When Fu Yanqing spoke about Sun Mo’s situation, he didn’t hide anything. Hence, several people soon knew about the news of Sun Mo entering the seventh part of the canyon.

  By noon, the entire Battlegod Town was already shaken by the commotion.

  Because this piece of news was truly too explosive.

  Not many people were comprehending the murals in the fifth part of the canyon, but they would still occasionally come out for a breath of fresh air and purchase supplies. Hence, everyone could see that they were alive.

  However, the sixth part of the canyon was a place inaccessible to everyone. They knew some people were inside, but they had never seen anyone before.

  Even those, who had stayed in the town for many years, had never seen people from the sixth part of the canyon before. And now, someone actually entered the seventh part……

  It was said that the number of living people who had entered this part of the canyon could be counted on one hand. All of them were extremely old cultivators with high statuses. It was impossible for them to come here again to comprehend its true meaning.

  Now, Sun Mo was only a bit over 20 years old, yet he had managed to do so. He really might have a chance to decipher the Battlegod Catalog.

  Hence, the postman working in the Battlegod Town ran so much that he almost broke his legs.

  Everyone was writing letters to inform their friends and family. Firstly, they wanted to share this surprise with others and secondly, they hoped more people would come here to take a look. Who knew? They might be able to get some benefits.

  Thirdly, rumors said that if someone managed to comprehend the Battlegod Catalog, the murals would all vanish.

  Although no one had any idea whether this rumor was true or false, this place was still considered a famous location on the second level of the Darkness Continent. If it really disappeared before they could take one more look, things would really be too regretful.

  “Would he really be able to clear the stage?”

  He Wei stood at the canyon’s entrance and was at a loss. (If Sun Mo achieved that, wouldn’t my job be gone then? What should I do in the future?)

  Just earlier, He Wei had hurriedly written a letter and passed it to his assistant, telling him to send it to the Saint Gate immediately.

  Right now, several people would be coming to the Battlegod Town every day, and the tents erected in the surroundings were already overcrowded.

  If it wasn’t for the fact that this place was not so easy to come to and the transmission of messages was not smooth, it would have been fully packed to the point where not even a drop of water could drip out.

  Naturally, since there were more people, there was also more trouble.

  During these few days, the swindling and robbery cases had increased immensely, and this caused He Wei to be badly burn-out. He could only use heavy-handed methods to resolve it.

  Luckily, the prestige of the Saint Gate was sufficient, and ordinary people wouldn’t dare to offend such a supreme organization. Hence, the public security was still at an acceptable level. ……

  Qin Yaoguang went out together with Lu Zhiruo to buy some food before returning to their camp.

  “These two students, I can see that you two are bound to accomplish great things in the future just from your appearances. Hence, you shouldn’t stay in such a small place and bury your talents!

  “Do you want to come to my Peachwood Academy to study? We have a 7-star great teacher teaching in our school, and there are five fixed lessons every week. I guarantee there would be enough seats. If you don’t understand something, other great teachers will also patiently guide you personally.”

  A middle-aged man stopped the papaya girl and Qin Yaoguang as he smiled while introducing the school he came from.

  “Which 7-star great teacher?”

  Lu Zhiruo blinked her eyes.

  “Gu Xian, Great Teacher Gu.”

  The middle-aged man smiled and revealed his yellow teeth. “He is very famous in the alchemy world. You guys should have heard of him before, right?”

  “Let’s go!”

  Qin Yaoguang tugged at Lu Zhiruo’s sleeves.

  “The two of you can consider a little more. This is a very rare chance. If you guys perform outstandingly enough, you might even be accepted as personal students by Great Teacher Gu.”

  The middle-aged man kept chattering non-stop as he followed at the side.

  Qin Yaoguang truly was annoyed now. She rebutted, “Our teacher is Sun Mo.”

  “Sun Mo? Who is that?”

  The middle-aged man was clueless. This name sounded quite familiar, but where had he heard it before?

  “That Great Teacher Sun, Sun Mo, who is currently comprehending the Battlegod Murals in the seventh part of the canyon.”

