The Great Ruler: Reborn as Mu Chen, sweeping across the vast world!

The dust has settled in front of the ancient temple.

The four trial participants lay dead several feet away, groaning weakly, having completely lost their fighting ability.

Luo Li slowly lowered the Luo Shen Sword she was holding, its tip lightly touching the ground.

She looked at the black-clad boy who had suddenly appeared beside her, his calm profile clearly reflected in her glassy eyes.

The attack that happened in the blink of an eye was faster than she could perceive.

With just four simple punches and kicks, without any fancy moves, the four opponents were instantly defeated...

Very strong!

It's even stronger than when I first saw the safe zone!

"Why did you help me?" she asked, a hint of doubt in her voice.

She remembered clearly that just before, in the square in front of the city lord's mansion, she had explicitly rejected the other party's proposal for cooperation.

Upon hearing this, Mu Chen turned around, faced her, and smiled naturally, his smile as warm as the sunlight.

"Two reasons." He held up two fingers: "First, I find you pleasing to the eye."

Luo Li's long eyelashes trembled slightly.

The answer was unexpectedly straightforward and also unexpectedly illogical, but it made her heart tremble slightly, giving her a strange feeling.

Before she could respond, Mu Chen continued, pointing to the four men on the ground who couldn't get up for the time being: "Secondly, I need their tokens."

He crouched down and skillfully searched the four people, quickly scooping up the four blood-red tokens in his hands.

"Everyone gets a share." Mu Chen weighed them in his hand, then rather unfairly divided them into two, handing them to Luo Li. "I'll give you two."

The blue-robed youth held the token in his hand.

Luo Li's gaze fell on the two tokens that were handed to her, but she did not take them.

"You defeated them, so the token is yours, as you deserve." She shook her head. "I don't need a share."

"I can defeat all four of them and get the token even without you, so I don't owe you anything."

"But thank you anyway, otherwise I would have gotten hurt."

She has her own principles and doesn't owe favors to others. Her grandfather once said that on the path of cultivation, human emotions are the most entangled and are of no benefit to cultivation.

Mu Chen's smile remained unchanged, as if he had expected her to say that, and he simply tossed the token to her.

"These two aren't something you owe me; they're just a bonus because I find you pleasing to the eye. Take them. Aren't you trying to increase your strength? The more Crimson Tokens you have, the more spiritual power you'll receive during the empowerment."

"I still need to find other trial participants." Mu Chen didn't give her a chance to respond, patted non-existent dust off his hands, turned and left, "Well then, see you later."

"Oh, by the way, my name is Mu Chen, remember that!"

Luo Li stood there, watching the black figure disappear as swiftly as it had appeared behind the undulating outline of the wasteland.

Her long silver eyelashes drooped, her gaze fixed on the token in her hand.

Mu Chen...

That name, along with his smile, is clearly etched in my heart.

The feeling he gave her was different from anyone else's.

She didn't feel disgusted at all; on the contrary, she felt an indescribable flutter of excitement...

Luo Li shook her head, trying to shake off these distracting thoughts that were not related to cultivation.

Before long, those glassy eyes regained their usual clarity and calmness.

But something seems to have been added to it.

……

The remaining trial time flew by in a subtly changing atmosphere.

For the vast majority of those undergoing the trial, this trial was nothing short of a nightmare!

That black-clad youth named Mu Chen seemed to have become an irresistible natural disaster for this training ground!

He is elusive, yet seems to be everywhere.

He doesn't deliberately hunt people down, but if you happen to run into him, the outcome is a foregone conclusion!

The blood-red token was snatched, and the person was knocked unconscious and left on the spot.

Perhaps the only saving grace is that this god of death slaughtered all the spirit beasts in the training grounds...

Finally, on the fifteenth day after the trial grounds opened, the instructor's majestic, indifferent, and emotionless voice, like the divine pronouncement of heaven, suddenly echoed throughout every inch of the trial grounds!

"The time has come; the trial is over."

"Everyone, proceed to the central reception platform immediately. Those who fail to arrive by the deadline will be considered to have forfeited their rights and will be permanently imprisoned here."

The moment the sound fell, a point of blazing white light appeared out of thin air in the sky above the center of the training ground, and then rapidly expanded and stretched, transforming into a dazzling light gate that was more than tens of feet wide!

Throughout the trial grounds, figures sped out, carrying the relief of surviving a calamity, and converged towards the central portal.

Mu Chen chose a relatively open spot to stand and waited quietly.

The trial participants who arrived one after another changed their expressions the moment they realized his presence, and quickly moved away as if avoiding a plague, clearing a vacuum around him.

The gazes cast upon them were filled with fear, awe, resentment, and a profound sense of powerlessness.

No one dared to meet his gaze, let alone take a single step closer.

Mu Chen seemed oblivious to this; they were just a bunch of defeated opponents who didn't even have the courage to unite against him, and were not worth mentioning.

He ended up on the other side of the crowd.

There, a strikingly elegant silver figure had already arrived.

As if sensing his gaze, Luo Li slightly turned her eyes, her glassy eyes meeting his for a moment, and nodded.

Half an incense stick's time passed quickly.

In the sky, the instructor nodded slightly when he saw that the number of boys below had stopped increasing.

The number of people was much larger than expected...

The instructor was slightly surprised. In previous years, it would have been considered good if there were 20 or 30 people left at this time, but this time there were nearly 100!

His sharp eyes swept across the area below and he quickly noticed something amiss: most people were listless, their faces filled with fear, their spirits broken.

"Alright." The instructor composed himself, his face becoming serious, and announced in a clear voice, "The trial is over. According to the rules, we will check the scores and determine the rankings."

"Produce your Crimson Tokens!"

After the voice faded, the square fell silent for a moment, then a slight commotion arose.

However, after a few breaths, only two people actually did as instructed.

The instructor's brows furrowed slowly, and an invisible pressure quietly spread, making everyone below gasp for breath.

"What? Are you deaf? Or do I have to come and get it myself?" The voice had taken on a cold tinge.

"Instructor, Luo Li and I are the only two people who possess tokens. I stole their tokens, so naturally they can't produce them."

Mu Chen stepped out of his personal vacuum, facing countless gazes, his expression calm and his smile natural.

They stole... everyone's tokens?

A hint of undisguised astonishment flashed across the instructor's eyes. He wondered if he had misheard, and immediately went to Mu Chen's side to check his score.

"Mu Chen... 2782 points!"

Oh my god! This is actually true!

You should know that Ji Xuan, who was supposedly reserved by the Holy Spirit Academy, was in another protected area, and his score was only 64 points!

How many times is that?

Even if he stole all the tokens from all the boys, he still wouldn't have enough points, right? Did he slaughter all the spirit beasts in the trial grounds?

The instructor suppressed his inner shock and verified the integral for Luo Li.

"Luo Li, 24 points."

"The scores have been verified, and the rankings are set. Mu Chen has the highest score and is the champion of this trial! Luo Li is second! The rest... are eliminated!" the instructor said with difficulty.

The prerequisite for selecting thirty people is having a Crimson Token. Without one? Then these youths will have to be eliminated…

Of those who have entered the final spiritual path from this protected land, only two remain!