Ji Yuanchi looked at Xu Yuehuai and asked, "Yueyue, do you think there's something fishy going on here?"
Xu Yuehuai thought for a moment, then shook her head. "I don't know. We'll see how things go."
After Quan Cang finished speaking, an elder in a long robe stepped forward and gently flicked his hand. It was as if some powder was being sprinkled into the air, and in an instant, everyone fell into a coma.
"My goodness! As expected of an elder of Qingcheng Academy! So amazing." The crowd said with flattery.
The elder looked at the crowd with disdain, and after doing all this, he turned around and returned to his original seat.
When Xu Yuehuai opened her eyes, she found four roads in front of her, each with a different scene behind it: snow-capped mountains, volcanoes, deserts, and jungles.
Xu Yuehua frowned, her gaze deepening. Behind her was a cliff, and there was no way to retreat.
Since this challenge tests intelligence, the answer should be obvious.
But where exactly is it?
Xu Yuehuai wandered around the open space, looking left and right. She looked down and saw a narrow stream flowing below the cliff, with some mist floating on it.
If it's a stream, then... a jungle setting would make more sense.
Xu Yuehuai was about to step onto the path through the jungle when she suddenly paused.
She felt that the test questions couldn't be that simple, and there must be a trick involved.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Xu Yuehuai's mind: what was floating on the stream was not mist at all, but water vapor.
The reason she thought it was fog was that from the cliff, she could only see a small patch of land, and the surrounding area was blocked by some inexplicable white fog, which she guessed was to increase the difficulty of the test.
What appears to be a stream is actually a pool of water, and it is a pool of water located next to a volcano!
Xu Yuehuai had never seen this scene before in these places, but she had lived two lives and had seen many such pools of water next to volcanoes on the internet in the modern world with advanced internet.
After figuring out all the details in a short time, Xu Yuehuai resolutely embarked on the path to the volcano.
After she walked a short distance, the surrounding scenery began to change, and sure enough, it was the correct answer.
"Who do you think will be the one to wake up?"
"I think it's Shi Zhiyu, right? He performed very well in the previous two levels."
"Dean Guo, what do you think?" Jiang Yu asked boldly.
Yesterday, all the deans came to visit and left without staying long, except for this Dean Guo.
Since Dean Guo currently has no disciples, Quan Cang and the others speculated that Dean Guo's actions indicated that he intended to take on disciples.
Dean Guo, dressed in a long black robe, stood with his hands behind his back. "Xu Yuehuai."
Jiang Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise; she had thought that Dean Guo would say, like the others, that he had administered the treatment.
After all, judging from the past two days, Shi Zhiyu's abilities are indeed quite good, as for Xu Yuehuai...
In the two days since Xu Yuehuai came here to register, the academy's investigation into her background has come to fruition. When they learned that she came from a world lacking in spiritual energy, everyone looked down on her. Many even believed that her current strength was just a flash in the pan and would not last long.
But treatment is different.
The information that came back from the investigation was very simple about Shi Zhiyu, and he seemed to have appeared out of thin air. This meant that he was either from the lower realm like Xu Yuehuai, or he was from the upper realm.
But people from the lower realm don't have the ability to hide their background so deeply; they must have someone backing them up.
Therefore, everyone thought that this young man named Shi Zhiyu was from the upper class.
Somehow, the news spread, and everyone knew about it. Many people began planning how to get close to Shi Zhiyu.
If you can become good friends with Shi Zhiyu, you won't have to worry about cultivation treasures at all. Any item you take from the upper level will be enough to make all the powerful people on the third level fight over it.
Xu Yuehuai opened her eyes, stood up from her seat, glanced at the people on her left and right, none of whom showed any signs of waking up, and then walked to the other side of the waiting area to sit down.
The surrounding area was empty, proving that she was the first person to wake up from this illusion.
"It was her!"
"Who exactly is this Xu Yuehuai? Why have I never heard of such a genius before?"
While everyone was discussing Xu Yuehuai's identity, Shi Zhiyu also woke up.
The two of them took less than half an incense stick's time to go from entering the illusion to exiting, which gives us a glimpse into its nature.
When Dean Guo saw that Xu Yuehuai was the first to wake up, he couldn't hide the burning desire in his eyes. He completely disregarded his status and image as the head of the hospital and appeared beside Xu Yuehuai in a flash.
Xu Yuehuai was thinking about what she would do after entering the second floor. The path she had chosen was bound to be full of thorns and obstacles.
"Xu, do you have any interest in learning alchemy?" Dean Guo stared intently at her, like a hungry wolf that had finally found its prey.
Xu Yuehuai came to her senses. She did not recognize the old man in black robes in front of her. "Greetings, senior. I do have this idea, but we will discuss it after we enter the academy."
Xu Yuehuai looked at his clothes, which bore the academy's insignia, and guessed that he was probably an elder or someone from the Alchemy Academy.
"I am Guo Yanzhi, Dean of the Alchemy Institute of Qingcheng Academy. Would you be interested in becoming my apprentice?" Dean Guo extended a warm invitation, then realized he hadn't introduced himself and quickly added one.
Xu Yuehuai was surprised, not expecting that the person in front of her was Dean Guo. Having been here for so long, she had come to understand that most capable people had a rather high-handed attitude.
Dean Guo was the first person she had ever met who was completely unpretentious.
"May I ask, what are the reasons for Dean Guo's selection of me?" Xu Yuehuai felt that her performance these past few days had been decent, just normal, and not particularly impressive.
"Do you remember when you broke through an illusion in the second trial? In that illusion, unless you possessed a great deal of spiritual power, keen observation skills, and amazing mental strength, you simply couldn't escape." This is why Dean Guo hasn't taken on any disciples all these years; he hasn't found someone who is both suitable and capable.
But when he saw Xu Yuehuai this time, he knew clearly that Xu Yuehuai was the person he was looking for.
At this moment, Shi Zhiyu also walked over and sat down naturally next to Xu Yuehuai, completely ignoring Dean Guo.
Xu Yuehuai thought for a moment but did not answer.
Dean Guo, thinking she was unwilling, began to speak well of himself, "I don't have any disciples under my tutelage. Once you're in, you'll be called Senior Sister directly. Everyone who entered before you will have to call you Senior Sister!"
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