  Qin Yaoguang rolled her eyes. “Also, Great Teacher Gu recently got promoted and became one of the vice headmasters in the Black-White Academy, so why would he go and teach at your Peachwood Academy? In the future, when you want to swindle people, please be clear of your information. Peachwood Academy? I have never even heard of it. When you want to swindle people, you have to use bait to tempt them. At the very least, you have to take out a peerless-grade earth-tier cultivation art as a gift no matter what, right?”

  Qin Yaoguang chewed on her candy as she scolded.

  “Sun Mo?”

  The middle-aged man took a deep breath of cold air and felt so embarrassed that he wanted to die. He had just arrived in the Battlegod Town this morning, and when he saw so many ‘innocent sheep’, he didn’t even bother to rest and started to swindle people.

  However, he didn’t expect that his swindling abilities would be so weak.

  “Haha, trying to swindle Sun Mo’s personal students? You are truly the only one who dared to do that.”

  “There are so many people. There’s bound to be all sorts of lousy characters mixed into them.”

  “These swindlers are like flies. They will fly everywhere where there is meat.”

  “Damn, you simply lost face for all of us, swindlers. Can you first understand the situation before you start?”

  Everyone chatted fervently.

  As Sun Mo’s personal students, Qin Yaoguang and the others would often encounter people who were observing them or even trying to form good relationships with them. Those people naturally hoped to get close to Sun Mo using this method so they could obtain the true meaning to clear the stages.

  “Why? Do you have nothing more to say?”

  Qin Yaoguang surveyed the middle-aged man. “Your clothing sense and figure cannot make it. You don’t have the correct style.”

  “Alright, I’ll admit that your points are correct. After all, I’m poor and cannot afford to purchase expensive things to make myself look more presentable. But gifting a cultivation art? If I take out a low-end cultivation art, they will immediately know I’m a swindler!”

  The middle-aged man’s lips twitched.

  For cultivation arts of that level, one could find several of them in famous schools. Even if he wanted to give one to his target, his target might not be bothered to look through it.

  “That’s why I said you are dumb!”

  Qin Yaoguang couldn’t be bothered with him any longer and dragged the papaya girl away.

  “Why am I dumb?”

  The middle-aged man was depressed. He secretly followed them, wanting to know the reason.

  “Junior sister Yaoguang, I feel that his words aren’t wrong!”

  Lu Zhiruo pondered. “If you are going to swindle people, you should at least take out a saint-tier cultivation art!”

  “Stupid. How many sets of saint-tier cultivation arts are there? If it was you, would you bring it with you casually?”

  Qin Yaoguang was speechless and stretched out her hand to rap the papaya girl’s forehead. “Giving a cultivation art of such low level is to filter your target. Just think about it, for people who cherish peerless earth-tier cultivation arts, wouldn’t they be more easily hooked if offered with it?”

  “Eh? That seems to make sense!”

  Lu Zhiruo pondered and this seemed to be the case.

  “There are so many fools in this world, and swindlers have more than enough targets. So, why would they have to waste time on smart people?”

  Qin Yaoguang continued, “You have to understand how great the effort you have to put in if you want to swindle a smart person. Also, the chance of failure is so much greater.”

  “Junior martial sister Qin, why do you know all these?”

  Lu Zhiruo was curious.

  “After wandering around and seeing so much, you will naturally know it!”

  Qin Yaoguang saw that a roadside stall was selling sugar-coated haws. She then hurriedly bought two sticks.

  “I can’t. I would surely be swindled and sold off.”

  The papaya girl shook her head. This was too complex and she wouldn’t be able to learn.

  “Aiya, everyone has their own strong points. There’s no need to force yourself.”

  As Qin Yaoguang spoke, she held a stick of the sugar-coated haw in her left and right hands and chewed as she grinned happily.

  (Life with snacks is expectedly the best!)

  “Eh?”

  The papaya girl was stunned. (So you bought two for yourself? I thought you wanted to give one to me.) ……

  At the Central Province Academy’s campsite, other than Xuanyuan Po doing his own thing and continuing to comprehend murals, Jin Mujie forbade others from heading out.

