Translator : MoonWhisperer, TWIP, skyrise Editor : TWIP
After opening this door, everyone went inside in succession.
However, there was just an empty void around them; there was nothing at all.
“To think that there are actually no magical beasts…” Su Luo muttered inwardly.
This trial was like the fifth floor of Upstream Mountain’s Tower of Trials. It was specially meant to be used as a rest stop, and no dangers whatsoever had been set up here. It was no wonder that even the door was so easily pushed open.It had to be said that Lord Bai Ze was truly a divine beast of wisdom. His knowledge of the human world was so deep that even humans would have no hope of catching up to him, only able to see the dust he leaves behind.
The test problems he gave them were from all sorts of topics and were truly fantastic oddities of every description.
One moment, it was about medicine. The next moment, it tested their intellect. After that, it was another test of their strength. The questions were totally random, and everyone had to take the route the old man set for them.
Unwittingly, they had already charged through to the seventh trial.
Everyone was extremely exhausted.
“Oh, heavens. Just how many trials are there? There won’t be seven times seven, so 49 trials, right?” Li Luoming almost wanted to look up to the sky and let out a long hiss of frustration.
Li Luoming had not had any chances to show off his skills since the first trial.So, he felt somewhat irritated.
Then the test problem for the seventh trial finally appeared.
“Children, congratulations on reaching the seventh trial. This is the final trial, so the test problem will be a little bit more difficult. You have to work hard on it.”
With this mischievous manner of speaking, he seemed nothing at all like an immemorial beast deity.
However, in reality, this Lord Bai Ze had already been using this kind of manner of speaking to mess with them for a long time now.
Nevertheless, upon hearing that this was the final test, everyone’s mood immediately lifted.
This was great. Once they passed this final trial, they should be able to obtain Lord Bai Ze’s inheritance, right?
Yet when the test problem emerged, everyone was very quickly struck dumb.
This was the test problem?
What they saw were lines and lines of words written in red appear on the 10-meter-long door sheet .
Many words were crammed onto the board.
Everyone rushed up toward it one by one, reading the test problem word by word.
“Three people went to stay at an inn. They needed 30 taels for one night. Each of the three people took out 10 taels. Having gathered the 30 taels, they gave the money to the shopkeeper. Then the shopkeeper said that he would give them a discount today, so they didn’t need to pay that much. Just 25 taels would be enough. After that, he had his assistant take out five taels and return them to the three people.”
Everyone looked at each other in dismay… What sort of test problem was this?
Wasn’t this painting style too weird?
Once it was confirmed that everyone had finished reading the test problem, the door sheet began to turn to the next page by itself.
This was what was written on the second page:
“The assistant did not follow everything the shopkeeper said. He secretly kept away two taels of silver and then returned the remaining three to the three people, giving one tael to each of the three people. This is where there’s a problem.
“At the start, each person took out 10 taels, but now they were returned one tael. In other words, each person had spent nine taels. Since the three people spent nine taels each, that was a total of 27 taels. Adding on the two taels the assistant hid away, that made a total of 29 taels.
“Then where did the remaining tael go? Where exactly had it gone? If you can answer this question, you can push open this door.”
After reading the test problem, everyone blanked out.
Just what did this have to do with anything?
Weren’t they here to fight for the Bai Ze ruins? Why was there such a weird problem?
This group of people who had never been taught mathematical logic was stunned.
As they read the words on the door sheet over and over, their faces looked as if they were eating bitter melon.
That’s right. Each of the three people had clearly paid nine tales, and the assistant had only kept two taels. No matter how it was added up, it only comes to a total of 29. It was impossible to reach 30~~~~
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[^1] I couldn’t really find a picture, but I think it’s basically like a really long pad of paper that’s hung down, kind of like a vertical banner?
