The Witchcraft's Mountain Gate that he had imagined to be either an elusive and mysterious mountain or a muddy and horrifying swamp would never appear again. Just like how one would get a fixed hand card after applying for a membership card in a bath center, the worker wearing a white coat handed a black iron bracelet to Zhang Lisheng after completing the procedures for him.
The young man looked at Su Deli in astonishment. Under Su Deli's proud gesture, he put on the black iron bracelet on his wrist while facing the envious gazes of many people in the bathroom hall. Parting ways with Min Lan and the beautiful woman named Ruo Zhen, he walked through the corridor and walked into the changing room of the male bath.
After that, just like a real bath, Zhang Lisheng followed Su Deli and the black-clothed old man's movements and no longer thought about how ridiculous the matter in front of him was. He took off his clothes and wrapped the bath towel given by the worker before walking into a large bathhouse that was filled with water vapor.
There were two bathhouses, one big and one small, in the hall. Other than the wall with the door, the other two sides were filled with showerheads, making it look like a simple bathhouse.
"Don't tell me that I really have to take a bath?" Zhang Lisheng looked around and muttered with his mouth agape. Without warning, Su Deli's voice resonated in his ears, "Enter the big pool and circulate the wizard power in your blood. Swim forward and dive down."
"What?" Zhang Lisheng was stunned. However, he saw that Su Deli no longer bothered with him. Together with the blurry back of the old man with the surname Chen, they had already walked into the pool not far away and disappeared without a trace in the water.
After pondering for a while, he finally understood that the bathhouse was most likely the entrance to the Mountain Gate. Zhang Lisheng also tried to put on his slippers and a bath towel to enter the pool. Holding his breath, he buried his entire body in the hot water that was less than one meter deep. The wizard power in his blood surged as he swam forward and dived down.
He felt as though his head had broken through the blue tiled bottom of the bathhouse. The water in front of him suddenly opened up and a gush of buoyancy suddenly gushed out from under his body, lifting his body out of the water.
Looking at his surroundings again, he realized that he had already entered a small stream in the wilderness with quite a number of people soaking in it. In the distance, he could vaguely see an ancient town built against a mountain. The terrain was different, and it was completely made up of wooden houses and buildings.
"Mr. Su, t-this is the Mountain Gate of the Witchcraft's Gate of Death? It's really in a different, different space!" Zhang Lisheng was in a trance for a while before saying to Su Deli beside him.
"Inner Gate's Disciple Zhang Lisheng, since you've already entered the Gate of Witchcraft, you must call me Deacon Su in the Mountain Gate and Assistant Su in the secular world. You're innocent this time, so don't call me wrongly next time." Upon hearing the young man's words, Su Deli, who was at the side, tensed up and said, "I'll go look for the secret cultivation method you want right now.
Min Lan, you and disciple Zhang are old acquaintances. Bring him to a place to settle down first. "
"Yes, Deacon!" Min Lan, who had just popped her head out of the stream and was wrapped in a bath towel, bowed and answered. After that, the girl watched the old man surnamed Chen and the beautiful woman Ruo Zhen retreat to the side of the stream in a dignified manner and make way for the crowd. Cupping his hands together in an ancient style, she strolled away and whispered to Zhang Lisheng, "Let's go, Lisheng. I'll go to the mountain city to find a place for you to stay."
"Sure, Sister!" The young man nodded and slowly walked to the shore from the stream. The strange scenery around him and the figures that would stand up from the stream from time to time made him mutter, "The truth is really different from what I imagined.
I thought that the Witchcraft's Mountain Gate would be hidden in the barren mountains and swamps, but who would have thought that we can actually reach it just by taking a bath? "
"Don't be talkative. The mountains outside are spread out. Wasn't it just a barren mountain and swamp thousands of years ago?" Min Lan replied and brought Zhang Lisheng to the ancient city in the distance without looking back. As they walked, she suddenly sighed and said in a whisper, "Lisheng, I'll say that you're unlucky. To think that you actually managed to escape from the demon's Gold Core's self-destruction on Shrimp Island.
I'll say that you're lucky. If it wasn't for the fact that you were blown up and disappeared that day, you would've followed Senior Uncle Ouyang and Junior Uncle Zheng back to the Mountain Gate directly. I'm afraid that you would've long become an elite disciple by now.
Sigh, now that time has passed, it'll be extremely difficult for you to have a meteoric rise again … "
Min Lan's short few sentences revealed a lot of information. At that time, on Shrimp B1 Island, Ouyang Boxiong had indeed personally said that after Zhang Lisheng returned to the Mountain Gate with him, it would be a piece of cake for him to be bestowed with the secret method and even be directly rewarded as a second-ranked disciple.
The reason why he would draw such a big pie in the sky was that Zhang Lisheng played an indispensable role in the process of hunting the Gold Core on the foreign world's island.
Secondly, if the Gate of Witchcraft really wanted to continue to fight for the spiritual monster's Gold Core in Shrimp World No. 2, a young man who had a better understanding of the foreign world's situation, had a US nationality, and just so happened to cultivate witchcraft was indeed worthy of being roped in. It would not be too much to give him the status of an elite disciple.
Now that Min Lan had said so, it undoubtedly meant that Zhang Lisheng's value had become negligible. In other words, the Shrimp World No. 2 was no longer that important to the Gate of Witchcraft.
