Chapter 40: Search for Hidden Techniques!
Chapter 40: Search for Hidden Techniques!
"I appreciate the offer, Elder, and I will make sure to seek your guidance." Ken replied this time with another respectful bow before the elder decided that he had said enough and disappeared.
Only then did Ken head towards the stairs.
It was his first time heading up to the second floor of the two pagodas, even while working in one of them, as it was a prohibited area, and he had nothing to do on the second floor when he had yet to fully absorb the benefits of the first.
But, the second his foot stepped on the first stair, Ken found himself in the 2nd floor’s gate as if he warped directly to it.
"State your purpose, junior." There, in front of the gate, were two mean-looking seniors who looked tense, but Ken could feel the kindness underneath the one who spoke.
"I’d like to get to the 3rd floor, senior." Ken brought up the pass and showed it to the senior, who looked at it and then him for quite a while before he sighed.
"Do you have something in mind, senior?" Ken tucked his token back into his ring, which didn’t make the seniors as surprised as when they saw the pass.
Hearing the question, the seniors looked at each other. They both were wearing their slightly yellow robes, signifying they were from the previous batch, not Adam’s.
Ken, by now having interacted with this batch a lot, knew that he just had to be direct with them even though they were much older and more experienced as cultivators.
They weren’t like Adam, who seemed more outlandish and solitary, and Ken had yet to figure out if it was his unique trait or something all seniors shared.
"Haah, well you see, junior..."