Chapter 363

Chapter 363: If You Don’t Want To Be Junior Brother, I’ll Call You Senior Brother Instead
Lou Yu Shan patted Ji Han Zhou’s shoulder hard. His words were full of encouragement as he said: “Junior Brother, your Senior Brother knows his own name sounds very good, but you do not need to feel so inferior. As long as you practice hard, one day people will only care about your achievements and forget your name!”

Ji Han Zhou was speechless.

Lou Yu Shan waved his hand and said: “Alright, Junior Brother. Do not worry that no one will understand you on the road ahead. After the darkness, there will be light. Your Senior Brother should leave now. We will meet again if we are fated!”

As he spoke, Lou Yu Shan’s legs started walking toward the exit on their own.

Ji Han Zhou did not let his nonsense distract him. He drew his Flying Sword and held it across Lou Yu Shan’s path, smiling without warmth as he said: “Senior Brother?”

Lou Yu Shan cleared his throat and lightly pushed at the sword with one finger. It did not move.

He pulled his hand back in embarrassment and said: “If you do not want to be Junior Brother, I can call you Senior Brother instead.”

Ji Han Zhou frowned.

[Could it be that Lou Yu Shan had been locked inside this barrier formation for so long that his mind had gone wrong? Why else would he talk like a madman?]

He said: “Senior Brother Lou, I will not stop you if you want to leave, but should you not make things clear before you go?”

Lou Yu Shan let out a long sigh and said: “Junior Brother, do you know how many years I have stayed here?”

Without waiting for Ji Han Zhou to answer, he shouted a string of numbers: “Two hundred sixty three years! A full two hundred sixty three years! Ninety five thousand nine hundred ninety five days! Do you know how I lived through all those days?”

The more Lou Yu Shan spoke, the more worked up he became. In the end, he covered his face and cried loudly.

He had been trapped in the barrier formation for too long. It had gone on so long that he could hardly tell reality from illusion and was only one step away from losing his mind.

No, maybe he had already gone mad. If not, how could he act crazy and cry so hard in front of a stranger?

Ji Han Zhou lowered his eyes and pressed his lips together, then said: “Senior Brother Lou, you have suffered.”

Lou Yu Shan suddenly lifted his tear-streaked face and spoke in excitement: “Hehe, Junior Brother, you do not need to pity me, because it will soon be your turn!”

Ji Han Zhou was silent.

[Question: how do I take back what I just said?]

Lou Yu Shan said: “Junior Brother, since you care about me, I will tell you in advance what you are going to go through next. You have to remember it clearly.”

Lou Yu Shan’s emotions changed from one moment to the next. Just now he had been gloating, and now he wanted to share his experience with Ji Han Zhou.

Ji Han Zhou nodded heavily and showed that he was listening.

Lou Yu Shan said: “The fact that you could enter this place means you have gained the approval of our Master, the War God Xuan Yuan. Next you will go through many tests that Master prepared for you. Only by passing a test can you go to the next one. When all the tests are over, you can leave. How is it, sounds simple, right?”

Ji Han Zhou stared at him with a blank face.

Lou Yu Shan felt awkward, put away his smile, and became very serious as he said: “The tests Master set up have a total of eighty one stages. Each stage is almost twice as hard as the one before it.

“I have stayed inside this barrier formation for two hundred sixty three years and only reached the sixty fourth stage. The remaining stages are already beyond the range of my strength. No matter how I cultivate, I still cannot move even one step forward.”

When Lou Yu Shan first took part in the tests, he thought he was a Sword Dao genius favored by the Heavenly Dao, and he truly respected his Master, Xuan Yuan the Undefeated.

But as the stages went on, he found them harder and harder, and his mood grew more and more violent. He started to hate himself and also hate Xuan Yuan the Undefeated.

At his most desperate, he even felt that Xuan Yuan the Undefeated was not picking a disciple at all, but just choosing a random unlucky person out of tens of thousands to torture as he pleased.

He was that unlucky person.

Thankfully, Ji Han Zhou had appeared, and his nightmare finally seemed to be over.

