Chapter 18 Chapter 18 The Terrifying Question
The sun rises and the moon sets, day and night rotate, and three days pass in a flash.
Everyone waited and waited until fifty-eight people passed the test, until these fifty-eight people had touched the spirit awakening stone and had their spirit roots and the quality of their spirit roots measured.
After the top few promising candidates have taken a liking to each other and the peak masters and elders have verbally decided on the master-disciple relationship, they will then formally become disciples at the subsequent disciple-taking ceremony.
When more than a thousand images disappeared one after another, only the image of the girl in green remained on the floating mirror, but she still did not answer.
Most of the fifty-eight new disciples chose to follow the disciples of the Deacon Hall to rest, but a few, such as Huo Xin, Tan Xiaobai and others, chose to stay in the hall, sitting on the cushions and staring at the floating light mirror intently.
Yun Miao sat cross-legged for three days, so they also sat for three full days!
The image of Yun Miao filled the bronze mirror several feet high, and the girl in the mirror was magnified several times, with every detail clearly visible.
She hadn't changed at all compared to before, still staring at the figure in front of her with unfocused eyes, deeply immersed in her own world, with no intention of answering at all.
The figure did not move. Ever since she asked again yesterday but received no response from the girl in blue, she has not spoken again.
They sat facing each other above the clouds, without saying a word, as if they had become two motionless stone statues.
Ge Yan glanced at the darkness outside the palace: "It's almost dawn."
The test time given by Xuantian Sect is only three days and three nights, and it is now late at night on the third day.
Although Yun Miao was the first person to reach the 'top' of the ladder to heaven, she was not considered to have passed the test until she came out of the ladder, and without passing the test, she naturally could not join the Xuantian Sect.
This is the sect's long-standing rule, and disciple selection is the foundation of the sect's development, so it must not be easily changed. If the rules of the test can be changed at will, then this test will no longer be fair.
In other words... if Yun Miao hasn't come out of the ladder to heaven by sunrise, she will be eliminated!
Huo Xin and others obviously understood this, so Guan Dahai and Gao Zhu looked worried. Tan Xiaobai's hands had already made the cushion under him into a ball, and Huo Xin's brows were so furrowed that they could pinch a fly to death.
Time does not change according to human will, and it continues to pass. The stars in the night sky begin to dim, and the day is really about to dawn...
Suddenly, Huo Xin stood up and bowed to the Sect Leader who was sitting on the platform: "Sect Leader..."
Tan Xiaobai couldn't hold back any longer. When he saw Huo Xin standing up, he immediately jumped up and started talking without waiting for Huo Xin to finish.
"Master, the test Yun Miao received is completely different from the test we received. I think this is unfair!"
Guan Dahai and Gao Zhu also stood up upon seeing this. Several other new disciples in the hall who had passed the test and chosen to stay turned their heads to look at the four people who stood up, with confusion, surprise, and admiration in their eyes.
After all, not everyone in this world is willing to speak up for others, and there are even fewer fools who have the courage to question the master for others before they formally become his disciples.
Sect Leader Chang raised his hand to suppress what Huo Xin and the others wanted to say.
"Needless to say, this is her own fault for not following the usual path, not our intentional harassment. The path you choose must be walked on your own."
"The rules passed down through the millennia of Xuantian Sect cannot be changed. As the Sect Leader, I must set an example and not interfere. However..."
The white-bearded old man changed the subject and looked down at the elder of Baiweitang Valley.
"I heard that Baiweitang is still short of a fire-making girl. If she is interested, she can give it a try."
Elder Gu looked back in confusion: "Ah? Baiweitang always uses the Fire Technique, when did…"
Sitting nearby, Tian Laokou quickly twisted Elder Gu's thigh and then transmitted a message with his spiritual sense. [Stop talking nonsense! If the Sect Leader says yes, then yes!]
Elder Gu frowned in pain and nodded immediately.
"Ah, yes, yes, Fatty Zhu recently ate too much soybean powder, which caused an evil wind to enter his body. The upper air is rushing down, the lower air is rushing up, the east air is rushing west, the west air is rushing east, the south air is rushing north, and the north air is rushing south."
"Although wind helps the fire, if the wind in the body is too strong, it will extinguish the fire. That's why Fatty Zhu can't use the Fire Technique recently. He really needs the help of a fire girl!"
As soon as Elder Gu finished speaking, except for Huo Xin and others who breathed a sigh of relief, the rest of the people fell silent.
New disciples: ...They know that eating too many soybeans will cause flatulence, and they understand that wind helps fire and wind extinguishes fire, but what does "upper breath, lower breath," "west breath, east breath" mean? Is that what they think it means?
The eyes of those sitting on the high platform twitched. Sect Leader Chang glared at Elder Gu speechlessly and said through his telepathic consciousness, "I'm just asking you to cooperate with me and accept the name of Fire Girl. What are you talking about?"
[Also, what do you think of Fatty Zhu? How is he going to get rid of all that fart running around in his body? Won't his asshole explode?]
Telepathic sound transmission is a spell that only cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage can perform. The "speaker" does not move his mouth, but directly uses his spiritual consciousness to condense a sound and transmit it into the ears or even the brain of others.
Mortals cannot hear it, and the stronger the spiritual consciousness of the "speaker", the higher the encryption level of the voice will be, and the more difficult it will be for other cultivators to decipher and eavesdrop.
However, both Tian Laokou and Sect Leader Chang were just speaking casually. The amount of spiritual consciousness they output was just a drop in the bucket compared to their vast sea of consciousness.
This resulted in the disciples below the platform not hearing anything, but the peak masters and elders on the platform heard everything clearly.
