Chapter 163: Placemaking
Benton frowned as he received a notification. Not a half hour had passed since he had sent Yang Xiu to the Contribution Points Shop to arrange payment with Peng Zhen for a trial.
Well, she must have accomplished that task because the System informed Benton that she had requested to participate in a trial. He was sure he’d been very clear on exactly which trial she was to pick. Her mission was to advance her shield. In fact, he’d explicitly told her she wasn’t allowed to attempt to improve her spirit roots again for another year.
Why, then, was he receiving a notification asking his permission for her to do that very thing? What was she thinking?
He shook his head.
No. She did not have his permission.
He bet that, when he asked her why she’d selected that trial, she’d say something like she was just testing the pagoda’s functionality. The little scamp!
It occurred to him that the kind of thing she had just pulled had made him very angry when he was parenting his own teenagers. Since he transitioned to grandfather mode with Greg’s birth, though, such antics amused him more than anything else. Evelyn would have been rolling her eyes and shaking her head at him were she present.
Most of all, she’d just be glad he’d found a new family to love.
A short time later, a new popup appeared, informing him that Yang Xiu had selected the correct one, and immediately after the notification, she disappeared from his senses.
Her vanishing was not something he’d expected to happen, and he almost rushed to the pagoda to investigate. Before doing anything in haste, he calmed himself. The Trials Pagoda was a product of the System, and it had told him that the one she was attempting was completely safe. He doubted that she’d died.
He pulled up his status and checked, finding he still had two hundred sixty-two sect members and fifty-seven disciples. That information confirmed that she was still alive.
The trials probably occurred in a separate dimension or something. Once it was over, she should re-appear.