Bizarre Cultivation: Starting from Being Beaten Up by Reality

Chapter 206 Open the door

The girl stared blankly at the huge "Uninvited Door" and uttered a sound.

Lin Fan asked anxiously from behind her, "Junior sister, you can't open this door either? Is it really impossible to go around it? Isn't this thing a bit too heaven-defying?"

The girl didn't turn her head, her voice hollow, "No, senior brother, I was just thinking about some things from the past. It's not that the Uninvited Gate can move and block indefinitely, but since Master set it up here, I figured that going left or right would lead to a dead end."

Lin Fan slapped his forehead. "Right, this thing can only move in one direction, right? If we split into two groups, it will only be able to block one side."

The girl nodded. "Senior brother is right, but it will definitely block you. Going that way will be futile."

"Ugh, this is so annoying. Is there anything about me that makes your master want to target me?"

The girl looked thoughtful. "That's just the kind of personality Master has. I'm afraid Senior Brother and Lord Duan are on his list. He'll spare no effort to deal with anyone who poses even the slightest threat to him."

Lin Fan scratched his head in frustration, "What do we do now?"

As he spoke, he prepared to take the giant sword out of the living porcelain bottle, intending to split the door open.

The girl smiled mischievously, "Senior brother, I never said I didn't know how to open the door."

"Hey, why didn't you say so sooner?"

"Senior brother asked a whole bunch of questions in one go, and I couldn't answer them all." The girl playfully stuck out her tongue, clearly saving the solution for last: "No need to invite anyone in, no need to refuse entry; on the contrary, anyone who is invited may enter."

The girl took a step, her black and white ink-wash dress following her light steps as she moved forward slowly.

"Senior brother, may I borrow the black knife?" The girl walked to the door. The door looked very big from a distance, but standing under it, she felt as small as an ant looking up at an elephant.

Lin Fan handed over the black knife.

The girl, holding a black knife, explained, "The master left a secret signal for the guests: knock in a specific way, and the door will open."

Thump, pat, thump thump thump thump, pat pat pat pat pat pat, thump, pat pat pat pat...

The girl, wielding a black knife, knocked on the massive door with varying degrees of force. She knocked dozens of times before stopping.

The door remained completely still.

The girl remained calm and comforted Lin Fan, saying, "Senior brother, don't worry. Master is naturally suspicious and has many different passwords. But I know them all; I'll just try them one by one."

Half an hour later.

The girl's brows furrowed tightly.

At this moment, Chen Ergou, Niu Dadan, and Sun Ruolan had already gathered around, listening to Lin Fan explain that his "junior sister" was trying to open the door.

"Brother Fan, you really don't have a junior sister? Didn't we bury one together before? Although your knife can fly to knock on the door by itself, I don't think it can open it."

Sun Ruolan frowned, still carefully thinking about whether there was a way to open the door.

The girl's hands trembled slightly. "How is this possible? All the codes are wrong. My master clearly said that he taught me all the codes."

At this moment, the roles were reversed, and Lin Fan comforted her, saying, "Junior sister, don't worry. With so many codes, maybe you dialed the wrong one. Why don't you try again?"

"No! How could I not have thought of that! I've tried each one three times, no, no, none of them are right. Master clearly said I'm always welcome back and he'd tell me the secret codes for all the mechanisms, why! Why!"

The girl's delicate face no longer held its previous composure. Her bright eyes and white teeth trembled slightly, and her already dark circles under her eyes appeared even darker.

Lin Fan didn't notice anything wrong with the girl, but analyzed based on some information, "Junior sister, you said your master is a cautious and suspicious person, could it be that he didn't tell you all the codes?"

Upon hearing this, the girl went even more frantic, tearing at her hair, her eyes bloodshot and dark-rimmed. "Master, he... he doesn't want me to come back? So that's how it is, ah, ah, I knew it, I knew it."

Chen Ergou couldn't hear the girl's voice, only that Lin Fan was talking to thin air. He was getting impatient. "Brother Fan, you said that if we know the right password and make the door think we're guests, we can go in, right? Why don't you let me try?"

Lin Fan ignored him. His junior sister's situation was already enough to bother him, and he didn't have any hope for Chen Ergou.

Thump, pat pat, thump, pat pat, thump, pat pat pat...

Click.

The giant gate shook slightly, yet a loud bang was heard.

Everyone who hadn't been paying attention to Chen Ergou suddenly looked up at him.

Click click click.

A series of sounds, like the locks on a door being opened one by one, were extremely loud, making those standing below tremble.

“It’s not just like that, it’s the sound of the door lock being turned on,” Sun Ruolan said to the air.

The crazed girl had already torn her beautiful hair into a mess, and it looked like she was about to rip it out. She glared at Chen Ergou with hatred, "Why do you know the code? How did you know it! You've never been to Mojushan before!"

Swish! The black knife was pressed against Chen Ergou's neck, as if it would slit his throat if he didn't give a satisfactory answer.

"Brother Fan, hurry, ah, stop your supernatural powers!" Chen Ergou's mustache trembled incessantly, he was terrified.

Lin Fan couldn't let his junior sister kill indiscriminately. His mind raced, and he said urgently, "Junior sister, it's 'guidance,' 'guidance,' have you forgotten? It's Er Gou's supernatural power."

Chen Ergou's face darkened. "Brother Fan, I've only told you about this. How could you tell everyone!"

“Guidance? Guidance… yes, guidance is indeed possible.” The black knife was slowly lowered, and the girl squatted down on the ground.

Worried that his junior sister wouldn't believe him, Lin Fan added, "Junior sister, you know that Er Gou told the two of us that his supernatural power is guidance, which can mislead other people's perceptions. Just now, he didn't get the code right, but rather made the door believe that he was your master's 'guest.' So, whether it's a code or not doesn't matter."

As if to confirm Lin Fan's words, the door slowly opened without being asked, and two mounds of earth rose up on the ground.

"Part of this door actually grows into the ground." Chen Ergou looked at the slowly opening giant door with curiosity. "Brother Fan, how is it? Although my supernatural power is useless in a fight, it's not entirely useless either. Sigh, the thing about my supernatural power is that I'm most afraid of telling others. If others know, they will be wary, and it won't be as effective."

Lin Fan shook his head, "Junior Sister already knew. Didn't you tell us both after we fought the spider that day?"

"Brother Fan, you really should get your head checked. Before it was a hallucination, now even your memories are a mess."

As the two were talking, the giant gate suddenly stopped moving.

Not only did he stop opening the door, but Lin Fan even saw him shrink back a little. It was the first time he had ever seen someone trying to pull back into the door.

"Brother Fan, I told you we couldn't say it. The door heard us and realized it had been tricked."