A Difficult Question

"Ah... ah?!" Jin Fei blinked. "First time what?"

Ophelia didn't answer, but gave him a knowing look.

Jin Fei was stunned... He never expected it to be such a difficult answer... He stammered for a moment, then his eyes lit up, "I'd like to answer, but I don't understand the Ancient Parami Language, and even if I did, I'm afraid the spring water wouldn't understand..."

"Don't worry," Ophelia said. "No matter what language you speak, the spring reads your meaning and understands it."

"Uh..." Jin Fei started sweating.

"Don't be shy. Didn't we just say we're all grown men? What's there to be embarrassed about?" Ottos said with a smug look on his face. "Even if you say a name, we don't know anyone. What's there to be afraid of?"

"The key is..." Jin Fei hesitated, glancing at Zhuge Chi beside him every now and then, making the Peak expert feel uneasy.

"Hurry, if you don't speak now, we'll be judged a failure," Ophelia urged. "You must tell the truth."

"Fine, so be it..." Jin Fei gritted his teeth. "Yes... Feng Yao!"

After the answer was announced, the text on the spring changed, and Ophelia translated, "Correct answer."

Zhuge Chi inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, then widened his eyes and roared angrily, "You brat... you actually did that to A Yao!"

"Brother, that was all in the past when I was young and impetuous. I don't think about it anymore. Your kids are all in school now, so please don't take it to heart!"

Jin Fei hurriedly begged for mercy. It's no wonder he was terrified. If the answer had just been a complete stranger, it wouldn't have mattered. The problem was that Feng Yao was Zhuge Chi's wife, and the two were classmates at the Puhua Mountain Academy. Back then, Jin Fei was considered a famous prodigy. He entered Puhua Mountain Academy at the age of seventeen, and that's when he first met Feng Yao, who was just twenty years old at the time. He fell in love with this stunningly beautiful Senior at first sight and had a crush on her for a long time, but he never dared to confess his feelings until graduation.

"Please don't tell your sister-in-law when you get back... or I'll be really in deep trouble..." Jin Fei pleaded desperately. Zhuge Chi snorted coldly, but considering the special circumstances, he didn't argue with him.

Having learned from Jin Fei's experience, the others also became more cautious about the Honest Spring. After hesitating for a while, Ottos was the second to step forward.

"Are you mentally prepared?" Jin Fei mocked from the side. "Don't follow in my footsteps."

"I'm not like you hypocritical, Zhendan people from Cinnamon," Ottos said, raising his head. "There's nothing shameful about matters between men and women."

"They really are Xiluo, so open-minded," Jin Fei gave a thumbs up.

As Ottos leaned against the stone tablet, words appeared on the water's surface.

"When was the last time you ate shit?" Ophelia translated.

These words immediately caused an uproar. Everyone looked at Ottos, especially Jin Fei: "I didn't expect you to be so cunning!"

Ottos was also taken aback, not expecting to be asked this. He was about to say he hadn't, but then thought better of it and honestly answered, "Four months ago..."

"Correct answer."

"Whoa whoa whoa..." A gasp of shock rippled through the crowd.

"Don't misunderstand!" Ottos hurriedly explained, "I was interning in the [Empire] at the time, and I encountered Foul Ogre. I had no experience then, so I was the first to rush in..."

"Oh!" Jin Fei clapped his hands. "I've heard that the Foul Ogre likes to attack by wrapping fermented feces in a pig's bladder. You wouldn't happen to...?"

Ottos was exasperated. "When it was thrown at me, I thought it was a rock, so I slashed at it with my knife... After that, I took eight showers and brushed my teeth sixteen times, but I still feel the smell..."

"Huh..."

Upon hearing his description, everyone present, except Ophelia, showed expressions of disgust and unconsciously moved a little further away from him.

"Wait, the spring water is asking about the last time... Could it be that it happened more than once?"

"Just this once!" Ottos roared, "Don't you guys have any embarrassing moments? Come on, next one, come on!"

This time, it was Zhuge Chi who came up. He reached out and touched the stone tablet, and the characters in the pool changed.

"The spring water wants you to talk about your opinion of Ling Yao," Ophelia translated the question.

This is a bit pointed... The others were looking at Zhuge Chi, and there's no standard answer to this kind of question. If the truth is required, it can't be answered in just a few words.

Zhuge Chi sighed, "He's a genius, a once-in-a-century genius in the cultivation world. When I was young, I was somewhat Qi Ingestion when I heard someone almost ten years younger than me was mentioned alongside me. After meeting him once, I realized the gap. I felt resentful, and even secretly cried in my room, thinking, 'Why was I born if I was already here!' Back then, I cultivated desperately, even secretly hoping he would be eaten by monsters in the Savage Wilderness... But later, when I learned that he reached his Peak in his twenties, I felt relieved and accepted my fate."

"Some people can be surpassed through double the effort, but some people, no matter how hard you try, you can't. Ling Yao, to me, is a genius who inspires despair!"

Zhuge Chi's words moved everyone. At his Peak in his thirties, he was already a rare, top-tier genius. Who would have thought that he also had such a "prodigy" in his heart?

It is truly remarkable for a renowned master to be able to say such things so frankly.

While not as embarrassing as the issues faced by Jin Fei and Ottos, these issues were probably even more difficult to discuss.

"Correct answer," Ophelia said, quoting the spring's assessment. "Next."

This time, it was Mu Ning who came up.

Ophelia glanced at the changing pool water. "What's the most unforgettable scene you've ever witnessed?"

What kind of question is this?

Everyone was taken aback, thinking that everyone else's stories were either embarrassing or about their broken hearts, but how did it become a primary school student's essay for her? The most unforgettable scene? Couldn't she just describe a beautiful scene?

"This question is actually quite difficult to answer..." Zhuge Chi shook his head. "There are too many unforgettable moments, especially with Mu Ning. Her perception is extraordinary, so it's very difficult to select the most unforgettable moment from among them. If we answer incorrectly, we might be stuck here."

"Mu Ning, you must think carefully before you answer!"

However, after hearing the question, Mu Ning hesitated for only a dozen seconds before answering, "When I was eight years old, my eyes started to see through walls. Late at night, I saw in the next room that my Dad was pinning my sister down, and I heard their conversation... I realized then that the sister I've always called 'sister' is actually my Mom..."

Those few words silenced everyone present.

"Correct answer." Ophelia translated, her face still expressionless. "Next."

"It's just the two of us left." Luo Jun stepped forward. "I'll go first."

Hearing him say that, everyone became extremely alert.

Of everyone present, the most mysterious was Ye. This enigmatic and powerful figure, who appeared like a comet, always wore a mask to conceal his identity. No one knew where he came from, much less his true identity. Even within the Yuan Cultivation Society, there were discussions about establishing a special task force to analyze intelligence about Ye.

Now that we've encountered this Honest Spring, under the rule that we must answer with the truth, can we extract some crucial information about "night"?

Everyone's expectations were at their peak.

As for Luo Jun, as he walked toward the Honest Spring, he had already summoned the Dice of Heavenly Secrets in his mind.

One result: 70 points; another result: 99 points!

"Ding! Event Difficulty: 100 points; final result: 99 + 5 points; Event Success!"

"It's settled!" Luo Jun confidently walked to the pool and placed his hand on the monument.

(End of this chapter)