"What?"
Senior Shui's eyes widened in shock. She felt as if blood was coursing through her throat once more, and she was on the verge of vomiting. "T-the Gui Corridor?"
The Gui Corridor was one of the worst corridors, and only the weakest of cultivators would venture there. Given how easily you defeated two puppets in an instant, why would you challenge the Gui Corridor?
Everyone else was advancing forward, but this fellow was retreating …
Was he trying to brush off a sense of accomplishment?
"Indeed. The manuals here aren't good, so I would like to head to the Gui Corridor to take a look!"
Zhang Xuan replied earnestly.
The more profound the cultivation technique, the fewer the number of cultivation technique manuals of the same tier would be, and Zhang Xuan's goal was to obtain as many as he could. Thus, after browsing through the books in the Bing Corridor, he was filled with disappointment. He felt that he had made the wrong choice, and he should have gone to the lowest tier.
There were bound to be many books there, and they would be of greater use to him.
"…"
Senior Shui clutched her hair.
Are you a lunatic?
Every single one of the manuals in the Bing Corridor was unfathomably profound. They might not be comparable to the cultivation techniques of their clan, but they weren't too far off. Yet, you actually said that such valuable manuals were inferior to the trash in the Gui Corridor?
Just what in the world was going through his head?
"Alright, continue copying. I'll be leaving first!"
Not bothering with what the other party was thinking, Zhang Xuan walked out of the room.
He sighed deeply as he walked.
This trip was truly a waste of time.
Walking out of the room in the Bing Corridor, Zhang Xuan returned to the front desk. Other than the young lady from before, there was another person waiting for him.
"You … are fine?"
Seeing that the fellow had returned unscathed, Qing Yu was taken aback. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.
She thought that he would surely be beaten up beyond recognition, but how could he be completely fine?
The Bing Corridor was a place that even Senior Shui had been unable to clear for a long time.
"You're fine? What could possibly be wrong? " Not knowing why Qing Yu would ask such a question, Zhang Xuan was taken aback. He flicked his wrist and passed another hundred concentrated high-tier spirit stones over. "Here are the spirit stones. I'll challenge the Gui Corridor once more!"
"Challenge it once more?"
Qing Yu frowned. "You can only challenge the Gui Corridor once a day. You won't be able to continue if you fail!"
In this kind of challenge, a failure was a failure. It was impossible to admit defeat on the first try and rush back the second time. Playing like this over and over again, even the passageway would not be able to take it.
Therefore, once a day was the limit.
Under normal circumstances, if one were to clear the trial once, it would be impossible for one to return. If one were to fail, one would end up in an incomparably miserable state, and it would be hard to tell whether one would even be able to move on the next day. Over the years, Senior Shui was the only one who was so persistent in challenging the trial for an entire month.
"I won't challenge the Bing Alley!" Zhang Xuan explained.
"That's more like it …" Qingyu heaved a sigh of relief. "Then what are we going to do? The T-shaped alley? "
"No, it's the Gui Corridor!" Zhang Xuan nodded.
"Gui …"
Qingyu was speechless.
That fellow had challenged the Bing Corridor as soon as he arrived, so Zhang Xuan had thought that he would be a formidable opponent. However, from the looks of it now, it seemed like he didn't have the guts to challenge the Gui Corridor.
As a Leaving Aperture realm primary stage cultivator, even the Gui Corridor would be difficult for him.
It seemed like he wasn't so ignorant and could still understand.
"I told you to challenge this, but you just wouldn't listen. Do you understand now?"
With a smile, Zhang Xuan took out a card and passed it over. "Right, where's the challenge card I gave you earlier? Regardless of whether you've used it or not, you have to take it back! "
Grabbing the challenge card from the other party, Zhang Xuan flicked his wrist and passed the card back to the other party before heading back to the area where he had challenged the trial.
As soon as Zhang Xuan left, the receptionist from before walked up to him and asked, "Is that the fellow you spoke of?"
"That's right!" Qingyu nodded.
"He does look rather dashing, but to challenge the Bing Corridor with his current strength, he's truly overestimating himself," the receptionist said with a smile.
"It's clear that he's a wealthy man. He probably intended to look for Senior Shui, but he probably ended up getting snubbed. That's why he decided to challenge the Gui Corridor …"
After analyzing the matter, Qingyu shook her head. Just as she was about to toss the card back onto the counter, she suddenly froze.
"This card …"
"What's wrong?"
The receptionist lowered her head to take a look as well, and with a single glance, her body stiffened. "There are golden patterns on it … This is a unique pattern that only those who have cleared the trial will have …"
At this point, the receptionist and Qingyu glanced at one another. Their throats were dry, and their voices were a little pale.
"Could it be that … he cleared the Bing Corridor?"
As examiners, they were well aware of the difficulty of the Bing Corridor. There had been so many geniuses from the Sanctum of Sages who had ventured there, but none of them had managed to clear it. Yet, that Leaving Aperture realm primary stage fellow had actually cleared it?
How could he possibly do it?
If he had cleared it, what about Senior Shui?
If she had gone there in advance, why hadn't she appeared yet?
"I'll head over to take a look …"
Qingyu pondered for a moment, but she still found it hard to believe. Thus, she stood up, intending to head over to the Bing Corridor to take a look.
As long as she could find Senior Shui, she should be able to understand everything.
"Wait a moment …"
Before Qingyu could leave, the receptionist from before suddenly stopped her. She glanced at her doubtfully, only to see the receptionist's finger pointing forward.
