Chapter 574: Chapter 574: What kind of talents are these Wolong and Fengchu?

Capital Metropolitan Teaching Building.

Scarlett Jennings and her companions entered the building and slowly walked forward.

They entered through the side entrance, which led to a relatively dark corridor.

But knowing there was an array inside the building, the six of them dared not be careless.

Just two meters forward, Scarlett Jennings suddenly signaled,

“Ashton Todd, guide the way.”

When the academy initially selected students to participate in the competition, they did so after comprehensive consideration, covering each person’s specialty in the Five Techniques of the Mystical Sect.

For example, Ashton Todd was responsible for the geomancy and divination part.

Scarlett Jennings calling him to guide the way was certainly reasonable.

However, the Taoism Academy students watching the live broadcast outside were full of confusion,

“Isn’t this Scarlett Jennings a freshman? Why is she leading the first round? Shouldn’t Gregory Xander be leading based on experience and capability?”

“Who leads must have been decided beforehand. What makes me want to laugh is that there’s clearly only one path ahead of them, and they start ‘guiding’ when it’s unnecessary.”

“I watched Scarlett Jennings’ live broadcasts before, she was quite bold and direct. Why does she seem so hesitant during this competition?”

“Considering that it’s a chance to perform in front of teachers and Mystical Sect big shots, being cautious isn’t wrong.”

Inside the building, Evan Anson, a senior sister on Scarlett’s team, also felt Scarlett’s sudden suggestion was a bit redundant,

“Scarlett, we just got in. Let’s cross the corridor and get to the main hall before guiding.”

This guidance was, of course, not merely about pointing the way but divining the team’s route based on the environment and hexagrams to ensure they could locate the target bottle.

Among everyone, Evan Anson was the only one who had not interacted with Scarlett Jennings before, although she had always heard of this freshman’s outstanding talent in Talismanic arts, but wasn’t that just Talismanic arts?

While Gregory Xander also thought Scarlett Jennings might have been overly cautious, he didn’t follow by questioning her.

Since it had been decided that Scarlett would lead the first round, Gregory Xander wouldn’t question her decision.

Unlike the two’s hesitation, Ashton Todd, upon hearing Scarlett Jennings speak, immediately squatted down without a word, found a spot, and began his divination using a few stones.

Before long, he puzzledly stood up and looked at the group, then pointed toward the direction they had just entered.

“The path of life I divined is there.”

Upon hearing this, the Capital Metropolitan students watching the live broadcast couldn’t help but chuckle.

Can these freshmen from Sea City really do it?

They can’t even figure out the way?

“Haha, actually considering the path of life lies behind isn’t problematic either. A group of amateurs going in would lose anyway; retreating could at least save some face.”

“No wonder Sea City’s teachers might be infuriated witnessing this.”

What kind of mediocre talents were selected?

The students whispered among themselves in the back, but the academy representative teachers upfront remained calm, not showing an ounce of mockery for Ashton Todd pointing back.

In the scene, Scarlett Jennings didn’t reveal much emotion due to Ashton Todd’s guide.

She just looked in the direction of the entrance, pondered briefly, and then signaled for the group to continue moving inward.

The group reached the middle of the corridor, stopped again, and Scarlett asked Ashton Todd to divine once more.

Ashton Todd complied without a word.

And this time, the divined path of life was the same as before.

Still the direction of the entrance.

Scarlett Jennings stared at the entrance upon hearing this and then directly instructed the group,

“We’ll follow Ashton Todd’s guidance and head back.”

Upon hearing this, both Evan’s group and the audience outside the live stream were a bit stunned.

They thought Scarlett Jennings was acting recklessly.

Did she not want to compete seriously?

However, regardless of what everyone else thought, Scarlett Jennings and her team followed her instruction to head back.

They watched as the group slowly walked back to the entrance.

The Capital Metropolitan students couldn’t help but shake their heads, losing interest in paying further attention to this team.

Though Evan Anson also felt this seemed reckless, with Gregory Xander and Nathan White both following, she had no choice but to tag along.

As they were about to step out of the building, Evan just wanted to say something else, but as Scarlett Jennings stepped outside, the scenery in front of them, along with the live stream, abruptly changed.

Everyone was stunned on the spot.

Because at the moment Scarlett Jennings and her group stepped out of the building, an identical corridor appeared before them!

At this moment, the group seemed to be in the middle of an exceedingly long corridor, with identical building interiors in both directions.

“What’s going on here?”

The students in the audience were startled, but then a teacher from the Capital Taoist Academy slowly explained,

“The Mirror Genesis Array, at the moment of stepping into the array, everything everyone sees becomes a mirror image. The road ahead looks singular, but it’s actually the path they initially came on.”

This array itself has a great deception element.

Especially when entering it, there won’t be any noticeable scene transition, making those who enter walk blindly on the path before them until realizing they can’t seem to escape.

Seeing this, the teacher looked towards the teacher from Sea City,

“Your freshman seems quite perceptive.”

This array had been activated the moment they stepped into the building, and according to his expectations, they would walk quite a distance before realizing something was wrong.

After all… the other three teams of students still had not realized they were within the Mirror Array.

The Sea City teacher, having been spoken to, slowly revealed a faint smile, saying,

“Our academy’s Scarlett Jennings is indeed sometimes more meticulous and observant than others.”

As if to verify the Sea City teacher’s words, in the scene, Scarlett Jennings could be heard slowly explaining,

“After Ashton Todd first guided, I observed the situation outside the entrance. Although it appeared similar to when we entered, from the window, a part of a tree branch outside the building was indeed growing upside down.”

However, because Scarlett was unsure then, she suggested moving forward a bit more.

Upon further observation, the tree outside the building had shrunk, but the upside-down branches had noticeably increased, coupled with her trust in Ashton Todd’s skills.

Even if he made a mistake, it couldn’t be twice in a row.

So she decided to follow the guided direction.

The main reason was her limited knowledge of the array; otherwise, she might have directly detected the array behind them when she first noticed something was off.

But that wasn’t her fault.

Gregory Xander explained,

“The Mirror Genesis Array is relatively old and complex; the Taoism Academy doesn’t have detailed array deconstruction documentation, and I’ve only seen it in an ancient book at home.”

Who would have thought the Capital Taoist Academy would use such a trick from the start?

Neither did we expect it.

Even the local students in the Capital didn’t expect it.

After hearing their teacher’s explanation, the few students who were previously mocking Scarlett Jennings now bowed their heads, pretending they weren’t there.

In the scene, Scarlett Jennings and her group, unaware of the outside reactions, continued forward after confirming the position.

Before long, they were the first to arrive at the main hall central to the building.

The teaching building was a square formation, with the main hall being open at the center, surrounded by four buildings. In theory, after crossing the corridors, all four teams should meet for the first time in front of the main hall.

But at this point, the other three teams, human and demon alike, were nowhere to be seen.