216: Vulcan Test, I'm the cheater (1200 yuan reward plus more)

As long as one enters the Fire God Mountain area and casually touches a burning flame, they can begin the inheritance trial at any time.

“Kid, the Fire God Mountain area is relatively safe. We can take the trials together. Let’s see who passes more trials.”

“Is there a prize?”

“Kid, if you win, I’ll be your maid for a day. If you lose, you’ll be my male servant for a day, the kind who calls me master.”

“Wow, is big sister playing that big?”

“Neither of us loses, right?”

“Tsk, that’s true.”

Lin Chen looked at Jiu Yue’s playful eyes and knew that one of them was about to cross a line, but he didn’t reject it.

Let everything take its course.

The Fire God’s trials began.

Each of the Fire God’s trials was random and not necessarily related to the Fire God, but at least one trial was about the Dao of Fire, as it was a Fire God inheritance.

In the first trial, Lin Chen found himself in a traditional rural kitchen with a wood-fired stove.

“Please, inheritor, cook a home-style meal.”

“Ah, this counts as a trial?”

Lin Chen was puzzled, but that didn’t stop him from starting to cook.

Long-sealed memories from his past life resurfaced; he had also lived in the countryside as a child, he knew how to use a dirt stove, and he naturally knew how to cook home-style meals.

Moreover, the trial didn’t seal his cultivation.

Inside the kitchen, there was rice, flour, various common vegetables, and various seasonings.

It was practically a freebie question; a simple three-dish, one-soup meal with rice, no difficulty at all.

The first trial didn’t stump Lin Chen; he passed it easily.

The second trial began.

Lin Chen found himself on a martial arts stage.

“Please, inheritor, defeat an Ancient Immortal Clan member of the same order.”

“The span of this trial is a bit large.”

Lin Chen complained, looking at the Ancient Immortal Clan member who appeared opposite him, whose cultivation was Ninth Order Gods, yet he didn’t perceive any threat.

He was invincible at the same order; he was that confident.

He started with the void-reality mirror, covering his opponent with the power of turning solid into void and void into solid. The two opposing forces directly tore his opponent apart, and he easily won the battle.

The third trial began.

Lin Chen arrived in a labyrinth.

“Please, inheritor, use all means to escape the labyrinth.”

“My cultivation isn’t sealed, I can use all sorts of methods, and I can even contact my main body. Is this really a trial?”

His spiritual power spread out, and Lin Chen had already found the exit and planned a path to it. In a few breaths, he had reached the exit.

Having easily passed three trials, Lin Chen suspected that there were some issues he didn’t understand. Would a Foundation Level inheritance trial really be this easy?

He didn’t leave the labyrinth but contacted his main body to inquire about the Fire God Mountain trials.

Over in the Lin Chen Dao Domain, Lin Chen’s main body consciousness entered the Civilization Library to look up information about the Fire God Mountain trials.

The Fire God Mountain appeared even earlier than the birth of the Human Race.

Since the Human Race discovered Fire God Mountain and sent their Heaven’s Chosen to undergo trials there, countless data records could be used as reference.

None of the trials in any of the data were as simple as Lin Chen’s.

The first trial was very easy, a freebie question. The second trial wasn’t very difficult, fighting an opponent of the same order was normal.

But the third trial was abnormal. Some Human Race Heaven’s Chosen had encountered labyrinths, but those Heaven’s Chosen had their cultivation sealed, their senses suppressed into their bodies, and even their physical bodies weakened to the level of mortals.

After receiving the information from his main body, Lin Chen temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and continued to participate in the next trial.

The fourth trial began.

A memory segment appeared in Lin Chen’s mind, clearly an immersive trial.

“Please, inheritor, escape the inevitable death that follows.”

At this moment, Lin Chen’s cultivation was still present and had not been sealed; he could also use various methods normally.

This kind of immersive trial definitely required him to embody the character in the scene and use the character’s abilities to break through the crisis, thereby passing the trial.

However, Lin Chen was simply a cheat.

“Stupid boy, why aren’t you getting up yet?”

At this moment, a voice sounded from outside the door.

Lin Chen’s spiritual power expanded outwards, instantly reaching the edge of the scene. Through various pieces of information, he already understood what the so-called inevitable death calamity of this trial was.

“Stupid boy” was the character Lin Chen embodied, a simple-minded ancient villager whose only notable trait was his great strength, and whose family was also harmonious.

The crisis came from bandits who had run rampant from a nearby mountain, and these bandits were also colluding with the county magistrate in the distant county yamen.

Next, the bandits would massacre the village and use this mountain village as a stronghold for some kind of extermination of the nine generations, while the county magistrate would provide cover for them.

During the massacre, if “Stupid boy” didn’t resist, he would die. If he resisted, he would face a double pursuit from both the bandits and the county magistrate, and ultimately die at their hands. It could indeed be considered an inevitable death calamity.

In response, Lin Chen waved his hand lightly, eradicating the hidden bandits and the county magistrate in the distant county yamen.

The trial was passed just like that.

The fifth trial followed naturally.

“Please, inheritor, defend the Beast Guard Pass with your existing strength.”

A group of beast races, with the highest being Tenth Order, were annihilated by falling meteorites, rendering the trial meaningless.

The sixth trial.

“Please, inheritor, perceive the rhythm of life within the flames.”

“Phew, finally a normal trial. Cheating all the time makes it easy to get banned.”

Although Lin Chen didn’t cultivate the Dao of Fire, he wasn’t starting from scratch. He still easily passed the trial, perceiving the rhythm of life within the flames.

The seventh trial.

“Please, inheritor, make a choice.”

At this point, Lin Chen thought the subsequent trials would be normal, but he didn’t expect them to still be abnormal.

It was a classic trolley problem: the railway track split into two paths, with five people tied at the end of one path and one person tied at the end of the other. The danger came from a fully loaded train that couldn’t stop.

Lin Chen could only choose to save the people on one path, letting the people on the other path be run over.

“Choose, choose the password!”

“Let me show you what the power of materialism is.”

With a wave of his hand, Lin Chen created a third railway extending to the destination. As for the tied people, they remained tied; he wanted to wait for the people who tied them up to appear and kill the mastermind.

Before he even saw the mastermind, Lin Chen was teleported to the eighth trial.

“Please, inheritor, confront the fear in your heart.”

“This still counts as a trial.”

Lin Chen also wanted to know what his deepest fear was.

“Trial passed.”

“?????”

Lin Chen was ready to face his fear, but the trial actually passed! He actually passed!

“No, this is too perfunctory.”

The ninth trial did not delay its appearance because of Lin Chen’s complaint.

“Please, inheritor, use all means to discern what is in the three cups.”

“Water, sunlight, divine blood.”

Lin Chen stopped pretending. After a slight perception, he stated the answers.

“Congratulations, inheritor, you have passed the trial and obtained the inheritance rights of Fire God Mountain. You are now my master.”

Even though he passed the trial, Lin Chen was not happy.

“Are you so eager to recognize me as your master?”

“My dear master, you are the future. Only by following the future can there be a future.”

“The reason is powerful; I cannot refute it.”

At this moment, Lin Chen felt very uncomfortable.

The huoshen mountain intellect, although it recognized him as master, there was no recognition process. Verbal recognition didn’t count for anything, and he hadn’t seen any of Fire God Mountain’s core.

He didn’t mention it, and the huoshen mountain intellect didn’t mention it either.

It was somewhat interesting.

So, Lin Chen prepared to call for backup.

When in doubt, call your parents.