Chapter 241

Liu Yu had a quick temper: "What method, speak quickly!"

Yu Qiuyi said: "Everything in the world has certain laws to speak of. These days, we were first blinded by looking for fate opportunities, and then we went everywhere looking for gray medicinal liquid,"

"but we never saw the layout of the dense forest clearly, nor did we consider what inevitable connection there is between the ancient immortal worshippers, the gray medicinal liquid, and the tender bud grass!"

"What inevitable connection could there be?" Ye Hongxue picked up a blade of withered grass, "Maybe the restriction of the secret realm just wants to kill us!"

Yu Qiuyi frowned slightly and said: "If it wanted to kill us, it could just let us be swallowed by the tender buds on our heads. Anyway, this thing ignores cultivation, and we can't resist it at all. Why would there be the gray medicinal liquid, an antidote that every immortal worshipper has?"

"So what do you think?" The nun Yuanyao asked.

Yu Qiuyi said: "I think... this is a test, a test for us. Those who pass can obtain the relics of the ancient super sect, and those who fail will die!"

"We are like this, and the other two thousand plus people who disappeared are also experiencing similar tests!"

Once these words were said, everyone felt a shock in their hearts.

Thinking carefully, it really made some sense. If it was a test, then there must be a trick to passing the test!

Liu Yu asked: "If it really is a test, where is the key to passing it? We don't have much gray medicinal liquid left. The longer it drags on, the lower the hope of survival!"

Yu Qiuyi said: "The cat-faced man in the bamboo hat is the key!"

"The cat-faced man?" The crowd hesitated for a moment.

Yu Qiuyi said word by word: "The cat-faced man does not belong to any of our sects, and he possesses a large amount of gray medicinal liquid, and furthermore, he exchanges gray medicinal liquid for completely useless knife-shaped coins!"

"Isn't this strange? He should be an illusory character created by the restriction; he is the test, and the breakthrough lies in him!"

"Wonderful!" Everyone's eyes lit up.

Only Liu Yu hesitated for a moment: "Could he possibly be Heng Xian? I have fought with him, and these days when exchanging for medicinal liquid, I always feel a bit familiar!"

"Impossible!" Yu Qiuyi said very persistently: "In the Sword Sea Ruins, even the ancestors of the Transformation Deity Realm have never entered. Everyone knows nothing about what's below. How could he, Heng Xian, have entered just a few breaths earlier than us, yet obtain so much gray medicinal liquid and also do this kind of strange exchange? Is he crazy? Perhaps he is on the side of the other two thousand plus people!"

The nun Yuanyao and Du Qiyue said in unison: "We agree with Junior Sister Yu's statement!"

Ye Hongxue looked at Niu Wanli: "Foolish Brother also just said there was a way, might as well say it out, let everyone brainstorm!"

Niu Wanli smiled, took out a stack of knife-shaped coins from their pocket, and said: "I think the same as Junior Sister Yu. I also think this dense forest is a test for us, and that cat-faced man is a key!"

"I hid some of these knife coins, presumably... they will be of great use!"

"We can try to surround the cat-faced man, first to get the medicinal liquid on him, and second, to force him to make a choice and find a breakthrough from him!"

"Makes sense!" Everyone took out the few knife coins they had privately hidden.

No one was a fool; not having figured out the true purpose of the knife coins, they naturally kept some for research.

With an agreement reached, everyone felt a sense of relief, and even a pleasure in having seen through the problem.

Just at this moment, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from afar.

Everyone looked over and couldn't help but feel a shock in their hearts.

The cat-faced man was here!

He walked out from a corner of the dense forest, the bamboo hat and cat-face mask worn meticulously, his footsteps neither fast nor slow, his eyes and the lower half of his face showing no emotion, looking very much like an emotionless, illusory character.

Everyone instantly determined that he was definitely the key to the test.

Appearing now in front of everyone, changing from his previous sneakiness, could it be... the final stage of the test had arrived?

At this time, the cat-faced man stopped, extended his right hand, on which was a piece of yellow paper, and on the paper was a lump of yellowish stuff, and then he looked at everyone!

"Sure enough! The test is here!"

Everyone's spirits were lifted.

"Is this the medicine to completely solve the tender bud poison?"

Ye Hongxue asked in a low voice.

No one answered; no one dared to be sure!

Ye Hongxue simply tidied their clothes, was the first to step forward, first glanced at the cat-faced man, then looked at the "yellowish stuff" in the other's hand, hesitated for three seconds, tried poking their finger into it, then pulled it out and put it in their mouth.

