Chapter 5

Outside the Ascension Pavilion.

In a restaurant.

"Have you heard? There's no martial combat on the ninth floor of the Ascension Pavilion!"

"Nonsense, who in Snow Moon City isn't discussing the answers to those questions today?!"

"Good heavens, this move by Snow Moon City is truly brilliant! While not offending the martial arts community, they've managed to keep us all blocked here in the Mortal City!"

"Indeed! If we can't answer the questions, it's ultimately our own problem..."

"As expected of the number one city in the world, to think there's such a master inside!"

"Come to think of it, which character does everyone mispronounce?"

"I'm just a rough man, the techniques I practice were read to me by my wife, how would I know what character that is? I'm more curious about the other question."

"You say that in Snow Moon City, there are even specific steps to turn a dream into reality?"

"If that's the case, no matter what, I must find a way to join Snow Moon City!"

"Hehe, if you want to join Snow Moon City, you have to challenge the Ascension Pavilion, and if you want to pass the Ascension Pavilion, you have to answer the questions."

"..."

Not just the restaurant.

Even the peddlers and commoners on the street who didn't practice martial arts were filled with amazement.

They would look up at the Ascension Pavilion from time to time, wanting to see what kind of person the guardian of the ninth floor was.

However.

They could only see those challengers who reached the ninth floor walk in with confidence, and then walk out dejected.

Clearly.

The day was coming to an end.

And yet, not a single person had been able to answer a question correctly.

In the past.

Every day, there would still be one or two masters who successfully entered the tenth floor.

However, today.

No matter how high your martial arts were, once you reached the ninth floor, you had to sit down and answer questions obediently.

"Sigh, I heard the thirteenth floor is also special; it seems to be guessing the size by throwing dice, but ultimately, it's still a competition of internal energy and strength, but this ninth floor..."

Everyone had a feeling of having strength but nowhere to use it.

Most importantly.

Everyone only had one chance to answer!

This meant that those who wanted to guess blindly had no way to do so.

At this moment.

A large crowd had gathered outside the Ascension Pavilion.

Whenever someone walked out of the ninth floor, they would all swarm around, wanting to ask what the question they heard was.

Since they couldn't guess the answers to the previous questions, they had to quickly see the later ones.

Surely every question couldn't be this difficult, right?

Soon.

Another middle-aged man who had been stopped at the ninth floor walked out of the Ascension Pavilion.

And his strength.

Had already reached the mid-stage of the Vajra Mortal Realm.

"Senior, please stay!"

Someone asked impatiently: "Can you tell us what the question was this time?"

Hearing this.

The man did not refuse.

He directly stated the question that had been asked on the ninth floor just now.

"In a prison cell, there are two prisoners; one was imprisoned for a year for theft, and the other was imprisoned for only three months for murder."

After saying this.

The man looked at the crowd, full of expectation: "Do you know why?"

In the short time it took to walk downstairs, he had already been driven to the brink of madness by this question.

It clearly looked very simple, yet he just couldn't think of it.

"Did the prisoner kill a bad person?"

"If you ask me, this prisoner must be someone with connections!"

Everyone chimed in.

After arguing for a long time, they couldn't determine which answer was correct.

Some people, in order to verify their answers, even went directly into the Ascension Pavilion to start challenging it, even though they hadn't planned to.

Damn it!

I shouldn't have asked.

Asking and then not being able to think of the answer was agonizing.

Fourteenth floor of the Ascension Pavilion.

Because Jiang Chen was on the ninth floor, Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo stayed in the Ascension Pavilion for the whole day today, which was rare.

However.

Seeing that most of the day had passed.

And not a single person had reached the fourteenth floor, Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo couldn't sit still.

She felt that Luo Mingxuan on the thirteenth floor must have stopped everyone.

"Hmph! I should have told him to let a few through!"

Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo was somewhat annoyed.

Staying on the fourteenth floor all day without anyone to talk to had driven her crazy.

After thinking for a moment.

She decided to go down and tell Luo Mingxuan to ease up.

It was just that.

When she arrived at the thirteenth floor, she found Luo Mingxuan with his head down, staring at a chessboard and studying it incessantly.

"Mingxuan!"

The sudden sound startled Luo Mingxuan.

"Oh, so it's you, Senior Sister?!"

"I thought someone had finally come to challenge the pavilion."

Seeing that it was Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo, Luo Mingxuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then he said, looking puzzled:

"What's going on today? Why hasn't a single person come to challenge the pavilion?"

"Ah? Has no one reached your thirteenth floor either?"

Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo looked at him in surprise: "I thought the challengers had all been stopped by you."

"How is that possible! I haven't even seen a ghost until now."

"But that's fine, I have time to study this 'Immortal Grasping Six Chopsticks' technique."

Luo Mingxuan’s eyes shone: "I heard that this Six-Board technique contains supreme sword techniques; once I comprehend the sword techniques within, I will definitely be able to become a peerless master like the three City Masters!"

"Then study it slowly."

Brother Sikong Brother Sikong Qianluo didn't care and turned to walk toward the next floor.

She always felt that today’s Ascension Pavilion was strange.