"Exactly."
Gu Yuan and the others all chimed in.
They were furious too.
Gu Yuan in particular had already fallen to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng. If he fell any further, he would not even dare leave the Gu Clan.
"Brother Xiao Han, may I ask which answer you chose? Could you tell me?" Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Han a cupped-hand salute and asked politely with a bitter smile.
"Do you even need to think? It had to be Three-Star Dou Zun. This Yao Chen really was useless. A Peak Dou Zun couldn't beat a Three-Star Dou Zun." Zhu Kun cursed, his voice full of displeasure.
The Heavenly Demon Phoenix that had been within his grasp had flown away, leaving him deeply disgruntled.
Although the Nascent Pill said nothing, judging by his expression, if Yao Chen were standing before him, he would surely have cursed him to death.
"What a fucking useless piece of trash!" Hun Tiandi swore, his refined bearing swept away.
But thinking about it, that made sense. Anyone who fell from Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint to late-stage eight-star Dou Sheng in such a short time would be doing well not to go mad.
Hearing everyone's disgruntled curses, Xiao Han's lips twitched.
He nodded in agreement with what they said.
If they thought Mu Gu had killed him, then Mu Gu had killed him.
It made little difference anyway.
After all, without Mu Gu bearing the brunt, Han Feng could not have stabbed Yao Chen.
"Question five!"
"What was the beginning that ultimately led to the failure of Hun Tiandi's grand plan in the world of Battle Through the Heavens?"
a, Yao Chen's death, b, the betrayal of the nihility devouring flame, c, outsourcing, D, Nalan Yanran breaking off her engagement.
"Please answer!"
As soon as the final question appeared, everyone frowned in unison.
Hun Tiandi cursed inwardly all the more: Why is the nihility devouring flame here again? Did this bastard betray me or not?
The mighty Hun Tiandi, the strongest man on the Dou Qi Continent, had already had his mind thrown into confusion by the Answering System.
There were only five questions in total, yet the nihility devouring flame had appeared four times, twice involving betrayal!
Although choosing the nihility devouring flame once had earned him no points, no one could turn a blind eye to its appearing so frequently.
"This really is a headache!" Hun Tiandi took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping back and forth.
He first ruled out Yao Chen's death. If a useless Peak Dou Zun who could be killed by a Three-Star Dou Zun could affect his grand plan, he might as well find a block of tofu and bash himself to death against it.
Next came the nihility devouring flame. He believed that, with his cunning, he could still keep a Heavenly Flame under control. The remaining choices, outsourcing and breaking off an engagement, made his brows knit tightly.
He pondered inwardly: A mere broken engagement could affect my grand plan? Isn't that utter bullshit? His gaze finally settled on outsourcing, because he remembered that this choice had appeared in the second question!
He had chosen the nihility devouring flame for the first question and failed, then Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun for the second and failed. Obviously, that left only outsourcing.
He immediately stopped hesitating and promptly pressed it.
His speed made Xiao Xuan, who had been watching him closely, frown.
While secretly praying that Hun Tiandi had chosen incorrectly, his gaze shifted back and forth between Yao Chen's death and the nihility devouring flame's betrayal.
As a powerhouse who had kept the Hun Clan too cowed to move when he was alive a thousand years ago, he did not believe Yao Chen's appearance was an arrow loosed without a target. This Peak Dou Zun who had been killed by a Three-Star Dou Zun must have had his use!
But the nihility devouring flame made him hesitate. This thing had appeared a full four times. Xiao Xuan knew the harm a rampaging Heavenly Flame could cause, and after hesitating for a moment, he ultimately chose the Heavenly Flame.
As a magical beast, Zhu Kun was relatively simple-minded. All he wanted now was to earn points and exchange them for a Heavenly Demon Phoenix to feast on, so he closed his eyes and pressed an option at random.
The Nascent Pill was much the same as it; he was merely there to make up the numbers anyway.
Gu Yuan, however, looked startled and uncertain. Others might not know Nalan Yanran, but he did.
When he had brought his daughter to the Xiao Clan, he had heard about this. The woman engaged to Xiao Yan, the Xiao Clan's third young master, was indeed called Nalan Yanran.
Could it really be that Xiao Yan became a Dou Di because this girl broke off their engagement? Gu Yuan thought, feeling very strange.
But isn't that far too ridiculous?
Gu Yuan was deeply hesitant. If he chose incorrectly again, he would fall to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng. At that point, never mind killing Hun Tiandi-he would be fortunate just to protect the Gu Clan.
"Countdown, 3, 2, 1."
While he hesitated, the countdown began. He sighed inwardly, stopped wavering, and instantly selected outsourcing.
"Beep, the countdown has ended. Everyone has made their selection. Evaluating. Evaluation complete."
"Xiao Han and Zhu Kun chose correctly and earn one point."
"Hun Tiandi, Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and the Nascent Pill chose incorrectly and lose one point."
"Beep, four participants have been detected without points to deduct. A percentage of their cultivation will be deducted instead."
"Hahaha, I got it right! Who would have thought it was breaking off an engagement? Who exactly is this Nalan Yanran? She isn't your lover, is she, Hun Tiandi?" Zhu Kun roared with laughter.
His Heavenly Demon Phoenix was secured.
How could he not be happy?
In contrast to his delight, the others looked grim, especially Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan.
"What? Wrong again?"
"What? It really was breaking off an engagement?"
Hun Tiandi clenched his fists tightly. He could not understand how a woman whose name he had never even heard could affect his grand plan by breaking off an engagement.
It nearly made him explode with rage.
Nalan Yanran!!! Hun Tiandi committed those four characters to memory.
Gu Yuan, meanwhile, wore an odd expression. Although his cultivation had fallen again, he had also learned a secret. He secretly decided that once he left this space, he must send someone to the Jia Ma Empire and bring about this broken engagement as early as possible.
Xiao Xuan, who had not answered a single question correctly, gave an easy cupped-hand salute and said, "Congratulations on earning more points, Brother Xiao Han. I have a presumptuous request I'd like to trouble you with, elder brother."
Xiao Han's expression turned very strange upon hearing Xiao Xuan's words.
The mighty ancestor of the Xiao Clan was calling him elder brother. This really was...
"Speak!"
He replied indifferently.
"It's like this. I wanted to..."
"This quiz has ended. Participants will shortly be expelled from the space. You may call upon the space at any time to redeem the points you earned."
But before Xiao Xuan could get his words out, the notification sounded beside his ears.
His vision suddenly blurred, and a familiar scene appeared before him.
Without realizing it, they had actually returned to their respective locations.
Xiao Xuan gave a bitter laugh and murmured, "This space truly possesses vast supernatural powers."
Deep beneath Jia Nan Academy.
"Delicious!"
Zhu Kun tore into the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's carcass in huge mouthfuls. Having gone so many years without a single bite of food, it was practically about to weep floods of tears.
Inside Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, cut off by the formation,
"The space?"
"Dou Di?"
The Nascent Pill gazed at the gray, hazy space and let out a long sigh. He had already been trapped in this wretched place for tens of thousands of years.
The Hun Clan.
Hun Tiandi's place of seclusion.
Hun Tiandi, whose cultivation had already fallen to Mid-Stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng, sat blankly for quite some time, his face livid.
Only then did he turn his fingers over, poke open a tiny spatial rift, and transmit his voice:
"Go, find Hun Miesheng. Tell him to spare no cost in tracking down a woman named Nalan Yanran, and stop her from breaking off her engagement!"
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