Ancestor, Can You Beat a Dou Sheng?

Just as everyone's thoughts twisted and turned, a countdown rang out in the space.

"Countdown, 3, 2, 1."

"Beep, countdown complete. Everyone has made their selections. Assessing. Assessment complete."

"Xiao Han, correct selection. One point awarded."

"Hun Tiandi, Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, Nascent Pill, Zhu Kun, incorrect selections. One point deducted."

"Beep, five participants detected without points to deduct. A percentage of their cultivation will be deducted instead."

"Dou Di strength and childhood sweethearts were both wrong?" Hun Tiandi blurted out, his face livid.

He could hardly be blamed for losing his composure. His cultivation had plummeted the moment he entered, dropping from Mid-Stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng to Early-Stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng. Even the four elders in his own clan were stronger than him now. How was he supposed to remain clan leader?

Let it all be destroyed. He was so damned tired of this.

Gu Yuan frowned at his words. Although he had not selected Dou Di strength, that was the incorrect answer he had eliminated. He had chosen the intimacy of childhood sweethearts. He had never expected it to be wrong, and his strength had fallen again and again, down to Eight-Star Peak Dou Sheng.

Still, he did not have to worry about his life, because the system Gu Yuan implemented in the Gu Clan was a council of elders where everyone could offer suggestions. Even when he was a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, people still lambasted him whenever they felt he deserved it.

But he still had to ask about the answer. He immediately looked at Xiao Xuan and said, "Brother Xiao, which answer did you choose?"

"The same as that Hun bastard." Xiao Xuan shrugged indifferently.

His strength had also fallen to Eight-Star Peak, but he did not care. He could not leave the Heavenly Tomb anyway, so dying sooner or later made no difference to him. Especially now that he knew his descendant Xiao Yan had not only killed Hun Tiandi but also become a Dou Di, all he had left in his heart was the desire for some amusement.

"Hmph!"

Hearing Xiao Xuan call him a bastard, Hun Tiandi snorted coldly.

Although his strength had dropped again, he could not lose in presence. Otherwise, he would not be able to keep Gu Yuan cowed. If that coward figured things out and had people spread rumors of his fallen cultivation far and wide, and Nihility Devouring Flame heard them and came looking for him, he really would be finished.

Gu Yuan frowned. Unable to get an answer from Xiao Xuan, he turned to Zhu Kun.

"Hmph, you're not much of a father. You don't even know how someone won your daughter over." Seeing Gu Yuan look his way, Zhu Kun, who could not get any fresh Heavenly Demon Phoenix to eat, snorted before answering sullenly, "I chose the opposite of them: the affection of childhood sweethearts, eliminating Dou Di strength."

Gu Yuan's face twitched. Wasn't that exactly what he had chosen? He could only turn his hopeful gaze toward Nascent Pill. As for why he did not ask Xiao Han, of course it was because Xiao Han was the only Nine-Star Dou Sheng among them.

Of the five questions last time, he had answered four correctly. Leaving aside what he had received, his cultivation alone had barely dropped. At the very least, he was still a Mid-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng. Surely asking him for the answer would require offering something good.

With something a Nine-Star Dou Sheng would fancy in the hands of an Eight-Star Dou Sheng like himself, he had no idea whether Xiao Han would rob him, or perhaps kill him.

"Might I ask, Brother Nascent-" Gu Yuan began slowly, but Nascent Pill interrupted him before he could ask his question.

"Human brat, I also chose Dou Di strength and the affection of childhood sweethearts," Nascent Pill said slowly, his aged voice making Gu Yuan freeze.

"Well, this!" Gu Yuan's heart immediately lurched.

He had asked all five unlucky souls. Only Xiao Han remained.

If he did not ask, Gu Yuan would feel unsettled. If he did, he had no idea what price he would have to pay.

That left him torn.

"Hmph, humans are such hypocrites." Just then, Zhu Kun snorted again and said, "Human Xiao Han, tell this emperor the answer, and this emperor will tell you the whereabouts of Heavenly Flames. How about it?"

"No deal!" Xiao Han refused.

"You don't even want to know that?" Zhu Kun paused, puzzled. "Don't all humans like Heavenly Flames?"

"Tch, never mind that I'm not interested in Heavenly Flames. Even when it comes to their locations, I don't necessarily know fewer than you do." Xiao Han smiled faintly.

How could an old fellow like Zhu Kun, who had been trapped for thousands of years, know as much as he did?

Those confident words startled Zhu Kun. He sized Xiao Han up. "Are you a magical beast too? What race? Don't tell me you're a Heavenly Demon Phoenix."

Xiao Han immediately snapped back at those insulting words, "You're a magical beast! Your whole family are magical beasts!"

"I am a magical beast." Not only did Zhu Kun not care, he even looked somewhat proud.

"Idiot."

At that, Xiao Han's mouth twitched, and he could not be bothered with him.

He knew where the fellow's daughter was anyway. At worst, he could go poke his daughter later.

Poke her hard with his spear.

"Brother Xiao Han, please, you must tell me the correct answer. I'm begging you!"

After wrestling with himself for a while, Gu Yuan finally spoke helplessly.

He could have let other questions go without asking, but he absolutely had to get to the bottom of this one.

Gu Xun'er's rebelliousness, sneaking into a room at night-either one gave him a bad feeling.

Who was she rebelling against?

And who was sneaking into whose room?

If he could not figure it out, he really would cough up blood.

"It's not as though I can't tell you. What can you offer?" Xiao Han asked calmly.

Gu Yuan sighed inwardly. He had known a Nine-Star Dou Sheng would not be easy to fob off, so he could only ask, "What do you want?"

Xiao Han rubbed his chin, thinking of Xiao Yi Xian, whom he would be approaching, and immediately answered, "The Gu Clan is a great clan with a thousand-year history. You must have records concerning the Woeful Poison Body. Find some methods of sealing it and give them to me the next time we enter the Answering Space."

"No problem!" Gu Yuan readily agreed.

He had thought Xiao Han would open his mouth like a lion and demand an exorbitant price, but it turned out to be only this. He had heard of the Woeful Poison Body constitution too. It was formidable to ordinary Dou Emperors and Dou Zongs, but to the Gu Clan, it was just something by the roadside.

Seeing him agree, Xiao Han did not hesitate. "It was D. I chose D."

"D?" Gu Yuan froze at first, then his expression changed drastically as he blurted out, "Sneaking into a room at night."

"Hahaha!" Hun Tiandi roared with laughter.

"Oh, Gu Yuan, Gu Yuan. You sent your daughter to the Xiao Clan, but you never expected this, did you? Someone gobbled her up, taking everything until nothing was left. As far as I know, your daughter is only in her teens, isn't she? Tsk, tsk. What a fine descendant of Xiao Xuan's!"

Hun Tiandi, whose strength had fallen to Early Eight-Star Dou Saint, had already begun sowing discord.

Gu Yuan's face twitched, and his hands clenched into fists. His longing for a Dou Di son-in-law turned to disgust at that moment. No matter how he looked at the boy, he found him displeasing.

You little brat. Just see how I deal with you once I get out, Gu Yuan thought savagely.

Outside the space, Xiao Xun'er's face was deathly pale. "It's all over now. Brother Xiao Yan is doomed!"

Xiao Yan's expression was hardly any better than hers. After smiling bitterly to himself, he asked, "Ancestor, compared to a Dou Sheng, could you beat him?"