"Forget it. There'll be plenty of chances later. There are more important things right now."
As he spoke, Cang Lin waved the middle-aged steward out. Then his gaze fell on the chessboard Sikong Jing had arranged. Taking out the ninth Starry Diagrams, he began engraving it according to Sikong Jing's arrangement.
He had to move quickly, because he had just received word that Pei Yuzheng had already solved the first challenge.
A full hour later, the ninth Starry Diagrams was taken out again by the middle-aged steward and hung up...
Yet no one knew whether Sikong Jing had succeeded, much less that the difficulty of this Starry Diagrams had increased severalfold.
An hour later.
Riding a Divine Shuttle Ship, Sikong Jing arrived at an extraordinarily bustling place within Ancient City.
At that moment, a crewman's voice rang out aboard the Divine Shuttle Ship. "One of Ancient City's three great challenges, the 'Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone,' has arrived. Every passenger need only pay one Bright King Crystal to observe and try it to their heart's content."
This exceptionally bustling place was precisely one of Ancient City's three great challenges, the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone.
Since they still had to wait a day before setting off, Sikong Jing had boarded a Divine Shuttle Ship to come here. He wanted to see whether he could gain anything from another of Ancient City's challenges.
Idle hands were idle hands, after all.
Just as the Divine Shuttle Ship slowly descended, a passenger asked, "Why is it so lively? It usually isn't like this."
The area around the Iron Cang Martial Resonance Stone was far too crowded, practically packed shoulder to shoulder.
This left several passengers familiar with the place deeply surprised.
The crewman immediately answered. It was because someone had successfully completed