Even after he had sat down at the restaurant, Qi Dian was still puzzling over it. "How could it be a cucumber?"
"Don't overthink it," Zhao Xing'er consoled him. "You always get hung up on things. Getting a question wrong is just like having a Lizardman break off your engagement. What happened happened. You still have to look ahead."
"..." Qi Dian felt even worse after hearing that. I was just about to forget about the Lizardman if you hadn't brought it up!
It was hardly surprising that he was questioning his life. If nobody could answer such outrageous questions, he could at least say the questions themselves were too bizarre.
But he had only answered two questions, and before he could attempt the third, Yue Wen had already solved them all, beaten up Zhao's father, explained the whole story, and arranged a meal.
The contrast was a little too extreme.
It inevitably made him wonder whether the questions were fine and he was simply stupid.
Although he had already accepted that there was an enormous gap between himself and Yue Wen, every challenge revealed that the gap was even greater than he had imagined.
"I really did cause trouble for you youngsters this time," Zhao's father said ashamedly. "Since you're all about to take part in the City Hero Top Eight Battle, let me give you a little help before then."
Perfected One Nagiko's eyes lit up. "Do you mean to use the Divine Treasury Sea's properties to temper their astral qi, Patriarch Zhao?"
"Precisely." Zhao's father smiled slightly. "I took up their precious cultivation time. If I don't offer some compensation, won't people accuse me of holding the children back?"
As he spoke, he raised one hand and activated his Great Dao projection. In an instant, a vast