Yun Jingheng stood at the entrance to a corridor.
Before him stood a stone gate... no, six of them.
Cai Yue'er stood by the gates with her arms folded.
"This is the third test, the Six-Path Guillotine Gate. Pass through within thirty seconds, or you fail. The six guillotines will fall in sequence, each one faster than the last. Getting hit even once counts as failure."
She paused. "This tests speed."
Yun Jingheng looked at the six guillotines, then at Cai Yue'er.
Yun Jingheng fell silent for a moment.
The guillotines were extremely wide, nearly spanning the entire width of the corridor.
He could only charge forward and make it through before they fell.
Thirty seconds, six guillotines, each faster than the previous one.
In other words, he needed to dash from beneath the first guillotine to beyond the sixth within thirty seconds.
That averaged five seconds per guillotine.
The first blade would be the slowest, and the sixth the fastest.
He turned to Cai Yue'er, the corner of his mouth twitching. "Aunt Cai, are you abusing your authority for personal revenge?"
The corner of Cai Yue'er's mouth rose by roughly one pixel. "I haven't done anything to you over the fact that you took my Soul Tool core. Don't worry."
Heh. If I hadn't read the original novel, I might really have been fooled by you.
Yun Jingheng looked at the six guillotines and steadied himself.
He recalled what Long Yeyue had told him while teaching him movement techniques.
"Speed doesn't come from brute force. It comes from rhythm. When your footwork, breathing, and center of gravity become one, speed will naturally emerge."
He adjusted his breathing, tapped his feet against the ground, and shifted his center of gravity slightly forward.
Cai Yue'er stood at the entrance, watching his