Chapter 17 Cat in Distress
Outside the secret realm, a huge water mirror is suspended in the air, displaying the scenes and points rankings of various areas in the secret realm in real time.
Several elders in charge of supervising the examination sat in front of the water mirror to discuss the level of this year's new disciples.
A team that was rapidly rising in the standings caught their attention.
"Huh? This three-person team's points are increasing very quickly!"
An elder pointed to the area in the water mirror where Bai Qingchen and the other two were ambushing and said.
"It looks like those two extremely talented little guys are leading the team?"
"One has a mutant thunder spirit root in the middle stage of foundation building, and the other has a single root in the early stage of foundation building. No wonder!"
"It seems that Lin Feng and Su Yue are indeed the most outstanding talents among this group of newcomers."
"They work well together. That kid named Lin Feng has sharp swordsmanship and a solid foundation. That girl Su Yue is also very skillful in using talismans."
"With them around, even with a burden of five spiritual roots, we can still rush to the front in points. It's reasonable."
Another elder stroked his beard and glanced at Bai Qingchen, who was ranked behind Lin Feng and Su Yue on the standings.
There was a hint of self-important contempt in his tone, and it was obvious that he regarded Bai Qingchen as a burden clinging to his power.
In the corner, a gray-robed elder remained silent, staring at the water mirror thoughtfully.
The other elders nodded slightly, understanding each other tacitly.
They were too lazy to even mention Bai Qingchen, who had five spiritual roots.
It was as if he was just an insignificant shadow attached to the genius.
In the secret realm, Bai Qingchen and the other two were unaware of the outside world's evaluation.
They were immersed in the rhythm of efficient scoring, and their cooperation became more and more tacit.
During the break, Su Yue held the jade slip and looked at the high ranking on it, smiling so hard that her teeth were showing.
"Haha, at this rate, we'll definitely take first place and go straight into the inner gate!"
Her admiration for Bai Qingchen was almost overflowing.
"Brother Bai, your formation is amazing. When the trial is over, you must teach me. Don't deny it!"
Bai Qingchen looked into Su Yueliang's sparkling eyes, and rarely did he refuse immediately, but just hummed vaguely.
Lin Feng patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, the first place will definitely belong to us!"
As time went on, the number of monsters attracted by the formation began to decrease significantly, and the intervals between them became longer and longer.
"Strange, where are the monsters? Were they all killed?" Su Yue looked at the formation area that was gradually calming down in confusion.
Lin Feng also frowned: "Something is wrong, the density of monsters in this area shouldn't be so low."
Bai Qingchen stood up, his eyes warily scanning the surrounding dense forest, and said in a deep voice: "It's not that they killed them all, there are people nearby driving away the monsters!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the bushes not far away shook and several figures emerged. Leading them was Zhao Long, with whom he had a grudge at the registration point.
Zhao Long looked at the remaining monster corpses on the open ground and the spiritual power fluctuations of the formation that had not yet completely dissipated.
When he suddenly saw Bai Qingchen and the other two, his face was immediately filled with jealousy and resentment.
"Hey! I was wondering who was hunting here, it turns out to be you three!" Zhao Long spoke sarcastically, his eyes sweeping over Bai Qingchen like a poisonous snake.
Finally, it landed on Lin Feng and Su Yue, and with a provocative tone, "I was wondering why we couldn't find any monsters for so long. It turns out there's some loser here who's smoked away all the monsters around."
"Why, it must be difficult to earn points with a loser with only five spiritual roots? Why don't you two team up with us?"
"Give me the points. If we work together, we'll be the first to capture him!"
"Keep dreaming about your grand plans, we don't care!" Su Yue spoke first and directly rejected the olive branch thrown by Zhao Long.
"Don't accept my toast! Don't think I can't do anything to you!"
Zhao Long was immediately angry when he was rejected.
He was followed by four followers who surrounded them with unfriendly looks, blocking the three men's retreat.
The atmosphere in the clearing in the forest, which had just calmed down, suddenly became tense.