Ji Han Zhou’s brows knitted, almost too slightly to see.

He could not see through Lou Yu Shan’s cultivation level, which meant Lou Yu Shan was at least an Early Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

[If even someone at the Early Nascent Soul stage could not break through the sixty fourth stage, would a person need Divine Transformation cultivation to clear all the stages? Did Xuan Yuan the Undefeated really believe that the person he chose would surely reach Divine Transformation?]

No matter how Ji Han Zhou thought about it, it did not make sense.

He glanced at Lou Yu Shan, who kept swinging between madness and sorrow, and a vague guess formed in his heart, but he did not know if he should say it out loud.

At this time, Lou Yu Shan suddenly laughed again and said: “Hahaha, my days of suffering are finally over! Junior Brother, you are on your own now.”

This time, Ji Han Zhou did not stop him but watched him run toward the exit.

Lou Yu Shan ran to the stone door and did not even reach out to push it. He crashed into it with his body, his eyes shining with the light of someone about to escape.

Bang! Lou Yu Shan’s body bounced back.

He fell to the ground and sat there, staring in disbelief at the tightly shut door as he cried: “Why? Why can the door still not open? A new person has clearly come in. Why will he still not let me go?”

Ji Han Zhou called out: “Senior Brother Lou…”

Lou Yu Shan suddenly shouted: “No! I must get out today! No one can stop me!”

Lou Yu Shan suddenly jumped up and started ramming the stone door like a madman. A series of heavy crashes echoed through the stone room again and again.

Ji Han Zhou tried again to call him back: “Senior Brother Lou! Senior Brother Lou!”

Ji Han Zhou tried to wake Lou Yu Shan up, but Lou Yu Shan could no longer hear any sound from outside. He struggled like a trapped beast, letting out cries of despair.

Ji Han Zhou’s eyes turned cold, and he swung his sword at Lou Yu Shan without hesitation. The sword light howled out, fast as lightning.

Buzz! At the last moment, a Flying Sword appeared out of thin air. Cold light flashed along its body, and Ji Han Zhou’s sword light shattered with a roar.

Hearing the noise, Lou Yu Shan slowly turned around. His bloodshot eyes stared straight at Ji Han Zhou.

Before he could go crazy again, Ji Han Zhou quickly said: “Senior Brother Lou, I know how to get out.”

Lou Yu Shan’s dull eyes moved a little.

Ji Han Zhou said: “I can send you out of here, back to the Five Elements Dao Sect.”

As his words fell, Lou Yu Shan’s eyes trembled even more. In a hoarse voice he asked: “You can let me out?”

Ji Han Zhou said: “Yes.”

“Good, I believe…” For a moment Lou Yu Shan’s expression relaxed, then twisted again as he yelled: “Yeah, right! You are lying to me! I have been here for two hundred sixty three years and never found a way out. You just came in. There is no way you could know!”

He shouted: “No, no, that is wrong. I only told you my name. How do you know I am from the Five Elements Dao Sect! I know it. You must have been sent by Xuan Yuan the Undefeated to torture me, right!”

“You first gave me hope, then pushed me into the abyss again! You want to see me fall to pieces. That makes you happy, right!”

“From beginning to end, I, Lou Yu Shan, have only been a toy for your amusement, a puppet! They just want to force me to death!”

As Lou Yu Shan roared, his breathing grew more and more wild. His Flying Sword circled around him, humming loudly.

Ji Han Zhou secretly thought that this was bad.

Lou Yu Shan was clearly showing signs of Qi Deviation!

Ji Han Zhou shouted: “Lou Yu Shan! I did come here for you, but I was entrusted by someone to come to the Desert of Lost Souls to look for you. Do you still remember your friend Gu Fan Yin!”

Gu Fan Yin was the personal name of Elder Gu.

“Fan Yin?” When Lou Yu Shan heard the name Gu Fan Yin, his face went blank for a moment, and his raging aura miraculously calmed down.

Ji Han Zhou let out a long breath.

He had almost caused a tragedy.