hardly took any time in the larger scheme of things. His body was still blazing through the Origin of Soul, and he had blasted past the second and third layer, with the gate of the fourth layer of the soul approaching rapidly in front of him.
