"Humph, what Su Shan said is true." Mu Fengshu snorted lightly: "Mu Bingyun is the Palace Master of the Thirty-Six Ice Phoenix Palaces, and a relative of the Great Realm King. As the Chief Palace Master of the Frost Snow Palace, although I cannot allow such favoritism to happen, how dare I not give him any face."
Mu Fengshu glanced at Yun Che and said, “Your name is Yun Che, right? Well, since this is the order from the Ice Cloud Palace Master, then I will give you a chance. Anyone who wants to enter my Snow Palace must go through three tests. Everyone standing in this palace today has passed the first test. Because the first test is a profound strength test, all those whose profound strength is lower than the Divine Origin Realm were eliminated. Because those who have not even touched the Divine Way are not qualified to accept the subsequent tests. As for your level of cultivation, hehe…”
Mu Fengshu's last low laugh did not conceal her deep sarcasm. However, with her strength and status, she certainly would not bother to mock Yun Che... but was clearly mocking Mu Bingyun who brought him here.
“…” Yun Che said nothing.
“But today, I will make an exception and exempt you from the first test. You can directly take the second and third tests with everyone here. If you pass, you can enter the Snow Palace openly and honestly. I won’t say a word more. What do you think? As the master of the Snow Palace, I don’t even show favoritism to my own nephew, but I broke such a big precedent for you... Don’t say that I didn’t give face to Mu Bingyun!”
"puff……"
“Haha…hahahahahaha…”
Mu Fengshu's words made the mysterious people who were watching the fun burst out laughing, and then they all laughed wantonly.
Even a fool could understand clearly that this was not a concession, but a ridicule... or even a humiliation. Allowing a person at level 5 of the Sovereign Profound Realm to directly participate in the second and third trials of the Frost Snow Palace... This was simply a joke.
“Alas.” Mu Sushan shook his head and said nothing helplessly. The disciples of the Frost Snow Palace who were assisting in the assessment also tried hard to hold back their laughter and kept looking at Yun Che with sympathy.
Mu Xiaolan was so angry that her face turned blue. However, the person in front of her was the chief hall master of the Frost Snow Hall. Even though she was extremely angry, she did not dare to curse out loud. She could only grit her teeth, turn around, and angrily said: "Yun Che, let's go!"
“Oh? So, you are rejecting this palace master’s kindness?” Mu Fengshu turned her head away with disdain, a look of satisfaction flashing in her phoenix eyes: “Then after you go back, don’t forget to convey my kindness to Mu Bingyun. I have given her face!”
Mu Xiaolan dragged Yun Che for a long distance, and there was still a lot of laughter behind them. Mu Xiaolan clenched her hands tightly, her face flushed and then pale: "Too much... too much!"
She shouted angrily, tears welling up in her eyes.
In contrast, Yun Che was much calmer. He waved his hand in front of Mu Xiaolan's eyes and asked doubtfully, "Does the chief hall master just now have a grudge against Fairy Mu?"
“There’s no hatred!” Mu Xiaolan wiped her eyes and shouted in a venting voice: “It’s because she wants to replace Master and become the Ice Phoenix Palace Master!”
"Master was poisoned by the fire poison more than a thousand years ago. Because of the loss of power, the fire poison entered her soul. When she returned to the Snow Song Realm, it was already impossible to cure her and she was doomed to die. If the Supreme passed away, she, as the chief master of the Snow Palace, could have inherited Master's position as the master of the thirty-sixth palace, because the status of a sub-palace master is also higher than that of a chief master. So from more than a thousand years ago, she was fully prepared to become the master of the Ice Phoenix Palace, and everyone in the Ice Phoenix Divine Sect knew about it. As a result, the Great Realm King and Master had a deep sisterly love and spared no expense to extend Master's life. All the things in the sect that could be used to extend life were used by the Great Realm King on Master. So year after year, Master was safe, but Mu Fengshu, who had announced early on that she would become the palace master, lost face and seemed to have been ridiculed by many people."
"I also heard that hundreds of years ago, Mu Fengshu got a thousand-year-old 'Mu Han Fei Hong Flower' in the trial ground, which could help her break through her profound strength, but the Great Realm King found out and forcibly took it away to prolong the life of her master... All these things combined made her have a deep resentment towards her master. She didn't dare to do anything to her master openly, but most of the bad things about her master that were spread secretly came from her. And her master was too kind-hearted, and she felt that she had always been guilty of her, so she never fought back, which made her even worse."
“…I see.” Yun Che nodded slightly.
“But today… today she really went too far.” Mu Xiaolan stamped her feet hard and said angrily, “After all, Master is the Ice Phoenix Palace Master and the Great Realm King’s sister. No matter how bad Mu Fengshu was in the past, she never dared to target the Supreme in public like this… Today… Today… I’m so pissed off!!”
“It’s very simple, because she is completely right this time.” Yun Che spread his hands and said, “Of course, I dare not say slanderous words in public. But her words today are righteous and clear. Going through the backdoor is a shameful act. She is absolutely right. Even her own nephew is indeed in the assessment team. Everyone can see that she has not shown favoritism. If it gets out, even if everyone knows that she is targeting Fairy Mu, public opinion will only lean towards her... Especially for those profound practitioners who have gone through so much trouble to enter or want to enter the Frost Snow Palace. You just heard their laughter. Frankly speaking, if I were in there, I would probably laugh along with them.”
“You… Master did this all for you, and yet you still speak for her.” Mu Xiaolan said angrily.
