Zhao Weiqing couldn’t believe it. This... this powerless, young, no-na rookie cultivator, relying on nothing but an imaginative mind and leaps in logic, had accurately grasped the true chain of events that led to this day.
How could this be possible? Was it all really so transparent to a sharp outsider’s eyes? If it was, why hadn’t any of the other cultivators managed to see through it?
This guy was definitely hiding so things. At this mont, Zhao Weiqing’s desire to dig out his secret was overflowing. So he pressed for more information, taking the cue from Xuanyuan Zhou. Han Xuhan was forced to elaborate more in the end.
"Alright. I can share my experience inside the test halls. The first thing that put on guard there was the orb containing qi for replenishnt. I got wary of it due to Brother Qian Yun’s warnings before in the circle of laws.
"Then I saw the orb containing the letters. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but the letters had a suspiciously narrow usage. In a stage where creativity is being tested, those sorts of letters aren’t exactly suitable."
"So I decided to take a detour from the instructions and test my suspicions. I intentionally failed the test and tried entering a platform for another type of inheritance."
"Wait a damn mont, how the hell did you fail the test? The automatons weren’t programd to fail participants!" Zhao Weiqing roared angrily.
But at the very next second, he felt embarrassed that he had let such a crucial detail slip away through his own mouth.
Han Xuhan laughed. "Once again, you’ve proved that you’re not the real Qian Yun."
"Answer the damn question, punk," Zhao Weiqing growled, raising a foot over his face to convey the threat. Han Xuhan’s laughter ca to a quick, cowardly halt.
"Failing it was very easy. I didn’t even have to lie. I have a rare Physique that makes it hard for to absorb qi. So I just exaggerated things a bit and there wasn’t anything the automatons could do except failing ."
"...What kind of rare Physique downgrades people’s abilities?!" Zhao Weiqing said in disbelief. He quickly sent a ntal ssage to his main body to verify the matter, but the response actually ca back supporting Han Xuhan’s account!
Good heavens! You learn new things every day! Or did the world of cultivation change during the ti he was imprisoned in this place?
Not knowing the shock Zhao Weiqing was in, Han Xuhan continued his tale.
"Moving on to the second test, I discovered that the letters provided in there were the sa as the first test’s orb!
"It is way too much of a coincidence that I, a random cultivator who learned so random letters from a language as vast as the language of laws, would encounter the sa letters that I had just learned, and that the situation would even repeat!"
"But doesn’t that strengthen the theory that it is all a test and the third stage provided you with alphabets that you’ve already learned so far?" Zhao Weiqing interrupted Han Xuhan, sensing the contradiction again.
Han Xuhan chuckled audibly.
"But you... Well, not you, but Qian Yun knows very well that I only deciphered a part of the law fragnts on the walls of the stadium. Half of the texts were deciphered by you. How could the designer of the ’test’ know which letters I have mastered?
"A more logical answer would be... that there is sothing wrong with the letters provided in the orb. It is likely that soone intentionally tempered with the original set-up of the test. So many thods can be used in such a situation!
"I am, after all, just a weak rookie cultivator. How difficult could it be to use a high-level law to influence my mind into thinking that the letters in front of are all familiar and I definitely know them?
"It may sound far-fetched, but unless soone was interfering with my visual senses or ntal state, I cannot see how two consecutive tests of different types would offer the sa, familiar set of letters."
Han Xuhan finished his analysis with a graceful nod, giving off the aura of a true intellectual debating the aning of life.
"Afterwards... Well, there wasn’t anything more I dared to do. I was extrely scared. So I escaped using the sa thod as before and returned outside. But I couldn’t just leave you guys and run off!"
"Who are you kidding? You didn’t have the guts to run away without our protection," Xuanyuan Zhou muttered, sounding a little angry for so reason.
Han Xuhan coughed and rephrased his conclusion.
"Okay, okay. Knowing you guys, I was sure that all three of you’d be able to figure it out if sothing was wrong with the third test. So I carved so law fragnts here as a safety precaution and waited for you to return."
Then, turning his neck towards Xuanyuan Zhou, he took his small revenge.
"Look at where that landed now. Where is that protection you just bragged about, my lady? I could really use that right now."
"Attendant Xuhan, you dare?!"
"Yes, I do!"
Had Xuanyuan Zhou’s limbs not been tied up, she probably would have beaten Han Xuhan up. She certainly made the effort, headbutting him and hitting him with her shoulders repeatedly. She even dragged My Ran into the fight.
"What the hell did I do? Why did you hit ?!"
Mu Ran’s indignation was answered with a furious kick from Xuanyuan Zhou and a full body slam from Han Xuhan.
Zhao Weiqing was in disbelief once more, watching the three martial siblings elbowing, biting and pulling at each other’s hair—all while rolling like worms on sand. The sheer display of immaturity made him realize once more that he was dealing with a group of kids who had barely stepped into the world of cultivation.
And just like before, this realization only added salt and spice to the wounds.
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