Murim's Weakest Princess-Chapter 271: World-Breaking Record

It took two days for Anji to climb from the lowest point of the trial chamber to the highest point. With many breaks in between and careful navigation of the tricky terrain, Anji finally reached the exit point.

Feeling exhaustion creep up on her, Anji observed with her second sight the final test. Unlike the entrance, which took a physical form, the exit was invisible. At least to the physical sight, it was invisible.

Anji, master of her new second sight, easily spotted the clues required to open the exit portal. All previous successors created the spells as a form of quiz for the next generation. As the ninth successor candidate, Anji had to solve eight incomplete spells to qualify. As she already had Bi Yao’s memory, she breezed through the first riddle easily. Even without Bi Yao’s memory, Anji thought the final task was too simple. Most of these spells quizzed on the basics of clairvoyance.

After solving the first six quizzes, Anji stared at the question set by Yan Ping’s shifu. Known as the laziest sect master of the Mystical Qilin Sect and the longest reigning, Anji was expecting a quiz of a similar calibre. However, it turned out to be one of the most tedious spells to solve, involving many conversions and calculations to derive the value of one missing spell component. Her quiz was not even related to clairvoyance, and Anji wondered if that was the right thing to do. Then, it was finally Yan Ping’s question. Her teacher created a theoretical question, and Anji answered it easily because theory was one of the things Yan Ping ensured Anji knew before she attempted the trial chamber.

After successfully solving all the previous generation’s questions, it was finally Anji’s turn. To leave this successor’s trial chamber, she had to set a question for the next successor.

Knowing that one day Anji would have to return to this place after her reincarnation, she sighed. Having to think for her future self and the future of the Mystical Qilin Sect, Anji wondered if there was a way she could convince her future self not to be lazy and increase her existing reservoir spell’s efficiency.

"But it does not have to be me, right?" Anji reasoned. "If the next generation can solve it, I don’t have to do it."

Reasoning so, Anji drew up a test that served two purposes. The first was a way to temporarily replenish the barrier’s energy source. The second was to check if anyone’s answers could match the artificial core spells she created. The quiz she created would accept either answer. It was not exactly a quiz, not when imbuing an unknown energy portal with spiritual energy qualified as an answer. It was practically a free pass, unlike the seventh sect leader’s mathematical nightmare.

The exit portal hummed and opened after Anji submitted her quiz for the next trial candidate. However, she did not leave immediately. Feeling apologetic, Anji scribbled a note at the bottom of her quiz, apologising for her lack of creativity due to her youth and inexperience. It was true. Anji had been a student her whole life. Even with memories of the past, Anji was never the one in a teaching position.

Satisfied with her justification, Anji stepped into the exit portal spell and braced for impact, covering her eyes with the blindfold with both hands.

A wave of dizziness hit Anji as the portal brought her out to a different location outside the successor’s trial chamber space. She had no idea where she was physically, but through her second sight, Anji could sense she was closer to the headquarters than she had been. The feeling of the sun on her hands and the sound of birds told Anji she had to be outside. Slowly but surely, the cool breeze on her skin and fresh air filled with moist earth scents told Anji she must be on the mountain’s surface.

Squatting to recover from the dizziness, Anji tried to remove her hands from her eyes and immediately regretted it when the small slice of light through the blindfold hurt her retinas from behind her eyelids. Yan Ping was right. It would be a while before Anji could regain her physical sight after a year of living in the darkness with only her second sight to rely on.

Patiently, Anji waited for someone to get her. According to her teacher, the moment she leaves the trial chamber, the sect leader will receive a strong calling from the sect leader’s token, signifying the official acceptance of a new sect leader candidate.

In less than thirty minutes, Anji felt a change in the air space above her. A strong energy was approaching quickly, and Anji knew who it was.

Smiling widely, she waited for the figure to swoop down from the air just like she had once done when Anji was a toddler.

"That was fast," Yan Ping commented. "Not only were you the youngest candidate to attempt it and successfully clear it, but you’re the second fastest to complete the trial. How are you feeling?"

Anji giggled as Yan Ping told her to keep her eyes covered and placed her veiled straw hat over the girl.

"Apart from craving some warm soup, a bath and a nice bed to sleep in, I’m fine."

Chuckling with the child sitting on her floating staff, Yan Ping promised that Anji would get all of those things as they were returning to the main sect immediately. The party would occur once she was better to formalise her successor status.

Feeling Yan Ping behind her and the strong wind in her face, Anji clutched the veiled straw hat tightly so that it would not be blown away. The light still hurt her eyes, but slowly, Anji was beginning to get used to the pain. Perhaps recovery would not take as long as she thought it would.

Anji could not wait to let her family know all about her return. More importantly, she could not wait to leave the mountain and become reunited with everyone outside the sect. Finding Song Min and ending the war could come a little later.