Chapter 43: I Want Immortal Ascension (Part 12)
Liu Sheng looked at Zhang Tinglin and You Yingcai, who were tightly bound by Little Tentacle and cursing loudly, with an indifferent expression, her arms crossed.
“Why did you tie us up! We have no grievances with you!”
Zhang Tinglin possessed martial arts, and Liu Sheng had to expend some effort to capture him, so she bound him with extra force now. His honest face was flushed red, like an angry, cooked shrimp.
“These… these are weird objects! You are a weird object!” You Yingcai cried out, tears streaming down his face, “Sister She Chan! Brother Jiang Tao! Please save me!”
“We have no grievances now, but that might change later.”
“I completely don’t understand what you’re saying! You’re insane!” Zhang Tinglin’s eyes flickered, but he maintained the appearance of bulging veins and struggling desperately.
You Yingcai was still sobbing.
“Su Jin… what… what did they do wrong…” She Chan hesitated, finally unable to resist asking, “We are all fellow Xuezis, why don’t we calm down and talk things through?”
Liu Sheng looked at She Chan and Jiang Tao beside her.
Jiang Tao had suffered mental trauma while comprehending the stone tablet earlier and could only sit resting. But he looked at Liu Sheng with considerable fear, shrinking his neck as if he wanted to burrow into the ground and disappear from Liu Sheng’s sight.
As for She Chan, the concern in her eyes turned to the two men, and when she looked at Liu Sheng, there was worry, and also fear.
Liu Sheng realized that they had not experienced everything she had gone through in the tian yan stone, so they naturally found Liu Sheng, who could conjure black tentacles with a raise of her hand, even more terrifying.
Liu Sheng’s face hardened. She didn’t need to care about others’ opinions; surviving was what truly mattered.
She remembered the method of breaking the seal that Zhang Tinglin and You Yingcai had mentioned, and asked, “Where did you hear that you could use our blood to water the stone tablet?”
“How did you know…”
Zhang Tinglin froze, blurting it out. You Yingcai quickly coughed a few times, and Zhang Tinglin reacted, nervously changing his words, “Why are you spouting nonsense? I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
She Chan and Jiang Tao’s expressions changed upon hearing this, and their reactions confirmed there was indeed something fishy.
“Are you going to speak or not? I’m only warning you once.”
Liu Sheng grabbed into the Void Realm, and “Mama” snaked up, coiling around their necks, slowly tightening.
Zhang Tinglin’s eyes kept glancing at You Yingcai. Although his face was beet red, he still dared not speak.
You Yingcai was scared pale, stopping his feigned tears, and finally couldn’t help but shriek, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
Liu Sheng retracted the tentacles slightly but still let them slide between their necks as a warning.
You Yingcai took a deep breath and choked, coughing violently.
Zhang Tinglin also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw You Yingcai give in.
“Before we came in, we made an offering.”
“An offering?” Liu Sheng asked, surprised.
She Chan and Jiang Tao also looked confused, pricking up their ears to listen.
You Yingcai nodded, trembling, “We… we also saw it in a book in the Hidden Scripture Library. The Ascension Examination is not entirely without a way to cheat. As long as you go to the Jingshi Hall in the Chongdao Shrine and make an offering…”
With a bang, without any warning, You Yingcai, who was in the middle of speaking, suddenly exploded into a mist of blood.
Another bang, and Zhang Tinglin, who was stunned with blood splattered on his face, also exploded into a mist of blood.
The moonlight was cool, illuminating the bloodstains on the ground. Even the stone tablet was sprayed with a layer of crimson.
Liu Sheng’s eyes widened, her face and body splattered with warm blood.
Little Tentacle, which had been loosely holding them, released its grip, and two remaining chunks of flesh plopped onto the ground.
“Ugh,” Jiang Tao, whose mind was already fragile, couldn’t help but vomit at the sight.
She Chan was terrified, trembling and crouching in a corner, afraid that this unknown power would also turn her into a mist of blood.
At this moment, the square was deathly silent, with only their rapid breathing and heartbeats echoing in their ears.
Liu Sheng clenched her fists and retracted Little Tentacle.
She knew they had said something they shouldn’t have, and so they were directly silenced.
Liu Sheng took a deep breath, trying her best to calm her emotions.
Now was not the time for panic. She had to keep a clear head to get out.
Chongdao Shrine… Jingshi Hall…
As far as Liu Sheng knew, Chongdao Shrine was where Xuezis worshipped the ancient deities of this realm and the former Seniors of Seven Profound Mountain.
Jingshi Hall, as the name suggests, since it was in an ancestral hall, should be where the ancestral tablets of the Seven Profound Academy’s former Instructors were enshrined. If the current Instructors of the Seven Profound Academy were all weird objects, then their ancestral tablets were most likely among them!
The so-called offering was an offering to the Instructors, allowing them to accept bribes and reveal the examination questions!
But according to what Liu Sheng later heard, it seemed they ultimately didn’t get what they wanted.
Liu Sheng was a little skeptical. Given how these Instructors wished them dead but were constrained by rules, would they really easily reveal the solution?
Liu Sheng recalled what the female Instructor had said yesterday.
“Heh heh, you wouldn’t have made it originally, but you’ve practiced Divine Sense, haven’t you? You actually managed to endure it.”
“You are the one I’ve set my eyes on. As long as you come to Qingxu Hall, I will claim you. Don’t be afraid!”
Although she didn’t know why that female Instructor was particularly hostile towards her, these words revealed a piece of information—these Instructor weird objects could, to some extent, use the existing rules to kill them.
Based on her innate talent, there was already a certain chance that she wouldn’t pass, and the female Instructor might have slightly increased that chance, turning that possibility into a certainty. But she didn’t expect Liu Sheng to be able to endure it through meditation.
And since the female Instructor had already issued a death threat, this examination was her last chance to kill Liu Sheng in Qingxu Hall. But she couldn’t do it herself, and just happened to have two fools offer themselves up. Why not turn them into her own blade?
As for why they could be killed, perhaps some kind of connection was established during the offering, or perhaps they made a Heart Demon vow, or perhaps these words themselves were forbidden words. In any case, they were directly dealt with.
In any case, the reason was no longer important.
Liu Sheng was still thinking about the method to break the seal.
If the ability of this tian yan stone was deduction, then the claim of soaking it in fresh blood to reveal characters seemed somewhat out of character, feeling too bloody and crude, lowering its grade.
Perhaps the tian yan stone reminded her of the “world” far away in her “hometown,” and she had a bit of a “maternal love” filter on it.
Liu Sheng wanted to conduct a deeper test.
“If you trust me, then help me be a Protector and don’t disturb me. I will do my best to get you out,” Liu Sheng said seriously to She Chan and Jiang Tao.
She Chan saw Liu Sheng’s serious expression and for some reason felt a strong sense of conviction.
“Okay, I can make a Heart Demon vow. As long as you can get me through this examination, I will never harm you, and I swear to protect you to the death.” She Chan actually swore an oath directly.
Seeing She Chan so committed, Jiang Tao also raised his hand and swore an oath.
Liu Sheng felt at ease. She sat cross-legged, holding the seven profound token in her palm, and once again began to meditate, immersing her mind into the tian yan stone.