Chapter 513 Terrifying Intelligence (2/2)

The crowd was pushed away.

One or two outstanding young men of Xia were sent by the crowd. But since there were many people all around them, they feared that if the strength was not controlled the onlookers might be injured. Eventually, they gave up.

Moreover, they knew the story of Shen Lian. They dared not to make an enemy out of him.

Because the people were all gathered towards Shen Lian, it meant that some places were relatively empty. Shen Lian deeply absorbed the sight of every lantern in front of him. A riddle was attached on each of them. A blank space was left for the annotation of the answer.

Once the correct answer was given, the light would go off.

Up until then, no one managed to get even a single answer correct, hence the light was still shining.

Shen Lian understood that if all the lantern light were to be extinguished, this formation of interference would be dispelled.

With the use of brute force alone, Shen Lian could destroy this formation. However, that action would signal his inability to use delicate means. Therefore, Shen Lian decided to use a less brutal method of breaking the formation.

There were eighteen thousand lanterns altogether, and the riddle on each one of them was complex. There were many types of riddles and none of them were easy.

Shen Lian quickly picked one. The riddle was, 'Holes without worms, hives without bees, silk without silkworm, an open umbrella without people'.

In a flash, Shen Lian had the answer written down in the blank space, 'lotus root'. The light was extinguished and Shen Lian left without looking back.

Someone was already following Shen Lian from behind, but the person could not chase after him, managing only to see Shen Lian leave in that split second after the answer was written down.

The second riddle was, 'Directly up the floating clouds'.

Without so much a half second of thought, Shen Lian wrote, 'Go'.

At this time, everyone felt the ground shake. The formation seemed to be linked to the lanterns. Each lantern was a node of spiritual vigor. As more lanterns were extinguished, the spiritual vigor would be disturbed even more, with the end result being the occurrence of a grave destruction.

If Shen Lian could not break the spirit flame of all the lanterns within a short time, he would lose a little in the end and bring disaster to the surrounding people.

In an instant, Shen Lian already pondered and understood that, but he still calmly and indifferently analyzed the riddle.

However, he sped up the pace. He rode on Pegasus in one straight motion, just like smoke and cloud that gathered. With no time to examine, he left to another place like clouds.

Here the light was extinguished like rain, later the light was extinguished into pieces.

The people who witnessed Shen Lian solving the riddles trembled and broke into rapture. It was hard to restrain oneself after seeing that there was a person with such nimble thought processes on earth. Even though it could be said that Xia Kingdom advocated military forces, the mere presence of a person with such high intelligence struck terror into people.

Shen Lian sincerely felt a sense of carefreeness. His state of mind was so sharp that even the tiniest of things could be sensed, and his touch was very much enhanced. It was a wonderful and touching feeling when of all his strength was calculated and operated in his Primordial Spirit.