1553 Miss Qiao Was Here...

But speaking of which, it was strange. That black bear that fell down from the staircase was not attacking people.

Instead its small eyes glanced at everyone fearfully as if they were monsters. It then hastily turned tail and scampered back up the staircase on all four limbs, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Everyone gazed speechlessly at this black bear's back silhouette before exchanging looks with each other.

Did you feel you were in the right when you suddenly fell down the staircase and freaked us out half to death?

The eighth princess Mo You chuckled. "This must be a coward of a black bear."

Meanwhile, Qiao Mu was naturally unaware of the episode that had happened below.

She only focused on climbing all the way up. At this time, she had made it to a gate carved ornately out of white marble.

This gigantic gate towered over her without a crack in its seams, and pushing accomplished nothing.

There were five recesses in the gate in the shape of handprints.

They respectively symbolized the five spirits: water, fire, earth, wood, and lightning.

So that was how it was. Those who hadn't grasped a trace of the five spirits would be unable to pass through this gate even after undergoing untold tribulations to make it to the top of the staircase.

That's why there was simply no need to wait for Situ Yi and the others. Because it was impossible for Heavenly Law to let everyone enter the gate all at once.

As this test considered a person's cultivation level and grasp of the five spirits, it naturally had to isolate everyone in order to evaluate each person individually.

She could only… wish Situ Yi and the others good luck!

Miss Qiao had no qualms about going ahead first, pressing her hand in the recess that symbolized the water spirit.

It did not require you to exert effort nor inject spiritual energy.

This recess was only to sense if your body possessed the tiniest bit of spiritual meridians. If you did, then that was enough.

The gate soon opened in front of Qiao Mu. Just as Miss Qiao was about to step through, however, she saw that many characters had been engraved crookedly on the sides of the gate.

Because this gate was truly too tall, and those characters were engraved above her head, Qiao Mu simply didn't notice them at the beginning.

She discovered that the majority of those people uniformly wrote 'So-and-so was here!'

Qiao Mu tilted her head and contemplated. Since everyone had left their names, she should do so too.

Hence, she abruptly flew up and took out her gold-beaded talisman pen before engraving several large but fine and delicate characters: 'Miss Qiao was here!'

Afterwards, she flitted through the gate.

Situ Yi was the first to arrive at the white marble gate an hour later, after which he discovered Miss Qiao's "message."

Senior Brother Situ mused: This must be a message Little Junior Sister left behind for everyone. She had gone ahead first and was telling them to catch up quickly!

Mhm, that must be the case. Then he should also leave behind a secret message for the companions behind him.

Hence, Senior Brother Situ left behind several large and flamboyant characters next to Darling Qiao's handwriting: 'Senior Brother Situ was here!'

Afterwards, he stepped through the gate in satisfaction.

Everyone afterwards continued to mimic him in leaving behind their names.

Which caused…

The new talents who reached this gate a hundred years later to have no space to leave any messages at all.

They pointed in disapproval at the white marble gate and criticized this character for being ugly and that message for being laughable. What Senior Brother Situ? Whose senior brother were you!

Of course, this all happened in a later part of the story.

Meanwhile, after Miss Qiao entered the gate, she passed through a corridor shrouded in a vast expanse of white. She did not have much of a sense of direction at the beginning.

With a move of her finger, a dozen butterfly guides flew out from Paradise Planet and fluttered ahead in front of her.

She was going to have the butterfly guides make a round first to find the exit before following them. It would save her the trouble of going around in circles like a headless fly.

Soon enough, many butterflies flew back and fluttered their wings to guide the way.