Chapter 709

"Correct answer, you have passed."

Not long after Ling Huanxi left, Yuezheng Yao and Hongdou arrived one after the other. Xiao Xuan introduced the contents of the checkpoint at a leisurely pace and then let the two draw lots. At this moment, Yu Shuying caught up in the Vermilion Bird Profound Armor.

Yuezheng Yao urged, "Hurry, hurry, let's make the most of the time."

Xiao Xuan looked at the note and read aloud, "If one equals four, two equals eight, and three equals twelve, what is four equal to?"

Yuezheng Yao's eyes lit up. This question was easy, and she blurted out, "It equals sixteen."

"Wrong, four equals one. Please wait over there for three minutes."

"Why does four equal one, instead of forming a sequence of four times the original number... Ah!"

Yuezheng Yao suddenly realized the reason and wanted to slap herself on the head. If she had thought more, she wouldn't have made the mistake. At this moment, she could only resign herself to her fate and wait aside.

Next up are Hongdou.

"What is 12345 × 67890? Please answer within ten seconds."

Hongdou replied instantly, "838102050".

Xiao Xuan glanced at Hongdou with slight surprise, a sense of realization that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. He nodded and said, "Completely correct. You passed."

"Thank you, Uncle." Hongdou channeled her powerful inner strength and strode forward.

"Who's an uncle? I'm only this year... Oh, right, I've been crazy in the snowy mountains for eight years, so I am indeed an uncle now." Xiao Xuan suddenly seemed a little disinterested.

"Senior Xiao, could you wait a bit before you get down? It's my turn now."

After listening to the questions and answers from the previous two people, Yu Shuying felt more confident. She wasn't afraid of riddles at all, and as for math problems, although her calculation ability wasn't as good as Hongdou's, it was more than enough. She could answer the question from earlier in three seconds.

Xiao Xuan opened the paper, glanced at it, and said weakly, "Your question is very simple: smash five iron tiles with your forehead in one go." As he spoke, he took out five iron plates and stacked them together.

"Wait, wait a minute!" Yu Shuying stared blankly at the iron plate in front of her, which was at least ten centimeters thick, and protested loudly, "Why are my questions different from theirs?"

"Nothing's different, it's all about using your brain."

Chinese New Year Special (Part 2)

"That's it, use your brain!"

Yu Shuying looked at Xiao Xuan gesturing for her to enter and felt helpless. This kind of thing would indeed be a very simple problem for Si Ming, but she was not a martial arts type. She could smash tiles or bricks with her forehead, but iron plates were completely beyond her capabilities.

If it were a different person in charge, Yu Shuying might have chosen to poison him directly. After all, the game rules introduced by the Narrator-kun did not include a rule against attacking the person in charge. I believe that the young lady of the Si Clan also guessed this. However, the organizers obviously anticipated this and left no loopholes. With the former Grandmaster in charge, there are probably only a handful of people in the world who can reliably defeat Xiao Xuan.

"No need to try anymore, I concede defeat on this question." Yu Shuying had no choice but to give up.

Xiao Xuan said, "I'm sorry, you won't get the seal if you give up. You can only get the seal by accepting the challenge. Whether you can succeed in the challenge is another matter."

Yu Shuying was filled with hatred, but there was nothing she could do. She glanced at the pile of iron tiles in front of her, gritted her teeth, and decided to go all out. She gathered her True Qi in her forehead and slammed it down hard!

State!

The iron tiles were visibly twisted, but none were broken. Xiao Xuan glanced at them and declared without a shred of pity, "Challenge failed. Please wait three minutes before proceeding."

Yu Shuying remained bent over, banging her head against the tile, for a long while before finally managing to utter a sniffling sound through gritted teeth, "Ouch... it hurts... ah..."

During this time, Murong Qing, Murong Wu, and Si Huaruo all passed through the checkpoints smoothly. The questions they drew were mostly ordinary, none of them as unlucky as Yu Shuying, nor were they as private as Ling Huanxi, who had personal habits involved.

"Three minutes are up, can I go now?" Yuezheng Yao asked impatiently.

"Of course, please make yourself at your leisure when the time is up." Xiao Xuan nodded.

Yuezheng Yao immediately used her lightness skill to accelerate and leap out. With a light touch of her toes, she would fly more than 30 zhang, creating ripples in the air.

Soon, a dense forest appeared before Yuezheng Yao, with towering trees blocking out the sun and a dangerous aura emanating from the forest.

But ultimately, they were just wild beasts, not Demon Beast. This kind of danger only applied to ordinary people and was not taken seriously by the contestants. Rather, in the eyes of the beasts, the eight contestants outside of Murong Wu were nothing short of mobile natural disasters, which they consciously avoided.

"We've fallen too far behind, we have to find a way to catch up. I'm sorry everyone, but I absolutely must win this match."

Yuezheng Yao took out the Guxi Shao Bone Xiao, put it to her lips and began to play, and a sound wave that was inaudible to the human ear spread out.

Moments later, the entire forest erupted in chaos. All the animals attacked the humans in the forest like madmen, one after another, fearless of death. Although they could not cause any real danger, they were enough to slow down the contestants.

"Thousand Directions Afterimages!" the Narrator-kun shouted, cupping his hands to his mouth like a megaphone.

Murong Qing swept her sword horizontally, unleashing hundreds of icy Sword Qi energies that rendered all the beasts blocking her path immobile. Even those that weren't killed were frozen in place. Then, she grabbed her younger brother Murong Wu and ran forward. But soon, new beasts appeared, clearly gathering around them and even forming an encirclement.

"Sis, don't worry about me, just hurry towards the finish line. I can't hold you back, and besides, we're competitors now, we shouldn't be helping each other in the first place."

"Shut up. Before we're rivals, you're first and foremost my brother."

"But..."

"No buts! Instead of wasting time arguing, let's work together and break out of here. That's the right thing to do."

In front of Murong Wu, Murong Qing acted unusually tough, behaving like the head of a family, and her decisions were not open to questioning.

Si Huaruo quickly caught up. Although she was also attacked by the beasts in a suicidal manner, she was able to move around very easily on her own. She used the moves from the Water Moon Precious Mirror one by one, and the beasts that crashed into her were thrown away by centrifugal force as if they had hit a spinning ball.

Seeing the Murong siblings working together in solidarity, and noticing that Murong Qing was using the same Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art that Si Ming her, Si Huaruo had a sudden thought and quickly made a decision.

"Frost Talisman, Chaotic Snow Entwining the Wind!" -- The Narrator-kun shouted with great force, drawing his breath from his Dantian.

A cold wind howled in, carrying with it a flurry of heavy snowflakes, and the ground was immediately covered with a layer of frost.

The harsh winter is also a major enemy for wild animals, enough to trigger their instinctive fear. Soon their movements slowed down, and they showed hesitant expressions.