The island master hadn't expected Chen Changan to be so annoying. Did he really look like he had no culture?
Little did he know that what Chen Changan cared about wasn't whether it had ever attended school. What he wanted to know was... who had taught it arithmetic?
If it had never encountered the subject, there was no way it could have figured it out on its own.
Could the entire Star Sea Ruins have something to do with the Gate of Fortune?
Were the Star Sea Giant Beasts a trial deliberately placed here by the Gate of Fortune?
Chen Changan always liked to make his way of expressing himself a little unserious, using it to probe for the answers he wanted.
That was the only way to put others at ease and keep them from growing suspicious.
The island master hadn't seen through Chen Changan's little scheme. It just found him a bit exasperating.
Plenty of people had come here, but Chen Changan was the only one who was so relaxed, even a little flighty.
"Down you go!"
The island master was a little annoyed, too, and shoved Chen Changan straight into the pool.
"I'll be back in forty-nine days."
"Of course, if you can't take it, you can come out early and find me."
"Don't push yourself. I don't want to come back and find your corpse."
"Oh, right. The Power of Stars is extremely fierce. You might not even leave a skeleton behind."
With that, the island master turned and left without another glance at Chen Changan.
Once he entered the pool, Chen Changan discovered that every liquid in the Star Sea Ruins was formed from the Power of Stars.
The concentration of the Power of Stars in this place—whether in the pool or the waterfall—was even