Chapter 1319: The Name Doesn't Sound Good

"What?"

Her body swayed, Senior Sister Water's beautiful eyes widened, feeling as if blood was again surging in her throat, about to spit out: "Ch-charge into Gui Alley?"

Gui Alley was the worst alley, only the weakest would go there... You defeated two puppets in an instant, passed Bing Alley so easily, why go to that place?

Everyone else moves forward, this guy moves backward...

Farming a sense of achievement?

"Yes, the manuals here aren't good. I want to go check out Gui Alley!"

Zhang Xuan said with a serious face.

For manuals of the same level, the more profound they are, the fewer there are. But his requirement was just a large quantity... So after finishing Bing Alley, he was full of disappointment, feeling he had chosen wrong and should have gone to the lowest level.

There would definitely be many books there, more useful to him than here.

"..."

Senior Sister Water grabbed her hair.

Is he insane?

Every manual in Bing Alley was profound and unfathomable. Though not as good as her family's ancestral techniques, they weren't far off... Such precious things, and you say they're worse than the garbage in Gui Alley?

What is he thinking?

"Alright, you continue copying. I'm leaving first!"

Not bothering with what she thought, Zhang Xuan said no more and walked out.

Sighing as he walked.

This trip was a waste of time.

Leaving the Bing Alley room, he returned to the front desk. Besides the young girl earlier, there was another person.

"You... are fine?"

Seeing him back so soon, completely unharmed, Qing Yu was stunned, finding it hard to believe.

She had thought he would definitely be beaten black and blue, miserable beyond compare. How could he be completely fine?

Bing Alley was a place even Senior Sister Water hadn't passed after so long.

"Fine? What would be wrong?" Not knowing why she asked, Zhang Xuan paused, then flipped his wrist and took out another hundred high-grade spirit stones, handing them over: "Here are the spirit stones. I'll challenge again!"

"Challenge again?"

Looking at him doubtfully, Qing Yu frowned: "Challenges are only once a day. If you fail, you can't continue!"

In this kind of challenge, failure is failure. You can't admit defeat once and then charge in again, playing like that. The alley couldn't withstand it either.

Thus, once a day is the limit.

Normally, after one challenge, if you pass, you definitely won't come back; if you fail, you'll be miserable, and it's unknown if you can even move the next day. In all these years, only Senior Sister Water was so persistent, challenging for a whole month.

"I'm not challenging Bing Alley!" Zhang Xuan explained.

"That's more like it..." Qing Yu sighed in relief: "Then what? Ding Alley?"

"No, Gui Alley!" Zhang Xuan nodded.

"Gui..."

Qing Yu was speechless.

This guy had come and challenged Bing Alley right away, making her think he was impressive. Now it seemed he probably hadn't dared to participate... Finally, after thinking it over, he settled for Gui Alley!

At the initial stage of Out-of-Body realm, to be honest, even Gui Alley was hard...

It seemed he wasn't so ignorant of his limits; he could still think clearly.

"I told you to challenge this one, but you wouldn't listen. Now you understand..."

Smiling, she took out a card and handed it over: "By the way, the challenge card I gave you earlier? Whether you used it or not, I need to take it back!"

Taking the challenge card from her, Zhang Xuan flipped his wrist and handed over the previous card, then turned and walked toward the challenge area.

As soon as he left, the previous attendant came over: "Is this the guy you mentioned, the one with the audacity?"

"Yes!" Qing Yu nodded.

"He looks pretty handsome, but with Gui Alley strength to challenge Bing Alley... indeed, he doesn't know his place!" the attendant laughed.

"He's obviously someone who doesn't lack money, planning to find Senior Sister Water. He probably got a cold reception, realized his own strength, and then came to challenge Gui Alley..."

After analyzing, Qing Yu shook her head, pinched the card in her hand, and was about to throw it back onto the counter when she suddenly froze.

"This card..."

"What's wrong?"

The attendant also looked down, and her body stiffened: "It reveals golden patterns... These are special patterns only given after passing the assessment..."

Saying this, she exchanged a glance with Qing Yu, their throats dry, voices pale.

"Could it be... Bing Alley, he... passed?"

As assessment staff, they knew very well the difficulty of Bing Alley. So many geniuses from the Saint Hall had come and failed. Not even one passed every year. This guy at the initial Out-of-Body stage passed?

How was that possible?

If he passed, what about Senior Sister Water?

She went earlier, why hasn't she shown up yet?

"I'll go check..."

After thinking, finding it hard to believe, Qing Yu stood up to go to Bing Alley.

If she found Senior Sister Water, everything should be clear.

"Wait..."

Just as she got up, the attendant pulled her back. She looked doubtfully, and saw the attendant pointing forward.

