He'd rather run than be turned into a cannon fodder for the broken engagement.

Leng Huan suddenly realized that her identity, which was gathered in this place of cultivators, could probably not be kept secret for long.

Once Fu Xun obtained the identity jade slip, she indeed went to the Zhaixing Chamber of Commerce and spent a huge sum of fifty spirit stones to buy seven disguise pills.

To avoid sleeping under the bridge in the Misty Immortal City again, they returned to Immortal Spirit Town and rented a cultivation cave. Leng Huan ate a disguise pill and circulated her spiritual power to adjust her appearance. In a short while, she transformed into her former self—her eyebrows were strong and her features were well-proportioned and three-dimensional. She had a small cupid's bow on her upper lip and her lips were very beautiful. But none of that mattered. What mattered was that she and the original owner of the body had a slight resemblance in their eyebrows and eyes! Leng Huan couldn't help but frown.

When she came out, Fu Xun was stunned. If he hadn't been sure that Leng Huan had come from their cave, he would have thought that she was a strange man!

No, he stared at Leng Huan for a few moments, noticing that her disguise was still somewhat similar to her previous one. He suppressed his doubts and then carefully examined her for a long time, memorizing her disguise so he wouldn't forget it later…

"What are you looking at?" Leng Huan stood on tiptoe and smacked the back of his head with his claws. "How about it? Don't I look handsome like this?"

After a long pause, Fu Xun finally hummed in agreement.

The Disguise Pill can only change one's appearance, not one's figure. Leng Huan was still wearing loose clothes, a dark blue mid-grade magic robe, which was mainly for defense. For this, she had spent most of her spirit stones.

After all, I'm about to participate in the trial, so having a robe is better than having nothing.

Time flies, and the trial date is approaching. Leng Huan cultivates whenever he has free time. The spiritual energy here is abundant, and the cultivation speed is very pleasing.

“阿寻，这里说的试炼中不可恶意伤人，作恶者被发现了会自动淘汰，而且受伤的话，如果有生命危险，可以触发玉简直接传送出来。但是什么叫恶意伤人啊，规定可以抢夺身份玉简获得积分啊…”

"Yes, it should be forbidden to seek personal revenge, but it is allowed to seize identity jade slips to gain points and eliminate competitors in a normal way."

Just like the tension before a major exam, Leng Huan is now experiencing pre-trial anxiety. She shook the jade slip in her hand and couldn't help but complain, "If we're separated and not in the same place, we can only wish each other well. There are just too many people. I see I'm number 1001, in Trial Ground 4. What about you?"

"Brother Huan, I'm behind you, we should stay together. If we get separated, I'll use a message talisman to find you. There are quite a few people..." There are five trial grounds in total, with more than two thousand people in each ground. You can imagine how competitive this trial is. Fu Xun looked up at the starry sky outside the cave. They must pass this trial!

Thinking of revenge and the path to immortality, Leng Huan suppressed his anxiety and secretly clenched his fist. No! He had to pass!

"Okay, let's meet up as soon as possible, and be careful." She put away the jade slip. All the precautions and trial requirements were clearly stated in the jade slip. According to the cumulative score, the top three hundred people will pass.

In fact, Leng Huan felt that climbing the Heavenly Ladder after the trial was an even more severe test, thinking to himself that it was indeed not easy to enter the Great Immortal Sect.

-

The meeting time on the jade slip was 3:45 AM, but Leng Huan and Fu Xun arrived at the beginning of 3:45 AM because they were too excited. Or rather, everyone was in the same state. It was the same huge registration square as before. Everyone entered several large teleportation arrays with their jade slips. Leng Huan subconsciously tugged at Fu Xun's sleeve.

This was her first time experiencing teleportation. Perhaps because the distance was not far, after a moment of dizziness and lightheadedness, she opened her eyes again to find herself in an unfamiliar place filled with dense forest.

She shook her dizzy head and immediately looked around. She noticed that besides herself, there were a few other people not far away, but Fu Xun was nowhere to be seen. "Damn it! They really broke up!"

Cursing under his breath, Leng Huan quickly pulled out a communication talisman, sent a message, then chose a direction and ran swiftly into the bushes... to hide!

"Let's see how things go first," she thought, pulling out an ordinary short sword she had bought for self-defense. Seeing her action, the men over there followed suit and hid in a different direction.

The trials are designed to select disciples who excel in all aspects. They are first divided into individual intelligence and strategy, and then into teamwork.

Leng Huan pondered the possible ways to earn points. Given her current abilities, it seemed the only option was to kill the monsters in this secret realm. Hmm, she'd pick the easy targets.

As for rare spiritual plants, they are worth a lot of points, but they are very hard to come by. They are either guarded by demonic beasts, located in dangerous ditches and ravines, or fought over by a large number of people. She and Fu Xun had already analyzed these situations yesterday.

Kill monsters, find the easy targets that no one will fight over. The entire trial lasts for seven days. Hmm, never mind, just adapt to the situation and take it one step at a time!

The communication talisman didn't work; it seems that friend is a bit far away.

Leng Huan observed carefully, searching for traces, and followed the possible group of demonic beasts.

-

She was relatively safe on her side, but on the other side, danger lurked everywhere—

Fu Xun never expected to be teleported into a den of monsters. When he opened his eyes, he was staring at a group of toothed boars. He reacted quickly, grabbed a wind-controlling talisman, and ran out of the center of the monsters. But this group of monsters that looked like ferocious wild boars had a leader who was actually a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator!

"Aww—"

The whooshing sound was like muffled thunder exploding in his ears, making him feel dizzy, his ears ring and his vision blur. He lost his balance and fell, hitting a small tusk pig, which whimpered in pain!