Ge Yan: [Big Brother, you are the head of a sect after all, so please speak more politely.]
Sect Leader Chang: "Yan'er, you're wrong. Using elegant words doesn't make one live a noble life. As long as one stands up straight and behaves properly, even if one's words are crude, one can still live a noble life."
Tian Laokou: [Master, what you said is brilliant. This state of mind is truly beyond the reach of ordinary people! Yan'er, you must learn a lot from the Master.]
Qian Duoduo: [Tsk, you flatterer.]
Ge Yan sneered: [I, Yan, am your eight generations old ancestor! ]
Shui Yaoguang: [Practice what you learn, how wonderful!]
Sect Leader Chang and others: ...
Sect Leader Chang stroked his beard and silently changed the subject. […Speaking of which, the remnant spirit of Ancestor Feng Yin is truly unbelievable. He's been dead for so many years, so where does all this curiosity come from? Don't you agree?]
Elder Gu: [Yes, yes]
Tian Laokou: [Yes, yes.]
Qian Duoduo: [Yes, yes.]
…
…
Just at this moment, the figure in the mirror spoke again.
"It's almost dawn, you won't have time if you can't figure it out."
Everyone turned their heads immediately, and the girl in green in the floating mirror seemed to feel everyone's urging and finally opened her mouth slowly.
"I don't know, if I have to say... I just want to explore and understand the world."
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Yun Miao seemed to be back in high school classroom. The lazy spring sunshine made her feel lazy. Although she was still looking at the blackboard in front of her with her eyes open sleepily, her consciousness had already sunk into a half-asleep state.
The teacher's voice seemed to come from the horizon and was not clear until the teacher asked again. She finally heard it clearly.
"Tell me, what exactly do you seek in your cultivation? Immortality? Great power? Or becoming an immortal?"
Cultivating immortality? Isn't she in class?
No, she seemed to be playing a game, a cultivation game...
Sleepy Yun Miao thought for a long time before muttering.
"I don't ask for anything. I have no interest in immortality, great power, or becoming an immortal."
Whether in reality or in the game, she has no interest in immortality.
As a single-player player who enjoys immersive exploration and management, she doesn't have such a strong desire for power.
In addition, "Asking the Three Thousand Questions" does not have a map of the fairyland. The highest level in the game is the Tribulation Period. After the player in the Tribulation Period successfully survives the thunder tribulation, a guiding golden light will fall from the sky.
Once the player chooses to follow the guiding golden light and ascend to the immortal realm, the system will congratulate the player on reaching the ending and then return to the game login page. She came here to experience the game content, not to speedrun the game in a minute. Therefore, she has no interest in ascending to the immortal realm either.
The distant voice came again: "You don't ask for anything? Are you trying to tell me that you joined the Xuantian Sect just for a storage bag? You and I both know that's impossible. Good boy, stop joking and think about it carefully... Think clearly about what you really want."
Yun Miao forgot to refute and just murmured, "Think about it carefully...Think about it carefully..."
Her perception of time had become blurred, like a sleepy student in class who thinks she just closed her eyes for a moment, only to open them again and find that the get out of class was over.
But even in her dreams she was still thinking, what did she really want?
The teacher's voice urged: "It's almost dawn, you won't have time if you don't figure it out now."
Yun Miao said in confusion: "I don't know. If I have to say... I just want to explore and understand this world."
She came here to play games, not to really cultivate immortality.
The 'teacher' pressed on: "What do you want to explore? What do you want to understand?"
Yun Miao: "I want to... I want to understand how spiritual energy is produced. How did the main peak of Xuantian Sect float up?"
"Why did I see a white deer flying in the sky on a crane, instead of a crane flying in the sky on a white deer?"
"A cultivator's spiritual sense can scan everything. So, can they see through the scenery inside other people's clothes? Does that count as voyeurism?"
Yun Miao seemed to have suddenly grasped the idea of solving the problem. His hesitant tone became firm and his speech became faster and faster.
"Are cultivators with gold spiritual roots more likely to be struck by lightning on rainy days? Are cultivators with thunder spiritual roots more resistant to lightning? Then, when I undergo a tribulation in the future, if I hold my younger brother... a cultivator with thunder spiritual roots whom I know, on my head, will it reduce the damage from the lightning tribulation?"
"Do spiritual roots affect a cultivator's personality and quirks? Are cultivators with ice spiritual roots all cold and cruel? Do cultivators with water spiritual roots, who have abundant water spiritual energy, cry more tears than others?"
"A cultivator with wood spiritual roots uses his spiritual power to conjure up a bunch of green leafy vegetables, then stir-fries them and eats them. Does this count as eating himself?"
"It's said that cultivators with earth spiritual roots are the most honest and simple. If I borrow money from them and simply refuse to pay it back, will they agree?"
"Will grass monsters steal farm manure without telling other monsters?"
"Will a low-level vampire bat get blisters from scalding its mouth if it sucks the blood of a high-level fire root cultivator?"
"If a venomous snake demon cultivates a rare and extremely poisonous venom, and at the same time becomes immune to all other poisons due to cultivation, will it be killed by its own venom?"
"When demon cultivators transform into humans, they all wear clothes, but when they return to their original form, most of them don't wear clothes. What are they thinking?"
"Is it because their brain structures are different in human and demon form, so their thinking patterns are also different, so their sense of shame sometimes appears and sometimes disappears? Or is it because clothes only serve as decoration for them?"
"Monks who have completed a fast don't need to poop, so do they still fart? If not, then what use does that... uh... hole behind their buttocks have for them? Is it just for decoration? Will a monk with obsessive-compulsive disorder dislike it and make it disappear?"
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