The Evil Emperor's Beloved

After Gan Yun finished venting, Jing Yueli wanted to pick up the previous topic again. Just as she was about to speak, she heard Gan Yun say.

"Have you noticed that the instructor who was following our team is missing?"

"What?" Jing Yueli was stunned for a moment, looking at Gan Yun with confused eyes. What did she mean? Their own mentor also disappeared, but was knocked unconscious by Lian Yunchen and thrown into the space!

What does Gan Yun mean by this? Thinking of her previous experience, it can't be what she thinks, right? Jing Yueli rolled her eyes twice, staring straight at Gan Yun's eyes, trying to get some information from them.

But Gan Yun's eyes were filled with determination and seriousness. It was obvious that this was no joke. If it was really what she thought, the story behind it made her shudder. Did the academy know about this? Was it a personal act or... Jing Yueli didn't dare to think about it. She hoped it wasn't what she thought.

Gan Yun saw Jing Yueli staring at her for a long time without saying anything. She thought Jing Yueli didn't believe her and became a little anxious.

"What I said is true. That mentor wanted to humiliate me!" After Gan Yun said this, it was as if all the strength in his body was drained away, and he felt extremely depressed.

Jing Yueli came back to her senses and found that she had been immersed in her own thoughts and forgot Gan Yun's reaction. Seeing her extremely depressed look, Jing Yueli raised her right hand and patted her shoulder and said, "I don't disbelieve you, I have been thinking about the reason behind this!"

Gan Yun was confused by what she said. What other reasons could there be for this? What other reasons could there be for humiliating her? At this moment, she felt that Jing Yueli was laughing at her.

Seeing her like this, Jing Yueli knew what she was thinking, so she told her what she had just thought, hoping that she could reveal more details. Obviously, judging from Gan Yun's current state, this was a bit difficult for her, and it was undoubtedly like rubbing salt into someone's wounds and showing her bloody wounds to others.

"Forget it, just take a good rest first, we'll talk about this later."

Jing Yueli was thinking to herself that now that the divine weapon had been found, she was certain to break through the fifth trial, but at this moment such a thing suddenly occurred. It was obvious that this academy had some unknown secrets, but the top priority at the moment was to win the trial first.

That night, in addition to the injured Gan Yun, Leng Tianshuang and Si Mowen were left behind. Li Yu was also left behind to protect them. The rest of the people followed Jing Yueli to the cave to explore the location of the token.

When they arrived at the cave where the fifth mission was located, they found that the entrance to the cave was sealed with a barrier.

"How could this happen?" Xuanyuan Chen took a step forward and gently touched the barrier with his hand. A faint red light flashed on the barrier, and then he looked at Jing Yueli.

Jing Yueli was also confused. Could it be that someone had arrived here before them just one day later? Could it be that someone else had entered here that they didn't know about? This shouldn't be the case!

So Jing Yueli said, "I don't know. Maybe someone has entered here before us, but didn't want others to share the spoils with them, so they set up a barrier here?"

Jing Yueli looked back and forth at the entrance of the cave. After thinking for a while, she slowly turned her head to Lian Yunchen and asked, "Can you crack it?"

Lian Yunchen came to the barrier, only to see him put his hands together, and then quickly made hand gestures with his fingers. A seal was cast into the barrier, and then the familiar fire fox mark appeared on the barrier, and then disappeared.

"It is as I expected!" Lian Yunchen had an expression as if he had known it would be like this.

Seeing him like this, Jing Yueli knew that it was related to the mercenary group. As if she had thought of something, Jing Yueli suddenly smiled secretly. It was Lian Yunchen's fault for insisting on following them, so don't blame her for taking advantage of him.

After the barrier was broken, everyone filed in. After entering the cave, they were greeted by pitch blackness in front of them, with no sight at all.

Jing Yueli and Xuanyuan Chen quickly took out the night pearls from their storage rings/bags, but this time they could only illuminate a small area. This discovery made Jing Yueli immediately alert. The situation after they entered the cave this time was completely different from the previous time when they came to investigate alone. It seemed that the entire cave had been rearranged.

Thinking of this, Jing Yueli immediately reminded, "Everyone be careful, the formation mechanism should have been reset here."

After being reminded like this, everyone became more vigilant. Seeing that the night pearls did not have much effect, everyone had to continue moving forward in the dark.

Not long after I left, I heard a slightly dissatisfied voice.

"How could this happen? Didn't you come here to investigate before? How do we find the token now?" Jing Yueli knew it was Xuanyuan Xu as soon as she heard the voice.

Seeing Xuanyuan Xu's questioning tone, even Su Heqin, who had been silent all this time, couldn't stand it anymore. He was a prince of a country. He just glanced at Xuanyuan Xu with disdain, then raised his voice and said to the people around him, "Since it's a trial, there must be a way to pass it. Everyone, look carefully and don't be like some people who only talk and don't miss anything."

"Puchi!" It was pitch dark and no one knew who laughed out loud.

After satiating their cravings, they still had to continue walking, so they had no choice but to keep groping forward in the darkness. Suddenly, there was a sound of a mechanism being triggered, and in an instant, everyone's feet were empty, and the group of people fell down one after another.

"Ah!" After a panicked cry, the sound of the ground being closed was heard.

After a while, the entire cave returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

......

Cave Underground Maze

Everyone was lying on the ground in a mess.

After one stick of incense...

Jing Yueli woke up slowly, and recalled what happened before. She felt a headache. The ground collapsed too quickly and there was no way for her to do anything extra. Everyone pushed and pulled each other and fell in all at once.

Jing Yueli rubbed her buttocks which were hurt by the fall with one hand and covered her eyes with the other hand. Having just experienced darkness, her eyes could not bear the strong light in front of her for a while and felt a little sore. After she got used to it, she opened her eyes and looked around. There was no one around, as if no one was with her.

"What's going on?"

"Lian Yunchen? Su Heqin? Si Moyu?" Jing Yueli shouted, but there was no response after several calls. Just when she thought there would be no response, there was a knocking sound from the stone wall, and then Lian Yunchen's voice sounded, "Sister, is that you?"

"Can you hear me?"

"elder sister?"

Lian Yunchen asked several questions in a row.

Jing Yueli came back to her senses and immediately got up from the ground. She came to the place where the stone wall was hit just now and put her ear close to the wall. Sure enough, a voice came from next door again, "Sister? Jing Yueli?"