Ling Yunxi frowned slightly, but when she saw Xiao Chenzhao walking over with a bag of red fruit, she raised the corners of her mouth slightly and said, "Father."

"Yunxi, I'm so proud of you for winning the first round!" Xiao Chenzhao said happily, then opened the animal-shaped cloth bag. "Here, Yunxi, have some fruit!"

“Okay,” Ling Yunxi replied. “Father, have some too.” She took one for herself and one for Xiao Chenzhao.

"Yes! Father, you can have some too." Xiao Chenzhao said, touched, as he looked at the fruit Ling Yunxi handed him.

Recalling how Pu Yueling had made things difficult for her on stage and how the crowd of animals below had questioned her, a feeling of guilt welled up in his heart.

Thinking about the competition later, he said worriedly, "Yunxi, it's okay if you can't answer the questions in the next round. Passing the first round is already quite impressive."

“If you want to learn something, your father can teach you,” Xiao Chenzhao said.

"Mmm, Father, this fruit is so sweet." Ling Yunxi replied while eating the fruit. "Don't worry, Father, I'm not the kind of person who'll fight to the death. I don't care about saving face."

"Yes, Yunxi is great, we'll take first place in terms of mentality!" Xiao Chenzhao said with satisfaction.

On Pu Yueling's side.

"What's wrong with you today? You're so impulsive," Pu Shenzhi scolded Pu Yueling as she came downstairs.

"It was the witch doctor! She deliberately turned the purple side of the perilla leaves towards Ling Yunxi, causing me to miss my chance to answer. Otherwise, I would have won this round," Pu Yueling said angrily.

"Are you sure it's the witch doctor's fault? Haven't you smelled the perilla before? Didn't the witch doctor say that the competition would test your sense of smell? How come you couldn't even guess that?"

"Mother, I'll be more careful next time..." Pu Yueling said softly.

"Hmm," Pu Shenzhi replied indifferently. "What's this about the third herbal medicine treatment? Didn't they teach you these things when they sent you to the herbal medicine academy before?"

“Yes…” Pu Yueling lowered her head after hearing this, not daring to look at Pu Shenzhi again.

"How could you answer wrong?" Pu Canzhi said after hearing this. "I'm not telling you to be cautious in everything you do."

“It’s all Ling Yunxi’s fault.” Pu Yueling looked up angrily and said, “I get annoyed as soon as I see her smug face. She talked a lot about effects that no one else has ever heard of, which annoyed me.”

“Don’t blame everything on others. If your own mindset is unstable, even if you get into that place later, you’ll find it hard to learn real skills,” Pu Canzhi said.

"You can't be careless during the competition later," she instructed.

“I understand…” Pu Yueling looked at Ling Yunxi not far away. Seeing her chatting happily with her father made her feel really uncomfortable.

"Knock knock knock..."

As the drums sounded, the beastmen who had come to join the fun returned to the audience to watch.

"Look, this round is the sacrificial competition!" an orc exclaimed excitedly as he saw the orcs walking onto the stage.