Many thoughts flashed across Zhang Lisheng's mind in a short period of time. Lowering his head, Zhang Lisheng's eyes gleamed as he whispered, "Sister, is the Gate of Witchcraft not going to the Shrimp World No. 2 to search for the Gold Core anymore?"
"You're smart!" Min Lan, who was on the stone path, nodded in amazement. "This matter is no longer a secret now. The situation has changed. It's said that one of the new foreign worlds in China is similar to Earth's Cretaceous Period. It's filled with poisonous insects and ferocious beasts. Right now, it's already the target that our Gate of Witchcraft wants to grasp the most.
Compared to the foreign world in the US that's separated by an ocean, it's not important anymore. "
Upon hearing that China had discovered a real primitive world, Zhang Lisheng's eyes widened right away. "Oh, I see."
"Lisheng, actually, even if you can't become a B-ranked elite disciple in one fell swoop, you can still be valued by the Gate step by step as long as you put in the effort. However, now that you've offended Big Boss Su … sigh …
If you want the secret cultivation method of the Gate of Life and the Gate of Sacrifice, you can just pay attention and slowly collect it yourself. Right now, the relationship between the three Gates of Witchcraft is very harmonious. As time passes, you'll always have a chance to find it as long as you put in the effort. Why must you make Big Boss Su trade it to you? Don't you think that you're pursuing fairness? In fact, you should know that there's no such thing as fairness in this world … "
"It's precisely because there's no such thing as fairness that I asked D-Deacon Su to hand over the money and the goods." Zhang Lisheng smiled strangely and interrupted Min Lan's words. "That's right, Sister, Deacon Su is the Big Boss Su that you mentioned, right?
He looks very young, and I can't tell that his strength is particularly powerful either. Why does it seem like he has a high position in the Gate of Death? "
"Because he's the eldest direct descendant of Old God Su. In the future, he'll definitely obtain the inheritance of a True Wizard who has shed his shell and become a B-ranked disciple when he's born. When he's an adult, he'll be ranked as an A-ranked disciple and become a deacon with real power." The young man's ignorance made Min Lan frown deeply. After the girl explained Su Deli's origin in detail to him, she no longer said anything until they walked into the ancient city.
The mountain city was built on the mountain, so the entrance was naturally at the foot of the mountain. When the stone road that led directly to the city from the stream entered the foot of the mountain, two six-story wooden buildings were built on both sides of the left and right. One of them had the words' Men's Changing Clothes' written on it while the other one had the words' Women's Changing Clothes' written on it.
"Enter the house and show your black iron bracelet to the helper disciple. Change your clothes first before entering the city." Pointing at the wooden building on the left, Min Lan told Zhang Lisheng. Ignoring his mumbling, 'Doesn't changing clothes mean to go to the latrine pit in the ancient Chinese? It should be written here to change clothes …', she walked into the wooden building on the right.
Zhang Lisheng, who deliberately put on a paranoid, eccentric, and tactful but a little short-sighted character, muttered to himself as he followed a group of naked men wrapped in white bath towels into the wooden building on the left in an extremely ridiculous manner.
The moment he entered the wooden building, a Gate of Witchcraft's disciple dressed in a black robe hurriedly walked up to the young man. When he saw the black iron bracelet that he showed, he deftly stuffed a wooden plate into his hand and was about to leave.
Zhang Lisheng hurriedly stopped the black-robed man and said, "Brother, don't be in such a hurry to leave. I'm just a disciple who has just entered the sect, so how can I not know the rules of changing clothes here?"
"New disciple?" The black-robed man sized up the young man from head to toe. "What rules are there for changing clothes? You're also an E-ranked disciple like me. You can just go to the third floor and use the wooden plate to change into a clean black robe."
"Thank you, Brother." Zhang Lisheng nodded and walked towards the stairs.
The first and second floors of the 'changing clothes building' seemed to be the floor for wizards who had not officially joined the Gate of Witchcraft to change clothes. The clothes that could be changed were coarse variegated trousers. The young man went straight to the third floor and when he put on the black robe and walked down, he actually attracted a few envious gazes.
When Zhang Lisheng saw so many people treating witchcraft as a profession or a power attribute instead of their own nature, he could not help but smirk coldly.
When he walked out of the wooden building, he secretly thought to himself that after he had obtained the secret cultivation method, he would leave this place as soon as possible if he could not enter the foreign world that was similar to Earth's Cretaceous period in China as soon as possible so that he would not waste his time.
After making up his mind, Zhang Lisheng waited for a while on the stone road at the foot of the mountain and saw Min Lan wearing a golden waist-tight long dress strolling out of the wooden building on the right.
The long golden dress was really vulgar in the young man's eyes. However, when the girl led him up a few gentle slopes and passed through two to three oblique streets, they came to a courtyard in the ancient city. When she ordered a green-robed Gate of Witchcraft's stewardship disciple to find a house for him to stay in, the respectful manner of the stewardship disciple finally made Zhang Lisheng realize the extraordinariness of that vulgar golden light.
The Gate of Witchcraft was a hierarchical society. An elite disciple who seemed to be obedient in front of a Grand Wizard like Ouyang Boxiong and a Deacon like Su Deli would never be treated lightly in the Mountain Gate.
However, what made Zhang Lisheng feel ridiculous was that the wizards who should have believed in the law of 'the weak are prey to the strong' had deviated from their nature and gathered together to form a sect. The basis for dividing their status was not entirely based on their strength and wisdom but on their fathers and masters instead. How was this any different from mortals?
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