The next second, Fu Xun felt as if the sharp fangs of a scimitar were right in front of him. At the critical moment, he crushed a Flaming Sun Talisman, and the flames roared and enveloped the Tooth-Toothed Beast leader, burning its flesh until it was charred and fragrant.

All living things fear fire. The tusk-like beasts panicked for a moment, then Fu Xun gathered his energy again, crushing an explosive talisman and a blazing sun talisman to open a path. "Bang—boom!" He lunged forward, feeling his hair being stung by the flames...

Without time to think, he used his movement technique to escape at top speed. The Toothed Pig Beasts were social monsters, and the key was that one of them was at the Foundation Establishment stage. If he could have planned slowly and used a kite-like tactic to eliminate them, he would have been fine. But he had fallen into their den, alerting them and leaving him no time to escape!

Only after running far away and hiding in a big tree did Fu Xun have time to catch his breath and send a message to Leng Huan. After waiting for a while without a response, Fu Xun was about to jump down to look for him when he heard faint voices.

"Help me..."

Two men and a woman ran towards them from a distance. The voice came from the woman. Fu Xun squinted and looked over, then was startled—

It turned out that a swarm of poisonous bees was chasing after those people! At this moment, he could hear a chilling buzzing sound.

Every social beast has a leader. Although the queen bee, the leader of this swarm of poisonous bees, has not appeared, each of them is at the late stage of Qi Refining. This swarm is roughly estimated to have over a thousand of them! If you get entangled in them, they will poison you to death. No wonder they ran away!

Fu Xun remained motionless on the tree, having already applied a concealment talisman. He only felt a buzzing sound pulsating in his eardrums, and he even felt a cool, whistling wind of wings whistling past his face!

The group of people screamed as they fled from under the tree where he was, and Fu Xun immediately jumped down from the tree and ran in the direction they had come from.

After running for about five miles, Fu Xun saw the huge beehive on the cliff. His gaze shifted again and suddenly sharpened. Three zhang below the beehive, there was a graceful stone lotus, with a single leaf and branch. Its petals were layered, displaying a rich purple color with gold edges. It was emitting a spiritual light, attracting the nearby monsters that were eager to move. However, due to the aura of the poisonous bees, they dared not make a move.

Fu Xun's eyes flashed, he took out a sachet with a strong floral scent and hung it on his waist, then cast a concealment talisman on himself, used his movement technique to leap up the cliff, stuck his short sword into a crevice in the rock to drive away a few poisonous bees, and carefully picked the stone lotus.

Just as he settled down, put away the stone lotus, and prepared to leave, he suddenly heard a clear voice: "Fellow Daoist, please wait!"

He turned around and saw a female cultivator emerge from behind the tree. She had a pretty and charming face. Fu Xun silently cupped his hands in greeting and was about to leave when the female cultivator quickly reached out to stop him: "Wait a minute!"

Seeing Fu Xun's impatient look, she bit her lip and said, "Fellow Daoist, could you give me three petals of the stone lotus? I really need them."

Stone lotus, a holy medicine for healing, can cure serious and hidden injuries.

The Immortal Sect stipulates that the resources and materials obtained from the trials can be exchanged for three items based on the points earned, and Fu Xun was planning to exchange for this spiritual flower after he left.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Okay, but you have to exchange it for spirit stones."

The female cultivator seemed surprised for a moment, not expecting him to show no mercy to her. She had no choice but to take out spirit stones and convert them to market value: "Three petals cost two thousand spirit stones."

Fu Xun didn't say anything, took the spirit stone, picked three petals, and the transaction was completed. He then used his movement technique to continue his journey.

The female cultivator watched his retreating figure and cursed him inwardly, thinking, "He has no sense of romance!"

-

In the main peak council hall of the Misty Immortal Sect, there are several huge mercury spirit mirrors. The images reflected in the mirrors are the scenes from the current trial field, and several highly respected elders from each peak are watching from their seats.

"The fourth trial ground has been closed for a long time, and there are quite a few good things here..." An old man stroked his short beard and said with great interest. He was wearing a blue robe embroidered with a three-legged cauldron pattern, which made him look like an immortal. He had a gentle temperament and was actually an elder of the Spirit Medicine Peak.

"Heh, I'm afraid it's just as dangerous." Next to him sat a nonchalant old man in a gray robe, casually crossing his legs and arguing with the elder of Lingyao Peak while holding up his teacup.

Elder Sun Zhixian of Lingyao Peak was used to his argumentative nature and chuckled instead: "Yes, I wonder if there are any good prospects this time. Old Jiang, didn't you say you wanted to find a good prospect for weapon refining? Take a good look, maybe you'll find one."

The old man in the gray robe, called Old Jiang, snorted and was about to continue arguing when he suddenly heard a woman's laughter from the side: "Hehehe, stop arguing, look at this unlucky boy who fell right into the pigsty! Oh! He reacted pretty quickly, he ran out..."

The speaker was the only female elder among the peaks. She was dressed in a bright red robe with exquisite embroidery and gold threads outlining the runes. She was none other than Mu Lianqing, the Great Elder of Fulu Peak.

Finally, seeing that Fu Xun had actually traded spirit stones, she clicked her tongue and said, "What an unromantic blockhead..."

Old Jiang in his gray robe snorted again: "Women are really all talk and no action. What's the point of charm? Cultivation resources are more important!"

Mu Lianqing's smile froze. She was so annoyed by this clueless old man. Her eyebrows furrowed. "Who are you calling short-sighted?!"

Old Jiang raised an eyebrow: "That's exactly what I'm talking about..."

Seeing that they were about to argue again, Sun Zhixian quickly slipped to another corner, away from the two of them.

Instantly, all the seats around them were empty.