The answer revealed

"I think she has a point too. Great minds really do think alike."

"Ah, yes, yes..."

Tang San offered a few perfunctory replies and left, feeling cold sweat break out across his back.

He had nearly made a terrible mistake!

Just moments ago, he had been about to say that everything Tang Ya said was wrong.

Someone would surely have argued with him, giving him an excuse to heap abuse on himself.

That would reduce the suspicion that he was Tang San.

Doing so might indeed have made others less likely to think he was Tang San, but the consequences it invited would have been incalculable.

He had nearly forgotten that, across the entire Douluo Continent, most people worshipped him, apart from a select few.

He was not presenting himself as one of those select few. Hurling such vicious abuse at himself would surely arouse suspicion.

If those people decided to try identifying him, wouldn't it all be over?

Besides that, there was another reason.

The Sky Screen would reveal the answer.

For this question, it was easy to foresee that very few people would answer correctly.

If he argued against her, others would assume he had written the correct answer.

Yet when the number of correct respondents was announced and the rewards were distributed, one person would not add up.

He would have answered correctly yet received no reward. No matter how he argued then, it would all be futile.

He would definitely be exposed.

Tang San felt relieved that he had held himself back at the crucial moment. Otherwise, everything would have been ruined.

"All right, let's choose between one and three. See which one you want to pick. I'm definitely choosing one."

Tang Ya spoke to Huo Yuhao and the other two while writing a large one on her colored paper.

Huo Yuhao leaned closer to her and discovered that he truly could not see what Teacher Xiao Ya had written on her paper.

He guessed the Sky Screen had created this rule to keep their ancestor's identity from being exposed too quickly.

Otherwise, if someone recorded everyone's answers and then eliminated them one by one according to the answer the Sky Screen revealed, their ancestor's identity would be laid bare.

It seemed the Sky Screen did not intend to hunt him down to the last breath. The question was whether their ancestor could hold out.

"Yuhao, what are you looking at?"

Tang Ya asked, a little puzzled.

"I was checking whether I could see what Teacher Xiao Ya wrote, but I really couldn't see anything."

"Ah, really? Little Yuhao, hurry and write your answer. Let me see whether that's true."

"All right, Teacher Xiao Ya."

Hearing their exchange, Bei Bei and Wang Dong both leaned over.

Without hesitation, Huo Yuhao wrote a large one on his paper.

Only then did the three discover, to their surprise, that not only could they not see what was written on the paper, they could not even see Huo Yuhao's writing motions.

It really seemed to prevent anyone else from guessing what was written on the paper.

"It's true, Yuhao! Why do you think the Sky Screen is doing this?"

"Probably to keep our ancestor's identity from being exposed too quickly?"

"Is that so? Then the Sky Screen is treating our ancestor pretty well."

Others who wanted to peek at someone else's answer also discovered this phenomenon, only then remembering the new rule the Sky Screen had added.

For those with formidable strength, seeing other people's answers did not require checking them one at a time. A single sweep of their spiritual power would suffice.

If that were possible, Tang San would be completely exposed on this question.

His answer would be correct, yet no reward would descend for him.

"Mother, which answer do you think we should choose for this question?"

Zhongli Wu respectfully transmitted his voice to Ye Xishui. He both revered and feared his mother.

"I just used my spiritual power to inspect other people's answers, only to discover that I couldn't see through this colored paper provided by the Sky Screen at all."

"Still, it wasn't entirely fruitless. I found someone interesting. Her martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, and she calls herself the current Tang Sect Leader."

"She thinks one and three are the most likely answers, with one being somewhat more likely than three."

Zhongli Wu hesitated for a moment.

"You mean we should choose one, Mother?"

Ye Xishui glanced at him.

"I mean that, since the answer will be one of those two, we should each choose a different one."

"All right. I'll choose three, then. You choose one, Mother."

Ye Xishui gave no voice transmission, tacitly agreeing, and both wrote down their answers.

After finishing, Zhongli Wu nervously transmitted his voice again.

"Mother, what do you think about the matter with Wu Yun?"

Ye Xishui's expression did not change in the slightest.

"Don't worry. He won't get what he wishes for. I've already guessed whom he intends to identify, and that person isn't Tang San."

Zhongli Wu did not ask how his mother had guessed. His somewhat nervous expression instantly settled, and he looked toward Wu Yun with a vicious gleam in his eyes.

It was as though Wu Yun's hour of death was approaching.

The Silver Dragon King did not believe she could arrive at the correct answer to this question through rational analysis alone.

After all, she knew nothing whatsoever about Tang San.

So, for the sake of the reward, she made the same choice as Ye Xishui.

She listened to someone else.

As it happened, Tang Ya's voice was the loudest in the entire Sky Screen Space, and she was also the leader of the Tang Sect.

Although Tang Ya had answered the previous question incorrectly, the Silver Dragon King still chose to trust her and wrote a one on her own paper.

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King forcibly suppressed his malice toward Tang San and did not immediately write down four as his answer.

After all, he had already vented on the previous question and missed out on the reward as well.

This time, he did not want to miss out. He wanted to become a god and take revenge on Tang San directly.

Thus, after listening to everyone's analysis, he made the same choice as the human and beast before him.

He would listen to Tang Ya!

Although he was unwilling to admit it, given her position as the Tang Sect Leader, she ought to understand Tang San better than he did.

In the end, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King chose to trust her and wrote a one on his own paper.

And so, apart from the three strongest beings in this Sky Screen Space, everyone had been led astray by the smug-looking Tang Sect Leader, Tang Ya.

If Tang Ya knew about this, who could say what expression she would make?

[Three minutes remain until the answer period ends. All respondents, please keep track of the time.]

As the Sky Screen's three-minute announcement rang out, most people in the space had already written down their answers.

During the final three-minute countdown, the Sky Screen's voice rang out once more.

[The answer to the previous question will now be revealed.]

[The answer to the previous question is "four."]

[As an outer disciple of his sect, Tang San was forbidden from learning the sect's supreme inner-disciple techniques. Thus, he found a way to steal those supreme techniques and was pursued by the sect.]

[Number of correct respondents: 7. Of the others, 203 chose one, 35 chose two, and 115 chose three, for a total of 360 respondents.]

[Rewards will be distributed in three minutes.]

As the words slowly appeared on the Sky Screen, there was first a stretch of utter silence, then the entire space erupted like a detonating bomb.