The surrounding mist had dissipated, revealing a magnificent hall in front of them.
Several elderly men with white hair and beards stood in front of the main hall, seemingly watching the people struggling on the log bridge.
Shi Xuan lifted her leg forward, but felt an inexplicable and strange pressure preventing her from moving forward.
But Shi Xuan seemed to have cultivated moving forward into a conditioned reflex. Facing this enormous pressure, she strode forward with an indomitable spirit.
She held a firm belief in her heart: No one can stop me!
Finally, she broke through the heavy pressure and reached the other side of the bridge, where the old men were.
The elderly men were extremely surprised to see someone finally walk down from the log bridge.
The leader clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Excellent! Excellent! This is the will of Heaven! I can finally accept this disciple who has crossed the Bridge of Inquiry!"
The man looked at Shi Xuan and said, "I am the sect master of the Wuji Sect, with the cultivation of the Integration Stage. I wish to take you as my disciple. Are you willing?"
Shi Xuan looked at the old man and, for some reason, felt that her master shouldn't be such a white-haired old man. He should seem much younger. Or perhaps he had some special hobby, like having a drink or two.
At this moment, everyone in front of the hall looked at her with envy, as if winning the old man's favor was the most remarkable thing in her life, something to be proud of forever.
"Am I the only one who passed the test of the Bridge of Inquiry?" Shi Xuan asked.
Another old man beside her nodded and gave her an explanation: "That's right. On average, it takes three to five years to pass through this Bridge of Inquiry to become a genius disciple. Only genius disciples can be accepted into the sect."
He spoke with an arrogance that came from someone who had long held a position of power.
Shi Xuan smiled and said, "Since it takes three to five years to produce a genius disciple, doesn't this sect master have any way of showing his willingness to accept me as a disciple?"
There are sect leaders every year, but only one genius disciple emerges every three to five years, and there might be no one for eight or ten years.
Looking back now, Shi Xuan felt that crossing the Bridge of Inquiry wasn't difficult at all.
Shi Xuan's question stunned the sect leader, who had been beaming with joy. No one had ever spoken to him in such a tone before—asking for benefits before even entering the gate?
He didn't react for a while, and after a long pause, he carefully asked, "What kind of gesture do you want?"
Shi Xuan said confidently, "We should at least have a bunch of immortal artifacts, magic treasures, or top-grade spirit stones."
"That's easy!" The sect leader seemed a bit clumsy, as if the previous scene had been added in, but now he had entered the new procedure and readily and cooperatively took out a storage bag and tossed it to Shi Xuan.
Shi Xuan received it but didn't open it; he already found it utterly boring.
Before she mentioned the celestial artifacts and magical treasures, she had already realized that she was in an illusion.
The intention of this illusion is quite clear: after crossing the narrow bridge of genius, the talented disciple is taken in by the sect leader and has all the cultivation resources he needs, thus living a life of cultivation that everyone envies, making people reluctant to leave and unable to resist becoming addicted.
Look at this! He gave me immortal artifacts, magic treasures, and top-grade spirit stones without batting an eye, and this was before I even started learning.
If one enters the sect and knows how to please the master, one can imagine how many such resources one will have.
Just by looking at this magnificent hall, you can tell how incredibly wealthy the Wuji Sect must be.
Shi Xuan picked up the storage bag and tossed it up and down, saying, "This is boring. This illusion doesn't look real at all."
Upon hearing this, everyone around was astonished. They seemed to have no idea why someone had seen through their illusion before it had even officially begun.
This is just the beginning for them. There's the apprenticeship ceremony, the comfortable life in the sect, the acquisition of extremely precious magical treasures, the selection of unparalleled cultivation techniques, and countless secret realm adventures...
Everything that cultivators in the cultivation world dream of, they have it all!
But this young disciple ended the illusion before it even began...
The sect leader of the Wuji Sect was still not giving up. He stroked his snow-white beard and asked with a kind expression, "What are you saying? As long as you come to the Wuji Sect and become my disciple, your future in the cultivation world will be limitless."
Shi Xuan patiently repeated, "I said you're all fake. This illusion isn't realistic enough, it's boring. I was hoping to play for a while longer, but with this level of quality, it's not fun at all."
As Shi Xuan finished speaking, to the astonishment of the crowd, the entire hall shattered into pieces and gradually disappeared before Shi Xuan's eyes.
Those lifelike figures had all disappeared, and in their place, Shi Xuan had passed through the three-story hall and was standing on the blue circle of the teleportation array.
A flash of blue light transported Shi Xuan directly to the fourth floor.
Unexpectedly, Lu Wenxing was already standing at the entrance to the fourth floor.
He seemed to have been standing there for a while, looking around blankly, not really wanting to do anything himself.
Upon seeing Shi Xuan appear, Lu Wenxing finally perked up: "Oh, junior sister, you've finally arrived! I've been waiting for you for ages!"
Shi Xuan was curious about what her second senior brother had seen in the illusion and why he had come out so quickly.
"How did you get here?" Shi Xuan asked.
Lu Wenxing got angry when this was mentioned. He glanced at Shi Xuan, not wanting to say anything, but since she was his junior sister, it didn't seem like a big deal.
He said angrily, "After I went in, a woman came out and called me a dog. I got angry and punched her, and then I came out."
Shi Xuan...
The second disciple's obsession with dogs was so deep that even in the illusion, no one could utter a single word against him.
The woman Lu Wenxing mentioned was an absolute beauty. Fragments of Lu Wenxing's memories were extracted, and something about dogs left a deep impression on him, suggesting he had a very negative impression of dogs.
So the beautiful woman tried to get closer to him by saying, "I really don't like dogs."
Little did he know that this would stir up a hornet's nest. Lu Wenxing didn't care about anything else, no matter how beautiful the woman was. He punched her, and the illusion shattered instantly.
After listening to his description, Shi Xuan twitched his lips, unsure of how to respond.
Sometimes, for those who don't play by the rules, this kind of conventional illusion is really hard to deal with.
Not long after, Lu Shenzhi also came out.
Shi Xuan had never doubted Lu Shenzhi.
This guy has been trapped for over ten years, so it's unlikely that illusions will have any effect on him anymore.
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