A Trip

Chen Fang could be said lucky because he did not get dragged in a full-blown fight between two cultivators.

After the initial befuddlement, the man chose to forget everything since the ones involved were strangers to him anyway.

Chen Fang suppressed the anxiety in his heart and then headed into the restroom to settle his business. Three minutes later, once done ensuring his hands smelled of soap, he went out and returned to their table. When he arrived, he was surprised to see several faces there. New, as in people who were not initially with them when they first arrived. However, they were all classmates and acquaintances from the same college department.

There was not much awkwardness as he rejoined them and began toasting to the newcomers.

He still belonged to the normal world.

When tomorrow came, the young man woke up late in the afternoon not knowing who dragged him back to the dorms.

After taking a warm shower, he ordered takeout and then checked his investments. Since it was now the start of summer vacation, he pondered what he should do to pass the next two months.

His roommate happened to get back from a date with his girlfriend from the college of performing arts and gave Chen Fang an option.

"Chen Fang. Me, my girlfriend, and some other friends decided to go on a trip. Would you like to go with us?"

"Where to?" he asked Zhu Donghai, the popular, handsome dude strangely wasting his looks on a non-mainstream major that was Archeology.

"It's summer and I know most people want to go Sanya or anywhere near the waters. But we can't always copy people, right? Consider this too, those places are too far from here and excluding transportation, the prices of food and accommodation there are sky-high. How about we just do a ruin exploration? Let's select a destination where there are lots of trees to give us cooling shade?"

"… You have a bright future as an archeologist."

Chen Fang could only say, although he did tag along since for once, he wanted to relax.

The past two months were all spent on either studying or dealing with Qin Li's plots. Yep, on the latter part, that man began to pick fights with him again. Some instances were when a project he submitted suddenly disappeared and when his test questionnaires and answer sheets were switched out by someone.

Even remembering those days was quite a headache, so now that he was from the troubles, taking a vacation to somewhere far from the capital did cross his mind.

'I have the money from antique buy-and-sell transactions, so why not?' He thought a day later as he stared out the window of the van that Zhu Donghai rented.

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Zhang Mei Xing was determined to keep her current examinee from the messy world of cultivators.

However, in the next few days that passed, she frequently sighted the demoness near the places where Chen Fang appeared or stopped by.

When the young man and his companions reached the Yazhou region in Zhejing Province, the fight between the human and cultivator also transitioned to that place. The series of coincidences was stupid, yet it all happened.

This was now making her reflect. Was Chen Fang just truly meant to enter the cultivation world?

Zhang Mei Xing was starting to waver since she could see that Chen Fang had stagnated. There was no more massive progress in his examination results after the incident at the police station. If she were to quantify the progress bars, then it would be like this.

Avoid Death… well, 0%.

Counterattack, 60%.

Become Someone Extraordinary, 10%.

The latter only had some progress since Chen Fang turned into a minor campus celebrity courtesy of that certain pair. But in order for this guy to pass, all criteria must reach a hundred percent completion.

'The first two seem don't look like it will give him a problem. But what about the third?'

Zhang Mei Xing fell into contemplation. She was getting a bit annoyed by the appearance of the demoness. Sadly, her hands were tied and she had no whatsoever justification to meddle.

Yet even if she were given a role to play, it would be to antagonize the examinee.

Zhang Mei Xing looked up and pursed her lips.

She was worried, and she was dying of boredom. It would not be an exaggeration to say that she could only mind Chen Fang's business so much because of this. Imagining she would spend a few more months in this Test World without being able to do anything else was making her heart cold.

Three days since the vacation started. Chen Fang's group finally arrived at the sole destination of the trip. The place was called Longyou Caves, a mysterious tourist spot consisting of a group of 24 artificial sandstone caverns that made up a rare, extensive, and magnificent ancient underground world.