Xiao Bai looked at Wang Er and others who walked away arrogantly, with a thoughtful expression.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Yao took Xiao Bai's hand and said, "Let's go to the registration place for the second round of tests. I heard that the second round of tests will be actual combat!"

"No, we are going to start actual combat now? Aren't we even allowed to rest and have a meal first?" Xiao Bai's voice disappeared in the wind.

The group arrived at the entrance of the second round of tests. Unlike the first round, the second round of tests was arranged in the mountains near the north of the school.

After Xiao Bai entered, she found that the school was much larger than she had imagined. A large mountain range in the north and the snow-capped mountains not far away all belonged to the school. What was such a large area used for?

Of course, it is used for testing and training. The three big words "Trial Garden" are written on the tall stone pillar door at the entrance.

A large group of people rushed through the stone pillar gate and entered the trial garden. The narrow road was lined with lush flowers, plants and trees on both sides, and it looked no different from an ordinary park. Walking a little further, they saw an artificial lake. In the center of the lake was a small island. On the island stood a huge banyan tree. The branches of the banyan tree were towering into the sky, and the top could not be seen at a glance. At this time, countless small bells tied with red ribbons were hung on the tall banyan tree. When the breeze blew, the bells jingled.

This seems to be no different from an ordinary tree.

"Your mission is to get the bells from that tree. Whoever gets more bells will get more points. Then we will select the top 200 from highest to lowest points."

A large speaker hanging on top of a street lamp not far from the lake suddenly made a sound, startling everyone.

"Damn! I thought it was a fake decorative light! It's actually a real speaker!"

The crowd began to make noise.

“We only took the first 200!”

"Hurry, hurry, grab the bell!"

"Damn it! This is such a rude school. There are so many people I can't even squeeze through. If I had known I would have come earlier!"

"Ah!!! Stop squeezing me!"

"Get out of the way!"

The crowd was noisy and people were running towards the banyan tree in the center of the lake.

If it was just climbing a tree to get a bell, wouldn't the difficulty be too easy? Xiao Bai intuitively knew the task wouldn't be that simple, but he could only be dragged forward by the anxious Xiao Yao and Zhang Kai.

The people at the front were already holding onto the banyan tree and climbing up. If they were any slower, there wouldn’t even be enough space to climb up the tree! !

Xiao Bai and Xiao Yao also tried their best to squeeze forward.

"ah!!!"

Suddenly, several screams were heard, and after a "plop", the originally crowded roots of the banyan tree were instantly cleared, and the few people who had been holding onto the banyan tree trunk were all thrown into the lake.

The originally motionless banyan tree suddenly waved its countless drooping branches, sweeping all the people around the roots into the lake. The branches then tied up the people who had climbed up the banyan tree like snakes, and the next moment, threw them into the lake one by one.

As expected! This is actually a mutant banyan tree! I knew the actual combat test wouldn't be that easy!

Everyone was shocked by this sudden change and retreated backwards.

"Ah! What a huge mutant banyan tree!" The voice of the book spirit suddenly rang out in his mind. He rubbed his hands together and encouraged, "This banyan tree is quite a formidable one! Do you have any ideas for it?"

Xiao Bai:········

Xiao Bai thought: What can I think of a tree? Chop it up and use it as firewood?

[Illustrated guide to plants and animals! Contract abilities! How long has it been since you upgraded your contract abilities?! Look at this big banyan tree, doesn't it look perfect for a book?]

Xiao Bai: If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that I had this useless ability.

"There's no such thing as a bad ability, it's just you who doesn't know how to use it! How long has it been since you last upgraded me?! Are you being worthy of me? Where's the Spirit Core you promised me to compensate me for?!" Devaluing the contract's ability is devaluing him! Besides, she's been so reluctant to feed him a Spirit Core, how can he upgrade?!

Xiao Bai: Didn’t I take three spirit cores from the flowerpot and give them to you when I came out?

[So there's just one more place for the illustrated guide! I think this banyan tree is pretty good, so you should find a way to improve its favorability!]

Xiao Bai:...

"Sorry, I'm taking a test!"

"Ah? What did you say?" Xiao Yao turned around and asked.

Xiao Bai was shocked to realize that he had just spoken out loud, and quickly added: "Oh, I was thinking about how to pass the exam. This mutant banyan tree looks very powerful!"

"Yeah! This mutant banyan tree is even stronger than your mutant vine! Unfortunately, when we came in for the test, the teacher clearly stated that we couldn't bring mutant plants or animals as aids. Sigh~" Zhang Kai said regretfully, "We can't even get close to it now!"

"How do you know if you don't try?!" Xiao Bai said, and pulled a few people to push away the retreating crowd and squeeze to the front.

"Go ahead!" She pushed Xiao Yao and Zhang Kai from behind, pushing them hard into the attack range of the banyan tree, then turned to look at the fat man and others beside her.

"I...I can do it myself!" said the little fat boy, and ran forward in a panic.

Xiao Bai then took off and caught up.

With their speed, they should be able to dodge this level of vine attack.

As soon as they ran into the banyan tree's attack range, the slender banyan branches swung towards them. Fortunately, everyone practiced regularly, so they were a little panicked at the beginning when facing the whipping branches. But as long as they regarded it as the random sticks swung in Master Li's stick class, they gradually found the rhythm of dodging and slowly approached the trunk of the banyan tree.

Seeing the people in front using their agility and speed to dodge the whipping branches, some people in the crowd behind also began to follow suit, running towards the banyan tree while dodging the attacking branches.

Xiao Bai jumped to avoid the banyan branches that were sweeping across, and then turned sideways to avoid the branches that were stabbing from above. She tilted her head and saw that the branches were deeply embedded in the soil.

It seems that the banyan tree has a strong attack power. Fortunately, she had accumulated a lot of experience in fighting against vines, otherwise it would not be possible to avoid the attack of branches so easily.

She maintained the rhythm of her breathing and rushed forward faster. After a few jumps, she quickly approached the roots of the banyan tree and climbed up by holding the trunk of the banyan tree. Xiao Bai was just about to reach out for the nearest bell tied with red silk, but who knew that something unexpected happened at this moment.