Upon hearing the sudden noise, Zhou Bai jerked up and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see the wall intact.
But Zhou Bai did not relax at all, because at the moment the noise erupted, a strong stench suddenly filled the room, heightening his vigilance to the extreme.
Zhou Bai did not think of fighting first but directly moved to his door, intending to open it and go out.
This was the Dao School after all. If he really encountered some monster, seeking help immediately was the most powerful counterattack.
But when Zhou Bai reached out and pressed the doorknob, his heart sank, the door was locked.
Without hesitation, Zhou Bai unleashed his Primordial Spirit power, a force strong enough to overturn a small car, slamming into the wooden door, but accompanied by a loud bang, the wooden door stood unharmed.
"Impossible! With the quality of this wooden door, my Primordial Spirit power should have broken it instantly!"
Zhou Bai’s eyes widened, his whole body muscles tensed, bones vibrating, muscles twisting, as he crashed toward the door again with his Primordial Spirit power.
With a loud boom, the door remained immovable while his body grew numb from the impact.
And logically, with such a loud noise, someone should have come over by now.
But instead, the whole room and even the corridor outside remained eerily silent, as if his room was in another dimension, completely isolated from the outside world.
Zhou Bai frowned, examining the situation inside the room.
’Trouble, such means are entirely beyond my ability to handle, right? Li Xiuzhu, this guy is really unreliable. I hope he’s only running late and not a no-show.’
At this time, the stench in the air grew more intense. Suddenly, Elsa started barking furiously at the bathroom door.
Zhou Bai looked sharply in the direction of the bathroom. As a Dao School student, their living conditions were excellent, with even a private bathroom in the dormitory apartment.
But seeing Elsa barking crazily made Zhou Bai suspicious that something was hiding in the bathroom.
As he thought this, a loud bang sounded.
The already closed bathroom door shook.
"There’s something inside!" Zhou Bai’s heart tightened, shouting into his mind at the balled-up form of Christina, "Dumb cat! Wake up quickly! Something’s not right here!"
But Christina remained unresponsive, still curled up and floating in Zhou Bai’s mind.
On the other hand, the banging on the bathroom door grew more urgent and louder, something seemed to be trying to break into the room.
Zhou Bai quickly pulled Elsa behind him, frowning deeply, pondering a strategy.
"This isn’t right; completely sealing my small room is too bizarre, way beyond my current level. Facing such methods, I have no way to fight back..."
"Wait... No way to fight back." Zhou Bai’s eyes narrowed, thinking, "With such means available, killing me would be as easy as slaughtering a pig. Then why bother scaring me with all the banging? Wouldn’t one Dao spell kill me outright?"
"Unless... the opponent isn’t as strong as they seem."
Gradually calming down, Zhou Bai began to contemplate what he had learned recently.
"All Dao spells leave traces."
Following the basics textbook advice, Zhou Bai attempted to sense the changes in spiritual energy around him.
He saw invisible and colorless ripples in his eyes. When he looked at the room again, he noticed a hazy color overlaying everything in sight.
"Something’s off..." Zhou Bai looked at Elsa, noticing she had no spiritual energy, appearing just like an ordinary dog.
"Something’s up. Could this be... an illusion?"
Recalling the hallucination during the second round of the entrance test, Zhou Bai lay down directly to verify his judgment.
"Theoretically, it should be past midnight now. If I lie down, the laziness points should start accumulating, but..."
Zhou Bai observed the unmoving laziness points on the panel, realizing, "It’s indeed an illusion. I even have to rely on the panel to tell if I lay down or not; this must be a powerful illusion."
Raising his eyebrows, Zhou Bai remembered the textbooks also covered illusions.
"Illusions are manipulations of the five senses using spiritual energy."
"Let’s see if that’s the case."
Zhou Bai operated his Primordial Spirit, extending his power outward, instantly sensing something different.
Primordial Spirit power could directly perceive spiritual energy.
At this moment, Zhou Bai sensed the room’s air teeming with abundant spiritual energy, far exceeding the normal state, even directly distorting his Primordial Spirit perception.
"It’s definitely an illusion." Zhou Bai watched the now quieter bathroom door, "So, these tactics were intended to frighten me?"
As he thought, Zhou Bai calmed down further, and the incessantly banging bathroom door gradually ceased, finally stopping completely.
Zhou Bai exhaled in relief, "Looks like my guess was right."
The next moment, Zhou Bai felt the world tremble, shaking intensively, causing him to instinctively close his eyes.
"Zhou Bai? Are you awake?"
Zhou Bai opened his eyes to see Li Xiuzhu standing before him, his face gloomy, frowning deeply.
"You’re here?" Zhou Bai said, "I was pulled into an illusion, and I..."
Li Xiuzhu, "I know. I stopped them, so the illusion was broken."
"Them? Was it the one in the next room?"
Li Xiuzhu nodded, "Kind of. Come and see for yourself."
Zhou Bai hesitated slightly; the other seemed in a bad mood.
He stepped out of his room, looking at the next room, seeing it had already been opened, with scarlet light shining out, casting a reddish glow over Zhou Bai.
A stench assailed his nostrils, making Zhou Bai finally understand the source of the previous foul smell.
Entering the room, Zhou Bai saw red talismans covering the walls, with crimson light flashing on them, the source of the red light.
But most striking was the girl ’pasted’ on the wall.
Seeing the girl’s appearance, Zhou Bai’s heart couldn’t help but pound.
The girl’s face was deathly pale, as white as paper, and from her neck down, her skin grew increasingly white, unnaturally white, entirely like paper.
But a strong stench continuously emanated from her body, as if it had been rotting for months.
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