"Are you the Hua Wucuo who scored ninety-nine on the themed assessment?"
Li Chen felt that the name sounded familiar. After a moment's recollection, he remembered.
Hua Wucuo's face darkened, and he actually found himself at a loss for words.
Only after a long while did he reply in mortified anger, "Yes, I'm the Hua Wucuo who scored ninety-nine on the themed assessment!"
Li Chen said, "Then you really have picked the wrong person. I have some modest insights into the heavenly derivation Dao, but I've hardly studied the art Dao. If you make me your target in this assessment, you might struggle even to pass."
Hua Wucuo choked, unable to refute him.
Because... he had the same ominous feeling!
"Hehe... everyone, welcome to my Soundless Heavenly Palace!"
As the two were speaking, a voice drifted over, ethereal as an immortal's.
The voice brimmed with an indescribably pleasing resonance, as though it encompassed every beautiful thing in the world.
Merely hearing it sent a tremor through everyone's hearts. Their magic power, vital energies, and divine soul thoughts were involuntarily drawn toward it. It truly had the air of a mighty spell Dao cultivator whose words brought the laws into motion.
Even they themselves did not know what had stirred their hearts or why. They knew only that they were captivated, intoxicated by the beautiful artistic realm woven from that voice alone, unwilling to leave it for a long, long time.
Appearing with the voice was an enormous enchanted palanquin, over ten feet wide and resembling an exquisitely crafted pavilion.
The entire palanquin seemed to have been carved from a single, intact piece of divine wood. Its terraces and towers were rendered in the finest detail. Carrying it were fully sixteen burly men in blue robes, their feet bare and their