Following her gaze, she was stunned to see the young man who had gone to Gui Alley come back again, smiling as he took out a hundred spirit stones and a card, handing them over: "Please give me a Ren Alley card!"

Qing Yu was taken aback, then took out a card and handed it over.

"Thank you!" The young man turned gracefully and left.

"He... finished Gui Alley too?"

Looking down at the card he had just returned in her palm, Qing Yu's mouth twitched again.

Even if Gui Alley was easy, it couldn't be this fast, right?

How long did a round trip take?

One minute?

Two minutes?

Anyway, less than three minutes... In such a short time, walking back and forth would take two and a half minutes... That means he only spent about ten seconds to pass Gui Alley?

Swallowing saliva, she exchanged a look with the attendant, both seeing terror in each other's eyes.

Just as they were at a loss, the young man's cheerful voice sounded again: "Sorry to bother again. Please give me a Xin Alley card, thank you!"

Trembling, Qing Yu handed over a card, took his spirit stones and card, and after looking, shook again.

Passed again...

Could it be that Xin Alley and Gui Alley made no difference to him?

All this fast?

Her mouth hung open like a fish on the shore, wanting to confirm with the attendant if she was dreaming, when the young man came over again.

"Give me a Geng Alley one..."

"..." Qing Yu.

"..." Attendant.

...

"Phew! Finally finished copying! With this set of 'Water Wave Profound Pattern Technique', combined with my previous cultivation method, my strength will definitely advance further!"

Rubbing her slightly sore hand, Senior Sister Water smiled slightly.

As soon as the young man left, she began copying. It took over twenty minutes to finish, and her hand was sore from the thick manual.

Although with her memory, she could have memorized all the content in that time, if she wanted to study it carefully, copying it down was safer.

For this level of technique, one wrong character could change the meaning drastically. She didn't want to take risks.

After all, she had failed Bing Alley for over a month. Without that young man, she wouldn't even have had the chance to see this manual.

Such a rare opportunity, she couldn't waste it.

"I wonder if he... finished Gui Alley? With his strength, it should be easy, right?"

Putting away the Saint Hall manual, Senior Sister Water walked out of the hall and slowly approached the front desk.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as she arrived, she noticed something off. The usually lively and cheerful Qing Yu was now sitting on the stool like a zombie, eyes staring straight, as if her soul had left.

The attendant beside her wasn't much better, mouth open like her jaw had dropped, unable to close for a long time.

"Qing Yu... what happened to you?"

Senior Sister Water asked.

"Senior Sister Water, you're finally here..."

Seeing her, Qing Yu was so excited she almost cried, hurriedly holding up a card: "That Zhang Xuan Zhang Shi earlier, he went to Bing Alley after you, did he really pass the assessment?"

"Yes! He's very strong..."

Senior Sister Water nodded.

After over twenty minutes of regulating her breath, she had recovered somewhat. Though her complexion was still bad, she wasn't as disheveled as before.

"So it's true..."

Pale-faced, Qing Yu sat on the stool. Her hand touched the table, and with a "clatter," a pile of cards collapsed, scattering all over the floor.

"These..."

Startled, Senior Sister Water picked up one, and her mouth twitched: "These are all challenge cards? And... all passed?"

Having challenged here for a month, she knew what patterns on the cards indicated passing.

When she came earlier, there weren't this many. How did a pile suddenly appear?

"Yes... all challenged by that Zhang Shi..."

Qing Yu nodded woodenly.

"He challenged them?"

Eyes wide, Senior Sister Water grabbed with her hand, sending out true energy to gather all the cards on the table into her palm.

"Gui Alley, Ren Alley, Xin Alley, Geng Alley, Ji Alley, Wu Alley, Yi Alley... He challenged this many?"

Her face paled again, and Senior Sister Water's delicate body began to sway.

She had just copied a book for over twenty minutes, and he had directly passed seven alleys?

How could it be so fast?

Didn't he consume true energy? Wasn't he tired?

"Yes, he challenged all these in one go..." Qing Yu nodded.

"Then... where is he now?"

Senior Sister Water asked.

"He's challenging Jia Alley now!" Qing Yu explained.

"Jia Alley?"

Senior Sister Water quickly looked down. Among the many cards in her palm, there was indeed no Jia Alley card. That meant this highest difficulty level, he hadn't passed yet.

"Wait... He challenged Bing Alley and Yi Alley, why didn't he challenge Ding Alley?"

She flipped through the cards again, eyes full of confusion.

This guy started from Gui Alley and challenged all the alleys... Why skip Ding Alley?

"Uh..."

Pausing for a long time, face reddening, Qing Yu swallowed saliva and said: "He said... the name of this alley doesn't sound good. As a堂堂七尺男儿, challenging it would be boring... so he didn't go!"

"..." Senior Sister Water.