Turning her gaze over, she suddenly froze. The young man who had gone to the Gui Corridor had returned with a smile on his face. With a hundred high-tier spirit stones and a card, he passed it over and said, "Please give me a card for the Bing Corridor!"
Qingyu was taken aback for a moment before she passed the card over.
"Thank you." The young man turned around and left gracefully.
"He … cleared the Gui Corridor as well?"
Lowering her head to look at the card that the young man had just returned to her, Qingyu's lips twitched once more.
No matter how easy the Gui Corridor was, surely it shouldn't have been that fast?
How long did it take to make a round trip?
A minute?
Two minutes?
In any case, it didn't take more than three minutes … In such a short period of time, it would take two and a half minutes just to walk back and forth … In other words, it only took him a dozen seconds to clear the Gui Corridor?
Qingyu swallowed a mouthful of saliva as she exchanged glances with the receptionist, and they could see the horror in each other's eyes.
Just as she was at a loss as to what to do, the young man's cheery voice sounded once more. "I'm sorry for disturbing you again. Please give me a card for the Xin Corridor, thank you!"
Qingyu shuddered for a moment before passing the card over. She took the other party's spirit stones and card and took a look at it.
He cleared it again …
Could it be that there was no difference between the Gui Corridor and Xin Corridor to him?
How could he be so fast?
Qingyu's mouth fell open as if a fish that had fallen onto the shore. Just as she was about to confirm with the receptionist whether she was dreaming or not, the young man suddenly walked over once more.
"Give me a card for the Geng Corridor …"
"…" Qingyu.
"…" The receptionist.
…
"Hu! I'm finally done! With this Rippling Water Profound Art and my previous cultivation technique, I should be able to raise my fighting prowess to a whole new level! "
Senior Shui said with a smile as she rubbed her slightly sore palms.
As soon as the young man left, she began copying down the cultivation technique. It took her twenty minutes before she was finally done. It was such a thick cultivation technique that her hands were starting to feel a little sore.
Even though she should have been able to memorize all of the contents of the cultivation technique after such a long period of time, if she wanted to study it carefully, it would still be safer for her to just copy it down.
A cultivation technique of such a tier could mean a huge difference in its meaning. She didn't want to take such a risk.
After all, she had been challenging the Bing Corridor for more than a month now, but she was still unable to clear it. If not for that young man, she wouldn't have been able to see this cultivation technique at all.
This was a rare opportunity, so she couldn't let it go to waste.
"May I know if he has cleared the Gui Corridor? Given his strength, it shouldn't be too difficult for him to clear it! "
After keeping the cultivation technique of the Sanctum of Sages, Senior Shui walked out of the main hall and slowly made her way over to the front counter.
"What's wrong?"
As soon as she walked up to the front counter, she immediately noticed that something was amiss. The previously lively and adorable Qing Yu was currently sitting on the chair as though a zombie. Her eyes were staring straight ahead, as if she had lost her soul.
The receptionist beside her wasn't any better either. Her mouth was agape, and it seemed as if her jaw had fallen off.
"Qing Yu … What's wrong?"
Senior Shui asked.
"Senior Shui, you're finally here!"
Upon seeing Senior Shui, Qing Yu was so agitated that she was on the verge of tears. She hurriedly raised a card and asked, "Zhang Xuan, Zhang Shi, followed you to the Bing Corridor. Did he really clear the trial?"
"That's right! He's a very powerful expert! "
Senior Shui nodded.
After twenty minutes of recuperation, she had recovered quite a bit. While her complexion was still awful, it wasn't as wretched as before.
"It seems like it's true …"
With a pale face, Qing Yu slammed her palm on the table, and with a resounding 'huala!', a pile of cards fell to the ground.
"These …"
Taken aback, Senior Shui casually picked up a card, and her lips twitched. "Are these the Challenge Cards? And … he cleared all of them? "
After challenging the Corridor for an entire month, it was only natural for one to know the patterns on the cards to clear the trial.
There weren't so many of them when she first arrived, so why would there suddenly be a pile of them?
"Indeed … It's all thanks to that Zhang Shi!"
Qing Yu nodded blankly.
"He cleared all of them?"
Senior Shui widened her eyes in astonishment. With a surge of zhenqi, she grabbed all of the cards on the table.
"Gui Corridor, Ren Corridor, Xin Corridor, Geng Corridor, Ji Corridor, Wu Corridor, Yi Corridor … He cleared so many of them?"
Senior Shui's face paled once more, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
She had only been copying books for twenty minutes, and the other party had already cleared seven corridors?
How could he be so fast?
Wouldn't he exhaust his zhenqi and tire himself out?
"Indeed. He cleared so many corridors in a single breath …" Qing Yu nodded.
"Then … where is he now?"
Senior Shui asked.
"He's currently challenging the Jia Corridor," Qing Yu explained.
"Jia Corridor?"
Senior Shui hurriedly lowered her head to take a look, and there was indeed no Jia Corridor on the cards in her hand. In other words, the other party hadn't cleared the most difficult trial yet.
"Wait a moment … He has cleared the Bing Corridor and Yi Corridor, but why didn't he clear the Ding Corridor?"
She flipped through the cards in her hand once more with a perplexed look in her eyes.
That fellow had cleared all of the corridors starting from the Gui Corridor … Why didn't he clear the Ding Corridor?
"Ah …"
After a long moment of silence, Qing Yu's face reddened as she gulped down a mouthful of saliva. "He said that … the name of the corridor doesn't sound nice, and it's meaningless for a man like him to clear it … So, he didn't go!"
"…" Senior Shui.
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