Lin Feng frowned and took a step forward. His tall figure stood in front of him like a mountain.
His voice was filled with anger: "You keep provoking us, do you want a fight? I, Lin Feng, will fight you to the end!"
He is a straightforward person and hates people who try to trip you up behind your back and act sarcastic to your face.
Su Yue also stood up angrily, her face tense: "If you want points, come and grab them if you can! Let's see who has the harder fist!" She had already secretly grasped a few attack talismans in her hand.
"Rob?" Zhao Long seemed to have heard a joke, and his sinister gaze once again fixed on Bai Qingchen, who had been silent.
The corners of his mouth curled up cruelly: "Before, I was defeated by you in the Asking Square, so you think I, Zhao Long, have no ability, right?
"I only spared you for the sake of the Lingxiao Sect. Now that you are so ungrateful, today is the day you die!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his left hand hidden in his sleeve.
"Be careful!" Lin Feng reacted very quickly, immediately realizing something was wrong, and wanted to raise his sword to block.
But Zhao Long’s target was not Lin Feng at all.
He raised his hand and threw out a poison needle as thin as an ox hair, with a cold blue light.
The angle was extremely vicious, completely avoiding Lin Feng in front of him, and shot directly at Bai Qingchen, who looked the weakest and easiest to bully, like a rainstorm of pear blossoms!
The speed was so fast that only a blurry blue shadow was left behind!
"Brother Bai!" Su Yue screamed in fear, but it was too late to stop him with talismans!
Lin Feng's eyes were bloodshot. What he hated most in his life was this kind of despicable behavior of attacking from behind and using insidious and vicious tricks.
A surge of anger rushed to his head, and he roared: "Zhao Long! You are looking for death!"
All the spiritual power in his body exploded without reservation, and the silver-blue lightning instantly enveloped his entire body. The long sword turned into a violent thunder, carrying the momentum to destroy the world.
He attacked Zhao Long without hesitation, fighting with all his might, just wanting to stop him from killing Bai Qingchen!
Zhao Long seemed to have anticipated that Lin Feng would attack in anger, and a grim smile of triumph appeared on his face.
Instead of dodging, he rushed forward. The two followers beside him immediately drew their weapons and pounced fiercely on the furious Lin Feng from the left and right, holding him tightly.
The other two pounced on Su Yue who was trying to rescue Bai Qingchen with a grin!
The scene instantly became chaotic!
Lin Feng fought against three alone, with lightning and sword shadows flying everywhere, forcing the three men to retreat again and again, but he was held back for a while and could not escape to rescue them.
Su Yue was besieged by two followers, and talismans were thrown out like they were free.
Fireballs, wind blades and vines were flying everywhere. He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely while trying to protect himself, and he didn't care about Bai Qingchen at all.
And the deadly blue shadow of the poison needle has already shot in front of Bai Qingchen!
At this critical moment!
Bai Qingchen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly had an extremely cold look in his eyes.
It was a chill that had accumulated over hundreds of years, and after seeing through life and death, it was completely enraged.
The runes on the jade pendant on the chest, which was close to the skin, began to glow and suddenly emitted a strong suction force without any warning.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him was like being pulled by a black hole, rushing towards him madly!
The imagined scene of Bai Qingchen being pierced by poisonous needles and turned into a hedgehog did not appear!
Those fine cow-hair needles, which were soaked in deadly poison, seemed to hit an invisible wall when they were less than three inches away from Bai Qingchen's body.
The speed dropped suddenly, as if it was stuck in a quagmire.
In the end, it strangely hovered in the air, with the tip of the needle only a millimeter away from his skin!
"Wha…what?!"
Zhao Long, who was grinning and preparing to enjoy Bai Qingchen's miserable state, almost popped his eyes out.
How could this be possible? This Shadow Needle was a sinister hidden weapon he had acquired at great expense, specifically designed to destroy the protective spiritual energy.
How could a useless person with five spiritual roots who was only at the seventh level of Qi Refining possibly be able to stop it?
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