“Let’s go, let’s go back.” Yun Che stopped, then suddenly turned around and walked back.
"Go back? Hey? What are you going to do?" Mu Xiaolan quickly grabbed him.
“Although my first rule in the God Realm is to never cause trouble.” Yun Che exhaled lightly, “But, this matter was ultimately caused by me. Fairy Mu did everything for me. I cannot let her suffer such humiliation because of me.”
“You…what are you going to do? Hey, hey! Don’t mess around! This is the Snow Song Realm, not your Profound Sky Continent. Not to mention the chief hall master, even a random disciple of the Snow Palace can…ahhhh stop!!”
Yun Che completely ignored Mu Xiaolan's words and sped up abruptly. In the blink of an eye, he had returned to where Mu Sushan and Mu Fengshu were. It was too late for Mu Xiaolan to stop him, so she could only bite the bullet and chase after him.
How could their aura escape Mu Fengshu's perception? When the two of them turned back, Mu Fengshu had already turned around and said coldly: "What? Do you have anything else to say?"
“Palace Master Feng Shu,” Yun Che called Mu Feng Shu like Mu Xiaolan did, “You just said that you would allow me to be exempted from the first test and directly participate in the second and third tests of the Snow Palace. Does this count?”
"Heh," Mu Fengshu smiled faintly, "Of course, every word of this Palace Master is binding. What's the matter? Have you changed your mind and are ready to accept the special exception this Palace Master will give you?"
Mu Xiaolan said anxiously: “Yun Che, don’t mess around…”
“Of course!” Yun Che completely ignored Mu Xiaolan’s shouts and said very seriously: “Palace Master Feng Shu is fair and strict, but she has given me a break. It would be wrong for me not to appreciate such kindness. What Palace Master Feng Shu said before is also reasonable. If I want to enter the Frost Snow Palace, it is natural for me to go through the assessment. Relying on shortcuts is not only unfair to others, but also disrespectful to the sect’s rules and regulations. Then, I would like to trouble Palace Master Feng Shu to arrange for me to participate in today’s assessment.”
“Yun Che, you…” Mu Xiaolan was so angry and anxious that she wanted to jump up, but she couldn’t shout too loudly in front of everyone, so she could only suppress her tone and said, “You…are you crazy!”
“Hahahaha!” Mu Fengshu laughed, and all the mysterious practitioners waiting for the test laughed out loud. This time, Mu Fengshu looked at Yun Che with deep meaning… Obviously, she regarded Yun Che’s words as flattery to her. She had been the head of the Hanxue Palace for more than 2,000 years, and had seen countless flattery, and had long been disdainful of it. But Yun Che’s words made her feel quite comfortable and happy, because this person was brought by Mu Bingyun, and he was specially arranged to enter the Hanxue Palace directly, which showed that she attached great importance to him. And now this person was flattering her, which made her despise and despise Yun Che even more, but she was very happy psychologically.
"..." Mu Sushan sighed secretly and shook his head in extreme disappointment. Yun Che's words were nothing but flattery not only in the eyes of Mu Fengshu, but also in the eyes of everyone else. Yun Che was the only person Mu Bingyun had brought back from the lower realms in recent years. Although his profound strength was very low, he was very interested in him and curious about him. He did not expect that he was such a despicable person.
“Very good.” Mu Fengshu nodded slightly, but turned away, disdainfully looking at Yun Che: “In that case, then you can join the first group. Ji Hanfeng, assign him to the first group. The preparations are almost done, and today’s assessment should also begin.”
"Yes, Palace Master." A tall and straight young man in blue stood up and saluted. He was Ji Hanfeng, a disciple of the First Palace of the Snow Palace. He was the one who arranged, hosted and witnessed the first group's assessment today.
The first group was the one closest to Yun Che and Mu Xiaolan, the one who had been watching them laugh the entire time… Li Mingcheng, the nephew whom Mu Fengshu had just called out, whose profound strength was as high as the third level of the Divine Origin Realm, was also in this group.
Mu Xiaolan took two steps forward, grabbed Yun Che, and said in a low voice, “Come with me now, don’t embarrass yourself here. You will cause Master to be laughed at as well.”
Yun Che said calmly, “I did this to prevent Fairy Mu from being laughed at. You can just watch from the side. Sigh, this is really troublesome…”
Yun Che grumbled helplessly, turned his body, and at the same time pulled away Mu Xiaolan’s hand that was grabbing his sleeve.
Ji Hanfeng walked towards Yun Che and said calmly, “You, join the group. The assessment will begin soon… You are the ‘first person’ in the history of our Hanxue Palace to enter the second round of assessment. You must not forget this special gift from the chief palace master.”
"Pfft..." There was laughter again around. Everyone knew what "the first person" meant. It referred to the person with the lowest profound strength.
When Yun Che walked towards the assessment team, the eyes of the tens of thousands of profound practitioners in the first group followed him. They swept away their previous nervousness and cautiousness, and their eyes were full of contempt and ridicule. Because they had been afraid to breathe in the Frost Snow Palace, but now they found a sense of superiority from one person... a strong sense of superiority in strength and intelligence.
Mu Fengshu's suggestion to exempt him from the first round of assessment "for Mu Bingyun's sake" was a form of mockery and humiliation. No one would have thought that this person, who was only at the fifth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm and came from the lower realm, would not only not flee in a tactful manner, but would actually accept it.
They have begun to see that a huge joke will be staged in this assessment of the Snow Palace.
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