Chapter 160 - The Bandit Senior
Having decided on the Gravity Tower, Bai Rouyun did not waste any time and headed straight for the entrance.
Here, an elderly man was seated, looking bored as he was flipping through a book. He had white hair and a long white beard. While he did seem proper, there was a rascally air to him that made it impossible to view him as a benevolent senior of the elder generation.
When she came closer, she found that on the table in front of him was a book which recorded everyone who entered and left, alongside the time they had spent inside.
The price for being within the Gravity Tower was much lower than that of entering the Cultivation Tower, but she found that people did not tend to stay for a long time inside.
After considering it for a moment, it made sense. Gravity Towers had a heavy aura pressing down on one's body for an extended amount of time, and while it could help one cultivate, it was also able to create injuries if one overdid it.
As she was an independant cultivator in her previous life, she had never entered anything such as a Gravity Tower or a Cultivation Tower before, as they were exclusive to specific factions, and she could not help but feel anticipation as she glanced at the entrance.
She had initially come to the Blue Water Institute due to her wanting to get some systematic guiding, but she soon found out that this institute was of too low of a level. Although she had been walking in darkness in her previous life, the things that were taught here were things she had already understood.
This was also why she was no longer in a hurry to switch to a higher-ranked class, and get more resources from the teachers.
The value that the Blue Water Institute had in her eyes currently were purely these facilities that could enhance her strength. It was not that she was arrogant, but she had overestimated the ability that this institute had.
Bai Rouyun had reached the table where the elder was seated, and she politely waited for him to finish reading the page he was on. When he finished, he raised his head and looked at Bai Rouyun with a bit of appreciation in his eyes.
Most of the students within this institute were extraordinarily arrogant and prideful. They would look down on him due to his tedious job of merely guarding the Gravity Tower, so even if he were engrossed in reading, they would interrupt him, and force him to check them in.
This woman clearly allowed him to take his time, and when he looked at her, all he saw was polite friendliness. There were no signs of flattery, but no signs of disdain either. She simply respected him for who he was.
An odd expression flashed by his eyes, but he quickly hid it before clearing his throat.
"Little girl, I take it you wish to enter the Gravity Tower?" he asked. His attitude was also much friendlier than usual, and a slight smile hung on his lips, but Bai Rouyun could not help but feel the corners of her lips twitch.
This man, although he seemed elegant and refined, also resembled a bandit. How could he pretend to be a benevolent grandpa who was helping her?
The man noticed her twitching lips and the disbelief in her eyes, and he coughed slightly, feeling as if this girl had seen through him.
He was indeed a true rascal. He would cheat the dean of the institute a few times every ten years, and then he would poach the most outstanding geniuses to his own academy.
He never felt that there was anything wrong with this, but looking at the disbelief and shock in this young woman's eyes, he felt rather embarrassed. It was never a good feeling to be seen through.
Bai Rouyun pretended that nothing was out of the norm, and she obediently nodded her head.
"Yes, Senior." Her voice was gentle and friendly, and if he had not seen the disbelief flashing past her eyes moments before, he would feel that she had actually respected him, and taken him to be a gentle and generous old man.
But he had seen it, and this time it was his lips that twitched. What a con-artist! She clearly knew that he was acting, but instead of admitting it, she just decided to play along with his act and pretend to be a good little girl?
The two observed one another in silence. While they looked amiable and extremely friendly on the outside, they were full of exasperation on the inside. The feeling of two like-minded people meeting was truly hard to stomach, mainly because the two of them were both bandits.
"Senior, I have never entered the Gravity Tower before. Could you guide me through the experience?" Bai Rouyun asked gently, her eyes looking at the ground as if she was embarrassed by her lack of knowledge, but a gentle smile hung on her lips as if she was truly a good-natured girl.
This time it was not his lips that were twitching, but his eyes. What an actor!
However, he was unsure whether or not she actually knew of the Gravity Tower, so he decided to explain it to her, just to be sure.
"The Gravity Tower is a place for cultivating your body, and for getting a better control of the strength you command," the elder began explaining.
"Here, the pressure that is bearing down on your body is multiplied, and the higher up the tower you go, the heavier the pressure will become.
"This makes it so that your body will constantly be under pressure, and your reaction speed, fighting speed, and in general all your body movements will be slowed down.
"It is the same principle as when working with weights tied to your body, just much more thorough."