  Sun Mo’s fame was so great now, and his mind was filled with the true meanings of the murals. Because of it, someone might try to kidnap students from the Central Province Academy to threaten him.

  “These people are so annoying!”

  Zhang Yanzong was in a daze due to boredom. “I feel like a monkey below a bridge, and people would surround me to watch some attractions.”

  Many people outside their campsite kept peering at them. After all, curiosity was the innate nature of humans.

  “It has been five days. I wonder how Teacher Sun’s situation is?”

  An Rou’s expression was heavy.

  “Don’t worry, Teacher will surely be fine.”

  The papaya girl was very composed and was filled with worship and confidence in Sun Mo. “Once Teacher exits, we will be able to learn the Battlegod Catalog.”

  After hearing this, Zhou Yu and An Rou immediately revealed envious expressions.

  Sun Mo’s generosity was very reputable in the Central Province Academy. He would casually impart peerless-grade saint-tier cultivation arts to his personal students. There was no need for them to prove their loyalty at all.

  “Hehe!”

  Zhang Yanzong secretly smiled. (Sorry, I’m different from you guys. Once my teacher gets together with Teacher Sun, I will also have the qualifications to learn the Battlegod Catalog. But during this period, I better hint to Teacher for her to increase her speed of wooing Teacher Sun.) ……

  In that bizarre room, Sun Mo sat cross-legged and stared at the pure white walls as he furrowed his brows in thought.

  “Cough! Cough!”

  Li Ziqi started coughing.

  “How do you feel?”

  Sun Mo hurriedly looked over.

  “Teacher, I’m fine.”

  The little sunny egg squeezed out a smile, not wanting to cause any further trouble to Sun Mo.

  “Persist a little longer!”

  Sun Mo took out his pocket watch and looked. The two needles completely didn’t move as though time had frozen. However, their bodily functions were still operating.

  “I think about roughly five days have passed?”

  Sun Mo guessed.

  He was still fine. After all, he was at the eighth level of the Divine Force Realm and could endure for several days. However, Li Ziqi was different. She could do without food, but not drinking any water caused her lips to be cracked. She was in a very dire state.

  If this continued, she would thirst to death.

  Sun Mo took out a dagger.

  “Teacher!”

  Li Ziqi cried out in shock and stretched out her hands to stop him. However, Sun Mo already sliced his wrist.

  “Come, drink some blood!”

  Sun Mo moved his wrist toward the little sunny egg.

  “Teacher!”

  The little sunny egg’s tears flowed forth like spring water. She shook her head and didn’t want to drink no matter what. If her teacher lost his blood, he would die even quicker.

  Sun Mo knew the little sunny egg’s temper and didn’t forcefully persuade her. He only looked at the blood dripping onto the floor. “Look, what a waste.”

  Boohoohoo!

  Li Ziqi sobbed. She finally placed her mouth on his wrist, and the warm fresh blood flowed into her mouth before entering her body. The little sunny egg then folded her hands across her chest and felt that she was becoming one with her teacher.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Li Ziqi +10,000. Reverence (73,850/100,000).

  After hearing the notification, Sun Mo smiled and used the ancient massaging technique to seal his blood vessels to prevent himself from bleeding too much. One couldn’t help but say that this was truly a divine skill.

  “Daddy Battle God……Eh……Brother Battle God, why don’t I use the ancient massaging technique to trade for your Battlegod Catalog?”

  Sun Mo mocked himself. But there was no reply even after a long time had passed.

  Sun Mo was used to it.

  After that, he used the Soul Nurturing Skill and massaged Li Ziqi. It caused her to relax and fall asleep. Sun Mo then stood up and continued to walk alongside the walls, trying to find clues that could help him clear the stage.

  Honestly speaking, although he appeared at ease before the little sunny egg, he felt extremely frantic in his heart.

  Such imprisonment was too tormenting.

  It was extremely damaging to one’s mind and spirit.

  Chapter 788: Favorable Impression Points from the Ancient Battle God +10,086

  Currently, there were many punishments that had no direct harm to the body but would damage one’s mind and spirit greatly. An example was imprisonment.

  After a long time had passed, the person might really go crazy.

