"—That really wasn't easy!"
The Yellow Calico Cat poked its head out beside Zheng Qing's ear, looking at the blue-covered book in the young wizard's hands as it swayed its head. "I bet this book never imagined it would be so difficult just to display words you could understand... It probably has never seen such a lousy Legend."
Zheng Qing felt the veins on his forehead about to bulge again.
"What do you mean?"
He shot the cat a sidelong glare, yet very cautiously refrained from opening the book at once—stories in the Magic World were full of curses and traps carried out through books. He had never truly regarded himself, a "Side Door Legendary," as some omniscient, omnipotent great being.
A cat paw dropped from his shoulder and pointed repeatedly at that title.
"—It means exactly what it says."
The Yellow Calico Cat's tone carried a trace of contempt. "Those names that flashed by just now—whether it was Qiankun Zhoutai Ranghuo Fu Shuo, Daqian Shengxuan Du'e Jin Fang, or the Universe Ascends Through Tribulation Response Exam that appeared last—all of them, at their core, were about 'ways to deal with tribulations during World Ascension'..."
World Ascension?
Tribulations?
Those two key phrases immediately put Zheng Qing on edge, though they did not surprise him.
Registered Wizards had to undergo tribulations to advance to Grand Wizards. To higher-dimensional beings, a world was merely another form of "living entity," so encountering tribulations during ascension was perfectly normal.
It was only that, according to his calculations, the tribulations of the Xuanhuang Small World should still have been many years away—at the very least, they should erupt on the eve of the world's true ascension, never now. The journey of a thousand miles had only covered three or five miles; the Small World's Earth