Chapter 456 - 210: Crushing the Scene
After handing Auli over to the Black Pupil, Lu Hong decided to temporarily leave the bronze greatsword by her side, firstly to guide Auli’s training, and secondly as a form of protection. Once everything was arranged and he was ready to depart, the tavern owner stopped him. No matter how few people were in this town, there was always someone who had seen him come in with a young girl, so they needed to see Lu Hong leave with the young girl as well; otherwise, the finger would immediately be pointed at the Black Pupil’s secret branch.
The tavern owner had a solution for this, and after a short wait, a short-statured woman came through the secret passage into the tavern’s kitchen.
She fiddled with Auli’s appearance for a while, and soon she was disguised to look exactly like Auli.
"You guys really have a way," Lu Hong couldn’t help but give the Black Pupil a thumbs up.
The Black Pupil woman, pleased with the praise, happily wrapped her arms around Lu Hong’s arm. "Big brother, then let’s get going. Once we get out of town and into the forest, I will leave on my own, no need for you to worry."
"Okay, thank you." He had to admit, the woman’s disguise was 90% similar to Auli’s. If one did not observe carefully, it would indeed be hard to tell them apart.
After performing a bit of theatre, Lu Hong bid farewell to the Black Pupil spy and set out straight for the second checkpoint.
What he needed to do now was break through the simpler checkpoints ahead as quickly as possible. The further he went, the more people would be held up, and at that point, robbing and murdering for wealth would become commonplace—that was exactly the scene Lu Hong was hoping for. To break through the Third Transition quickly, he had to use killing to gain more experience.
No matter what, if he didn’t break through the Third Transition, Lu Hong would definitely not leave the Canglan Path.
Compared to the first checkpoint, the second checkpoint of the Power God’s Path was relatively simpler; this one was a duplicate challenge. The challenge was to fight against one’s own duplicate, who only possessed the same physical strength as the original, and the magic power would not be considered. The reason for this simplicity was because the Power God’s Array did not properly reduce magic power, which was the biggest loophole in the previous few challenges. With equal physical strength, one could easily deal with the duplicate by relying on a slight advantage in magic power, making it quite normal to break through the challenge. Of course, there were also those who wanted to challenge themselves and chose not to use magic power—and then, well, they would simply not be able to defeat it.