  Sun Mo felt that his will was strong enough, but when the ninth day arrived, he felt so disgusted that he wanted to vomit when he looked at the six white-colored walls surrounding him.

  He had an intense feeling that he wanted to blast the walls into pieces and rush out.

  Sun Mo also tried it before, but despite him using his strongest ultimate skill on the walls, he didn’t even leave a scar behind.

  “Would I really die here?”

  Sun Mo sat on the ground and hugged his knees. He stared blankly at the ceiling. “I haven’t married yet. No, I don’t even have a girlfriend. I’ve not tried kissing, holding hands, going out to play, etc…… My life is truly extremely miserable!

  “Also, as for my dreams……wait a minute, when did I start to feel worried about getting loans and buying a house? Since I felt that I was a ‘garlic chive’?”

  As time continued to flow, Sun Mo who was completely clueless started to grow somewhat flustered and exasperated, even feeling annoyed and dispirited. In fact, he gave up on everything and simply lay on the ground in a daze.

  Sun Mo wasn’t a saint. He would grow angry when he encountered a difficult problem during an examination or when he saw students who simply refused to learn no matter how you taught them.

  “Teacher?”

  A weak voice lightly called out, causing Sun Mo’s fatigued mind and spirit to stir.

  “You are awake?”

  Sun Mo hurried over to Li Ziqi’s side and inspected her body. After that, he discovered that her temperature was a little high.

  (Oh no, she’s having a fever!)

  Sun Mo didn’t even think about it and directly took out his dagger, preparing to slice his wrist.

  “Teacher, don’t!”

  Li Ziqi used all her strength to tug at Sun Mo’s hands. Her eyes were filled with pleading as she looked at him. “If you continue to lose blood, the two of us will both die here. This isn’t an intelligent method.”

  “If you die here, what’s the point even if I get out alive alone?”

  Sun Mo rejected. Let alone the fact that the little sunny egg was his student, even if she was just a little girl who had nothing to do with him, Sun Mo wouldn’t give up on her.

  “Come, be obedient!”

  Sun Mo persuaded.

  “Teacher, I’m not telling you to give up on me. I’m saying that by losing blood, you will feel giddy and be befuddled. You won’t be able to concentrate. How should you comprehend the murals if you are in such a state?”

  Li Ziqi looked into Sun Mo’s eyes with a serious expression. “My teacher is the best. I believed if he did his utmost, he would be able to comprehend the true meaning of this stage in at most three days.”

  Seeing the sincere look in the eyes of Li Ziqi that were filled with worship, as well as her voice that was filled with pride when talking about him, Sun Mo’s heart felt encouraged again.

  “Teacher, I’ve always thought of you as my glory. I hope that this time around, you will not disappoint me.”

  Li Ziqi smiled. Her smile was like a blooming lily, pure, radiant, fragrant, and beautiful.

  “That’s for sure!”

  Sun Mo clenched his fists tightly.

  In the past when he was playing online games, when he failed to solo a BOSS, or lost a PK, or even couldn’t get a perfect clear for a stage, he might feel discouraged and quit the game.

  However, one couldn’t give up on life!

  “Hehe, I know that my teacher is the greatest!”

  The little sunny egg smiled and stretched out a tiny fist, knocking it with Sun Mo’s. “I’m cheering for you!”

  (With a sweet young girl cheering for me, is there a reason to not work hard?)

  (Cheering for me?)

  (Isn’t this just a mere Battlegod Catalog?! After comprehending it, I will spread the news to the entire world and let you, a damnable Battle God, swindle more people with this room!)

  Sun Mo’s will to fight ignited once again.

  Seeing Sun Mo racking his brains, Li Ziqi leaned against the wall. Her weak face revealed a blessed smile.

  “Three days…… I should die by then, right? Teacher, at that time, please don’t be polite and feel free to drink my blood so you can continue persisting. You will obtain the Battlegod Catalog and have your name spread around the world, becoming the most dazzling great teacher in the Nine Provinces.”

  When she thought of this, Li Ziqi’s tears suddenly flowed like the rain.

  (Sadly, I won’t be able to see that day. What a pity!)

