As Princess Crystal was cultivating, she received a request for communication from her communication talisman.
The call didn't come from her identity card, which meant the caller was someone who knew her from outside the sect.
The communication talisman was hung around her neck with a necklace. It was a yellow crystal.
The yellow crystal was glowing now that someone wanted to speak to her through it. As she injected the power of her mind into it, she discovered the identity of the caller and became somewhat scared.
The caller was someone she was afraid of. Their identity is why she couldn't reject the request for communication. In fact, she had to accept it as soon as possible for fear of offending the person.
As soon as she accepted the call, a deep bass voice spoke into her mind through the talisman. "I hear that you have been surpassed by a human again."
She tried to explain, "I have been trying my best. I have"…
The person on the other side spoke impatiently. "You have a great bloodline. You were given a lot of resources. You practice a cultivation technique tailor-made for your physique and bloodline. Yet, a human can beat you to transcend the first mortal coil and even beat you to reach the second transformation."
Then the voice asked in admonishment, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
She replied, "I haven't been sleeping. I have been…"
The voice interrupted her. "I am disappointed in you. You have disappointed me."
She felt like getting angry because she was trying to explain but was being cut off every time. But she couldn't afford to get angry with this person.
She could only sigh inwardly, not even outwardly for fear of being reprimanded. Still, that didn't spare her from punishment.
The voice said, "I'm cutting you off from now on. Since you don't appreciate the resources we give you and make full use of them, you shouldn't get them anymore."
She couldn't hold back anymore. She had to ask, "How many people in our family do you know that transcended the first mortal coil and advanced to the second transformation of the second mortal coil in a little over a year?"
The voice didn't reply. It only said, "Goodbye."
Then the call was dropped.
This disregard of her made Princess Crystal very angry. She said, "Good. Isn't it that you don't want me to succeed? Now I have to do everything to disappoint you."
She was fuming and slamming her fist into the walls of the communication chamber when she received another communication request from her talisman.
When she checked and saw who was calling her, she didn't pick up the call and instead left the cultivation room.
As soon as the vault door of the cultivation room opened, she saw two people kneeling down waiting for her.
One of these people was a cat lady. She had fluffy feline ears, whiskers around her mouth, and a long tail attached to her buttocks.
The other lady was a human. She was very beautiful but entirely normal.
Princess Crystal placed her hands on her hips and asked, "Why did you call me?"
She was currently angry, and it showed in her tone of voice. If she doesn't get a good reason for being called, she won't take out her anger on her two servants.
The human lady replied, "We have had news, princess. Someone has broken your record?"
She waved her hand nonchalantly and smiled, feeling complacent. Then she asked, "Which one?"
The human lady looked at the cat lady, but the cat lady refused to take part in the conversation, so the human lady had to continue bravely.
"It is the fighting excellence test. Someone passed level 2."
Princess Crystal laughed instead of getting angry. After laughing for a while, she said, "Let me guess. It was that Arthur."
The human lady bowed and fawned over the princess, "Yes. The princess is wise. It was Author. He passed level 2 and reached level 37."
Princess Crystal's smile disappeared. She frowned and asked, "What did you say?"
The human lady looked at the cat lady with pleading eyes, but the cat lady only looked at the ground and ignored everything else.
So the human lady continued. "He passed the fighting excellence test up to level 37, where he failed and had to quit. That's what I called you to inform you."
Princess Crystal began to fume. Her third eye began to glow a white light.
The glow of the eye was gentle and kind. It makes everyone who sees it feel relaxed. But the two servants couldn't feel relaxed at all.
Eventually, she didn't make a move. She calmed down and huffed with arrogance. Then she said, "It is only one test anyway. I can let one test go."
If someone wants to gain access to the superior accommodations above, they only need to have one record out of the ten rankings. But she went and did all the nine tests and got the highest record for every ten entry.
She did that before her funding was cut off, so she didn't do it because she needed the superior accommodations. Even if she did need it, she didn't need to take all nine tests.
She simply did it to spite every new student and to compete with Arthur.
By taking every test, Arthur would have to compete with her if he wants to get access to the superior cultivation room. She wanted to use this opportunity to defeat him.
She did this more than a week ago. This was before it became known that Arthur had reached the second transformation.
Now it has been three days since she found out that he reached the second transformation. She has just found out that one of her records was broken, and it was the fighting excellence test.
If it had been any other test, she would have attributed his success to his more powerful cultivation. But she couldn't do that now.