"U-Um, excuse me?"
Yun Che closed the Menu and looked at his side, at the person who called him.
A confused expression surfaced over his face.
He wondered who he was.
"Brother, you have such great strength at such a young age. What's your name? Seeing as you have such good strength when you are so young, you must be from a big family."
"Who are you?" Ignoring his question, Yun Che asked with a weird expression on his face. Were strangers here so accommodating of other people? Of course not! He rather believed that romance existed in Chinese cultivation novels than believing that strangers were good to each other.
"A-Ah! I-I'm Yun Xiaofan! I passed the exam before you."
"Oh… I'm Yun Che." Yun Che nodded while wondering if he looked that scary for Yun Xiaofan to be scared of him.
"Brother also has the same surname as me. It must be fate!"
Yun Che's facial expression suddenly crumbled to that of disgust, making Yun Xiaofan take a step backward.
"I'm sorry!"
He thought he might have offended Yun Che somehow.
"How can a flea like me be compared to the majesty of Brother Yun!"
"... Dude, chill." Yun Che rolled his eyes and his expression returned to normal. The mention of fate seemed to trigger him somehow. "I'm not angry. I just remembered something, don't mind me."
He patted Yun Xiaofan's shoulder and smiled.
"I'm not that petty of a man. If you are worried about offending people behind me, then don't worry. I'm not from some influential family. Just someone from a small little city, don't fret it."
Though it wasn't hard to find his town, Yun Che rather stayed safe than announcing to the world from where he was. He knew too much about cultivation novels to let such information pass to the world.
Yun Xiaofan suddenly felt warm in his heart hearing Yun Che.
Despite having such strength at such an age, he thought Yun Che wasn't as arrogant as other geniuses. He felt like he could have a conversation with him and not be worried about the eighth generations of his family.
If Yun Che had heard what he was thinking, he would have shown him the skull face. Yun Xiaofan was so down that he was happy to meet someone who didn't talk to him with arrogance.
"Humph! Someone with zero background, huh! Do not be conceited, Yun Che! Just because you have better strength than me doesn't mean you can defeat me, Ao Yan!"
"Huh?"
Yun Che turned around and looked at the person who just shouted at him out of nowhere with utter confusion and bafflement. He had no idea who this person was either!
"... And who the fuck are you?"
Ao Yan's eyes widened before an angry expression appeared over his face. He thought Yun Che was looking down at him because he had better strength than him. This caused him to be displeased massively.
"Brother Yun, he is Ao Yan." On the side, Yan Xiaofan softly whispered. "He is the second genius after you with nine levels of Nascent Profound Realm strength. His family is the strongest family within Enormous Desert City in the west."
Ao Yan puffed his chest out after Yan Xiaofan's introduction of him. He felt proud of his strength and backing. He thought Yun Che would be afraid of him after knowing his background.
"Uh-huh?" Yun Che still looked confused as if he didn't understand what Yan Xiaofan meant. In a sense, he didn't. "I guess that's all cool and shit, but what does that have anything to do with me? I don't know you nor do you know me, why are you barking as if I stole your bone right out of your mouth?"
Yun Che had thought that Chinese authors exaggerated the young masters. He didn't believe that there were people so dumb in real life. But now seeing Ao Yan and Murong Ye from before, he thought he might need to recheck his views on these people.
They were dumber than he had thought!
"You—!" Ao Yan gritted his teeth in fury. Yun Che was stronger than him so he couldn't do anything physical to him. He could only grit his teeth in anger and promised to punish this arrogant trash in the future. "Just you wait! I'll have you below my feet soon!"
"... Huh! Well… good luck, I guess?"
'I really need to be done with this exam. It hasn't even entered its second stage and I'm already having post symptoms of head cancer. I wished painkillers existed in this world… Oh wait! I can't feel pain…"
Remembering, he was glad he didn't switch off this skill. Right now, he needs this skill the most. He will make sure to switch it off in the future.
The first phase of the exam ended without any problems except for the little episode with Ao Yan.
The passed examinees were moved towards the site of the second phase of the exam—Combat Strength Assessment!
Instructor Qi walked to the podium and started explaining how this part of the exam worked.
Basically, the examinee would need to exchange blows with one of their senior brothers. After the exchange of moves, the examinee then determines whether the person passed the exam or not.
"This time, your senior brother Feng Yue will personally test the new disciples."
'Hmm. The traumatic memories are coming back. I finally remember the plot which happened within Blue Wind Profound Palace.'
Staring at the golden-haired man sneering and looking down at everyone from the stage, Yun Che pinched his chin and internally thought.
'There was some kind of argument here, and some kind of challenge, and then somewhere Yun Che ended up in the Inner Palace… Fuck! I don't remember shit! Can't I get some memory recall skills or something? How am I supposed to dodge all these bullshit headache plot moments if I don't even remember the plot clearly?'
While Yun Che was lost in thoughts, the fight on the stage had already started.
True to his reputation, Feng Yue was harsh to anyone who entered the stage. It won't be wrong that his overbearing attitude crossed the boundaries of harshness and entered abuse. Every disciple that entered was either beaten or thrown out of the stage.
The only disciple that was able to "fight" with Feng Yue and exchange blows with him was Ao Yan.
With an expression of winner, Ao Yan disdainfully looked down at everyone. When his eyes landed on Yun Che, he sneered before softly whispering something in Feng Yue's ears.
Feng Yue's eyes shone before he nodded.
"Next person, Yun Che!"