Their pupils contracted instantly.

"Very good, next!" The cat-faced man's tone was cold and hoarse.

Ye Hongxue turned and walked back, first frowning, then retching, forcing themselves to swallow it, and then their face wrinkled together.

"How is it? What does it taste like?" Yu Qiuyi, Liu Yu, and the others asked hurriedly.

Ye Hongxue rolled their eyes, and when they raised their head, their face was serious: "It's hard to describe, incredibly wonderful, and there's even a feeling of enlightenment."

"I'll go!" Yu Qiuyi flicked their long robe and stepped forward, also glancing at the cat-faced man, then extended their green-onion-like index finger to poke into the "yellowish stuff," and then put it into their mouth.

The moment they turned around, surprise, frowning, disgust, retching—in short, their expression was unusually complex, and then they raised their head to look at Ye Hongxue, only to find that Ye Hongxue was already closing their eyes to rest.

"How is it?" Liu Yu and the others gathered around to ask.

Yu Qiuyi pondered for three breaths: "Extremely wonderful!"

"I'm going!"

Liu Yu rushed forward.

Then came Shen Qiong, Yuanyao, Du Qiyue, Niu Wanli, and others.

A group of Primordial Dan experts on the Earth Ranking of various sects tasted it one by one, all first showing bitter faces, then calm expressions.

Next were the Qi Sea Realm disciples of various sects.

Everyone even consciously stepped forward in order of cultivation level, and some greedy ones dug out a large piece and sucked it clean.

Soon, when it was the seventy-ninth person's turn, the last bit of "yellowish stuff" on the paper was eaten along with the paper.

The remaining hundred-plus people saw it was gone, and the cat-faced man didn't take out another lump, instantly falling into panic, their faces turning ashen, their bodies trembling violently.

This cat-faced man was the key to the test; those who didn't eat the "yellowish stuff" were very likely eliminated.

What would be the fate of those eliminated? Death was certain!

If they had known, they wouldn't have been so polite to others just now!

"This is unfair! We didn't get any!"

"It doesn't test ability, it doesn't test cultivation, it's just eating something, and you want to eliminate us? Where is the justice in this?"

"We want to eat too!"

"I can eat a whole lump by myself!"

More than a hundred people protested and roared in anger.

And the seventy-nine who had eaten were calm and composed; better the fellow daoist dies than the poor daoist. Even if they were fellow sect members, others dying was better than themselves dying. Sorry!

"What are you talking about? Eating what?" The cat-faced man's tone was cold and carried a hint of surprise.

"Uh..." A disciple of the Da Luo Holy Sect who hadn't eaten hesitated for a moment, and after confirming that this sentence didn't sound like some kind of test, asked: "Senior, are you not the messenger of the ruins?"

The cat-faced man suddenly laughed, his tone very strange: "What messenger? No! I am the same as you, having entered from the portal to search for the ancient super sect ruins. I am actually not the key to any test!"

"Uh..." Niu Wanli, Yu Qiuyi, Liu Yu, and the other seventy-nine people who were still calm and composed had their faces change drastically.

Ye Hongxue's face flushed red: "Then what did you give us to eat?"

"Shit! I didn't tell you to eat it; you came over and dug it out yourselves!" The cat-faced man said with unusual seriousness.

After saying "haha," he turned and ran.

"Ugh..."

For a time, there was the sound of vomiting everywhere.

Those who hadn't eaten stood frozen on the spot, their faces neither crying nor laughing.

Ye Hongxue straightened their back: "Kill him! This bastard is disguised as a disciple of some sect!"

As they spoke, they threw out a small knife natal magic treasure, and with a "boom," it shattered more than a dozen large trees.

"Kill!"

On this side, Yu Qiuyi, Liu Yu, and the group had already chased after them with hatred.

Heng Xian ran extremely fast, and he used the "Twenty Paths of Creation Escape Technique," specifically drilling into places where the forest was dense!

Of course, he was not the key to any damn test!

The "Mysterious Yellow Heavenly Hexagram" showed that this dense forest was indeed a layer of testing, the gray medicinal liquid was the key, and the knife coins were even more critical!

As for how to pass the test, the hexagram did not have a detailed explanation, and he didn't understand it too well either, only knowing that it would be within these one or two days.

Just now, when he came to observe what these people were doing, he found that these people were talking about him, so he decided to tease them for fun.

Of course, the shit wasn't his, but a bird's—the only strange bird in the dense forest, and the poop it laid was incredibly stinky.

(End of this chapter)