  (I really feel so reluctant! Teacher, I really wish to accompany you to the peak of life!)

  Li Ziqi was afraid that Sun Mo might lose self-control when he looked at how weak she was. Hence, she hurriedly lowered her head and quickly wiped away her tears. When she lifted her face again, there was already a smile on it.

  (Yes, I have to leave my last smile to Teacher.) ……

  “What exactly should I do? The Battlegod Canyon should be a place with murals, no, spirit runes, at its core. The crux of comprehension lies in deciphering spirit runes.”

  Sun Mo restarted his thinking process.

  In this bizarre room, he had tried all sorts of methods but had no way to activate the spirit runes here, assuming there were any. He had also thought on the premises that the spirit runes might be in the form of other things. But in this room, other than the white walls, there was nothing else.

  “Damn, I really felt like cursing at this Battle God!”

  Sun Mo suddenly started missing his keyboard. With it, he could scold a group of people on a forum so badly until their heads bleed amidst that click-clacking typing sound.

  (Hmph!)

  (Damnable Battle God, come out if you are capable! I guarantee I definitely won’t curse you to death. How annoying!)

  Bang!

  Sun Mo’s fist slammed into the wall.

  Because he had used too much force, his skin cracked and fresh blood flowed, dyeing the pure-white wall red.

  Sun Mo was unhappy. This feeling was like he had a bellyful of anger, and when he was prepared to vent, he discovered that the other party had gone offline. He had no target to scold……

  (Eh?)

  (Wait a minute. The other party isn’t around, so that means I can continue scolding.)

  Sun Mo inclined his head and stared at the wall.

  (Let’s treat this as a whiteboard. But how do I communicate? If I write vulgarities, the Battle God probably won’t understand, right?)

  Sun Mo suddenly thought of the spirit rune language he had just learned. (Oh right, I can translate vulgarities into the spirit rune language and write it.)

  (Not bad, let me use a common insult first. Wait, I don’t have ink! Nevermind…… I will use my blood.)

  Very soon, a diagram appeared on the wall. It looked like the nonsense doodling of a child, and Sun Mo couldn’t help but scold.

  “F***!”

  Cursing at people via a diagram sucked. It diminished the charm and essence of cursing, and it wasn’t enough to sufficiently express his anger.

  Sun Mo turned around and went to the little sunny egg to let her drink some of his blood.

  But at this moment, Li Ziqi actually cried out in shock.

  “Teacher, look quickly!”

  Sun Mo turned his head and stared in the direction the little sunny egg was pointing. He then saw a few diagrams slowly appearing on the wall.

  “This……”

  Sun Mo had a dumbfounded look on his face. Earlier, he had tried all sorts of methods and didn’t see any spirit rune diagrams. But now, he just cursed and response immediately appeared?

  (Wait a minute, something is wrong! Scolding someone isn’t the answer. Quickly think! What’s the difference between what I did in the past and present?)

  (Where is the crux?)

  Sun Mo paced around while pinching his glabella as he racked his brains.

  Upon seeing this scene, Li Ziqi didn’t dare to speak. She originally wanted to cast Gushing Thoughts to help Sun Mo, but she was worried she might break his train of thoughts and stir up trouble instead.

  “We must interact. Yes, I treated the wall as a forum so I could scold the Battle God. This is an interaction. Correct, we have to use the spirit rune language to interact with the Battle God.”

  Sun Mo suddenly felt wild joy in his heart. He stared at the white walls and suddenly understood. “So the secret of this stage is interaction!”

  “Interaction?”

  When Li Ziqi heard this, her gaze trembled. “Using spirit runes to interact with the Battle God?”

  “That’s right!”

  Sun Mo praised. His eldest student was truly intelligent and understood what he was talking about with just a hint.

  “But the Battle God shattered the void several tens of thousands of years ago and left for another world, right?

  Li Ziqi’s beautiful brows furrowed.

  “Don’t care about that, let’s just try it out!”

  Sun Mo shrugged.

  Just like people of this world definitely wouldn’t understand things like computers and games, Sun Mo also had no way to understand how the ancient Battle God had created the Battlegod Canyon and even made this way of interaction possible.

