High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 587 - 408: Crisis Awareness—Ye Jian Stopped at Floor 2? Are You Kidding!

The golden silhouette kept flickering, and soon the contour of its body and a pair of eyes became visible.

Their eyes met.

A pair of deep and calm eyes came into view. Ye Jian was slightly taken aback. He felt that the golden figure before him looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn’t recall where he had seen it before.

Ye Jian focused his gaze, waiting for the figure to fully form.

Outside Junlin Pavilion, Su Mu naturally also saw this scene, and he couldn’t help but let out a soft "hmm."

Earlier, he had been fully immersed in comprehending the realm, only realizing that he had become the new master of Junlin Pavilion after finishing his cultivation. Likewise, Su Mu hadn’t noticed that after he gained control over Junlin Pavilion, even the assessors for each level had changed from the Ye Family Ancestor to himself.

Now, Su Mu was the assessor for every level of Junlin Pavilion!

"In its dormant state, Junlin Pavilion cannot be taken directly, and now is not the time to reveal it, or it would attract the attention of the Overlord Blade Martial Saint."

"Since I’m now the assessor of Junlin Pavilion, things will be easier. Just now, I shouldn’t have sensed anything wrong."

With a thought, Su Mu began to manipulate Junlin Pavilion, and immediately the Shadow of Time on each floor ceased to take shape, ultimately presenting itself only as a blurred figure without fully revealing facial features.

Beside him, Huangfu Xue noticed Su Mu’s distraction and showed some concern on her face, using spiritual transmission to speak.

"Su Mu, let’s not bother with that annoying guy. This is your first time in Ye City, so come, I’ll show you around."

Su Mu, multi-tasking, nodded slightly after regaining his senses. He happened to want to ask Huangfu Xue some questions.

The two quickly moved through the crowd, leaving the Junlin Pavilion area while an elder from the Ye Family watched them with a slightly peculiar expression.

During winter, the Huaxia Imperial Capital is colder compared to southern cities. Today, the cold wind was blustering, causing the flags hanging outside a nearby tavern to flutter noisily.

"Ye City has a lot of unique delicacies, including good wines. Let’s grab something to eat first," Huangfu Xue suggested, noticing Su Mu looking at the swaying banner.

"Alright."

The two entered the tavern, and Su Mu quickly used his spiritual power to isolate themselves from the surrounding patrons.

"Huangfu Xue, how much do you know about the Ye Family?"

"I should know more about the Ye Family than you. What do you want to ask?"

...

At the same time, inside Junlin Pavilion.

"I see, so there’s something unusual with Junlin Pavilion! No wonder that ant was not only able to reach the eighth floor but also trigger such terrifying anomalies!"

Ye Jian stared intensely at the blurred figure, understanding slowly dawning on him, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Everything indeed is within his grasp, and that ant’s luck is truly remarkable.

As his thoughts raced, Ye Jian couldn’t help but smirk. With Junlin Pavilion’s anomaly, even lesser beings could pass the eighth floor. Perhaps he could go even further.

Whether it’s making a name on the Sword Monument or becoming the first in a millennium to reach the top of Junlin Pavilion.

This would be the first in a thousand years!

The thought made Ye Jian’s heart burn with intense excitement. If he could achieve it today, perhaps he would be one step closer to inheriting the Ye Family’s Martial Saint Tower.

"Hahaha, indeed, heaven is helping me. I, Ye Jian, am a person with great destiny!"

At this moment, Ye Jian couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

Meanwhile, Su Mu, multitasking, attached a consciousness to his own Shadow of Time within Junlin Pavilion, but he didn’t plan to fully control it yet.

He wasn’t sure if his previous perception was accurate, so he decided to let the Shadow of Time play for now.

Thus the assessment began, and the unfortunate Ye Jian was unknowingly the first to be experimented on by Su Mu after he took control of Junlin Pavilion.

With a thought from Su Mu, the Shadow of Time spoke faintly.

"Begin."

"Last one round against me, and you can step into the second layer."

Ye Jian, upon hearing this, laughed even more wildly, as if he utterly disregarded the Shadow of Time’s challenge, even fantasizing the scene where after reaching the top of Junlin Pavilion, even the Ye Family Ancestor would be startled and personally greet him.

But the next moment.

The Shadow of Time, in some aspects, inherited Su Mu’s temperament and didn’t coddle anyone. It clenched its right hand into a fist and, attempting to fist from a distance of over ten thousand meters, shot out a strike.

Boom!

The flames erupted violently, like a sovereign descending. The golden Sea of Time suddenly transformed into a Sea of Fire, from which a Flame Gate emerged.

If Ye Mountain were to see this scene, he would immediately recognize this gate as the supreme gate that had helped him break through to a Martial Arts Grandmaster at Shanhai Pass, and he had only needed a glimpse to achieve it!

At the moment the Fire Gate appeared.

The laughter ceased abruptly, his expression frozen on his face, his eyes widened. At this moment, an overwhelming premonition of death emerged deep within his mind.

In an instant, it swept through his brain and spread throughout his body. Although Ye Jian was arrogant, he was ultimately a prodigy of the Ye Family, and soon he realized...

If he didn’t give his all, he would die, and he would definitely die!

But isn’t this just the first level of Junlin Pavilion?!

Isn’t the test supposed to be about the control of the Three Flowers Technique? In a thousand years, no challenger who stepped inside Junlin Pavilion had ever fallen on the first level.

Yet how could this first level be so dangerous?

Moreover, Ye Jian stared hard at that Flame Gate. Born into one of Huaxia’s two top Martial Arts Families and from the main lineage at that.

He had cultivated one of the Ten Great Three Flowers, the Ye Family’s secret "Formless Three Flowers," and prided himself on having seen many of the world’s top Three Flowers Techniques.