Chapter 22: Failure after failure

The secret realm is not just a round of assessment.

This time, the assessment not only involves finding tokens, but also plucking spiritual herbs.

In the secret realm, there are spiritual beasts and spiritual herbs.

The further you go in, the higher the level of the spiritual herbs will be. All the spiritual herbs you find will belong to the disciples. After leaving the secret realm, you can exchange them for spiritual pills at the pharmacy.

Especially this time, the sect released the news that there was a third-level seven-star grass in the water deep in the jungle.

If you find the Seven-Star Grass, you can exchange it for a second-grade Foundation Establishment Pill. Many disciples are rushing for the Seven-Star Grass.

Therefore, the disciples were busy entering the dense forest to pick spiritual herbs, and naturally they would not have thought that there was a living person hiding in the trees outside.

Ye Xingzhou was leaning against a tree trunk at this moment, leisurely eating sweet potatoes and waiting for dark.

Two groups of disciples had already passed under the tree, but no one noticed him.

He silently memorized the route and waited until midnight to open the blind box randomly.

Fang Rong's cursing voice came from under the tree.

"You lied to me again!"

"Ye Xingzhou, just wait for me. Tomorrow I will be the first to grab your token."

Fang Rong returned to the place where he met Ye Xingzhou, cursing. When Ye Xingzhou disappeared, he went to look for the team, cursing again.

It turns out that he is so much in the spotlight.

Then he would have to give Fang Rong a big gift in return that night.

Ye Xingzhou's eyes fell on a beehive hanging on another tree.

Night falls as expected, and bright stars dot the sky.

Just after midnight, the assessment rankings quietly appeared in the air.

A token with his name engraved on it appeared on Ye Xingzhou's waist.

It is true.

Ye Xingzhou put the token into the storage bag, untied the blindfold, then changed out of his clan uniform, put on a black suit, covered his face with a square scarf, and climbed down the tree.

He was hunched over with a sack on his shoulder, and the dog was sneaking through the grass.

There was a faint glow of fire ahead, and six monks were sitting cross-legged in meditation, their respective tokens had been hidden.

Fang Rong was standing behind a tree, whistling and peeing.

Ye Xingzhou aimed in the direction and threw the sack into the air, and the honeycomb rolled accurately to Fang Rong's feet.

The bee scurried out.

"Who is so wicked! Throwing away a beehive in the middle of the night?"

Fang Rong screamed, holding up his pants with one hand, and ran towards the water at the fastest speed in his life.

The noise attracted the attention of several other people, and Ye Xingzhou took the opportunity to run away and head to the next location.

The next team was a pair of people, and their vigilance was much lower than Fang Rong's team.

One of them was snoring loudly while the other monk was concentrating on moving towards the position of the sleeping disciple.

His eyes were fixed on the token on the disciple's waist, and excitement gleamed in his eyes.

There's no harm in backstabbing teammates to steal tokens a few times.

He was too focused, or too confident that no other monks would appear here at this time, and he didn't even have time to collect his token.

He slowly stretched out his hand.

Ye Xingzhou also stretched out his evil hand and pulled off the token from his waist.

The disciple turned around, his eyes showing shock.

"How did you steal my token?!"

"I learned it from you."

"You're talking nonsense!"

The sleeping disciple was awakened by the noise and saw his companion staring at the person behind him in shame and anger.

Only then did he wake up and stand up.

I saw the man dressed in black, his face covered, standing sideways, half of his face hidden in the darkness, only revealing a contemptuous look.

Not only did he steal the token, but he also didn't even look people in the eye. He's so arrogant!

The rest of the monk's words died in his throat.

If the token is stolen, it will be considered as a failure in the assessment, and the secret realm will automatically expel the person from the space.

Ye Xingzhou's gaze fell on another cultivator.

He immediately held the token in his hand and took a defensive stance.

"Who are you to steal the token in such a despicable way?"

"Be more careful, you don't choose any kind of people as your teammates."

Ye Xingzhou didn't answer him directly, but walked away, adding, "Who would care about your token?"

The monk recalled how his teammates took care of him during the day and took the initiative to mention keeping watch at night.

In addition, the test would not start until tomorrow, so I didn’t notice that it would start as soon as midnight.

He was careless for a moment and his token was almost stolen.

The backstab by his teammate was chilling. If it weren't for the reminder from the man in black in front of him, he would have been eliminated by now.

He softened his attitude and sincerely thanked Ye Xingzhou.

"Thank you for the reminder, fellow Daoist."

The next second, Ye Xingzhou turned around and snatched the token from his hand.

"Bring it here!"

It's really a repeated failure.

He just doesn't have any shrewdness.

How can he be a good person if he comes to steal the token?

The monk was stunned at first, then his face gradually turned red and he pointed at Ye Xingzhou and cursed.

"You despise my token, don't you? Why don't you keep your promise and rob it!"

"You're despicable!"

"You are shameless!"

The upright cultivators who always kept their promises had never seen Ye Xingzhou's method of going back on his word!

Look at these two people, they curse people so politely.

It's like tickling.

Ye Xingzhou flipped open the token, glanced at the name, and spoke earnestly.

"Tang Bai, who else can help you grow up without me?"

"Don't worry, next time you see me, I'll definitely shake you into a spicy hot pot."

Tang Bai let out a long howl and was kicked out of the secret realm.

Ye Xingzhou put the token into the storage bag and looked for a hiding place under the cover of night.

His eyes have not yet recovered, and he becomes afraid of the light as soon as the sun comes out, so daytime is not good for him.

All he had to do now was hide.

Ye Xingzhou suddenly had an idea and returned to the tree where he had hidden during the day.

There were also red firebird feathers and clothes stained with scent in his storage bag.

The most dangerous place is the safest place.

There's no place to hide as safe as the red firebird's nest!

He is the baby of a bird mother!

Ye Xingzhou leaned against the tree trunk, watching the ever-changing rankings, and waited for dawn.

At the beginning of the assessment, there were quite a few people who tried to grab their teammates' tokens.

Most of the monks who were eliminated in the first batch were backstabbed by their teammates.

When dawn broke, thirty-three of the three hundred disciples had been eliminated.

The first place is Lu Yue, with seven tokens.

He had heard a little about Lu Yue, who was in the middle stage of foundation building. He was a kind person and always smiled at everyone.

It seems that he had a wonderful time last night.

I just don’t know if he can keep the token in the next few days.

Ye Xingzhou looked down and saw that he was ranked 50th. Meng Zhi and Ren Wangzhu had zero tokens, and their names were at the end.

However, the ranking also means that the two have not been eliminated.

The first rays of light are so dazzling that they hurt my eyes.

Ye Xingzhou raised his hand to block some of the light until a red dot appeared on the horizon.

As it flew closer, the red spot gradually grew larger and turned into a pair of crimson wings, shining brightly under the rosy glow.

Here we come!

Ye Xingzhou changed into clothes that smelled of the red firebird and put all the feathers on his head.

The red firebird's flying speed did slow down, but it did not land.

“Chirp, chirp, chirp!”

Until Ye Xingzhou raised his voice and made a hoarse and mocking cry.

That cry is so recognizable.

The red firebird braked suddenly.

I remember it now, I remember it all!

It has a baby who is very ugly and has a very unpleasant voice!

No wonder it always felt like something was missing in its nest after coming back from foraging yesterday.

It turned out that the baby fell!

No matter how ugly it is, it is still its baby. The red firebird opened its claws, grabbed Ye Xingzhou and flew back to the nest.

Ye Xingzhou returned to his 40-square-meter open-air bird's nest apartment.

Dadan, Erdan, your uncle Wang is back!

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