Starting as a stray dog, I embarked on a journey of cultivation.

In the end, the spirit stones accumulated to ten thousand.

Instantly, all the spirit stones floated into the air and automatically split into two piles.

They were put into two new storage bags and placed in front of Old Sheep and Gou An respectively.

Gou An and Sanlun together received a total of 19,000 spirit stones, while Lao Yang only received 5,000!

At this moment, the remnant soul spoke: "In this round of trials, Master Gou has won..."

He then looked at the old sheep and said, "Qingmianzi, you've lost!"

Faced with this result, the old sheep simply nodded calmly.

He put the storage bag full of spirit stones into his robes and replied indifferently, "I understand. See me out."

The remnant soul didn't say much, but simply reached out its hand to the old sheep.

The next instant, a powerful suction force was generated.

The old sheep's cultivation was forcibly extracted, and the already aged sheep became even older, eventually collapsing to the ground in exhaustion.

After half of his cultivation was taken away, the remnant soul, just like before, waved his hand as if sweeping away dust, and casually sent the old sheep out of the ancient tower.

In an instant, Gou An was left alone on the fifth floor of the ancient tower.

Before Gou An could calm himself down, the remnant soul had already opened the passage above his head leading to the sixth level.

Follow the remnant soul to the sixth floor.

Gou An was extremely uneasy at this moment, as he was the only one left of the ten people who had entered together.

We don't yet know what trials we will face next.

Before Gou An could even observe his surroundings, several iron chains suddenly flew out of nowhere and locked him tightly, leaving him completely immobile and suspended in mid-air.

At the same time, two black, fierce stone statues fell from above and stood on the left and right sides respectively.

One is tall and imposing, the other is small and thin!

"What's going on?" Gou An looked at the remnant soul in the air with a puzzled expression. "A trial is a trial, why are you doing this bondage thing?"

The remnant soul calmly stated, "This is the content of the sixth level's trial!"

He pointed to the two stone statues standing silently on the ground and said, "Of these two ghost statues, one is a benevolent ghost, and the other is an evil ghost!"

"And the benevolent demon possesses the key to unlock the chains!"

"You can ask them both the same question at the same time, and they will all answer you!"

"However, there's a rule!"

"Good ghosts speak the truth in the morning and lie in the afternoon."

"Evil spirits spew lies in the morning and speak the truth in the afternoon."

"And they will only answer questions they know for sure; for questions they are unsure about, they will answer 'I don't know.'"

"Another point is that time flows much faster inside the tower than outside, so you have no idea whether it's morning or afternoon outside!"

"You only have two chances to ask questions. After two questions, if you can correctly determine who has the key, you can go up to the seventh floor."

"But if you guess wrong, you'll be imprisoned here for fifty years!"

When Gou An heard the remnant soul recount the rules, the corner of his mouth twitched violently.

My mind was a complete mess; what was this talk of morning and afternoon, truth and falsehood, good ghosts and evil ghosts...?

The key point is that, according to the remnant soul, time flows differently inside the tower than outside, so he has no idea about the true time outside.

Can I only ask two questions?

What should we ask?

"Countdown begins!" At the same time, the remnant soul transformed back into the hourglass from the previous round and reversed the countdown: "You must make a choice when the time is up!"

"Are you kidding me?" Gou An's mind was extremely tense at this moment, and hearing that the remnant soul was going to count down made his scalp tingle even more.

Gou An knew that the hourglass flowed very fast, and it would run out in about a minute each time.

In such a short time, Gou An had no time to think and could only quickly ask the first question: "Which of you two is the benevolent ghost?"

When asked a question, the eye sockets of both ghost statues lit up simultaneously.

The fat guy spoke first: "That's me!"

The skinny guy spoke up: "That's me!"

Same answer!

Gou An then posed a second question.

"Is it morning or afternoon now?"

The fat guy spoke up: "Morning!"

The skinny guy spoke up: "This afternoon!"

After asking the two questions, Gou An's mind raced as he analyzed the situation.

Because he didn't have much time to think, Gou An could only ask questions based on his subconscious.

We can only rely on the answers to these two questions for analysis now.

At this point, whether it's morning or afternoon, there will inevitably be one truth and one falsehood.

However, because he didn't know the exact time, Gou An couldn't tell who was telling the truth and who was lying.

As the incense burned shorter and shorter, Gou An was already covered in sweat.

Why is it that when others are eliminated, only half of their cultivation is taken away and they are sent out of the tower?

Is it my turn to be imprisoned for an additional fifty years?

If I have broken any heavenly rules, please let the heavenly soldiers and generals punish me, instead of leaving me here to suffer!

"Time's up!" As the incense burned out, the remnant soul spoke in an icy tone: "You can now give your answer."

"I think the fat one is a benevolent ghost, and the key is on it!" Gou An replied, then sighed with relief.

The remnant soul didn't rush to solve the mystery, but simply asked, "Why do you think that?"

Gou An looked up at the remnant soul and offered his analysis.

"Since I don't know whether it's morning or afternoon, I can't determine who is lying or who is good and who is evil."

"I should have just asked them what one plus one equals to determine who was telling the truth."

"It's just that the time was too tight, and I didn't realize it at first!"

But the remnant soul just gave a cold laugh after hearing that: "It's a good thing you didn't ask that question, otherwise it would have been a waste."

"Why?" Gou An asked, puzzled.

The remnant soul explained, "As I just said, they only answer questions they know the answers to; for questions they don't know, their answer is always 'I don't know!'"

"You mean they don't even know what one plus one equals?" Gou An asked, somewhat surprised.

"Of course, they are just stone statues, without any intelligence, how would they know anything about arithmetic?" the remnant soul laughed.

Faced with this explanation, Gou An couldn't help but smile wryly: "What if I asked them if I was a man or a woman?"

"Of course I don't know either!" the remnant soul replied.

"Alright!" Gou An sighed and continued, "Well, I'm pretty lucky; I didn't ask that kind of question."

He then went on to explain his choice.

"The reason I chose the fat ghost as a benevolent ghost is actually quite simple!"

"Because you told me that good ghosts tell the truth in the morning and lie in the afternoon!"

"So that means the benevolent ghost only claims to be a benevolent ghost in the morning!"

"Of their answers just now, only the fat ghost met this condition, therefore the fat ghost is a benevolent ghost!"

After hearing Gou An's explanation, the remnant soul laughed heartily: "Not bad, not bad!"

"To be able to identify the crux of the problem in such a short time, without getting lost in confusion and contradiction!"

"This shows you're not only smart, but also quick-witted!"

"No wonder you were able to stand out from those ten people!"

Gou Anqu could only manage a helpless, bitter smile: "Since I guessed right, let's untie them!"

"Don't rush!" The remnant soul didn't loosen its grip on Gou An, but instead replied, "Don't rush, it'll be useful on the next level!"