  This was considered a higher-level knowledge system.

  When Sun Mo translated the meaning of the spirit rune diagrams, he felt a little stunned and embarrassed because the content was……

  “Hello, person of a later era. I guess you should be scolding me, right?”

  Sun Mo hurriedly translated what he wanted to say into spirit runes and drew them on the wall.

  “Nope. Senior Battle God, I wish to know the method to leave.”

  This process of drawing the spirit runes already took 15 minutes.

  There was no solution as he only had an initial mastery of this spirit rune language and had to do his best to avoid bad expressions. After all, drawing the diagram was much more difficult compared to learning English.

  “Damn, it’s so tiring. I would rather do 1,000 sets of english test papers!”

  Sun Mo cursed. After all, he was afraid he might draw the runes wrongly. Besides, he was also worried that the Battle God would leave if he replied too slowly.

  Sigh.

  (What should I do if the other party replied saying that he would be right back and would be going to take a shower first?)

  Sun Mo felt trepidation in his heart.

  After all, the Battle God should be an existence that was tougher to deal with compared to ‘goddesses’ on Wechat, right?

  Luckily, Sun Mo didn’t need to wait for long. More diagrams were appearing on the wall.

  “Damn!”

  Sun Mo felt like cursing because there were so many diagrams. How many words had the Battle God written?

  15 minutes later, Sun Mo had finally translated them.

  “Why do you want to leave? Don’t you want to obtain the Battlegod Catalog? That’s the strongest divine art in the Nine Provinces. When you train it to the max, you will be invincible in the Central Province, and you can even break through space.

  “Oh right, you just learned the language and would surely be unfamiliar with it. Hence, to prevent communication errors, just write slower. I’ll wait for you.”

  After looking at the latter part of the sentence, Sun Mo felt a little like crying. The Battle God truly didn’t put on any airs at all. He was kind and understanding. (I was wrong when I cursed at you earlier. However, can you speak less each time? It’s very tiring for me to translate, alright?)

  “My disciple is in the room with me. She cannot persist for much longer.”

  Sun Mo explained.

  After that, six small black dots appeared on the walls. (……) ……

  (What does this mean?)

  Sun Mo was dumbfounded. Could he have angered the Battle God?

  Strictly speaking, although the little sunny egg also understood this spirit rune language, the majority was what he had taught her.

  (The Battle God wouldn’t feel that this was a breach of rules, right?)

  After all, some major characters were very egotistical and felt that only geniuses were qualified to learn their knowledge.

  “Would my presence cause trouble for Teacher?”

  Li Ziqi was also somewhat worried.

  Luckily, after a short while, new spirit rune diagrams appeared on the wall.

  “You actually brought your disciple in? Are you the one who taught her this spirit rune language?”

  The ancient Battle God was shocked. One must know that people who could enter the last stage would naturally be familiar with this language. It would be rare to find one person like that in a few thousand years.

  But now, there were two in one go?

  It was a little shocking.

  “I only guided her slightly. She is extremely intelligent and can learn anything very fast as long as you give her a hint in the right direction. Oh right, she even has a retentive memory.”

  “She’s only 14.”

  Sun Mo hurriedly boasted, hoping the Battle God would show mercy and help them.

  Li Ziqi flushed. Sun Mo’s boasting caused her to feel very embarrassed.

  “14? What about you? How old are you?”

  The Battle God was curious.

  “23!”

  Sun Mo translated the diagrams.

  “How many days did you use to enter here?”

  The Battle God asked. This time around, the speed of the diagrams appearing became much quicker.

  “Roughly about half a month.”

  Sun Mo didn’t have the mood to calculate this!

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from the ancient Battle God +10,086. Reverence (10,086/100,000).

  (Wow, you directly leap past neutral, friendly, and even respect.)

  (Wait, the ancient Battle God should have already shattered the void and wasn’t present anymore in this world, right? How could he still give favorable impression points? This system is really a little impressive!)

  Note:

  Garlic chives is a slang in China: They are inexperienced people who lose their money to more experienced operators.