Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

Chapter 178 Re-entering the Library

Time flies, and another three days have passed. The top ten in the assessment have been determined, and the mysterious grand prize that the academy mentioned has finally arrived.

"Do you know what the grand prize is?" Lu Yunshi asked softly as he moved closer to Lu Yunxi.

"I don't know, and shut up!" Lu Yunxi said calmly.

"Oh." Lu Yunshi obediently shut his mouth, then couldn't help but walk over to Shuang's side. "Do you know what the grand prize is?"

"I don't know. And do you know what Lingling has been doing lately? She hasn't come to see me for three days." Shuang shook her head slightly, then asked about Long Lingling's situation.

"Oh, she's gone into seclusion. The little girl has grown up after all and knows the importance of hard work now."

Lu Yunshi sighed, then went to Zhang Quanzhen's side. "Brother Zhang, do you know what the grand prize is?"

Brother Zhang is quite capable. After admitting defeat, he was able to win the revival match with his own skills and force his way into the top ten, where he is now ranked ninth.

"Well, who cares? It's better to have something than nothing. Besides, the academy is making it so mysterious, it's definitely not something small." Zhang Quan shrugged, not caring at all about the prize.

Lu Yunshi nodded, then went to Tianyi. "Dude, do you know what the grand prize is?"

"No...you're asking me?" Even Tianyi, who was arrogant and aloof by nature, was stunned by Lu Yunshi's question. They were fighting to the death back then, and Lu Yunshi knew that he looked down on human cultivators, yet he still came to ask him.

And he even calls himself "bro"? Who's your bro?

"Tsk, you don't even know this?" Lu Yunshi curled his lip and walked away with a look of disdain.

"???" Tianyi frowned as he looked at Lu Yun, who had walked up to someone else again, and thought to himself, "Does this bastard want to get beaten up?"

"Hey! Isn't this Lin San'er? Why does he look so pale? Is he suffering from a disease that makes him think he'll die if he doesn't get first place, or is he suffering from a disease that makes him want to commit suicide after losing to Lu Yunshi? That can't be right. Lu Yunshi was only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm back then. Who would lose to someone at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm?"

"No way! No way! There really can be a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator who loses to a mere early-stage Nascent Soul nobody, right? If such a person really exists, then he's truly... utterly incompetent, hehehehe~"

"Hoo~hoo~hoo~" Hearing Lu Yunshi's deliberately cheeky words, Lin San got hard and raised his fist to smash it down, but Lu Yunshi was faster and fell to the ground shouting.

"Teacher, he hit me."

The teacher who had been leading the way took a deep breath and really wanted to say, "You deserve to be hit, I want to hit you too."

But no, because he was a teacher, he still had to turn around and walk up to Lin San.

"Student, this is not the place for you to fight. Please be mindful of the occasion."

After saying that, the teacher looked at Lu Yun, who had just gotten up from the ground, and couldn't help but say, "And you, be quiet too."

Under the teacher's watchful eye, Lin San withdrew his fist, but the murderous intent in his eyes as he looked at Lu Yunshi was undisguised.

Lu Yunshi shrugged at Lin San'er, spread his hands, and returned to Lu Yunxi's side with a helpless look.

And Lin San?

He was even angrier when he saw Lu Yun's completely indifferent attitude.

Seeing Lin San's behavior, Tian Yi calmed down. This bastard treated Lin San, who was also a human, even worse than he had treated himself. What more could he ask for?

He did not show favoritism, but chose to treat every enemy equally.

I'll make a note of it for now.

Next time, next time I'll definitely teach this guy a lesson in defeat.

Lu Yunshi himself was unaware that his harsher treatment of Lin San'er had inadvertently dispelled some of Tianyi's hostility towards him.

But even if you know, what can you do?

He can't kill himself now.

Before long, everyone was taken to a familiar place.

The college's library.

"Oh, is the mysterious grand prize the academy mentioned just letting us pick any combat skill here?" Lu Yunshi said with a smirk as he looked at the magnificent building in front of him.

"Of course...impossible." Suppressing the urge to place her hand on Lu Yunshi's face with strong willpower, the teacher spoke. "Just come in with me."

After speaking, the teacher stepped into the library, and the others followed closely behind. Soon they arrived in front of the old man who guarded the library, whom Lu Yunshi had met once before.

"They're here?" The old man put down his book and looked behind the teacher. "These are the top ten from the assessment?"

“That’s right, please clear the way for them, sir.” The teacher bowed slightly, showing great respect to the old man.

"Hmm..." The old man nodded slightly, then suddenly pointed at everyone, and ten streams of light flew out from his fingertips and quickly entered everyone's bodies.

After doing all this, the old man coughed a few times before he began to speak.

"Next, silently communicate with the imprint in your mind. This will allow you to enter the fifth floor of the library. Once inside, you only need to communicate with it again to leave."

"Use it immediately, otherwise... if you lose your life, I won't be responsible."

"You...you...you...and all of you." Before anyone could think, the old man pointed to the sixth through tenth place finishers in the assessment and said, "You few, you can stay up there for two hours."

Then, the old man spoke in order, starting with the fifth person.

"You can stay for three hours, you can stay for five hours, you can stay for seven hours, you are nine... and you..."

The old man's finger finally stopped on Lu Yunshi. "You are twelve."

After saying that, the old man picked up the book again and stopped talking.

The teacher who brought Lu Yunshi and the others sighed inwardly upon seeing this, then turned to the group and said.

"I think you all know that both combat techniques and cultivation methods are divided into six levels: Emperor, Saint, Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow. The first to fourth floors of the library contain cultivation methods and combat techniques from Yellow to Earth levels, while the fifth floor contains Heaven-level cultivation methods."

“Unlike Earth-rank cultivation techniques, Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills have already gained a certain level of intelligence from their creators, and have even touched upon the rules of Heaven. They will choose their own masters. The entire world cannot tolerate several practitioners of the same Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills.”

"Similarly, cultivating a Heaven-rank technique is extremely dangerous. It can be considered a trial. If you succeed, all will be well. But if you fail... there is also danger."

The teacher gave a dangerous look, trying to intimidate everyone, but found that no one seemed to care at all. Instead, they found it boring and continued speaking.

"In short, according to the time you have, go to the fifth floor and choose your favorite Heaven-rank cultivation technique or combat skill, and accept their trial. If you succeed, you will get it. If you fail, don't insist. Give up quickly. That way, you will still have time to choose other Heaven-rank cultivation techniques and combat skills. If you have reached the point where you can't give up, then immediately communicate with the old man to remove the mark that he has implanted in your body. Otherwise, I will not be responsible for the consequences."

"Furthermore, when the time comes, you will be teleported out directly, regardless of whether you are currently undergoing a test."