Pure

"Of course we use it right away."

While everyone else hesitated, Zhang Shouzhong was the first to speak.

He looked around and smiled. "What's there to hesitate about? Who knows if we'll get another chance to come in? And even if we do, what if it doesn't recognize us? What if it makes us take the test all over again?"

"Right. One bird in the hand beats ten thousand in the forest. Use it!" Bai De agreed at once.

Zhang Ping smiled. "Then I'll claim it."

"Go ahead." Liu Sishan smiled faintly.

Zhang Ping pressed the claim button. In an instant, the entire screen shone with dazzling light.

Countless insights seemed to appear from nowhere, gradually filling his mind. He saw the complete journeys by which Emperor Chang Man, Emperor Ji Kai, and Emperor Sleeping Lotus had become Emperors.

One man, one club, invincible beneath the heavens. He guarded the mighty pass and ground ten thousand beasts into mud!

Chang Man's life had been a life of slaughter, yet he was no bloodthirsty man. If anything, he was a little absentminded. Because of a single wager, he had guarded Wild Boar Pass for seventy years, and no one knew how many Mutated Beasts had died beneath his spiked club.

On the day he fulfilled the wager, something stirred in his heart, and he finally became an Emperor.

One swing!

Two swings!

Three swings!

Every time he swung his spiked club, a Mutated Beast's head seemed to come straight to it, only to burst apart under the blow.

At that moment, Zhang Ping seemed to become Chang Man. Beneath the blazing sun, the setting sun, the bright moon, dark clouds, howling winds, and thunder, he attacked again and again, keeping every Mutated Beast beyond Wild Boar Pass.

Beyond the pass lay