The First Academy in the Cultivation World

Ling Yan'er looked at this wall, then at the wall behind her where she was writing, and suddenly asked, "Are the questions on these two walls both very simple?"

Although Ling Ziye didn't know why Ling Yan'er asked this, he still answered: "Yes, I know the recipe even though I don't know how to make an elixir. The monster beast is also easy to guess."

There are no such simple questions in ordinary escape rooms. Ling Yan'er looked at the wall where she had written.

After Ling Ziye finished writing, he followed Ling Yan'er's gaze and said, "But I don't recognize any of those words."

Ling Yan'er didn't know what the original questions in this secret room were like. Was it like the previous secret realm core, was it changed into simplified Chinese by the person who said on the phone last time that he had modified the secret realm core rules for her, or was it that this question was written in simplified Chinese by another time traveler.

Ling Yan'er was hoping that there was a time traveler of her kind, but at the same time she felt that even if there really was a time traveler, the person who left such a secret room in this secret realm might not be the same kind as her.

After all, she has also read novels and TV dramas, and there may be disagreements due to different experiences, not to mention people she doesn't know.

Moreover, it is still unknown when this secret realm was created. Even if there are time travelers, it is hard to say whether they are still alive.

"So two simple questions and one difficult question may be intentional." Ling Yan'er murmured to herself.

Ling Ziye and Dongfang Zichu both looked at Ling Yan'er and asked, "Why?"

"Look, we can't get out of here. There are three questions here, and you can't answer all three. Would you be more desperate, or would you be more desperate if you can't answer only one question?" Ling Yan'er asked.

Dongfang Zichu said, "Three questions won't make me more desperate."

Wouldn’t it be more hopeless to know nothing?

Ling Yan'er shook her head and said, "If you know nothing, then there's absolutely no way out, which is definitely hopeless. But when you see three questions, you can even pick flowers and write the answers to two of them on the wall, but you don't even know the answer to the last question. This is the only thing that can help you get out, but you try your best and still can't get out. Which one is more despairing?"

Ling Ziye said, "Giving people hope, and then making them despair, the person who arranged this has quite a bad taste."

"Yes." Ling Yan'er nodded.

Ling Ziye walked to the remaining wall and wrote down the answer on that wall.

After writing, there was a rumbling sound, and the wall without words dropped down until it was level with the ground.

Ling Yan'er and the other two walked over. The ground was so flat that there was no gap at all, as if there had never been a wall here.

Thinking that this was the world of cultivation, Ling Yan'er did not feel strange. After all, this kind of thing should not be difficult in the world of cultivation.

The three of them walked out of the room and saw a wooden corridor outside with illuminated lanterns hanging on it.

Dongfang Zichu flew up and took a look. There was glowing mineral in the lantern.

Beneath the lantern was a wooden table, and on the table was an unlocked wooden box.

Ling Ziye stepped forward and opened the wooden box. Inside was a bottle of elixir and a jade slip.

Ling Ziye gave all the things to Ling Yan'er: "If it weren't for you, we probably wouldn't be able to get out of the stone chamber before. This is for you."

Ling Yan'er said nothing, put it into her backpack, and checked the names of the pills and the jade slips.

Then he fell silent. These two things were not of high value. One was the Foundation Establishment Pill, and the other was the swordsmanship for the Foundation Establishment period.

She asked Ling Ziye: "One is the foundation-building pill, and the other is the swordsmanship of the foundation-building period. Which one do you want?"

Dongfang Zichu took out the ore from the lantern and flew down: "He gave it to you because he didn't want any of it."

Ling Ziye nodded: "Yes."

He also didn't expect that after coming out of such a difficult stone chamber, there were only these things for the Foundation Establishment Stage.

And it’s really embarrassing that such a big wooden box can only hold such a small amount of things!

The three continued to walk in the direction of the stone chamber. As they walked forward, Dongfang Zichu collected the ores in the lanterns on both sides, making sure not to miss any.

Ling Ziye couldn't help but ask, "Why are you collecting this ore? It's useless except for glowing."

There are lights that can be controlled at any time in the academy and Ling Yan'er's flying boat, so this mineral should not be needed, right?

