Chapter 302

Bai Zhu, who was suddenly mentioned, smiled and said gently:

"Thanks to the Sect Leader's teaching, otherwise Bai Zhu wouldn't have this ability."

"Bai Zhu just doesn't want to smear Shushan."

Diluc shook his head and said seriously:

"Junior Brother Bai Zhu is humble, the feat of nine levels of heart-asking is not something anyone can succeed in."

Bai Zhu shook his head and didn't say much.

Everyone chatted for a while, and suddenly saw Zhongli suddenly take action.

In the blink of an eye, over a hundred thousand people were sent out of the array.

The first batch of failures in the Heart-Asking Array had already appeared.

180. The law cannot save Fontaine, but cultivation can

After an adventurer from Mondstadt was teleported out, he suddenly opened his eyes and waved his hands in horror.

"Get away! Get away! Don't come near me! Damn monster! Get away!"

His bloodshot eyes were full of hatred as he looked at his surroundings.

Noticing the crowded crowd, his heart was stunned, and the next moment, the cognition that had just been blocked returned.

He looked at his hands in shock.

"I... am still alive? Was what just happened Shushan's test?"

"How is it possible! How is it possible! I clearly lived a life! Was I killed by a monster in the wild?"

After a long while, the adventurer sat on the ground in despair.

"I... did I fail? Why! I have worked so hard!"

"Why is the test so difficult!"

The people around who were also in low spirits glanced at him without answering.

When they came out just now, they had also experienced such events.

In the Heart-Asking Array, they lived a life in a split second.

Some lived a mediocre life, born and raised, married and had children, grew old and died.

No obsession, no dreams, no brilliant life.

Some lived brilliantly, becoming the peerless experts they dreamed of or powerful dignitaries.

Gradually, they lost themselves in the flattery.

Some became poor people, who could have had a bright life steadily, but because they couldn't hold onto their bottom line.

They did things they shouldn't have done.

All kinds of life states passed by in this Heart-Asking Array in less than a few minutes.

A life in a split second.

They finally knew what Shushan's test was.

But even if they knew, so what?

Just as Lady Ningguang said, all assessments have the possibility of cheating.

Only...

The exam of life, from birth to the end of life.

There is no possibility of cheating.

Shushan's test is to open a brand new life for everyone in the name of asking the heart.

In this life journey, no one can cheat.

Therefore, the essence of the Heart-Asking Array, whether they know it or not, doesn't matter, because it is unsolvable.

Rather than saying Shushan is testing them, it is better to say that the world is conducting a lash on their original heart.

"Mirror flowers and water moon, a dream life."

Someone sighed to the sky, and a line of clear tears flowed from the corner of his eyes.

"Ultimately, I have no fate with the immortal Dao... but thank you, Shushan Immortals. This heart-asking journey has made me understand my original heart. I know how to live my life in the future."

Some people saw through the essence of life from this failed Heart-Asking Array journey and knew how to act in the future.

It could be considered a gain.

Some people were still trapped in the failure of the assessment and the lash of heart-asking and couldn't extricate themselves, sinking into it.

The immortal path has never been safe.

Not only coming up, but just getting close will bring great risks.

Some people are destined not to be able to hold on.

In this world, the outstanding ones are ultimately few, and most people's lives are ultimately boring and ordinary.

But Shushan doesn't need those boring and ordinary people.

The road of cultivation has always been very cruel.

This cruelty, no one can change.

This kind of power of high-ranking cultivators, who control life and death, made these people who had no fate even more painful.

Those who went crazy were restored by spiritual energy. 【302-57

But within the territory of Shushan, in the eyes of cultivators, the life and death of mortals are never controlled by the mortals themselves.

Those who went mad were restored with a single sweep of spiritual energy.

Those on the verge of suicide were restored to their original state instantly by a wave of spiritual energy.

With life and death beyond their own control, this high-and-mighty authority of cultivators made these people without destiny suffer even more.

Before long, of the more than 1.3 million people, only over 40,000 remained, still gritting their teeth and persisting.

This insane elimination rate left Ningguang and the others somewhat tongue-tied.

However, Zhongli and the other two acted as if they were already accustomed to it, sending them out batch after batch with expressionless faces.

Soon, a clear gap appeared among these 40,000-plus people.

The few dozen most outstanding ones remained calm.

The following few thousand were struggling somewhat but remained stable.

The tens of thousands after that had faces full of struggle, and people were being teleported out from time to time.

"Alas... the human path is vast and dim, the immortal path is wild and boundless..."

Lisa sighed, somewhat melancholic as she said:

"The Sect Master is absolutely right; the immortal path is, after all, an existence that most people can look upon but never reach."

Among those eliminated, there were quite a few with excellent aptitude, but even so, they were still cruelly eliminated.

Cultivation is also a practice of opportunity.

"Sister Ganyu truly predicted everything; the few people she pointed out just now are all handling it with ease. I suppose these will be our direct junior brothers and sisters."

Shenzi looked at Ganyu on the side with a smile, as if the elimination of so many people had no impact on her at all.

But given Shenzi's personality, she would likely only find it interesting.

Ganyu smiled without answering, only looking expectantly at those who were still persisting.

Furina, who was within the Heart-Questioning Array.

At this moment, she had completely forgotten that she was seeking immortality at Shushan.

She was once again living through that five-hundred-year-long, grand, and sorrowful solo performance.

Step by step, she danced this solo performance to its climax.

Even though there was no one watching under the stage.

It was not until the final curtain call that Furina had her only audience member: Ying.

A clear tear slid down, and a powerful surge of energy crashed onto a certain piece of land.

Furina knew that her five hundred years of pain and her five hundred years of performance had finally come to an end.

The trickling energy drifted to Furina's face, seemingly wiping away her tears.

"Furina, you are the most perfect human in my heart; you have human cowardice and human arrogance, but precisely because of this, you are perfect."

"So, from now on, please live happily as a human."

Furina raised her hand, reaching out to grab the water droplet, but everything vanished like a dream or a bubble.

Her five-hundred-year curse had ended.