When the door opened what he saw was a podium in the middle of the room.
"Wait, where's the testing apparatus? Is it invisible? What the heck is this!?"
Zhu Jiao started to look around, even using
Xia Si Le's voice rang from behind him.
"The test apparatus is here."
"Where?"
"Here," Xia Si Le pointed to himself, as he lifted Zhu Jiao's arm and placed it on the podium before using his fingers to feel out his cultivation level.
"Mm, very good, you have indeed reached the Hou Tian level, come let's head outside to get your new token."
"Wait!? That's it? You made me come into the room just to test me? WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE IT AT THE COUNTER WHERE WE WERE!"
Xia Si Le smiled as he passed 2 different tokens to Zhu Jiao,
"Because you passed the test for Rune Array masters, I'll issue you a Rune Array Master token on top of your core disciple token."
Receiving them he put them in his pocket before he continued his nagging.
"This is so inefficient! It's entirely a waste of time! Why would you even want to do that…."
While he was on his rant, Hua Ci came out of the Rune Array test room and she approached Xia Si Le anxiously.
"Sir! The Rune Array has disappeared!" She shouted.
Immediately Xia Si Le turned his head towards Hua Ci as he anxiously rushed over to the room.
"What do you mean it has disappeared."
Zhu Jiao stopped in his tracks mid-rant, before changing the tone of his voice.
"Thank you so much for helping me manager Xia, I will not overstay my welcome and make a move first. You can get back to work, don't worry about me I'll find my own way out."
Zhu Jiao awkwardly turned 180 before slowly walking out of the hall, leaving the two panicking in the grand hall.
After stepping out of the grand hall, Zhu Jiao had a deep sigh of relief. With Jimmy safely in his mind space, he bolted out of it to the gate towards the Core courtyard.
Arriving at the gate the 2 guards immediately stopped him, preventing him from entering the courtyard.
"Halt, you can't enter unless you are a Core disciple. If you are, show me your Token."
Immediately, Zhu Jiao dug deep into his pockets and fished out the token.
"Is it this token?"
The 2 guards picked up the token and inspected it,
"Yes, that's right this is the one. Is this your first time here? Have you already accepted a master? If you have, they have to come to pick you up here at the gate."
The guard replied calmly while they stood their ground.
"Oh yes, my master is Wu... Wu Qing Yu? Wu Qian Yu? Something like that?"
Zhu Jiao scratched his head, he wasn't very good with names and he was too lazy to scan his memory banks for the answer.
"Wu Xing Qu?" The guard replied, unable to control their eyebrow-raising it up all the way, forcing him to forcibly press down on his eyebrow pushing it down.
"Ah.. yes! That's my master, would you mind asking him to come over to pick me up?"
"It's the first time he's receiving a disciple… but even the school head can't even make him move I doubt we can…It's okay, we'll let you in this time, just follow our directions and you can arrive at his lodging."
The 2 guards took a step to the side as they allowed Zhu Jiao to walk into the core disciple courtyard. Once again this was a whole new different ball game when compared to the inner disciple courtyard, here there were lush gardens, tall mountains with water flowing down, countless amount of beautiful villas, and large training areas.
In the middle there lay a tower, reaching up into the sky, looking at the tower it had reminded Zhu Jiao of those challenge towers he had seen before. He had assumed it was so, but it didn't catch his interest, what he wanted to do now was drop his stuff and take a rest.
After following the directions given by the guards he finally arrived at a villa,
"I guess this is it... "
As he extended his hand, he reached out and attempted to knock on the door, but before he did a hand extended and stopped him.
"Please stop what you're doing at once!"
Zhu Jiao heard a voice from behind his back, turning around, the first thing he saw was a young servant about 20 years old dressed in simple clothing.
"If I stop then how would I get Wu Xing Qu's attention?" Zhu Jiao questioned his hands still frozen in the knocking position.
"You! How can you call the Master by his name!? Master doesn't like to be disturbed, if the master gets angry, no one will be able to save you…"
The young servant's eyes trembled, trying to look fierce, but her worried eyes betrayed her.
"Well… I'm supposed to look for him, I'm his disciple. If I don't look for him it would be disrespectful and he would get angry either way right?"
"Ah!"
A shocked gasp escaped from the mouth of the young servant, She hurriedly led Zhu Jiao in and brought him into a hall. After letting him comfortably sit on the chair she proceeded to serve him tea before writing a note and sliding it under the door of Wu Xing Qu.
She walked back to the hall was in, before bowing and speaking to Zhu Jiao.
"Now we have to wait for the master to see the note, I don't know if it will be an hour or 2 or if it will be a day or 2. It really depends on the master.
After sitting down for close to a day, there was finally some movement from the room where Wu Xing Qu was in, the doors shook as it slid open with Wu Xing Qu finally revealed himself, he stretched for a bit before walking towards the hall that Zhu Jiao was in.