Chapter 4872 — Fiancée!
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The academy disciples queued up one by one. Morning Star Academy's luck was neither especially good nor especially bad—it landed them somewhere in the awkward middle of the pack.
The teleportation array here was not like the one for the West Island trial. Over there only one person could be sent through at a time; here dozens went through at once, so the line moved fast. In the blink of an eye it was Wei Zhao and his group's turn.
The place was guarded by dedicated sentries. The Morning Star ceremonial officer accompanying them handed over the list of disciples, and the guards checked each name aloud, one by one. The others were nothing noteworthy, but one name gave Wei Zhao a start—Qin Chan!
Nominally she was the Morning Star captain, but everyone knew that was just a title handed out on the spot. Wei Zhao had never bothered to notice who exactly was in the group—he did not know any of them anyway. But what was the story with this Qin Chan?
Back when Wei Zhao had first arrived at Morning Star Academy, still preoccupied with matters concerning Jiang Yuechuan, he had specifically asked Wang Xinyan to look into this fiancée of his. The word came back that the woman had been in secluded cultivation all this time, so he had let the matter drop.
Who would have thought Qin Chan would suddenly turn up in the ranks?
But according to Jiang Yuechuan, within ten years she ought to still be at the Golden Core stage—otherwise why would Jiang Yuechuan have gone to such lengths to obtain a Gestation Golden Core for her? So how had she now become a Nascent Soul Great Perfection expert? That was rather too great a leap, wasn't it?
Or was it possible that this Qin Chan was not the same Qin Chan?
Wei Zhao was astonished inwardly, but with so many people around and so many eyes, he could hardly ask outright. He could only press it down and see how things developed. After all, even if she truly was the same person, that Gestation Golden Core of Jiang Yuechuan's was no longer of any use.
After the teleportation, the scene before them changed abruptly. Coming out of the array, everyone's expressions were somewhat grim. To be honest, a moment ago they had still thought the middle of the pack was no big deal—so long as they were not in the last few batches, they would still be able to secure a tribulation point. Otherwise the Academy Alliance would never have sent so many people in at once.
But now everyone realized at once how naive they had been. How was this "no big deal"? Who went first and who went after was absolutely crucial!
This was a stretch of open ground that at first glance seemed vast, but like the terraced fields of the mortal world, the terrain rose and fell in irregular, scattered tiers. Even though the spot where they emerged from the array counted as high ground, one could not take in the whole at a glance.
This was not merely a matter of terrain; more critically, visibility was dreadful. Mist lay everywhere. The one thing that was not too cruel was that this mist, unlike the mist at sea, did not much impede spiritual sense.
But the problem was that these people were not freaks like Wei Zhao. Even a Nascent Soul Great Perfection expert's spiritual sense was quite limited in strength. If every step had to be taken by probing the way with spiritual sense, they might as well do nothing at all—before they were halfway there, they would likely die of spiritual essence exhaustion.
As a result, on this Road of Giants the group could rely only on memory. Cultivators all had decent memories, and as a rule, once a path had been walked, one ought to be able to retrace it without getting lost.
But out here the distance was utterly unclear—once they went far, who knew what unexpected dangers they might meet. The pressing task was to find a tribulation point and break through to the Mystic Ascension stage. Until they became Mystic Ascension experts, none of them dared wander about at will.