Dongfang Zichu said, "I can tell you're not frugal. I sell one ore for twenty coins, and there are plenty of people vying for it."

Ling Ziye was silenced by these words. He only knew that Dongfang Zichu and Ling Yan'er wanted to sell tables, chairs, benches and various racks to mortals, but he didn't expect that these would also be sold to mortals at such a low price.

"What are you doing with all those copper coins?" Ling Ziye was very puzzled. "I remember that you basically stayed in the academy. You didn't have many opportunities to go out, and there weren't many places to spend copper coins, right?"

"Who said that?" Dongfang Zichu asked, "A lot of snacks in the canteen are bought with copper coins, don't you know?"

"Why are you eating something that has no spiritual energy?" Ling Ziye couldn't help but ask.

Dongfang Zichu said, "You control me."

Speaking of this, Ling Yan'er suddenly said, "Actually, I think you could buy snacks from the canteen and sell them there to make a profit. I guarantee that everything in the canteen is unique!"

Ling Ziye thought about the things in the canteen and found that there was actually some truth to his words. However, he said, "I have to go to school every day, so I don't have time to go out."

"Weekends and winter vacation." Ling Yan'er said. As for summer vacation, isn't that for recruiting students? There's definitely no time.

"I will if I have the chance." Ling Ziye said.

Generally speaking, it means that there is no such plan.

Ling Yan'er sighed quietly. Why didn't anyone go to the canteen to buy things so often? She was still the biggest consumer. She took more money from the canteen in one semester than the hundreds of teachers and students in the school combined.

Of course, Xin Zhuyue is not included, he is also a person who cannot live without alcohol.

As they were talking, they discovered that there was a three-way intersection ahead, dividing the road into three directions.

The corridor is the same no matter how you look in three directions, and there is a corner not far away.

Ling Ziye used his spiritual sense to probe and found that they were all the same. He probed very far and it seemed as if there was only an endless corridor here.

Ling Yan'er opened the map on her phone, but the map did not show the entire place, only the places they had been to before.

Behind her was their open stone chamber, the open wooden box, then the extinguished lanterns on both sides and their current position, three forks in the road, and all the places she had not seen were dark.

After Ling Ziye finished his investigation, he asked Dongfang Zichu, "Although I can use my spiritual sense here, I don't know if it's real. I checked all three corridors, and there's only this one."

Dongfang Zichu said, "Me too."

Then the two of them stared at Ling Yan'er, and Ling Yan'er said, "My map only shows the places we have passed."

Ling Ziye said, "Perhaps these three paths are a maze and we need to find the exit. Perhaps there is something that is disrupting our spiritual sense's exploration. Which direction should we go?"

"Yan'er, you are luckier. You choose which path to take." Dongfang Zichu said.

Are you sure I'm really lucky? Ling Yan'er was silent for a moment and then began to select the soldiers and generals, and finally chose the one in the middle.

The three of them had just turned the corner when they found that a door suddenly appeared from above, blocking the way behind them.

Ling Ziye drew his sword and slashed at the newly appeared door. This time he could see that a formation was protecting the door, and his attack was blocked by the formation.

Dongfang Zichu said, "I've never seen this formation before."

Ling Ziye put away his knife and studied the door. The door that was not attacked seemed to be just an ordinary door, but it did not move at all no matter how hard he pushed or pulled it up.

There wasn't anything around that looked like a trap. Ling Yan'er grabbed Dongfang Zichu and said, "It's a good thing you didn't go get the glowing stone from the lantern this time, otherwise the three of us would have been separated."

Ling Ziye's hand paused as he checked the door. Indeed, it would be better for the three of them not to separate here. Since they had chosen this path, they should just not look back. There was no need to worry about this door.

"Let's keep going." Ling Ziye grabbed Ling Yan'er's sleeve and said, "The three of us should stay close together so we don't get separated."

If the place he appears next time is still the same stone cave as the first one, and there are words he doesn't recognize, then it will be over. It is safer to be with Ling Yan'er.

"Okay." Although Ling Yan'er didn't know what Ling Ziye was thinking, she still agreed with the suggestion that the three of them go together.