Her eyes fixated on me as she replied, "Are you questioning my judgment."
"Nope," I shook my head.
"Then what reason is there for me to reply to your question?" she asked.
"Well, just in case that someone who failed managed to bring you back your handkerchief, how would you deal with that?" I asked.
Since this question didn't actually question her judgment and was nothing more than a simple question, it didn't breach her rule.
She thought for a moment and said, "Those circles, do you know what they are?" she asked.
"I was able to see it up close, so I have a guess," I said.
She frowned once again, "I do not like people who speak of things that they do not know," she said and I felt her Qi gathering up.
"Hold your horses Deep One!" the Lord of Lords shouted, "Before you do anything to him, wait for him to reply to you first!"
"It seems that that old man thinks highly of you, then speak, and let it be known that if you speak false then you will die."
Wow, anger issues, must be that time of the month... oh wait she's probably tens of thousands of years old... do cultivators enter menopause? Wait why am I thinking of that?
I shook my head and replied, "Thunder Protection, from what I could see. That circle has a lot of positive discharged laws. Probably to protect a cultivator from lightning."
The Qi that was gathered around her seemed to dissipate before she said, "Just because you figured out a part of it, does not mean that you will be passed. After all, without this protection you can't survive in the Thunder Domain," she said.
"But just because I failed does not mean I can't retrieve it, after all, I have my own ways to protect myself from thunder and lightning," I replied.
She looked at me for a time and said, "Do whatever you want, but know that you shan't receive help from any of the suns. If you were to retrieve it, then you'll be the victor. Fail, and you will probably just perish in the lands of endless thunder."
She then threw a small disk on the ground.
The disk immediately shined and opened up a teleportation gate. And from within the gate one could hear the endless booming of thunder in the distance.
"Go through the portal and retrieve my belongings," she said.
The group of fifty immediately jumped inside the portal leaving Zhang Tian and Dao Shen for last.
The Blue Sun sighed and said, "Do whatever you want, also Lording Sun, you said that you never saw where my brush went... it seems that we have some things to talk about..."
'Ah, that's why he didn't want me to show it... I guess it was hers...'
Well, I should probably go soon in case I end up in an ugly situation.
I hinted to Law to follow me.
For some reason, she failed him from obtaining the mark but I have an inkling of why.
Seeing his absurd luck level, I guess she thought he would manage to obtain the handkerchief by some unnatural means foiling the purpose of the competition. But with me using a loophole in her "Rules" I'm able to use Law to my advantage.
Law hurried to my side and followed after me as we both entered the gate.
We immediately found ourselves in a massive open plain and far ahead of us were dozens of cultivators flying forward as fast as possible towards the high peaks of the mountain range in front of us.
"Why did you take me with you?" Law asked.
"Well, you looked really sad there when you failed for no reason," I said.
"And you just took pity on me?" he asked.
"A bit, also I need your luck to find the handkerchief," I said.
"What if I don't want to give it back once I find it?" he asked.
"We'll cross that bridge once we get there," I replied with a shrug.
Law couldn't help but laugh and said, "Well, we need to hurry up then, because we're very late," he said pointing at the fact that we're actually the last in this race.
"Don't worry about that, I said as I summoned my ship.
Law's eyes opened wide.
"Oh it's the ship! I always wanted to see what's inside it!"
"Be my guest then, let's get in," I said.