Extra's Strategy: Cultivate Protagonists, Become Invincible-Chapter 120: Zhao Weiqing Keeps Getting Shocked
Chapter 120: Zhao Weiqing Keeps Getting Shocked
Zhao Weiqing couldn’t believe it. This... this powerless, young, no-name rookie cultivator, relying on nothing but an imaginative mind and leaps in logic, had accurately grasped the true chain of events that led to this day.
How could this be possible? Was it all really so transparent to a sharp outsider’s eyes? If it was, why hadn’t any of the other cultivators managed to see through it?
This guy was definitely hiding some things. At this moment, Zhao Weiqing’s desire to dig out his secret was overflowing. So he pressed for more information, taking the cue from Xuanyuan Zhou. Han Xuhan was forced to elaborate more in the end.
"Alright. I can share my experience inside the test halls. The first thing that put me on guard there was the orb containing qi for replenishment. I got wary of it due to Brother Qian Yun’s warnings before in the circle of laws.
"Then I saw the orb containing the letters. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but the letters had a suspiciously narrow usage. In a stage where creativity is being tested, those sorts of letters aren’t exactly suitable."
"So I decided to take a detour from the instructions and test my suspicions. I intentionally failed the test and tried entering a platform for another type of inheritance."
"Wait a damn moment, how the hell did you fail the test? The automatons weren’t programmed to fail participants!" Zhao Weiqing roared angrily.
But at the very next second, he felt embarrassed that he had let such a crucial detail slip away through his own mouth.
Han Xuhan laughed. "Once again, you’ve proved that you’re not the real Qian Yun."
"Answer the damn question, punk," Zhao Weiqing growled, raising a foot over his face to convey the threat. Han Xuhan’s laughter came to a quick, cowardly halt.
"Failing it was very easy. I didn’t even have to lie. I have a rare Physique that makes it hard for me to absorb qi. So I just exaggerated things a bit and there wasn’t anything the automatons could do except failing me."
"...What kind of rare Physique downgrades people’s abilities?!" Zhao Weiqing said in disbelief. He quickly sent a mental message to his main body to verify the matter, but the response actually came back supporting Han Xuhan’s account!
Good heavens! You learn new things every day! Or did the world of cultivation change during the time he was imprisoned in this place?
Not knowing the shock Zhao Weiqing was in, Han Xuhan continued his tale.
"Moving on to the second test, I discovered that the letters provided in there were the same as the first test’s orb!
"It is way too much of a coincidence that I, a random cultivator who learned some random letters from a language as vast as the language of laws, would encounter the same letters that I had just learned, and that the situation would even repeat!"
"But doesn’t that strengthen the theory that it is all a test and the third stage provided you with alphabets that you’ve already learned so far?" Zhao Weiqing interrupted Han Xuhan, sensing the contradiction again.
Han Xuhan chuckled audibly.
"But you... Well, not you, but Qian Yun knows very well that I only deciphered a part of the law fragments on the walls of the stadium. Half of the texts were deciphered by you. How could the designer of the ’test’ know which letters I have mastered?
"A more logical answer would be... that there is something wrong with the letters provided in the orb. It is likely that someone intentionally tempered with the original set-up of the test. So many methods can be used in such a situation!
"I am, after all, just a weak rookie cultivator. How difficult could it be to use a high-level law to influence my mind into thinking that the letters in front of me are all familiar and I definitely know them?
"It may sound far-fetched, but unless someone was interfering with my visual senses or mental state, I cannot see how two consecutive tests of different types would offer me the same, familiar set of letters."
Han Xuhan finished his analysis with a graceful nod, giving off the aura of a true intellectual debating the meaning of life.
"Afterwards... Well, there wasn’t anything more I dared to do. I was extremely scared. So I escaped using the same method as before and returned outside. But I couldn’t just leave you guys and run off!"
"Who are you kidding? You didn’t have the guts to run away without our protection," Xuanyuan Zhou muttered, sounding a little angry for some reason.
Han Xuhan coughed and rephrased his conclusion.
"Okay, okay. Knowing you guys, I was sure that all three of you’d be able to figure it out if something was wrong with the third test. So I carved some law fragments here as a safety precaution and waited for you to return."
Then, turning his neck towards Xuanyuan Zhou, he took his small revenge.
"Look at where that landed me now. Where is that protection you just bragged about, my lady? I could really use that right now."
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"Yes, I do!"
Had Xuanyuan Zhou’s limbs not been tied up, she probably would have beaten Han Xuhan up. She certainly made the effort, headbutting him and hitting him with her shoulders repeatedly. She even dragged My Ran into the fight.
"What the hell did I do? Why did you hit me?!"
Mu Ran’s indignation was answered with a furious kick from Xuanyuan Zhou and a full body slam from Han Xuhan.
Zhao Weiqing was in disbelief once more, watching the three martial siblings elbowing, biting and pulling at each other’s hair—all while rolling like worms on sand. The sheer display of immaturity made him realize once more that he was dealing with a group of kids who had barely stepped into the world of cultivation.
And just like before, this realization only added salt and spice to the wounds.
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