Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 1472: 1431: Sudden Realization

Chapter 1472: Chapter 1431: Sudden Realization

“No need to guess anymore, I might already know.”

Lu Chuan locked his gaze on a silhouette not far away, feeling a headache coming on.

In this second stage, the Treasure Presentation Realm, it’s most likely that both Lu Chuan’s and Kong Zhaozhao’s memories have been partially extracted and fused together.

The reason Lu Chuan is so certain is simple.

It’s unlikely that Kong Zhaozhao has even heard the name Ye Chongshan in her life, so how could she recreate Ye Chongshan so lifelike?

“But, how is Ye Chongshan here?”

Moreover, judging by his attire, he seems to be a general leading an army, with his battle armor dignified and a blood-stained long sword glistening. Unfortunately, his face filled with the aura of a literary person does not reflect the valor of a general.

“This direction of fighting… Wait, Old man?”

Lu Chuan’s eyes widened at once, looking at Mu Changchen clad in battle armor, confronting Ye Chongshan, feeling speechless.

The previous stage at least captured a complete memory, but now at this second stage, things seem made up randomly?

“What the hell, Guan Yu battles Qin Qiong…”

The key point, the most crucial part is, both their auras have distinctly broken through the Spirit Splitting Realm; let’s not talk about the old man since he’s already at the Nine Layers of Nascent Soul, breaking through to Spirit Splitting isn’t surprising.

The critical point is, on what grounds does the broad-browed and big-eyed Ye Chongshan achieve the Spirit Splitting Realm? Even in dreams, this shouldn’t be happening!

“Wait a minute, something seems a bit off…”

Lu Chuan blinked as more familiar faces gradually emerged, even those who had appeared before appeared again, such as Nalan Xuan, Li Yingnu, and others, all leading armies engaging fiercely without any alliances, without any order.

“Let me think…”

At this moment, Lu Chuan’s mind was almost a whirl of confusion. This nonsensical scene would be headache-inducing for anyone who witnessed it.

But that wasn’t the critical issue; the problem was how to break through this scenario?

The first stage was named the Realm of All Beings, intending for Lu Chuan to realize that a single log can’t form a raft, to find scattered artifacts within the scene and revive everyone to help defeat Fan Qingyun.

What’s the meaning of the second stage, the Treasure Presentation Realm?

Lu Chuan’s brain raced, completely unaware that an army had already blocked his path!

“Lu… Lu Chuan!”

Kong Zhaozhao noticed the shift first, urgently tugging at Lu Chuan’s clothes, choking as she spoke, “Look quickly!”

“Look at what… Yun Yan? Even you!”

“You recognize me?”

Riding on horseback, Yun Yan gently furrowed her brows, continuously pondering whether she had seen this human before. After a moment of reflection, Yun Yan shook her head and softly said, “I don’t recall ever meeting you.”

“How could you not have met me? You even absorbed my yang energy!”

“Nonsense, seize him!”

Upon seeing the iron hoof charging forward, Lu Chuan suddenly had a revelation.

“Damn! I understand! Yun Yan, look at this!”

With a thought, Lu Chuan made the Soul-Attracting Bell abruptly appear in his hand, prompting Yun Yan to stop in her tracks, a flicker of confusion in her eyes.

“I… I seem to recognize this bell.”

Seeing the iron hoof stopped, Lu Chuan’s eyes shone brightly.

No wonder every face appearing here was so familiar to Lu Chuan, how could they not be!

Everyone appearing here had once given him a treasure!

“Yun Yan, this Soul-Attracting Bell is gifted to you.”

Lu Chuan tossed the Soul-Attracting Bell to Yun Yan, and she immediately received an identical bell in her hand, yet the one in Lu Chuan’s hand did not disappear!

Upon receiving the Soul-Attracting Bell, Yun Yan seemed to be influenced by some rules, paused for a few moments, and then quickly dismounted.

“Human, though I don’t know who you are, your gift of a supreme treasure that helped me defeat the enemy, I will remember this kindness and repay it in the future.”

“Don’t be polite with me, just keep it safe.”

Understanding the logic behind this Treasure Presentation Realm brought a smile to Lu Chuan’s face.

In this light, these familiar faces were all potential forces for him to leverage!

Thinking that he might even have a face-to-face with the true master of the Demon Suppression Pagoda made Lu Chuan excited!

However… There’s something that’s concerning Lu Chuan.

Kong Zhaozhao lacked any treasures, so she barely had any familiar faces here; only the battlefield was drawn from her memory.

These familiar faces came from Lu Chuan’s memory, and those treasures were in Lu Chuan’s possession.

So the question arises, what’s the condition to pass this second stage?

Could it be bringing everyone under submission?

That seems unrealistic because Lu Chuan had many discarded treasures that he hasn’t thrown away but already forgotten who their owners were, even if he checked one by one using elimination, Lu Chuan still felt something was off.

The first stage, after defeating Fan Qingyun, then opened the path to the second stage, simply bringing everyone under his command would be too easy.

However, at this point, since no answers come to mind temporarily, Lu Chuan had to give up.

No matter what, he must gather these people to transform them into his forces, and how to leave the second stage might reveal subsequent clues.

With that thought, Lu Chuan immediately led Kong Zhaozhao around, the Mystic Spirit Haunting Spike belonging to Ye Chongshan, the Golden Luster Stick left by Old Mu, and the Hokuzo Kuniyasutuna brought out from the Miyamoto Family returned to its former owner Miyamoto Musashi. Within half an hour, Lu Chuan had recruited over a dozen people and an army of hundreds of thousands, becoming the strongest force on the battlefield.

But Lu Chuan did not see the master of the Demon Suppression Pagoda.

However, thinking carefully, given the status of the Demon Suppression Pagoda, capturing the Tower Spirit’s memory might not be that easy, perhaps the Tower Spirit wasn’t affected at all.

Finally, Lu Chuan simply ordered the army to obliterate all other forces entirely, leaving no one alive, yet the page leading to the third stage still didn’t open.

“Therefore, there must be a necessary condition, if this condition isn’t met, the trial isn’t considered completed, what could it be?”

Lu Chuan sat cross-legged on the ground, his brow furrowed, his brain functioning at a speed it had never reached before.

“Wait… impossible, is it?”

Lu Chuan gulped, then turned to look at Kong Zhaozhao, who was expressionless, with a cold glint in his eyes.

The person who was by his side from the very beginning and never aroused Lu Chuan’s suspicion had become particularly silent once Lu Chuan brought Yun Yan into his fold.

This lingering sense of oddness that had stuck with Lu Chuan was finally unraveling.

Why, despite having brought all the visible forces under his control, the path to the third stage hadn’t opened, he finally got the answer.

There was someone who had been concealed by his side from the very beginning.

“You… where have you hidden the real Kong Zhaozhao?”