Chapter 1077: Burial Place
Ao Sheng brought out an ancient-looking scroll.
The scroll had mysterious runes on the outside, similar to the runes on the walls of the Black Wind Cave. But the level of the runes on this scroll was far inferior to those in the Black Wind Cave.
Ao Sheng clasped his hands together and mumbled a few words. It looked like he was chanting a curse or something.
He suddenly widened his eyes, and a powerful yuan energy surged out from his body. He then shouted, “Open!”
The scroll flew into the air by itself and unfurled.
A halo of light rippled out from the center of the scroll, just like a portal being opened or an entrance opening to a new map area in the game.
Ao Sheng said right after, “You will fail if you lose your identity card and will be automatically transported out. There are only ten placements for you people. Once the number of places has been reached, the assessment will automatically end. Remember – It is best not to kill people inside. Otherwise, your assessment results will be placed as pending status.”
“Does everyone understand?”
“Understood!” Everyone chanted in unison.
Luo Tian whispered, “What does it mean by pending status?”
Bai Lingling replied in a low voice, “This is to prevent the assessment from becoming an all-out fight, which will greatly impact the strength of the Central Continent. That’s why the person’s results will be in pending status. If you kill someone inside, even if you are just defending yourself, and you happen to be one of the ten placements, you may still not pass the assessment.”
Luo Tian continued asking, “How does anyone know what’s going on inside? Are they monitoring us somehow?”
Bai Lingling looked at Luo Tian and thought that he was a bit ignorant of common knowledge. She then said, “Don’t you know about it? These scrolls are made by sorcerers. Once the assessment is completed, these scrolls will automatically return to the headquarters of the Misty Cloud Academy assessment officer. There are special people who will specifically review these scrolls. After all, the Misty Cloud Academy doesn’t want to recruit a disciple from the devil sects. This process is a good way to prevent them from infiltrating.”
Luo Tian nodded before muttering to himself, “So sorcerers are this strong? They can refine scrolls related to space-time and preserve the video images of all participants. Looks like I really should become a sorcerer sometime sooner.”
After learning about this, Luo Tian stopped speaking and started searching with his eyes. The cold killing intent he had just sensed came from one of these disciples, but after looking several times, he couldn’t find anything.
Luo Tian said to himself, “Was I too paranoid?”
Since he had this doubt, Luo Tian reminded the others, “We have to be extra careful inside this spatial realm since we don’t know what’s inside. If our group gets split up, we should hide and find a way to meet up. The first assessment is like a survival game where whoever can stay in longer will pass the test.”
Wu Sha, like the disciples before him, carefully walked into the portal.
After all the disciples of the four great families entered, disciples from Towering Cloud City’s other small families entered. The name “Wu Sha” was nothing special, and it didn’t arouse anyone’s suspicion. Luo Tian’s brows faintly furrowed at his name, though.
The participating disciples had all left.
Bai Xiong then complained, “What’s going on? According to the ranking of our identification number, we should be somewhere in the front. How come we are the last? Isn’t this a deliberate attempt to make things difficult for us?”
Ao Sheng sneered in disdain, “I am deliberately making things difficult for you. What about it? Are you unhappy? If you’re unhappy about it, you don’t have to take the assessment.”
Bai Xiong was so angry that smoke was coming out of his head. “You...”
Luo Tian held Bai Xiong back and said, “It’s just waiting for a bit.”
Ao Sheng glanced at Luo Tian before sneering. He then flipped through the roster in his hand. “Huh? Where is it? What were the names of the remaining four dogs again? Oh, I can’t find it. What were their dog names again?”
Bai Xiong was instantly enraged.
It was the same for Bai Lingling.
No one can stand this kind of humiliation.
Bai Qi and the rest of the Bai family were also full of anger. But Bai Qi’s main worry was that Bai Xiong would not be able to control his anger and would do something rash. If that happened, their family’s quota would definitely be canceled.
A raging flame was burning inside Luo Tian, but he wouldn’t be Luo Tian if he couldn’t even tolerate such minor things.
Luo Tian held back Bai Xiong tightly again before looking at Ao Sheng and saying with a smile, “It’s okay; we have plenty of time. Don’t get angry because of a few words from a vicious dog. If you do, that means you have fallen for the dog’s trap.”
Ao Sheng’s eyes darkened before he angrily shouted, “Damn dog thing! Who are you calling a dog?!”
Luo Tian chuckled and said, “Lord Ao, how would I dare call you a dog? How can I compare you to a dog? Uh... no, I was wrong. How can a dog compare to you? A dog is much stronger than you. Uh... look at me, I keep saying the wrong words. I’m so sorry.”
“Hahaha...”
Ao Sheng’s teeth were cracking from clenching so hard. If it hadn’t been for fear of affecting Wu Sha’s plan, he would have made a move himself already. He looked at Luo Tian and smiled coldly, thinking to himself, “Kid, you’re dead today. Inside is your burial place. Let’s see if you can keep laughing then!”