The Scholar Forest had an enormous impact on scholars. Its many opportunities were enough to let one advance by leaps and bounds. Yet its nature was peculiar: no one could enter it too many times in a lifetime. Each entry stained the soul with information from the Scholar Forest, and once too much accumulated, one would lose one's own will and merge with the Scholar Forest.
Even those fortunate enough to retain themselves, with wills firm enough to endure, would find it difficult to escape the Scholar Forest's corrosion and return to the present world.
That was precisely why Qiu Yan had said this when he was able to enter the Scholar Forest. To people of the past, however, Soul Entry into the Scholar Forest was an opportunity that could only be encountered, never sought. Why would they think so much about it? When such a chance fell into their laps, they would eagerly seize it at once.
Thus, upon hearing this, the people outside the hall immediately understood that Qiu Yan truly possessed a method to enter and leave the Scholar Forest at will. They simply did not know whether he extended such preferential treatment only to his own students and disciples.
However, the thoughts of those people lay outside Wu Meng and Sun Xun's considerations. Faced with Qiu Yan's question, the two still had to make a choice. Yet in but an instant, Wu Meng had reached his decision.
"Teacher, I have long heard of this Scholar Forest. I never imagined something like this could ever fall to people like us. Since the chance has come, we cannot let it slip away!" Wu Meng's decision, as always, seemed impulsive, yet it was firm.
His words clearly gave Sun Xun much to consider, and the latter promptly made his