After confirming this, Li Xueqing suddenly exchanged a look of profound complexity with Beiguo Xiao before frowning and saying:
"Senior Brother Beiguo, I failed my challenge just now. By rights, you should go first this round."
Fu Liu also smiled and said:
"Senior Brother Beiguo, please!"
The reason Fu Liu could remain so composed was that he knew perfectly well that, among the Martial Champion Tower's nine floors and nine trials, even if someone had a means of clearing every trial along the way, they could never pass the Sixth Floor or any floor above it.
Fu Liu smiled at Beiguo Xiao while murmuring inwardly:
The first through fifth floors are merely there to help the Profound Elixir Palace's disciples temper their physiques and qi and blood. Only from the Sixth Floor onward do the true tests of Martial Dao cultivation begin.
The guardians within are no longer all lifeless things like those on the first through fifth floors. Once you cheat, you'll certainly be expelled straight from the Martial Champion Tower.
Then there'll be quite a show to watch.
At this moment, Fu Liu's mindset was almost exactly the same as Jiang Ping's had been at the beginning.
The only difference was that his knowledge of the Martial Champion Tower far exceeded Jiang Ping's.
Faced with the successive questions from the elder, Fu Liu, and Li Xueqing, Beiguo Xiao did not answer directly. Instead, he asked Xu Taiping inwardly:
"Upper Immortal, should I take the platform and issue a challenge now?"
Xu Taiping shook his head and said:
"Let's watch a round first."
Xu Taiping did not know much about the Blade-Sharpening Boy to begin with, and Li Xueqing's challenge would give him an opportunity to observe it in secret.
Hearing this, Beiguo Xiao immediately looked at the elder